• Reducing Meeting Costs in Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division’s Project Delivery Process 

  Carreras Calderón, Victor A. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2019)

  Inefficiencies in the handling of meetings result in large amounts of time and money wasted every year. This project aimed at identifying strategies to improve the handling of meetings in Eastern Federal Lands Highway ...

• Engineers in the Procurement Process at NASA 

  Alicea, Zuleimy (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2019)

  Procurement is the process of acquiring goods and services for a company. At the Kennedy Space Center the completion of an acquisition was taking long periods of time. This was caused because the engineers, who are ...

• Minimizing Employee Turnover 

  Batista Alicea, Coralys (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2019)

  This paper presents a plan that was created to minimize the amount of employee turnover in an outsourcing company. It involves team leaders, human resources, manager and talent from the groups. The employee turnover can ...

• Riveter Machine Reconditioning for Output Capacity Increase 

  Porcell, Edgardo (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2019)

  The ability to ramp up or down production in order to quickly respond to customers’ demand is a necessity in today’s competitive lean manufacturing environments. Output capacity bottlenecks forces manufacturing plants ...

• Manufacturing Lines Process Optimization: Tissue Cutter 

  Camacho, Gracemarie (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2019)

  A medical devices company manufactures small tissue cutters. In this process, two pieces must be welded, grinded and straightened. The tissue cutter must be grinded because of imperfections formed in the metal welded. ...

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