{"id":493,"date":"2012-03-07T15:59:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T20:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyle.smu.edu\/emis\/design\/?p=493"},"modified":"2012-03-07T15:59:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T20:59:07","slug":"rental-engine-check-in-and-repair-optimization-scheduling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/s2.smu.edu\/emis\/design2017\/index.php\/2012\/03\/07\/rental-engine-check-in-and-repair-optimization-scheduling\/","title":{"rendered":"Rental Engine Check-in and Repair Optimization Scheduling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Client: <\/strong>Pratt &amp; Whitney Engine Services<a href=\"http:\/\/lyle.smu.edu\/emis\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/prattwhitney.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-495 alignright\" title=\"prattwhitney\" src=\"http:\/\/lyle.smu.edu\/emis\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/prattwhitney.jpg\" alt=\"prattwhitney\" width=\"256\" height=\"82\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTeam:\u00a0 Michael DeVore<br \/>\nFaculty advisor:\u00a0Barr\u00a0\u00a0 Year: 2004<br \/>\nDocuments: Final report (<a href=\"http:\/\/lyle.smu.edu\/emis\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004_04_devore.doc\">Word<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The Pratt and Whitney Addison Service Center is a unique situation involving rental engines and their repair.\u00a0 These engines are delivered by a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> party carrier and must be checked over and repaired if necessary.\u00a0 At that point the engine must be sent back out to either the customer who rented it or to another intermediate step.\u00a0 The Addison, TX Service Center Manager requested help in optimizing the employee&#8217;s time spent on these rental engines.\u00a0 He wanted to know what could be done to improve Service Center response time and maximize output.\u00a0 <!--more-->One of the suggested scenarios that the manager wanted evaluated was if he was to put two or three workers on a project. Also, to what point should the workers take a non-AOG (non-priority) engine before storing it?\u00a0 After careful review of what was being studied I came to the conclusion that the following questions needed answers as well:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>What changes or policies can be made to optimize the use of employee time?<\/li>\n<li>What changes or policies can be made to maximize output speed of AOG engines?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are three virtually permanent LeaseCo employees that perform the work on these engines.\u00a0 In addition there are some other people and departments that interact with this engine:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>The Parts Department<\/li>\n<li>The Internal Transportation<\/li>\n<li>The External Transportation<\/li>\n<li>The Storage Area<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Client: Pratt &amp; Whitney Engine Services Team:\u00a0 Michael DeVore Faculty advisor:\u00a0Barr\u00a0\u00a0 Year: 2004 Documents: Final report (Word) The Pratt and Whitney Addison Service Center is a unique situation involving rental engines and their repair.\u00a0 These engines are delivered by a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/s2.smu.edu\/emis\/design2017\/index.php\/2012\/03\/07\/rental-engine-check-in-and-repair-optimization-scheduling\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,5,9,15,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dfw","category-finalreport","category-manufacturing","category-optimization","category-scheduling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/s2.smu.edu\/emis\/design2017\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/s2.smu.edu\/emis\/design2017\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/s2.smu.edu\/emis\/design2017\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/s2.smu.edu\/emis\/design2017\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/s2.smu.edu\/emis\/design2017\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/s2.smu.edu\/emis\/design2017\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/s2.smu.edu\/emis\/design2017\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/s2.smu.edu\/emis\/design2017\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/s2.smu.edu\/emis\/design2017\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}