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Explore our press releases, feature articles, and announcements about Tauber students, speakers, team projects, and events.
Ann Arbor, MI—In the summer of 2023, Tauber students Griffin Riley (BTS) and Abrajeedhan (AB) Srilatha (MBA) set out to engineer a cleaner, healthier world with Modine Manufacturing. Their project, ‘Developing a Standard Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP) Model for Modine’s Air-Cooled Applications Business’, would go on to earn them second place and $4,000 each in scholarships at the 2023 Spotlight! Competition.
“Our challenge was to create a rough cut capacity planning model for one of the verticals of Modine’s business,” said Riley. “The main problem was that facilities were measuring capacity independently and didn’t have a way of visualizing that capacity in the long term. So, we were tasked with originally building for one plant a way of visualizing capacity in the future.”
“We built this model thinking about what data should go in on either side and how to compare the available data and the required data,” said Srilatha. “We built this model using Power BI, a lot of data crunching, a lot of interviewing, and then understanding how it is going to be effective to the users.”
The students set the tone right away. With Srilatha having a military background and Riley being right out of undergrad, they accepted each other’s feedback and learned how to contribute together to create a great overall experience.
“The most fun thing for me was the travel opportunity,” said Riley. “We got to go to three facilities. One included overseas travel to Chennai, India, which was a great experience as someone who’s never traveled overseas before.”
“We had two final projects for this project. One was presented to the CEO and the CTO,” said Srilatha. “They were so excited seeing how this model has come up. The second presentation was to the users in different facilities throughout North America. We could see on their faces how happy they were seeing the impact this model was going to create once implemented.”
They accepted each other’s different ways of analytical thinking, problem-solving, and leadership abilities, and it radiated from them as they accepted their second-place win at the Spotlight! event. If the student team could go back in time and offer the past version of themselves advice, they had this feedback:
“Trust the process and exude confidence in yourself,” said Riley. “You get so much experience working on such an intensive project. It’s not like any normal internship. By the time you get to Spotlight! as a Tauber 2, you are an absolute expert in the field you are in.”
“Exactly,” agreed Srilatha. “You need to trust the process strongly. It guides you through every step so you end up in a job you really like. And be open in terms of feedback. This is going to help you a lot in gaining that knowledge you desire when you start the project, and ultimately, working in a good environment and learning those skills you are here for.”
- Business + Engineering students solve Operations challenges at leading global firms.
Ann Arbor, MI—In the summer of 2023, Tauber students Griffin Riley (BTS) and Abrajeedhan
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Our students have many opportunities to practice their leadership skills by actively participating in various boards and committees.
As part of their commitment to ocean health outlined at the 2017 United Nations Oceans Conference, Dell pledged to source and incorporate 10 times their current ocean plastic usage into their packaging (up to 160K pounds cumulatively) by 2025. In 2016, Dell conducted a pilot in Haiti to source and incorporate 16K pounds of ocean plastic into a packaging tray for Dell’s XPS-13” notebook; this Tauber project adapted the Haiti pilot to South Asia to capitalize on regional economic advantages and target the world’s leading source of ocean plastic.
Washington Gas is a gas utility company looking to transform its focus towards decarbonization, specifically through the development of hydrogen generating technologies and carbon sequestration. Given the favorable regulatory landscape, the Tauber team has been tasked with developing a framework to drive strategic investment decisions within this space, by assessing current market opportunities and risks for hydrogen.
Stanley Engineered Fasteners is aiming to have a deep reflection into the way in which some of its North American plants operate. The Tauber team will be leading internal audits of its Stanley Engineered Fastening plant in Elyria, OH, and will use a combination of lean tools and advanced manufacturing to develop a framework of how to optimize key areas like tooling management and material delivery. By developing new sustainable strategies for operational improvements, Stanley Black and Decker can cut costs and improve production capabilities.
In order to support their 2030 Bold Forward vision to Cure, Connect and Transform, Mayo Clinic has partnered with the Tauber Institute for Global Operations to develop an action plan and supply chain optimization strategy. To quantifiably benefit the Digital Supply Chain Strategy’s Operations Management Platform in the US, the Tauber team will conduct current situation and gap analysis to create an improvement roadmap that focuses on standardizing and optimizing the operation’s processes, systems, and personnel.