Projects

Case studies in capacity, layout, lead time, forecasting, machine learning, research, and software. Each one shows the objective, my role, the method, and the result.

Rendering plant with cookers, conveyors, and walkways Completed

Manufacturing & Process Improvement

Capacity Expansion & Commissioning

Brought processing in-house with a rendering plant upgrade and a new cracked corn milling line.

  • RFQs
  • Vendor evaluation
  • Commissioning & startup
  • Material flow design
Feed mill control room with grain silos outside Completed

Supply Chain & Forecasting

Demand Forecasting & Inventory

Seasonal forecasting and an (R, Q) inventory policy to keep raw materials available and schedules stable.

  • Holt-Winters forecasting
  • (R, Q) inventory model
  • Safety stock
  • Cross-docking
Cellular facility layout drawing with receiving, four cells, painting, assembly, and shipping Design study

Capacity & Facility Planning

Facility Layout & Capacity Planning

A cellular layout and 10-year capacity plan for an 80,000 ft² metal fabrication plant.

  • Systematic Layout Planning
  • From-to charts
  • Activity relationship charts
  • Cellular manufacturing
Manufacturing Critical-path Time chart showing a 9.09-day MCT and 70.83% touch time Proposed design

Manufacturing & Process Improvement

QRM Lead-Time Reduction

A Quick Response Manufacturing redesign targeting an 18 → 10 business-day lead time.

  • Quick Response Manufacturing
  • MCT mapping
  • MPX
  • Capacity analysis
Exploratory charts of injury status and recovery scores split by sex In progress

Data Analytics & Machine Learning

Machine Learning Prediction Model

Supervised models in R that predict game readiness and injury risk from workload, recovery, and cognitive data.

  • R
  • Supervised learning
  • Feature engineering
  • Train/test split
Start A B C D Finish float > 0 float > 0 critical path, zero float In development

Research & Software Development

CPM Project Scheduling Application

A project management app with a critical path scheduling engine, built in Python.

  • Python
  • Streamlit
  • SQLite
  • pytest
Ceramic 3D printer, thermal camera, and printed lattice parts Ongoing research

Research & Software Development

Ceramic Additive Manufacturing Research

3D printing and sintering processes for ceramic heat shields, backed by thermal-image analytics.

  • DOE
  • Additive manufacturing
  • Sintering
  • Thermal imaging