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August 2018
Celebrate 25 years at SPOTLIGHT!

Get ready for 2018 SPOTLIGHT!  There are special Tauber Insitute 25th anniversary events on Thursday, September 13, followed by the annual SPOTLIGHT! Team Project Showcase and Scholarship Competition on Friday, September 14, and the Tauber Tailgate outside the Big House on Saturday, September 15.
Preview the 2018 team projects

Get a preview of the 30 challenging projects that will be the subject of SPOTLIGHT! presentations.  The Tauber Institute was pleased to form partnerships this year with five new team project sponsors: IDEX, Mayo Clinic, Principal Financial, Spacelabs, and Stoneridge.
See more photos of 2018 team projects >
"My friendships, my passion for the Wolverines, and the foundation the University of Michigan set for me is a large component of what drives me to this day."

Tauber alumna Shilpa Maniar (EGL BSE/MSE-IOE '07)  thought she'd attend Michigan for just a year, but her first visit to campus transformed her into a lifelong Wolverine. Now she manages Google America's team for gTech Global Solutions - when she's not busy with her side-gig, TV reporting on topics ranging from Tech to Bollywood!
"Innovation in Action" at Whirlpool

The 2018 Tauber Whirlpool team of Michael London (MBA) and Justin Lee (EGL) was interviewed for a Whirlpool Corporation feature article following their presentation to manufacturing leaders from each of Whirlpool's global regions. The team worked with Whirlpool's Global Advanced Manufacturing Engineering department to spread 3D printing technology throughout Whirlpool's plants.
Read Whirlpool's feature, "Innovation in Action" >
Welcome Meredith Rarey to the IAB!

Cardinal Health Vice President of Global Strategic Sourcing Meredith Rarey joins representatives of 30 of the world's top corporations as a member of the Tauber Industry Advisory Board. In her current role at Cardinal Health, Meredith Rarey has Sourcing responsibility for the Presource kitting division where she manages over $700 Million in spend across 13,000+ sku's. In addition to her degree in Mechanical Engineering, she has earned APICS CPIM, Lean Manager and Master Black Belt certifications.  
View a full list of IAB members with bios >
"The up-to-date examples I have found through the Tauber projects (which are beyond my own field of research) have helped me better convey course materials to my students."

IOE Associate Professor and Tauber Advisor Mariel Lavieri applies operations research to healthcare topics, developing dynamic programming, stochastic control, and state space models to guide treatment decisions for chronic disease patients. Her most recent awards include the 2017 Willie Hobbs Moore Aspire, Advance, Achieve Mentoring Award and the 2016 NSF CAREER Award.
Learn more from Professor Lavieri > 
Get to know Michigan Research Experts

Check out the latest re search - and new site format - at Michigan Research Experts.
Featured abstract: Anomaly detection and productivity analysis for cyber-physical systems in manufacturing, presented at the 13th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering. Author Kira Barton has advised recent Tauber team projects, and author Miguel Saez, now at General Motors, is a Tauber alumnus.  
Meet us at CSCMP Edge

Tauber Institute representatives will be in Nashville for the 56th annual Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals Conference & Exhibition. Join us, September 30 - October 3!
More info & registration >
"People have made time to speak with my team and gone out of their way to support us. The environment breeds creativity and innovation; there is no set formula on how to solve a problem, you can have personalized impact."

Tauber student Michael Barnes (MBA) and his teammate Rahul Hingorani (EGL) spent their summer working on the intriguing challenges of Microsoft's cloud-first, modern transformation. But their team project experience was shaped just as much by the person-to-person contacts they made as by the technical skills they learned.
Share the Tauber experience

Want to show colleagues and friends what Tauber is all about?  Share this short video that demonstrates how the Tauber curriculum and team project experience prepare students to become operations leaders.
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Be inspired by The Leaning Edge

In her blog and podcast series The Leaning Edge, IOE Lecturer and Tauber Advisor Debra Levantrosser speaks with leaders, implementers and believers in the lean philosophy about their successes and struggles. 
Listen to The Leaning Edge podcasts >
Rate Lean: Fast

Tauber Executive-in-Residence Gene Goodson applied data from over 1,000 plant tours to create Rate Lean: Fast. The workbook describes in detail how to plan a tour, rate an operation, and envision an ideal lean plant based on Toyota Production System concepts.
Buy Rate Lean: Fast >
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