Wegmans Food Market Inc. is a locally owned grocery store chain in Rochester NY. The company owns and operates 75 stores across New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia. Wegmans was just named the fifth best company to work for in 2009 by Fortune Magazine. In previous years Wegmans has been listed as the number one best company to work for.

The batch prep project will take place in the Central Kitchen at the Wegmans Culinary Center located on Chili ave in Rochester NY. The batch prep area is used to prepare ingredients for soups and sauces that will be used by the Wegmans stores. The primary goal of this project is to develop a standard work for the batch prep area that reduces labor hours needed by increasing the rate of expectancy (lbs/labor hour) through standard work procedures and an area layout redesign. An assessment of current ergonomic risks is also desired.

Team Members:

Josh Monsees (IE)

Steve Crane (IE)

Stephanie Walter (IE)

Adam Merah (ME)

Emil Kostraba (ME)

Project Name

Batch Prep Process Improvement

Project Number

P10713

Track

Process Innovation

Start Term

2009-2

End Term

2009-3

Faculty Guide

John Kaemmerlen

Primary Customer

Wegmans Food Market Inc

• DPM Commercial
• Project Readiness Package
• Mission Statement
• Intellectual Property Considerations
• Preliminary Work Breakdown Structure
• Required Resources
• Preliminary Risk Management

• Affinity Diagram
• Objective Tree
• Function Tree
• Specifications and Goals
• Preliminary House of Quality

• Team Contact Information
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• Team Values and Norms
• Mission Statement
• Meeting Minutes
• Peer Evaluation Form (MS Word)

• Project Plan (MS Project)
• Customer Needs
• Project Risk's (MS Excel)
• Project Deliverables
• Cause and Effect Diagram

• Observed Problems and Solutions
• Design Proposals
• Implementation Time line for Design Proposals
• Design Specs/Metrics (MS Excel)

• Systems Design Review

• Final Design Review

• Team Meeting Times
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• Time Study Template

• Proposal Ownership (MS Excel)
• Rolled Over Action Items
• MSD 2 Project Risks

• Summary of Project Plan (MS Excel)
• Detailed Project Plan (MS Project)
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• Ergonomic and Safety
• Layout
• Final Rate of Expectancy
• New Equipment
• Future Work

• Final Paper
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• Actual vs. Plan
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