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Mission Statement

Table of Contents 1 Product Description/Project Objective Statement 2 Key Business Goals/Project Deliverables 3 Primary Market/Project Opportunities 4 Secondary Market/Project Opportunities 5 Assumptions and Constraints 6 Stakeholders

Product Description/Project Objective Statement

The mission of the Process Improvement Innovations Project is to implement lean principles in a new designated inventory/storage area at Dresser-Rand Corporation's Wellsville facility in order to reduce cycle time and improve on time delivery.

Key Business Goals/Project Deliverables

Goals:

• Increase floor space utilization and storage capacity by 30%
• Optimize the material receiving process
• Optimize/Create a material tracking system for the inventory area
• Prove that ‘big things can flow’
• Successfully relocate from current inventory area to future inventory area
• Improve on Ergonomics and address different safety issues
• Decrease amount of damaged turbines to 0

Deliverables:

• The team will be required to submit a layout proposal
• Accurate justification data for that layout
• Operation procedures on how to maintain new culture
• Inventory storage racking proposals (implement if possible
• Some sort of tracking system (ex. Supermarket)

Primary Market/Project Opportunities

Dresser-Rand (Person of Contact: Holly Dunaway

• Significant opportunity to save money by cutting inventory on site
• Significant opportunity in the process of storing inventory and material more efficiently (2 day lead time to gather parts for workers)
• Minimize travel cost/distance (200-300 feet/pick, over a mile a day of walking)
• Ergonomically how do they handle such massive parts? (only have 1 jib crane)
• Operation discipline is very weak

Secondary Market/Project Opportunities

RIT

• Develop future projects with Dresser-Rand

Employees

• Benefit from a more efficient work environment
• Morale and Productivity increase

Dresser-Rand Customers

• Potential higher quality or cheaper product
• Potential to gain team members(hire students) following MSD process

RIT Students

• Opportunity to work on an open ended, interesting project
• opportunity for future employment

Assumptions and Constraints

• Factory distance - Wellsville plant is a 2 hour drive
• 22 week improvement period
• Dresser-Rand staffing availability

Stakeholders

• Holly Dunaway, Primary customer/contact
• Dresser Rand employees
• The consumer of the DR products
• Kate Gleason College of Engineering
• Professor Kaemmerlen

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