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Lean Manufacturing and Safety
Keeping workers safe while streamlining manufacturing processes to increase production is sometimes challenging. Incorporating safety measures into lean processes helps reduce the types of incidents that can disrupt productivity and threaten a company’s bottom line.
Operations Managers Key to Safety in Manufacturing
The manufacturing industry includes many companies that transform raw materials into new products for customers around the globe. The processes involved with taking raw materials and transforming them, either mechanically, physically, or chemically, involve activities with varying levels of potential danger.
3D Printing and Engineering
From cars to phones to prosthetics, 3D printers (3DP) are helping to solve manufacturing challenges. Companies around the globe are using 3DP technology to create prototypes and customized products. This technology is changing how mechanical engineers work, how they are educated, and how they implement lean manufacturing.
Alumna Brings Engineering to the Next Generation
To promote their mission, the SWE provides events such as the Girls Engineering Exploration event, March 4, 2017 at Detroit's Michigan Science Center. More than 120 girls in grades 4-6, attended the event.
Operations Management and Automation
Companies today face increasing demands to do more with less, but they must figure out a way to automate their processes in conjunction with professionals who have operations management expertise. Recognizing that leveraging selective automation, in conjunction with utilizing the skills and expertise of a human workforce, is an incredibly effective way of harnessing digital and human capabilities.
Kettering Cares: How the University Has Impacted the Local Community
Kettering University goes beyond educating the next generation of engineers. It is raising the standards for the engineering industry through ventures such as the Kettering University GM Mobility Research Center, a new mobility and vehicle systems development proving ground that puts the University at the forefront of autonomous vehicle research, development, safety and technology.