ISyE Senior Design Team Wins Fall Capstone Expo
Dec 18 2019
2019年12月18日
Out of 143 teams from seven schools and two colleges at Georgia Tech, including 23 teams from the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), an ISyE Senior Design team took home the prize for best overall project. This is just the second time an ISyE team has received the top Capstone award, which comes with $3,000 in prize money.
乔治亚理工学院7所学校和2所学院的143个团队中,包括来自H.Milton Stewart工业与系统工程学院(ISyE)的23个团队,一个ISyE高级设计团队获得了最佳总体项目奖。这仅仅是ISyE团队第二次获得最高顶点奖,奖金为3000美元。
The winning team, “Sky’s the Limit,” worked with Delta Airlines In-Flight Services (IFS). The project examined Delta’s distribution network to consolidate warehouse inventory and optimize trucking. The team evaluated how Delta stores and transports in-flight materials that get packed for flights, such as pillows and snacks. They discovered that these items were stored in a range of warehouses and were delivered by partially filled trucks. They found that reducing warehouse operational costs and increasing truck utilization would result in significant yearly savings of 17%.
获胜的团队“天空是极限”,与达美航空公司(Delta Airlines In Flight Services,IFS)合作。该项目检查了德尔塔的分销网络,以巩固仓库库存和优化卡车运输。研究小组评估了达美航空如何储存和运输航空材料,如枕头和零食。他们发现这些物品存放在一系列仓库中,并由部分装满的卡车运送。他们发现,降低仓库运营成本和提高卡车利用率将导致每年显著节省17%。
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“It was an absolute pleasure working with the ‘Sky’s the Limit’ ISyE team on their Senior Design project,” said Chris Vanner, senior planner for IFS Transportation at Delta. “The amount of energy, enthusiasm, and professionalism each member of the team demonstrated was truly unsurpassed. Thanks to their hard work and meticulous attention to detail, they identified numerous opportunities to improve operational efficiencies across Delta’s IFS supply chain. Their findings, once implemented, will not only increase efficiency of our supply chain but also result in significant cost savings for Delta. I cannot thank them enough for all their hard work throughout the semester, and we’re looking forward to implementing their findings as soon as possible.”
“与‘天空的极限’ISyE团队合作完成他们的高级设计项目是一件非常愉快的事,”三角洲IFS交通高级策划人Chris Vanner说。“团队中每个成员所表现出的精力、热情和专业精神都是无与伦比的。由于他们的辛勤工作和对细节的细致关注,他们发现了许多提高德尔塔IFS供应链运营效率的机会。他们的研究结果一旦实施,不仅将提高我们供应链的效率,还将为达美带来显著的成本节约。我对他们整个学期的辛勤工作感激不尽,我们期待着尽快落实他们的调查结果。”
The team members included Christine Cristobal, Afreen Fahad, Mack Hathaway, Kelsey Keith, Carolina Llerena, Madison Messier, Priya Sharma, and Thomas Suh. They were advised by Associate Professor Enlu Zhou.
团队成员包括克里斯蒂娜·克里斯托瓦尔、阿弗林·法哈德、马克·海瑟薇、凯尔西·基思、卡罗莱纳·莱勒纳、麦迪逊·梅西耶、普里亚·夏尔马和托马斯·苏赫。他们是周恩禄副教授建议的。
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Senior Design team “Authority Life,” which worked with the Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC) Authority, not only took home the Capstone prize for best ISyE project but also won the ISyE Best of Senior Design Competition.
与乔治亚州世界会议中心(GWCC)管理局合作的高级设计团队“权威生活”不仅获得了最佳ISyE项目的最高奖,还获得了高级设计竞赛的ISyE最佳奖。
The GWCC hosts around 300 events in Atlanta annually and is transforming their business model to a data-driven assessment of profitability on a per event basis. The Senior Design team developed and implemented three models to achieve this goal: a rooms-to-event assignment optimization model, a cost prediction model, and a profit margin classification. They also designed a web app to integrate the three models. Through this new integrated data-driven approach, GWCC Authority’s annual profits are projected to increase by about $1.1 million.
GWCC每年在亚特兰大举办约300场活动,并正在将其业务模式转变为基于每次活动的数据驱动的盈利能力评估。高级设计团队开发并实现了三个模型来实现这一目标:房间到事件分配优化模型、成本预测模型和利润率分类。他们还设计了一个web应用程序来整合这三种模式。通过这种新的综合数据驱动方法,GWCC管理局的年利润预计将增加约110万美元。
“Working with this Senior Design team was a delight. They were able to problem-solve and were tenacious enough to dig and get the information needed for their analysis out of our databases (not always the easiest task),” said Mark Koeninger, director of business intelligence and process improvement for GWCC Authority. “We had many meetings and sessions both in-person and on the phone, but our team was also able to get together for a team-building event at Mercedes-Benz Stadium as well as a team lunch, and I was able to see firsthand the teamwork and camaraderie that has developed.
“与这个高级设计团队合作是一件令人高兴的事。他们能够解决问题,并且有足够的毅力从我们的数据库中挖掘和获取分析所需的信息(并不总是最简单的任务),”GWCC Authority商业智能和流程改进主管Mark Koeninger说。“我们在面对面和电话上都开了很多会和会,但我们的团队也能在梅赛德斯-奔驰体育场聚在一起进行团队建设活动以及团队午餐,我亲眼看到了团队合作和友谊的发展。
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“As for the project’s impact to my building, it is a gamechanger. I have been tasked with putting a focus on expenses, event level P&L’s, and driving profitability. This tool is a great piece of that puzzle, as I get the company culture geared toward managing profitability and expense. With a potential savings of $1.1 million over the next year, I am excited to get the team using this to its full capability.”
“至于这个项目对我的建筑的影响,它是一个游戏改变者。我的任务是把重点放在费用、事件级损益和提高盈利能力上。这个工具是这个难题的一个很好的部分,因为我得到的公司文化是面向管理盈利能力和费用的。在接下来的一年里,我有可能节省110万美元,我很高兴让团队充分利用这一点。”
The team members included Daniel Alayo-Matos, Hailun Chang, Brandon Kang, Yunsang Kim, Emily Kornegay, Peyton Skinner, Mayke Vercruyssen, and Yihua Xu. They were advised by A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor Alexander Shapiro.
团队成员包括Daniel Alayo Matos、Hailun Chang、Brandon Kang、Yunsang Kim、Emily Kornegay、Peyton Skinner、Mayke Vercruyssen和Yihua Xu。他们得到了拉塞尔·钱德勒三世主席和亚历山大·夏皮罗教授的建议。
Senior Design team “Ocsic,” which worked with Cisco Systems, was a finalist for the ISyE Best of Senior Design Competition. The goal of their project is to maximize recovery value from returned products, achieved through three key steps: (1) introducing a new mathematical model to allocate products to channels based on expected profit; (2) consolidating inventory to facilitate its reallocation between channels; and (3) enabling e-commerce retailers as alternative remarketing channels. Implementing these would increase profit by 40% for FY19, reduce scrapped products by 12.7%, and reduce average inventory by 18.4%, and avoid sending 6,350 pounds of material from to a landfill.
与思科系统合作的高级设计团队“Ocsic”是“ISyE最佳高级设计竞赛”的决赛选手。本项目的目标是通过三个关键步骤实现回收产品的回收价值最大化:(1)引入新的数学模型,根据期望利润将产品分配给渠道;(2)整合库存以促进渠道之间的再分配;(3)使电子商务零售商成为替代性的再销售渠道。实施这些措施将使2019财年的利润增加40%,报废产品减少12.7%,平均库存减少18.4%,并避免将6350磅材料从垃圾填埋场运往垃圾填埋场。
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The team members included Kenneth Bassett, Kyle Brown, Jayanth Chintham, Nicholas Franco, Mustafa Gharaibeh, Eleana Padilla, Seong Hwan Park, and Erik Pulido. They were advised by Director of Student Services Dawn Strickland.
团队成员包括Kenneth Bassett、凯尔·布朗、贾扬斯·钦森、Nicholas Franco、Mustafa Gharaibeh、Eleana Padilla、兴旺公园和Erik Pulido。学生服务处处长道恩·斯特里克兰建议他们这样做。
Senior Design team PIVOT was also a finalist for the ISyE Best of Senior Design Competition. PIVOT manufactures carts and kiosks for food and beverage vendors. The demand for PIVOT's carts and kiosks has been increasing rapidly, but an essential resource – skilled manufacturing employees – are in short supply. To satisfy increasing demand, the team designed a production system that utilizes lower-skilled employees in the complex assembly process. The team delivered tools for training employees including assembly instructions and drawings, as well as optimization software that determines the optimal assignment and order of tasks for workers with different skills to minimize project completion time. The improvements, already implemented, doubled the throughput of the system and decreased labor costs by 16.7%.
高级设计团队PIVOT也是“ISyE最佳高级设计比赛”的决赛选手。PIVOT为食品和饮料供应商制造手推车和售货亭。PIVOT的手推车和售货亭的需求一直在快速增长,但一种重要的资源——熟练的制造业员工——却供不应求。为了满足日益增长的需求,该团队设计了一个生产系统,在复杂的装配过程中利用低技能员工。该团队提供了用于培训员工的工具,包括装配说明和图纸,以及优化软件,用于确定具有不同技能的工人的最佳任务分配和任务顺序,以最大限度地缩短项目完成时间。已经实施的这些改进使系统的吞吐量增加了一倍,并降低了16.7%的人工成本。
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The team members included Walid Abdi, Jacob Carlton, Sunny Chen, Renee Desprez, David Guo, Mara Hayes, Rizwan Khan, and Chloe Kim. They were advised by Associate Professor Anton Kleywegt.
小组成员包括瓦利德·阿布迪、雅各布·卡尔顿、桑尼·陈、蕾妮·德斯普雷斯、郭大卫、玛拉·海斯、里兹万·汗和克洛伊·金。他们是由安东·克莱维格特副教授建议的。
As is typical for ISyE’s Senior Design teams, in addition to the projects’ individual client benefits, the projects collectively have generated impressive value.
正如ISyE的高级设计团队所特有的,除了项目的个人客户利益之外,这些项目还产生了令人印象深刻的价值。
“The impact and potential value of the Senior Design projects is very compelling,” said Dima Nazzal, ISyE director of professional practice and Senior Design coordinator. “While we have a rigorous method for identifying the ISyE competition finalists, it’s still difficult to choose the top three. This year, we’ve had several teams that took their projects into a higher level by implementing their recommendations and directly testing their impact at the client site. Collectively, the 23 ISyE teams generated more than $20 million in annual potential value for their clients. More importantly, several ISyE projects this semester created positive environmental and societal impact, such as the projects with Shepherd Center’s sustainability committee and the project with the Boys and Girls Club of Metro Atlanta.”
“高级设计项目的影响和潜在价值非常引人注目,”ISyE专业实践总监兼高级设计协调员Dima Nazzal说。“虽然我们有一个严格的方法来确定ISyE比赛的入围者,但仍然很难选出前三名。今年,我们有几个团队通过执行他们的建议并在客户站点直接测试他们的影响,将他们的项目提升到了一个更高的水平。这23个ISyE团队为他们的客户创造了超过2000万美元的年潜在价值。更重要的是,本学期的几个ISyE项目产生了积极的环境和社会影响,如与Shepherd Center可持续发展委员会的项目和亚特兰大大都会男孩女孩俱乐部的项目。”
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