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.
The Tauber Team was assigned to identify best practices to paint customer-specific decorative liveries for wide-bodied aircraft for the Boeing Company. The team combined institutional knowledge and data analysis to create a uniform set of procedures designed to reduce total process and rework time, as well as variability in the painting process, and tested this methodology on incoming planes to assess its effectiveness and sustainability.
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.
Whirlpool's Global Advanced Manufacturing (AM) group challenged the Tauber team to identify and develop a collaborative robot application that can be implemented on a global scale.
The Tauber team identified screwdriving as one of the organization’s most common assembly processes which exposes operators to ergonomic risks.
The team designed a system for Whirlpool’s operation in Marion, Ohio which can shoot three screws in ten seconds onto a dryer back panel that is assembled on a moving conveyor.
As Microsoft transitions from on-premises to cloud solutions, thus increasing the incentive landscape complexity, it becomes more challenging to measure behaviors and provide timely and accurate accrual.
To address this challenge, the Tauber team focused on the Online Service Usage and Advisor Sell incentive programs while considering other online programs including Azure, Cloud Service Providers and Syndication for future expansion.
