Identify solutions to unmet technology needs and challenges.Develop a supply chain strategy to be more competitive and minimize risks in sourcing.Connect with Virginia Tech senior students for future employment.Access Virginia Tech resources to address opportunities for improvement.Improve operational efficiencies to increase profits.The yearlong capstone experience culminates with the Senior Symposium, a technical conference event at which company representatives, students, GENEDGE advisors, and faculty share and celebrate the project results. During the second semester, students focus on design and implementation as well as hone their technical writing and oral presentation skills. Specifically, students work in teams to apply learned skills to real-world manufacturing opportunities, improving processes and accelerating growthĭuring the first semester, students focus on developing a technical proposal as well as performing technical analysis related to their project. The program is designed to be the capstone, integrative experience that provides the basic skills needed to effectively plan, manage and implement technical projects. GENEDGE has partnered with the Center for High Performance Manufacturing (CHPM) at Virginia Tech to advise and project manage students in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. GENEDGE – Virginia Tech Partnership and Affiliation Learn more about how a senior design project to create a lean cell environment can effectively teach anyone, students or laborers in the surrounding areas, on how to better apply lean thinking to any of their jobs. GENEDGE is a sponsor for the Learning Factory and the Lean Manufacturing Cell. The Learning Factory and The Lean Manufacturing Cell Production or Manufacturing Systems Design/Redesign.Lean Manufacturing Process Improvements.Services result in a substantial business impact in one or more areas. Senior Design Program services include, but are not limited to, a CoreValue Enterprise Value Assessment, project charter, and professional project management and coaching. Participating manufacturers identify and provide projects that require the investment of 8-10 team hours per week, for the duration of the 9 month project. GENEDGE offers practical, hands-on student team resources and solutions through the Center for High Performance Manufacturing’s (CHPM) Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) Senior Design Program. Many manufacturing companies are busy running their day to day operation and struggle to find the time, technical resources, and tools to address operational inefficiencies, solutions to unmet challenges, and facility design opportunities.
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