Faculty Advisor: Professor Rajesh Balasubramanian
Sponsor: Vanguard Soaps
Vanguard is a premium Soap manufacturing company located in Memphis. They are looking for increasing there capacity and optimize their current production systems.
Vanguard will conduct an internal planning session in late Sept that is looking ahead 3-5+ years in terms of growth and business investment.
As a natural progression, we will need an optimized future state roadmap that improves our current state in terms of material flow, capacity, space optimization, and efficiency.
This will require a team to understand Vanguard existing material flows and processes, as well as conceptualized future state possibilities.
The team will be encouraged to ideate, think outside the box, and inform the solution(s).
Deliverables
A multi-building (Est. 150-200k total space) AutoCAD layout that represents our future state manufacturing layout (building infrastructure and equipment).
In the future state, space is optimized, material & transport flow is designed for minimal touches, base raw material and consumer product production capacity is maximized
Vanguard will be your customer and you will need to define the customer
needs, create Project definitions and data collection, analysis, and proposal in semester one and implement the changes for final acceptance in semester two.
Completion includes all documentation – Work Instructions, SOP, Process Layouts, Process maps, Time Standards, Kanban, Visual aids etc.,