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Contents
Title & cover
Abstract
Introduction
1.1 Background
1.2 Problem statement
1.3 Objective
1.4 Scope of project
Analysis
2.1 equipment used
2.2 procedure used to collect data
2.3 Data
2.3 Survey
Discussion
3.1 Observation/ solution
a) Parking
b) Maintenance
c) Trash cans
d) Cleaning equipment
e) Restroom
f) Back entrance
g) Gym fees
h) Cleaning equipment
i) 24/7 operation
j) Finger print
k) Weight equipment
l) Arrangement of machine
m) Portion powder
*Ignore these in green color Because I have not wrote them yet*
3.2 Calculation
References
Abstract
Introduction
1.5 Background
1.2 Problem statement
Our group members visit SLU fitness center frequently and we realized that there are a lot of improvement to bring the place. Most of the student workout between classes, so the main goal is to minimize the time student spend at the gym to get to their classes on time. By achieving these goals, accessing the gym without the hassle of bring out your id will be reduced, so as not misplacing it and been able to access the gym 24/7 a day, reduces the wait time for equipment will be minimized as well and that will accomplish an effective workout. Also, there are some other time unrelated improvement which will considered in this project such as; fees, maintenance request, better equipment and affordable supplements.
1.3 Objective
1.4 Scope of project
The scope of this project is to improve the quality of a student gym experience while increasing efficiency within the gym to save the school money. Time measurements will be recorded when a student swipes his card to enter gym and will be compared to the time it takes for a student to enter the gym with a finger print scanner. Work measurements will take place when we record the task of the food bar in the gym providing student with a cheaper alternative for them to get protein after a workout but not cutting corners on quality. Keeping the gym open 24/7 would reduce traffic during the day due to no time constraints for students to use the gym and regulate traffic through the facility. Looking at the layout of the gym, we would be rearranging the machines by putting all the machines for a certain muscle group together to avoid extra traffic between machines. After analyzing our techniques to improve the gym and the student’s experience at the gym, we think our ways are possible to reach these goals and will be favored by the University.
Discussion
3.1 Observation/ solution
A) Parking
Please refer to parking calculation for more details
I. Observation: -
A convenient parking to student is a one of the goals we are trying to achieve in this project. Here is a map shows the parking that are close to the fitness center to give you a visual representation idea;
Figure 3-1 student fitness center parking.
We realized that a lot of the student have the red permit and that does not allow them to park in parking F before 3pm. They are only allowed to park in P-12 and P-11 to go to the fitness center. The problem is, and what most student complain about is the walking distance before 3pm. Especially, when the weather is bad and that makes most student uncomfortable to walk. However, in some days such as, Monday and Tuesday between 9AM – 1PM, both parking are packed. You must wait a few minutes to find a parking spot. As a result, some students skip their workout session. Or even worse, they break the rules by parking over the yellow lines or parking in F and get a ticket. We also noticed that the yellow area in parking F is completely empty before 3pm. And the meter slots are always packed.
II. Solution: -
1) We highly suggest allowing people to park in the yellow area before 3pm since it is empty all days. And that will save a lot of time for students to walk to the gym. Considering the average walking speed is 4.98897 KPH
· If students park in the yellow area instead of P-11 they will save;
((P11 to gym, walking time) - (yellow area to gym, walking time)) * 2 “back and forth”
(4-1)*2 = 6 min.
· If students park in the yellow area instead of P-12 they will save
((P12 to gym, walking time) - (yellow area to gym, walking time)) * 2 “back and forth”
(3-1)*2 = 4 min.
2) Adding more meter slots-
There is a great need to add meter slots around the building due to the fact it is always packed. We suggest adding the smart meter slots that allow you to pay using your phone, which will increase the income due to many reasons
· Some people don’t have coins on them, but smart meter slots allow them to pay using credit card.
· Convenient to add more time using your phone without leaving the gym, more time means more income
3) There is nothing in the blue area in figure 3-1, it is a perfect fit to construct a parking lot and to add an entrance from the back of the facility to get you directly to the weight room. We talked about this in details in page ( ).
Figure 3-2 shows the yellow area empty.
Figure 3-3 shows the need for more meter slots
Figure 3-4 shows how people break the rules due to the lack of parking.
Figure 3-5 shows how P12 are completely packed.
This link shows a video of how P11 are completely packed
B) Maintenance
I. Observation:-
After observing the gym closely for two months. It came to our attention that it takes a long time between 24-72h to respond to maintenance request when an equipment breaks down. When the maintenance responds to the equipment break down, they don’t wear any safety clothing nor protective equipment, which put them in a risk. Also, we noticed that they are not qualified enough to do the work since they spend hours trying to figure out how to fix the equipment. In fact, they are the same people how work there as trainers.
II. Solution:-
· Hire a company to do all the maintenance work instead of making the trainers do two jobs at the same time and that will lead to a faster respond to maintenance request.
- instruct people more on how to use the equipment properly. Especially, Seated Spinal Twist Machine because it is out of service most of the time. Doing that will lead to less maintenance requests.
C) Trash cans
I. Observation;
We noticed that there are only a few trash cans in and around the facility. For example, in the parking lot F, there are only two trash cans. In the weights room, there is only one trash can by the weights room entrance. Some people leave their trash around not on purpose, but trash cans are far away, and they want to get their workout as fast as possible. The problem is they forget to pick it after they are done. So, that requires a worker to pick up after them. Also, that will mess up the place.
II. Solution;
Simply, the solution to the problem is to add more trash cans around and in the facility. That will save some time for workers and make the facility look nicer.
D) Cleaning equipment
I. Observation
We noticed that workers at the facility spends quit a lot of their time with cleaning rags. They put them in the right place if someone replaced them. Also, they clean the rags 3 times a day. Doing that will consume a lot of washing soap, electricity. Keep in mind the cost of the sprayers. “When using the spray-and-wipe method—which is utilized by many gyms—some germs may be killed, but they are never fully removed and are simply spread around from area to area, turning them into a rich food source for new organisms” (source ). People go the gym to be healthy, but actually the spray-and-wipe method might get them sick. it might seem more expensive and complicated to implement a healthy cleaning program that will increase production rates. In fact, it is less expensive than using the spray-and-wipe method and it will be delivered to the facility by the service provider.
II. Solution
Using a single use wiper ensures no cross-contamination such as the ones designed with convenience and practicality in mind and suit rolls or single sheets. Thar being said, it will be delivered to the facility by the service provider.
E) Restroom
I. Observation
Figure 3-6 fitness center layout
we have three options if you need to use the restroom assuming that you are at point F by the weights room. The first option is to point 1 in figure 3-6, which is the faster route to get to the restroom and that will be ( min ), But whenever there is an event in the yellow court, they lock “door A”. So, we will not be able to use restroom 1. In that case, they only allow people who goes though “door C” to use restroom 1. Based on our observation restroom 1 get locked every day between 4-6 hours.
The second option is to point 2 in figure 3-6, that takes ( min), assuming that you are at point F by the weights room. However, you have to have your ID card on you and swipe it to get back to the fitness area through “door B”. The last option is to point 3a and 3b in figure 3-6. You also need to have you ID card on you to get back. The problem with this option is it takes the longest time to get back and finish your workout.
Solution;
We came up with two solutions. The first solution is to build a restroom in the storage area. And move the storage somewhere else in the facility. The second option, which we believe is the better option. It relays on fingerprint feature. This solution will allow them to lock the yellow court but allow the students get access to restroom 1. It works as the following;
Fingerprint feature will be set up in door A, B, C and D. And all these doors will get locked automatically and will get unlocked only if it recognizes the student fingerprint.
If door C recognizes your fingerprint only door D will recognize it too.
If door B recognizes your fingerprint only door A will recognize it too.
The feature will keep students who go goes through door B beyond the red line in figure 3-6, as well as it will keep students who go goes through door C beyond the red line.
F) Back entrance
I. Observation
We noticed that there is only one entrance to the fitness area and that is door B in figure 3-6. We believe it will be a great idea to add a back entrance. That will really help the facility with allowing 24/7 operation, we talked about this more in details in page **
II. Solution
Adding a back entrance will allow easy access to the facility and there will be no need for a worker to check your ID card since you will get in the facility using your finger print.
G) Gym fees
I. Observation
SLU current students must pay a fee of 5$ if they forget to bring their ID, which is definitely not a small fee. One day pass and guest Pass is 8$ and that is almost the same price that will get you a one month membership at planet fitness in Edwardsville. Furthermore, it cost 25$ per one training sessions. 273 out of 300 students participated in the survey said they can’t afford to pay that much, but they will be defiantly able to afford it if it was half the price.
II. Solution
We highly suggest SLU to consider the idea of finger print so student don’t have to pay 5$ every time they forget to bring their IDs. Also, reduce personal training fees by half become that will increase their profit dramatically as shown in figure 3-7 .
3.1 calculation
Our calculation is based on a Sample size n = 300 people and Population size of 14,235 according to SLU website. The population size is the total number of all student attend SLU. Sample size is the number of students participated in our survey.
Parking calculation;
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walking from - to / time |
distance in (ft, m and mile) |
walking at (5, 4, 3 and 2 KPH) in min |
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P12-Gym |
1,044.05 |
318.28 |
0.19776 |
3 |
4 |
6 |
9 |
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From P11-Gym |
1,313.72 |
400.42 |
0.24880 |
4 |
6 |
8 |
12 |
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(Yellow Parking) - Gym |
279.86 |
85.3 |
0.05300 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
Gym fees calculation;
We need to do confidence interval using the formula for population proportion. Assuming the number of students that will be able to offer in the sample follows a binomial distribution with n=300 and probability of success =population proportion (denoted by p). the sample proportion of students can offer will have an approximate normal distribution with mean=p and variance = . This result came from normal approximation of binomial using central limit theory. the confidence interval will be based on the sampling distribution and will have the form:
sample proportion
With 95% confidence, we can say the number of students out of the population that will be able to offer is between 0.878*14235 and 0.942*14235, approximately 12498 to 13409.
Approximately between 87,797% to 94.197%
Let MxO be Max # of student can offer original fees.
Let MiO be Min # of student can offer original fees.
Let MxH be Max # of student can offer half the fees.
Let MiH be Min # of student can offer half the fees.
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With 95% confidence, |
training sessions profit in $ |
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1 |
3 |
5 |
10 |
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MxO |
43425 |
104220 |
156330 |
277920 |
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MiO |
20650 |
49560 |
74340 |
132160 |
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MxH |
167612.5 |
402270 |
603405 |
1072720 |
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MiH |
156225 |
374940 |
562410 |
999840 |
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sessions price |
1 |
3 |
5 |
10 |
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original |
25 |
60 |
90 |
160 |
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half |
12.5 |
30 |
45 |
80 |
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Population size |
14,235 |
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Max # of student can offer original fees |
1,737 |
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Min # of student can offer original fees |
826 |
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Max # of student can offer half the fees |
13409 |
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Min # of student can offer half the fees |
12498 |
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Figure 3-7 SLU personal training profit.
Graph analyzing;
References ( not finished yet. this is just links, )
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2031218/
http://www.clubindustry.com/stepbystepvendorviewpoint/your-gym-being-cleaned-properly
siue personal training
MxO 1.0 3.0 5.0 10.0 43425.0 104220.0 156330.0 277920.0 MiO 1.0 3.0 5.0 10.0 20650.0 49560.0 74340.0 132160.0 MxH 1.0 3.0 5.0 10.0 167612.5 402270.0 603405.0 1.07272E6 MiH 1.0 3.0 5.0 10.0 156225.0 374940.0 562410.0 999840.0
Number of sessions
Profit
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