ListarManufacturing Competitiveness por tema "Waste minimization"
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Application of Lean Manufacturing Principle to Construction Industry
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2016)Waste in the construction industry has been the subject of several research projects around the world in recent years because of inefficiency. Researchers and professionals implement different methods to reduce the ... -
Evaluation of Reagents Used in Solution Preparation to Reduce Reworks in Research and Development Laboratories
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2019)Research and development laboratories are working with improvements and discovery of new drugs. As part of their activities, they need solutions such as Buffers and Mobile Phases for analytical testing. It was found ... -
Fiber Drums Reduction in Weighing & Dispensing Manufacturing Process
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2022)Achieving overall efficiency within the manufacturing processes is the key goal among many organizations. Reducing waste enables manufactures to save money and take production up a notch. LEAN manufacturing and DMAIC are ... -
Increase of Manufacturing Line Capacity using Lean Manufacturing on a Medical Device Company
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2013)The competition between Medical Devices companies is increases every day. Many medical devices companies are marketing products that compete between each other. They challenged to obtain long term contracts to supply ... -
Lean Manufacturing Applied to In-Process Protein Concentration Determination Changing the Standard UV-Spectrometer for the Solo Variable Pathlength Extinction
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2020)The protein concentration test is a complicated test, which requires a lot of time and materials. Currently the test is being performed using an old equipment of UV-Spectrometer Visible. In this project, the researcher ... -
Lean Wastes Caused by Using Hard Copy Paper Forms on Manufacturing Processes
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2022)The waste caused by using paper in manufacturing is a project to identify waste costs and possible solutions. In many ublications, the objective is to demonstrate how using an electronic tool instead of printed reports has ... -
Medical Device Manufacturing Area Waste Elimination and Efficiency Improvements Project
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2018)This project describes a process for waste elimination and efficiency improvements in a manufacturing area at a medical device company. It uses the DMAIC methodology for the development of the improvements. Throughout ... -
Mejoras Al Diseño Establecido en el Proceso de Empaque para la Industria Biofarmacéutica con el fin de Minimizar Errores Humanos
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2022)En una línea de manufactura, el 83.3% de los operadores concuerda con que el proceso de documentación es complejo, lo que aumenta la incidencia de errores humanos. El propósito de este estudio es identificar posibles ... -
Reducing Downtime Due to Glove Breakage in Manufacturing Areas
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2022)Lean manufacturing was developed for maximizing resource utilization through the minimization of waste. During certain tasks in the Manufacturing Area, gloves tended to break. I propose that we need to reduce the walk ...