Insufficient production capacity and backorder buildup motivated EMD Millipore to examine its Opticap XL filter encapsulation process. Through analyzing this process and interviews with key stakeholders our team confirmed the changeover process as a production bottleneck. One way to potentially reduce changeover time is through line dedication by product characteristics. In this project, we built a discrete-event simulation model to evaluate different dedication scenarios and ultimately recommended dedication by capsule size.

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Creator

• Ortiz Rosero, Jose Luis
• Vallenilla, Veronica Isabel
• Chevis, Marina Flaksberg

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-031714-132231

Advisor

• Konrad, Renata

Year

• 2014

Sponsor

• EMD Millipore

Date created

• 2014-03-17

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Industrial Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright