A summer on a manufacturing floor: designing tooling the shop can reproduce without me, doubling a line’s throughput in a kaizen event, turning scattered maintenance data into one live view, and building an onboarding hub for the commercial team.
2xCPT throughput in a kaizen event
7Excel sources in one live dashboard
300+monthly work orders prioritized
3new hires onboarded with the hub
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Tooling the floor can reproduce without me
Designed load-bearing lift bracket extensions in SolidWorks.
Validated a 200 to 300 lb load case with stress analysis.
Machined the parts in-house and made full drawings, so any work center can make more.
Finished lift bracketsBrackets and extension off the machinePaint pump mounting area
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Doubling a line in one week
During a Shingijutsu kaizen event on the CPT line, we applied lean methods to process flow and waste, and doubled production throughput inside the week.
Intern Lean Day
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One live view of maintenance
Consolidated 7 continuously updating Excel sources into one live dashboard with Power Query.
Added AI-assisted ranking to prioritize preventive maintenance through IBM Maximo, across 300+ monthly work orders.
Built a Maximo PM library with frequency-based routines, new asset registrations, and formal parts quotes.
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An onboarding hub the team uses
Interviewed the commercial team to define requirements, then iterated on drafts with their feedback.
Built an SSO-secured site that replaced scattered SharePoint docs with summaries and downloadable source PDFs.
Onboarded 3 new commercial hires with it, with rollout continuing.
Presented to CDP participants and commercial leadership on building HTML dashboards with Amp and publishing them to GitHub.
