I-Corps: Lean Factory Waste Reduction Modeling Methods and Management Decision Support Toolkit

这个I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是对减少废物进行深入的市场分析，并最终在中小型公司/组织中完全消除废物。团队？的目标是通过部署可测量和可量化的减少浪费的方法和技术来消除浪费，例如与（1）等待、（2）库存、（3）移动、（4）返工、（5）过度生产、（6）过度加工、（7）运输和（8）人才有关的浪费。这些废物将使用数学方程、算法以及可视化方法和工具进行分析和量化，包括我们新颖的计算机化、多媒体、交互式仪表板等。根据几个工业反馈，最重要的发现是，该团队？的系统将在中小型制造设施中发挥最佳作用，这些设施占新泽西州和美国公司的约90%。该项目的商业影响是巨大的，因为任何公司/组织的浪费都意味着收入损失。此外，该团队正在开发和商业化的方法，工具和技术，在此赠款强烈促进管理和联营/操作员的好奇心，批判性思维，敏捷性，灵活性，开放性，团队合作，创造力，勤奋，和可持续的绿色和精益工程和管理原则.这个I-Corps项目有几个智力优点，包括以下：团队的新方法和工具的基础上的关键过程/性能指标（KPI），集成了三维面向对象的过程建模方法，使用团队？自己的算法，数学方法和软件可视化/交互式多媒体方法。该项目的另一个新颖之处是使用计算机和手动控制的无人机技术来绘制分析现场的地图，根据收集到的视频文件捕获并评估准确的数据。这也将使团队能够审查难以到达或在相对危险/危险或偏远环境中运行的站点，机器和流程。 此外，团队正在将新颖的AR（增强现实）解决方案纳入专为团队编程的方法和工具集？的目的，以帮助我们的系统设计过程，以及可视化和演示替代精益系统设计解决方案。所有这些都将使该团队能够在非常广泛的工厂/组织中减少/消除浪费。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is to provide an in-depth market analysis of waste reduction, and eventually complete waste elimination in small to medium size companies / organizations. The team?s goal is to eliminate waste by deploying measurable and quantifiable waste reduction methods and technologies, such as waste relating to (1) waiting, (2) inventory, (3) motion, (4) rework, (5) over-production, (6) over-processing, (7) transportation, and (8) talent. These groups of wastes will be analyzed and quantified using mathematical equations, algorithms, as well as visualization methods and tools, including our novel computerized, multimedia, interactive dashboards, and others. Based on several industrial feedbacks, the most important discovery was finding, that the team?s system will work best in small to medium size manufacturing facilities, which account for approximately 90% of the companies in NJ and the USA. The commercial impact of this project is huge, since waste in any company/organization represents lost revenue. Furthermore, the methods, tools and technologies the team is developing and commercializing in this grant strongly promote management and associate / operator curiosity, critical thinking, agility, flexibility, openness, teamwork, creativity, conscientiousness, and sustainable green and lean engineering and management principles.This I-Corps project has several Intellectual Merits, including the following: The team's novel methods and tools are based on Key Process/performance Indicators (KPIs), integrated with a three dimensional object-oriented process modeling method, using the team?s own algorithms, mathematical methods, and software visualization / interactive multimedia methods. This enables the team to measure and quantify levels of waste for the purpose of eventually eliminating them in almost any factory/organization.Another novel feature of this project is to use computer and manually controlled drone technology to map an analyzed site, capture and then evaluate accurate data based on the collected video files. This will also enable the team to review sites, machines, and processes, that are difficult to reach, or that operate in relatively dangerous/hazardous or remote environments. Furthermore, team is including novel AR (Augmented Reality) solutions into the set of methods and tools, programmed specifically for the team?s purposes to help our system design processes, as well as to visualize and demonstrate alternative lean system design solutions. All above will enable the team to reduce / eliminate waste in a very wide range of factories / organizations.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.