The industry-sponsored integration project is a capstone experience
for all MMM students. It is designed to provide students with
the opportunity to test their learning in real-world settings.
Students either develop a business plan based on a new product
concept or work with a manufacturing organization to improve an
existing process. Confidentiality agreements prohibit posting
full details.
- Supplier Park Design. A team of students worked with
a major automobile OEM and several suppliers in assessing the
strategic issues that would arise with building the supplier
park and provided insightful solutions to those issues.
- Customer Resource Management. Working with a computer
manufacturer, the student team provided a recommendation for
how to most effectively synchronize three independent customer
service contact methods (telephone, fax and email).
- International Operations Audit. When a medical devices
manufacturer wanted to open a plant overseas, they counted on
a team of MMM students to provide an operational audit for various
locations and assessed the best way to transition to the new
plant.
- Knowledge Management System. A telecommunications equipment
manufacturer had manufacturing systems worldwide that were all
facing similar issues. Through an Integration Project, a team
of students helped the company design a system that would allow
the various facilities to share data about how factories were
operating and practices implemented to improve efficiency.
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