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| IPRO 312 Fall '04 |
Back Row: Mark Sami, Gueorgui Moutaftchiev, Erica Fierro, Nasir Mahmood, Seung Kwon(Mike) Choi, Baltazar Zamudio, Professor William Maurer
Front Row: James Savaiano, Michael Wyrick, Milena Tzakova, Jose Contreras |
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In the business world of today, it is beneficial, if not mandatory, for industrial corporations to remain at the edge of information system technology. As a plant expands, new customers are found, and more employees are hired, the need to have a reliable information system cannot be met solely by its employees (dedicated as they may be.) The solution to this general complication, as employed by most of the modern world is to develop an automated system and integrate it throughout the company. Though there many ways of creating such a system, its need for creation is always the same.
Buhrke Industries, Arlington Heights, Illinois, gave this IPRO team the opportunity to examine certain projects that involve the consideration of their existing information system.
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| > Barcode Migration Project < |
Current methods of receiving material at Buhrke Industries heavily rely on operator dependency. As the material arrives, the receiving operator aids in the physical receiving of the material. Once, the material is received, it is necessary that the quantity received is verified. This usually involves calculating the received weight of each of the skids in the shipment. Then a paper note is made for each of the skids received, however, in order to fill out the note, the operator must record information on individual labels that the supplier placed on each of the skids. There are a lot of data fields to record, and this process alone can take some time. The operator must then return to his office, and input the data into the system, for all departments to view. The time from when the shipment arrives, to the data being available to all departments, is therefore long, and the work tedious.
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| The individual labels from the suppliers contain fields such as the type of material, weight, company, and various others that the receiving operator must record. On these supplier labels, each field is not only typed but each contains a bar code as well. The use of a barcode scanner to scan the label and instantly be inputted into company system would be eliminating the time and operator dependency. However, the Bar Code project will involve heavy research into barcode methodology, barcode scanners, and its application to Buhrke to determine if this is possible. It will be the goal of the team to provide Buhrke with a well-researched recommendation to determine if the use of the bar code scanners is possible.
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| > Tool Repair Request Project < |
It is essential that a TRRS (tool repair request system) be created so that the tool room technical assistant can access any information on a particular tool at any time.
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| The process of the TRRS is as follows: A specific tool breaks down that is being utilized in production. This is when its user is to enter a repair request into the TRRS. This request will notify the tool room of
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| | can enter a specific tool number into the TRRS at anytime and be notified of where this specific tool is, the last time it was out of service for maintenance, what maintenance was performed, if it is broken, if so how long until return for operation, and any other general history of that specific tool (hits, sharpening, etc..). When the tool repair is complete it is entered into the TRRS, which will notify production that the tool is ready for use.
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| The TRRS will not only act as a system that helps the company fix their broken tools in a timely manner, but it will also act as a preventive maintenance system. This can be said, because the TRRS is designed to
| | inform the tool room technical assistant when a specific tool need be taken out of operation for maintenance. An example is, after a specific number of hits a die takes the TRRS system should notify the tool room that the die need be taken out of service for a sharpening, or replacement of nitrogen gas springs. This will also help the tool room technical assistant know how much inventory is needed over a certain
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Picture provided by www.buhrke.com
Buhrke Industries, Inc.
511 West Algonquin Road, Arlington Heights, Illinois 60005-4499
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- Illinois Institute of Technology - Omega - Interprofessional Projects Program -
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© 2004 Illinois Institute of Technology IPRO 312
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