Scope and research statment

About the company

Precision Wood Manufacturing. http://precisionwoodmfg.com/about/

Project Scope ( can be found from the file )

What is the problem to be solved?

· Goal

· Help get production schedule setup

· Sequencing

Why does the problem need to be solved?

· Expand product variety

· Save time and system

· Go to other market

· They company are a 60 day behind schedule and it usually take 30 days to file an order

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· backlog of orders

How will the project contribute to solving the problem?

· Reduce backlog of orders.

· Give the company enough control so they can look into other stuff

· how much to produce and when to produce

· To get the company to produce their stuff in time

Previous Approaches ( need to research for similar problem and write about on this part )

Describes the student’s investigation of approaches

currently or previously used to either solve the

problem posed in their project or used to solve related

Problems.

How has the problem been approached in the past?

What worked and what did not?

What can you learn from this prior work?

Stakeholders ( the highlighted paragraph can be changed based on what you think is better)

Describes the people involved in the project.

· The student team ( can be found from the file )

· Role / Responsibility

A three student were assigned in team 203 and each student have his role and responsibility to be more efficient and reliable, the project manager for team 203 is Douglas Lowery Jr. and some of his role and responsibility is to be the point of contact with the project sponsor, meeting coordinator, Writing editor and managing data collection. The second student is Justin Bussel and some of his role and responsibility is to be the point of contact with team advisor, data entry and analysis, documentation of data analysis and results and design and implementation of mechanical parts. The last but not least, is Abdullah Alotaibi and some of his role and responsibility is CAD layouts and designs, data entry and analysis, documentation of data analysis and results and researching and implementing lean principles.

· Sponsor contacts

· Ralph McRae. http://precisionwoodmfg.com/about/

The company started with McRae and his sons in 1957 at the beginning they start by developing paper roll plugs for large paper manufacturers in the Pacific Northwest. After all the success they have they expand their company to develop a wood products(1) and the courant honar is Ralph McRae. He used to work with his brother and other partners on the company but 7 month ago they end their partnership and he lift a lone with the company.

· Technical advisor(s)

· R. Logen Logendran. http://mime.oregonstate.edu/people/r-logen-logendran

· Course instructor

· Sharon Le Roux. http://mime.oregonstate.edu/people/sharon-leroux

Constraints, Risks, Assumptions

Describes the constraints, risks, and assumptions

associated with the project.

· Constraints: budget, schedule, material availability, etc.

· schedule

· Student schedule

· Every team member have different classes and schedule

· Adviser schedule

· Need an appointment to meet with

· Sponsor schedule

· Available in the factory most of the time

· material availability

· Only wood material available

· Assumptions: Outside help, low-cost materials, etc.

· Outside help

· Technical advisor, Sponsor and Course instructor

· low-cost materials

· No low-cost material are available

· There is a high-cost material, but it will help with reducing the waist

· Risks: Scope creep, distance to sponsor facility, etc.

· Worker need 30 min dinar break, 10 mint other for another break and 15 min on the end for cleaning

· Machines are broken regularly

· Can’t keep machine running

· Process are out of control

· Destine to sponsor facility are very far for us, since we are in Corvallis and the facility is on Tillamook

· Language barrier with worker, since the worker are Mexican and don’t speak english

· Our solution will never work anywise

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