Industrial Engineering and Management
Design of a QS9000 Quality System
The project goal was to design and implement a customer certification database for the quality requirements of individual customers and quality control characteristics. The database was designed to interact with measured product input characteristics for the purpose of generating product certifications. The project involved the determination of data requirements for the quality control and customer certification system, the design of the database for customer certification and quality requirements, and the documentation of the data entry processes to comply with QS9000 certification and serve as an instructional guide in the generation of customer product certification.
Sponsor: National Standard Company
PI: Kenneth E. Case
RA: Michael Ankney
Reaching Engineering and Architecture Career Heights (REACH)
OSU's College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology hosted a summer academy, Reaching Engineering and Architecture Career Heights (REACH), for 30 female high school juniors and seniors to expose them to the exciting opportunities available in engineering and architecture. Since women are currently underrepresented in technical fields, the program was designed to encourage talented young women to consider engineering and architecture as viable career choices.
The academy was held on the OSU campus June 9 through June 28, 1996. REACH featured four engineering modules, Industrial, Chemical, Civil, and Mechanical, as well as an Architecture module and a Technology Module. The modules were taught by OSU faculty members and provided hands-on problem solving, laboratory, and team-building experiences. In addition, a career guidance module gave the young women exposure to practicing engineers and architects, campus resources, and other important career information.
Sponsors: Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education Summer Academy, OSU Foundation, University of Oklahoma, and NASA Space Grant Consortium
PIs: Camille DeYong
Suzanne Bilbeisi (Architecture)
RAs: Sandy DeVries, Tom Graham, Greg Holland, Mae-Win Thein, and Rachel Scheer
A Framework for Integrated Production Planning and Scheduling in a Hybrid Assembly Job Shop Environment Under Uncertainty
This joint project involving OU and OSU proposes to integrate fast simulation, process planning, multiple criteria optimization, and stochastic programming with scheduling and sequencing techniques to develop a "maximal" production management methodology. The main focus of the research being conducted at OSU is the development of rapid performance prediction tools. The ongoing research is concerned with the development of fast simulation recursion models for various production network topologies (parallel machines, split/merge nodes, assembly nodes, etc.) and the investigation of a new hybrid fast/event-oriented simulation strategy. In addition, simple, yet reasonably accurate analytical queuing approximations are being studied and extended for use in a production control framework. Four faculty members and several graduate students from the School of Industrial Engineering at OU are involved in this joint project.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
PI: Manjunath Kamath
RAs: Ram Sreenivasan and Ning So
A Modeling Environment to Support Rapid Reconfiguration of Manufacturing Systems
The main thrust of the research is to identify and confront the major unanswered questions associated with the development of a comprehensive modeling and analysis environment for use in rapidly reconfiguring the many elements of a complete manufacturing system. These areas correspond to two new business processes required to fully exploit such environments: (1) the development and maintenance of highly reusable, tool-independent system representations, and (2) the development of tools and methodologies to derive maximum utility from such representations. This project builds upon previous research in the Center for Computer Integrated Manufacturing involving the construction of a "base model" that supports modeling across several problem domains using multiple analysis and optimization tools.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
PIs: Manjunath Kamath and David Pratt
RAs: Dursun Delen, Baskar Krishnamoorthy, Shankar Sivaramakrishnan, Wiradhi Sentosa, and Soerjo Winarto
An Investigation and Development of Group Technology Identification (GTI) and Industry Capability Identification (ICI) Schema
This project seeks to develop a computer-based system to assist the Defense Logistics Agency in its On-Demand Manufacturing Initiative. The system will support the initiative by developing group technology based coding schema which will capture the size, shape, material, and other manufacturing related attributes of parts that are needed to support the Department of Defense, a database of the manufacturing capabilities of potential bidders/suppliers, and a computerized system to map the part attributes to manufacturers' capabilities to enable improved part acquisition. The goals of the initiative are to reduce lead times and costs of part acquisition, especially for small order quantities of difficult to manufacture parts.
Sponsor: Defense Logistics Agency
PIs: John Nazemetz
Jim Henderson (OCIDM)
RAs: David Hartmann, Dan Crawford, Bridget Newton, Parag Pathak, and Rigen Mo
Investigation of Classification and Coding of KC-135 Parts to Assist in Associating Needed Parts and Manufacturers
This project sought to test the group technology coding systems developed for the Defense Logistics Agency under research contract 8-5-26405 by coding the manufacturing attributes of 350 parts used on the KC-135 aircraft. This provided an alpha test site for the part coding schema and provided a parts database for system testing and demonstration.
Sponsors: CATT and TASC, Inc.
PI: John Nazemetz
RAs: Rigen Mo, Tetz Schemm, and Parthasarathy Ramachandran
Curriculum for Integrating Manufacturing Enterprise Decisions (CIMED)
A research/teaching environment that focuses on integrated manufacturing and enterprise modeling is being pursued through a joint effort by The University of Oklahoma (OU) and Oklahoma State University (OSU). One component, being developed at OU, seeks to develop a framework for production management that effectively integrates process planning and other shop floor control functions in a dynamic and stochastic environment. This research will be translated from a methodology domain to an implentation domain to serve two functions: (1) linking the undergraduate courses that comprise the University of Oklahoma-Department of Industrial Engineering (OU-IE) curriculum, and (2) providing pluggable modules for other undergraduate programs with a structure unlike the OU-IE curriculum. The undergraduate curriculum will be developed to allow a student to study the role of individual activities and the effect of individual decisions with respect to a global system's performance. A second component, being developed at OSU, is directed toward (1) the synthesis of a science base for enterprise integration and (2) the development of an advanced modeling environment specifically targeted for discrete-part manufacturing systems. This research will be presented to students through three new graduate courses: (1) Manufacturing Enterprise Integration, (2) Manufacturing Enterprise Modeling, and (3) Simulation and Optimization for On-Line, Real-Time Manufacturing Systems Management. This course sequence is directed toward the development of a unified framework for conceptualizing, designing, modeling, and operating advanced manufacturing systems.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
PIs: David Pratt and Manjunath Kamath
RAs: Ganesh Kateel, Krishnakant Tekriwal, Asif Patel, and Eduardo Chan
Industrial Assessment Center
The Industrial Assessment Center works with small- to medium-sized manufacturing plants to reduce their energy and waste management costs. The program is free of charge and has been in existence for 15 years. Approximately 500 manufacturing plants in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, and Texas have been aided. Energy and waste savings totaling more than $4 million have resulted.
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy
PI: Wayne Turner
RAs: Clint Christenson, Eric Woodruff, Javier Mont, Lonnie Fields, and Ojas Wadivkar