Tauber student teams uncover significant savings for sponsoring companies – and champion major improvements in project fields such as data analytics, sustainability in operations, supply chain, and strategy.
The 2021 Tauber team projects resulted in $989 million in savings according to sponsoring company calculations, an average of $43 million per project over three years.
Since 1993, more than 115 companies have sponsored team projects. See the leading companies and executives that are part of our Industry Advisory Board.
The Tauber Institute develops and delivers superior talent utilizing the strengths of Michigan’s top-ranked business and engineering schools overlaid with a comprehensive leadership development program.
Companies interested in sponsoring a team project can contact Marketing Manager Theresa Ceccarelli or Team Project Manager Charmayne Wiley.
This diversity of business and engineering graduate students working and learning together, supported by U-M coaches, faculty, industry, and staff, produces outstanding results for today's greatest operations challenges.
Our students have many opportunities to practice their leadership skills by actively participating in various boards and committees.
To mitigate the cost of Amazon's rapid expansion of Fulfillment Centers, the Tauber team focused on two separate opportunities within quality - Count Optimization and Defect Reduction.
Microsoft has evolved its core go-to-market strategy and customer segmentation approach to be cloud-centric. To modernize Azure’s segmentation, the Tauber team developed a data-driven framework that segments Azure customers based on metrics including customer life time value (CLV), growth potential, and loyalty.
Dell currently contracts with electronics manufacturer Foxconn in San Jerónimo (FSJ), Mexico, to provide the final (L10) assembly operation of desktops and servers. The business is faced with fierce competition with stringent service level requirements and severe downward margin pressure. To reduce production cycle time, eliminate waste, and most importantly to foster a lean culture in the plant, the Tauber team was asked to work with Dell and Foxconn on strategies, tactics, implementation, and culture changes to help FSJ embark on its lean transformation journey.
In June 2020, NCMS established a novel, secure, cloud environment to allow industry, academic, and government users to remotely collaborate on the design and production of additively manufactured parts. This project first refined the process of how data flows in the environment and then redesigned an aerospace component for additive manufacturing -- the first real-world application of this groundbreaking digital environment. This project laid the foundation for follow-on users and demonstrated the significant time and cost savings of cloud-based additive manufacturing.
