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 2022 Tauber team projects resulted in $1.03 billion in savings, according to sponsoring company calculations, an average of $49 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.
Stanley Engineered Fastening is seeking to improve the labor productivity of their Chesterfield plant plastic assembly department by 20 to 30%. The Tauber team was tasked to investigate immediate and continuous improvement opportunities through lean and smart factory tools, as well as develop an outsourcing strategy.
Pfizer is one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies that is investing in making life-saving medicines available to patients more quickly.
The Portable, Continuous, Miniature, and Modular (PCMM) manufacturing platform transforms the industry standard of using batch production in Solid Oral Dose tablets by manufacturing continuously and enabling agile processing of portfolio demand.
The goal of this Tauber project is to assess and strategize the utilization of PCMM to handle an increase of 50% in demand for late-phase clinical projects.
Within drivetrain chain manufacturing, BorgWarner Morse Systems was eager to benchmark and standardize heat-treatment furnace performance measures and was looking for recommendations on how to most efficiently utilize capital at Morse Systems Korea (MSK).
Amazon fulfillment centers use a machine called AutoSLAM to apply customer shipping labels to packages. However, for a variety of reasons, this machine cannot automatically process every package, resulting in “kickouts” that require additional manual processing. These kickouts result in additional cost as well as delays in shipping customer orders. This Tauber team worked to identify the root causes of kickouts and test potential fixes to reduce kickouts that can be applied across Amazon’s North America Fulfillment Network.
