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Improvements to a Water Treatment Plant in a Dairy Company in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2020)A dairy company has made a 40-milliondollar investment these past years in a new production line to offer new products. One of the problems that needs to be solved is what to do with the new amount of processed water ... -
Improvements to Implementation of Single Equipment Unit Projects
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2015)The pharmaceutical industry faces daily challenges relating to resources, time and budget established by implementing projects that contemplate a single equipment unit. Many times, referring to a single unit of equipment ... -
Improvements to Perfusion Skids 66501/66502/66503 Operations Used for Enbrel Product in AML-06
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2020)Amgen AML-06 Drug Product Plant is a multi-product facility where therapies for chronic diseases are manufactured. Its systems are designed for the continuous improvement of the processes, in order to comply with the ... -
Improvements to the Maintenance Manager Position
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2021)This project intends to show improvements to the position of Maintenance Manager in a company dedicated to the sale of aggregates and concrete mix in the Bayamon area. A critical analysis of the company was carried out ... -
Improvements to the Monte del Estado Vacation Center
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2018)Logical Engineering, LLC was assigned by the Puerto Rico Department of Sports and Recreation to improve the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) of the Monte del Estado Vacation Center (MEVC). Upon several site visits, the ... -
Improvements to the Preventive Maintenance Process Performance at a Pharmaceutical Company
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2023)An analysis of the current performance of the Preventive Maintenance (PM) process was conducted for the four main areas of a pharmaceutical company: Manufacture, Utilities, Laboratory, and Facilities. The current ... -
Improving a Dialysis Center Construction Project: A Lean Perspective
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2017)Due to the necessity of the construction of new facilities for healthcare, the Lean tools are applied in a construction project. Specifically, in the construction of a new facilities for a dialysis center, to reduce ... -
Improving Change Management of Supplier Changes While Mitigating Supply Chain Risk and Impact on Manufacturing Line
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2022)Unattended Supplier Change Requests represent a problem for Company XY. The lack of action toward Supplier Changes Requests results in a build-up of open changes that may impact the company's supply chain and manufacturing ... -
Improving Cost Estimating Process in the Aerospace Industry Projects
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2016)The cost estimation process in the aerospace industry is very important since this process help them to negotiate with the suppliers better offers and optimize the manufacturing process. The process is recent in this ... -
Improving Critical Parts Inventory for Fast Field Service Response
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2020)This study's focus is the evaluation of critical spare parts inventory for a service business organization to ensure adequate customer support. The study is carried out at a local provider for laboratory and process ... -
Improving Customer Process Effectiveness in a Facebook-Based Clothing Supplier
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2013)Any organization needs to incorporate feedback from its customers in order to have a successful business. As an emerging Facebookbased clothing supplier it has never been evaluated upon its effectiveness. In this project, ... -
Improving Customer Satisfaction in the Home-Buying Process by Applying DMAIC
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2019)Customer satisfaction is an important aspect for the success of any business that provides services. This research strives to provide new methods or ways to improve customer satisfaction during the process of buying a ... -
Improving Customer Satisfaction through Property Operations in Hospitality Industry
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2013)Corrective Maintenance used to be the most common course of action in both service and manufacturing industry. Even though the new tendencies are moving towards Preventive Maintenance, many industries are stuck in the ... -
Improving Data Collection Processes for F-16 Test Units at Nellis Air Force Base Nevada
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2021)Test units of the F-16 fighter jet collect significant amounts of data. It is important that this data gets processed, analyzed, and archived properly. This project focused in improving data collection processes with ... -
Improving Dilator’s Line Capacity, Inventory, and Management Control
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2023)This paper addresses operational challenges in Inari Medical's Dilator line, integral to Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) treatment devices. The project focuses on inventory control, line capacity, and management control to ... -
Improving Efficiency in Military Aircraft Maintenance Operations in Terms of Jobs Completion Time
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2022)Extensive job completion time in the aircraft maintenance operations has resulted in countless extra man-hours and impacted thousands of military missions for decades. The main cause of this problem narrows down to the ... -
Improving Efficiency of the Filling Line in a Dairy Industry
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2013)In the dairy manufacturing company the efficiency of the juice filler line is around 53%. We are trying to improve it to around 70% or more. In this project we used the DMAIC methodology for process improvement. Through ... -
Improving efficiency on surgical device’s manufacturing process
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2022)A global medical device company is suffering a significant efficiency decrease in one of their most important manufacturing processes. The purpose of this project was to improve this line efficiency by a minimum of 10%. ... -
Improving Employee Retention at Pratt & Whitney Puerto Rico
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2020)When a company has a major change in scope and culture, the tendency is to grow and adapt. The company in question, Pratt & Whitney, experienced growth but the adaptation has become problematic. Their growth has caused ... -
Improving Licensing Support Customer Experience
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2018)Customer satisfaction measurements were affected after a business restructuring event. The Licensing Support ticket resolution times and the number of tickets elevated to engineering teams exceeded business goals long after ...