Job Description

I have finished my first official week at Civco.  Last summer, Civco had an extern, and she started a project on charting the products Civco made and how long it took to make them.  Here is what she worked on:

• Create a list of all of the products made at Civco
• Create a chart with the products and all of the processes used to make/assemble them
• Gather the times the processes took
• Record these times in an Excel sheet
• Group the products into families (similar processes and total time)
• Calculate the average production time per family
• Analyze the production time + 15%

My task this summer is to continue her work on this project. Mackenzie Myhre, one of the industrial engineers at Civco, has worked with this project on and off for the past year.  We talked more about the specifics of the project and what I would be doing.  Currently, here's what I am working on:

• Creating a 'to-do' list of times still needed
• Inputting newly gathered times for the processes
• Analyze current family groupings
• Make sure family times are with 30% of each other
• Make recommendations for new families if needed

The ultimate goal of this project is to be able to use the information to chart/analyze current production times.  Then, take that information and apply it to the future.  This information would allow one to make recommendations for new machines and scheduling hours for workers.

As this project is dependent on me receiving times to put into the spreadsheet, it can be 'stop-and-go.'  Because of this, I may be working on additional projects over the next weeks.  I will keep you updated!