Single-Touch Changeover

Niagara Bottling LLC Engineering, 2018-19

Liaison(s): Tim Ford, Richard Melanson, Manish Nagbanshi, Tony Peterson, Veronica Short, Daniel Weckstein
Advisor(s): Patrick Little
Students(s): Zachary Goland (TL-F), Michael Guzman (S), Valerie Kwee (TL-F), Briana Liu (TL-S), Jeni Zhu (F)

As a leading private label bottling company, Niagara Bottling produces a variety of products for different customers. In between different products, changeovers must be performed on manufacturing lines. The goal of this project is to conduct a study to identify modifications for the current manufacturing process. These modifications are expected to reduce changeover time by at least 20 seconds without increasing the number of operator-machine interactions required.