Zero-Cost Changeover
January 1, 2016Niagara Bottling, LLC Engineering, 2015-16
Liaison(s): Craig Young, Kartik Gurav, Colin Cavanaugh, Daryl Anderson, Michael White
Advisor(s): Kash Gokli
Students(s): Spenser Anderson (TL-S), Tito Barina (TL-F), Aaron Rosen, Faith Lemire-Baeten (F), Alexa Le (F), Shaan Gareeb (S), Carmel Zhao (S), Jose Orozco (S), Robert Cyprus (S)
When a manufacturing line stops making one product and starts producing a new product, the machines on the line must be modified or recalibrated in order to produce the new item, in a process called a changeover. Niagara Bottling, LCC has tasked the HMC team with reducing the cost of changeovers performed on one of the machines on their water-bottling lines.