Origami Production Project

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Origami Production Project

• The Tortoise the Hare

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Objectives of Project

• Simulate a production activity
• Expose students to relevant ISE concepts
• Gain experience in teamwork and report writing
• Have fun competing with your peers
• Do something useful

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Use of Product

• The product will be given to children in
  hospitals.
• Teams are asked to write personal notes of
  encouragement on the bottoms of the origami
  objects.

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(In-class) Competition Dates

• Round 1
• Wednesday, November 19, 155 350 PM, MAEB,
  Room 211
• Wednesday, November 19, 405 600 PMFlorida
  Gym, Room 210
• Round 2
• Wednesday, December 3, 155 350 PM, MAEB, Room
  211
• Wednesday, December 3, 510 705 PMFlorida
  Gym, Room 280

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The project emphasizes Quality
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Competition
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Productivity
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Teamwork
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Report Writing
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Real-World Parallels

• This project is either the same as, or closely
  parallels, a real manufacturing project.
• The principal difference is the scale of the
  project not the content.

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What are the Origami Objects?
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Tortoise
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Hare
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How to make the objects

• Go to the course web site
• Read the instructions also see handout.

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Project Description

• Teams of students (typically 3 or 4) will have 25
  minutes to produce origami animals (tortoises and
  hares) from sheets of paper.
• Teams are the same as the ones for the ethics
  presentations.

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Project Information

• Raw material paper

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Example Paper

• Pick up examples of the paper (orange, blue) at
  the end of the period.

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Wage Charges

• Wages will be charged per person per 5 minute
  period

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Tool Charge

• There is a one time charge of 20 for tools (such
  as scissors, cutters, jigs, etc.) that you use to
  produce the origami animals.

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Waste Disposal
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Disposal Fees

• There is a disposal fees of 1/strip for leftover
  strips from trimming uncut paper.
• The first 20 strips will not be charged.
• The fee will be calculated by using the total
  number of 8 ½ x 11 sheets bought.
• Unused 8 ½ x 11 sheets will be subjected to the
  fee.

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Poor Quality Disposal Fee

• There is a 1 disposal fee for each animal not
  bought because of unacceptable quality.
• Your paper supplier will not accept returns
• There is a 1 disposal fee for each unused sheet
  (cut or uncut).

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Selling Prices

• The prices for hares and tortoises vary according
  to the number of defects and are listed below.

Hares and Tortoises with 4 or more defects must
be disposed at 1 per animal.
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Production Considerations

• Paper may be stacked for cutting
• Great care must be taken to get a square cut.
• Uneven cuts result in defects.
• Teams choose their own production method.
• Some methods are more productive than others.
• Not all team members must work for the entire 25
  minutes.

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More Production Considerations

• Teams must produce a high quality product by
  making sharp, even folds.
• Origami animals with too many defects will not be
  bought.
• As long as the final product meets
  specifications, teams need not follow exactly the
  same steps as instructed by the video.
• The objective is to maximize profit per member by
  producing good origami animals.

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Quality Warning!!!!!

• Past experience indicates that the biggest
  difficulty teams have is
• making
• a high
• quality
• product!

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Typical Quality Problems

• Poor folds
• Lack of symmetry
• Extra bends in paper
• Failure to follow folding instructions
• For other, see handouts on origami animal defects

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Quality Control

• Each team will have a Quality Control Inspector
  (QCI).

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The QCI will

• Keep abreast of the list of possible defects
• Examine and determine the number of defects on
  each origami animal
• Write the number of defects in an inconspicuous
  place on each animal
• Sign a quality statement certifying each animal
  has the number of defects as noted
• Be assisted by the production team in sorting the
  objects by defect count (0,1,2,3, scrap)

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The QCI
free

• The production team will have 10 minutes after
  final assembly to inspect and sort finished goods
  any remaining objects count as scrap
• May participate in fabrication or inspection
  during fabrication time is charged at the same
  rate as the fabricators.

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Customer Quality Audit

• The instructors will perform a customer quality
  audit at the end of the 10-minute QC and sort
  period.
• Any finished goods with more defects than
  recorded by the QCI will be subject to a
  10/piece non-conformance quality penalty.

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Production Hints

• Practicing making the animals early.
• When proficient, think about the most efficient
  way to set up your production method.
• Look at your costs and think of ways to modify
  your assembly after certain points in production.

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Product Mix Decision

• A tortoise sells for more than a hare, but its
  unit production time is more than that of a hare.
  Thus, your company has a product mix decision
  to decide on the number of each type of unit to
  produce.

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Raw Material Purchase Decisions

• Buying uncut paper is cheaper. However, once
  waste management starts charging you for disposal
  of the strips, you may want to consider buying
  the paper precut.

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Buying in Bulk, Disposal Charges

• Similarly, buying paper in packs of ten is
  cheaper than buying it in packs of two.
• However, since paper unused at the end of
  production has no rate of return and is subject
  to disposal fees, teams may want to buy it in
  packs of two towards the end of the time limit.

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Wages
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Overtime Wages

• Since wages increase up to double time during the
  last 5 minutes, teams should look at their
  revenues and costs carefully at this stage to
  ensure that it is still profitable to produce.

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Wage Charges

• Wages are charged on a 5 minute basis. A team
  member who stops working after 18 minutes will
  still be charged for 20 minutes.

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Your team may win!
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Grading

• 25 is based on profit per team member
• 65 is based on the written project
• 10 is based upon professionalismindividual and
  team grades may be impacted by professionalism
  transgressions

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Part II

• The remainder of this presentation will be
  covered in the next course lab meeting.

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Origami Day Big Picture

• Paper is provided (teams may bring own cutters).
• We take time in class to get set up.
• We have the regular time production period.
• We set up for overtime.
• We have the first overtime period.
• We have more setup.
• We have the second overtime period.

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Origami Day Big Picture

• QC and sort period for 10 minutes.
• Buyers decide which products to buy, based on
  quality, and make purchases.
• We complete team accounting forms.
• Team productivity data is displayed on board or
  electronically.
• A most profitable team is determined.

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Report Organization

• You will be provided with a document illustrating
  how to prepare a report. You may download it from
  the class webpage.
• Your grade will depend on how closely you follow
  report recommendations.

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Professionalism Evaluation

• Teams are encouraged to develop professionalism.
• Anyone not submitting a professionalism form
  receives a professionalism grade of zero.

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Important

• Cite all your sources
• Neglecting to cite your sources is plagiarism
• Team reports with evidence of plagiarism will
  result in each team member receiving a zero for
  the assignment
• A zero on the final will result in a failing
  course grade
• Govern yourself accordingly!

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Due Date

• Submit the following on the E-Learning System by
  5 PM on Tuesday, December 16, 2008.
• The report
• Completed Professionalism Evaluation form.
• Late reports and forms receive a grade of zero

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Summary

• We emphasize
• Quality
• Competition
• Report Writing
• Productivity
• Teamwork
• Professionalism

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A Last Word

• We are not trying to make you Origami experts.
• We are trying to introduce you, in an interesting
  way, to concepts you will learn more about in
  follow-on courses.