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Kostal: Creating Capacity Visibility to Say Yes to New Business

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2015

Student Team

  • Jose E. Azuela–EGP (Master of Engineering in Manufacturing)
  • Ramesh Chavan–Master of Supply Chain Management

Project Sponsors

  • Harry Asher–Vice President: Product and Innovation Management, KOSTAL
  • Rodrigo Galvez–Production Engineering & Eng. Planning Sr. Manager, KOSTAL
  • Catherine Ludwig–Product Line Manager: Switches, KOSTAL

Faculty Advisors

  • Brian Love–Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Eric Svaan–Lecturer of Technology and Operations, Ross School of Business

The team developed a tool that gave KOSTAL’s sales and production teams a shared view of machine and tooling capacity across plants. It also examined manufacturing improvements to help the company assess new business opportunities and improve operating efficiency.