News for alumni & friends
September 2022
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Greetings!
Mere words can not express how wonderful it was to see students, sponsors, alumni, faculty, and other Tauber Institute supporters gathered together for this year's SPOTLIGHT! showcase.
I was honored to present the awards to the winners of the team project competition. Please join me in congratulating the 2022 Stanley Black & Decker, Ford Motor Company, and Stoneridge teams, and in celebrating the excellent work of all our students!
Go Blue!
Joel D. Tauber
Tauber Institute Benefactor
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How to save $1.03 billion: SPOTLIGHT! 2022 |
The 2022 Tauber team projects returned a record-setting savings of $1.03 billion, an average of $49 million in savings per project over three years. The 2022 project sponsors were American Industrial Partners Canam and Energy, Amazon, The Boeing Company, BrandSafway, Brunswick Corporation, Dell, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Gopuff, Microsoft, MillerKnoll, National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, Pfizer, Stanley Black & Decker, Stoneridge, and Target. A panel of judges from diverse industries selected first place, second place, and third place winners: |
1st Place: Stanley Black & Decker
"Advanced Manufacturing - Warehouse Optimization"
The Stanley Black & Decker Tauber project team of Meredith Maimoni (MBA & MS-Environment & Sustainability), Arvind Murugesan Rajamallika (MSE-IOE), and Arun Palaniappan (MSE-IOE) found savings for STANLEY Engineered Fastening (SEF) by improving warehouse operations across three sites in Michigan, Iowa, and Kentucky. The team members received scholarship awards of $5,000 each.
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2nd Place: Ford Motor Company
"Advanced Manufacturing Technology Development Using Synthetic Data for Machine Vision Quality Inspection"
Yvonne Lin (EGL BSE/MSE-BME) and Christian Zung (EGL BSE-ME MSE-EE) worked with Ford and Microsoft Technical experts to develop a new CAD-based data generation and machine learning framework that uses synthetic images to train deep learning machine vision models. The team members received scholarship awards of $4,000 each.
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3rd Place: Stoneridge, Inc.
"Stoneridge North America Commercial Vehicle Product Life Cycle Management"
Timothy Breckwoldt (EGL BSE/MSE-IOE) and Abhishek Ramachandran (MSE-IOE) explored opportunities along the lines of profit enhancement and product line simplification for the North American service parts manufacturing portion of the commercial vehicles division. The team members received scholarship awards of $3,000 each.
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"What it boils down to is continuous improvement. We want students to leave the organization better than they found it. They can do that in a myriad of ways – but ultimately we want everyone to contribute, and be incentivized to contribute."
Tauber Alumni Board President Andrew Burgess (MBA '11) presented the 2022 Tauber Alumni Scholarships to Student Advisory Board members Danielle DeMarco (MBA) and Grace Vandelac (EGL BSE/MSE-IOE) in recognition of their significant contributions to the Tauber Institute student experience.
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Amazon and Stoneridge receive longevity awards |
Tauber Industry Director Ray Muscat presented Amazon and Stoneridge with Longevity Awards in recognition of their commitment to operations education. The institute presents the awards each year to industry partners who have reached 5-year milestones of team project sponsorship. The Boeing Company currently holds the longevity record, with over 25 years of team project sponsorship.
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10 Years: Amazon.com, Inc.
Amazon's numerous divisions have provided an abundance of operations challenges for Tauber Institute students. Over the past decade, Amazon has sponsored over two dozen team projects that addressed challenges in robotics, logistics, incentivization, optimization, and more.
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5 Years: Stoneridge, Inc.
Stoneridge is a designer and manufacturer of highly engineered electrical and electronic systems, components, and modules for vehicle markets. Stoneridge has sponsored a Tauber team project each year for the past five years, including projects examining the product launch process, elimination of waste, and optimal logistics.
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"The Tauber Institute not only brings together students from the College of Engineering and the Business School to work on these projects, but the faculty from both schools become colleagues."
Michigan Ross Lecturer of Strategy and Entrepreneurship Len Middleton received the 2022 Tauber Trailblazer Award. Len has worked with the Tauber Institute since 2006 and has advised 22 Tauber project teams. He has been instrumental in helping Tauber leadership and staff to redefine the institute's strategic initiatives and recently led the Tauber Team Project Deliverables Committee to increase the efficacy of student reports and other team project deliverables.
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Do you remember these t-shirts? |
"Team projects had just started back then and it is amazing to see how much they have evolved over time!"
One of the first Tauber Insitute students, Vikram Polavarapu (MEM-Mfg '94) - now with Geetanjali Investments - joined us for SPOTLIGHT! 2022 and brought his historic MJMI t-shirt! With over 1500 alumni making an impact throughout Industry, the Tauber Institute is truly shaping the future of Operations. Our alumni are one of our students' greatest resources - and have become some of our strongest project champions.
Keep in touch! Send us a note and stop by whenever you're near campus. And we hope to see you at SPOTLIGHT! 2023.
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