1. Ideas-Unlimited Reflections
Adrian Allen
Steve Lona
Nicholas Tracy

2. Successes Produced the desired quantity of 50 acrylic clocks
Achieved acceptable level of quality

3. Failures Scraped six products during production
Broke six 1/32 inch end mills
Reworked 5 parts as a result
Lost 2 products during finishing operations

4. Results
Using scrapped material was cheaper, but produced greater variability from piece to piece
Acrylic was easily susceptible to scratches
Spent twice as long manufacturing than what we expected
Over on budgeted machine and labor hours

5. Conclusion
Moved toward a more Industrial Engineering type of environment
Improved process plans
Setup reduction techniques
Assembly Line
Cross-functional team

6. Improvements Find a more consistent and scratch resistant material
Use a vacuum fixture to end mill around entire work piece
Better cut-off operations

7. IME, Inc. Experience Teamwork Collaboration with professors
Working with outside vendor
Apply past and present coursework into one