Paklab is contract manufacturing firm out of Chino, California that manufactures and bottles your everyday cosmetic products. When the four of us approached Paklab, they faced many challenges with their day to day operations such as untraceable downtime, variability in their filler machines, and material handling inefficiencies due to their facility’s layout. To tackle these challenges, three projects were implemented to validate a few assumptions seen on the production floor. For the first two projects, an automated photogate device and scale was designed and manufactured to record downtime and quality data on the production floor. Lastly, through process simulation, the third project proposed an alternative production floor layout. Through the efforts of these three projects combined, Paklab now has more information to systematically make data-driven decisions for key economic upsides
Position: Team Lead
Timeline: September 2018- May 2019