United Airlines Calibration Lab Redesign
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- Brandon Dang
- Bryan Eisenhard
- Jason Hermoso
- Minji Kim
- Bryan Macatangay
Advisor: Michael Brown, PhD
Sponsor: United Airlines
Project Description Heading link
United Airlines contacted the University of Illinois at Chicago for a student team to assist them in a project to design a floor plan for their Vickery Calibration Lab and its expansion into the departing carpet shop, that maximizes throughput of calibrated tools while maintaining a safe environment for the technicians to work in. The opening of new space will allow the student team to arrange disciplines in multiple layouts and compare them in order to determine the most efficient utilization of space. With the high-level process flow for calibrating tools already established, the students must determine where to arrange the calibration disciplines in order to establish an efficient tool flow throughout the facility. Due to technicians expressing their frustrations with the workspace allotted to them, we are further tasked to apply ergonomic principles to every workstation, suggesting new designs that will accommodate the technicians’ needs. In addition, the Vickery lab is looking to measure time of tool usage and idleness more accurately through the use of RFID technology. The implementation of barcode scanners demonstrates to them the indicators of their performance level and then could apply benchmarks to their throughput and other indicators they are looking to measure.
See supporting documentation in the team’s Box drive.