Inventory control is perhaps the most important aspect in controlling an organization's overall manufacturing costs for both raw and finished materials. In this project, a sonar device was designed and constructed to more accurately measure the amount of raw material, plastic resin, in each of eleven silos at Laddawn Manufacturing and to account for cost savings. The project explores the accuracy of sonar as compared to existing methods already widely accepted through the plastic bag industry and demonstrates its cost effectiveness.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• O'Bryant, Michael James
• McCue, Martin Fitzpatrick
• Venios, Speros Christopher
• Mattern, Jesse Lee

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 00D079M

Advisor

• Graubard, Leon S.
• Whitmal, Nathaniel A.

Year

• 2000

Sponsor

• Laddawn Manufacturing

Date created

• 2000-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Electrical Engineering
• Management Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright