Desk Organizer

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Anti-Organized Group

• Desk Organizer
• MFG 112-Fall 2003
• Dr. John W. Sinn

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Team Members
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What are we building?

• Desk Organizer
• Features
• Drawer for storage
• Lamp for light
• Envelope Slots for mail
• Pencil holder for writing utensils
• Inside storage for paper clips and misc.
• Area underneath for paper storage

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Objectives

• Objectives
• Build a quality product.
• Meet and exceed the consumers needs.
• People who are disorganized, that needs something
  to store things that can provide some light.
• Minimize production costs.
• Mission Statement
• The aim of our company is to provide quality
  products and services to those who can benefit
  from our superior ingenuity and engineering for
  many years to come.

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Size of Product

• Depth-9
• Width- 12
• Height- 5
• 1 gap underneath for paper storage

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The First Proto
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How We Got There

• Startup Activity
• Basic info on the formation of the team.
• Brought the members together.
• Tool 1
• Tool 2
• Tool 3
• Phase 1

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How We Got There 2

• Tool 4
• Tool 5
• Tool 6
• Phase 2

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Tool 1

• Technical foundations for Industrial Technology,
  Technological Systems
• Infrastructural competitiveness
• Passion for quality and productivity
• Basic technological principles, essential
  knowledge
• Energy and resources
• Production
• Electromechanical technology
• Transportation
• Communications
• Technical role of the technologist

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Tool 2

• Harvesting and refinement
• Materials classification
• Material considerations
• The science of materials' structure
• Specific materials' characteristics
• Materials testing
• Materials environmental issues
• Major technological processes

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Plant Layout
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Tool 3

• Process and applications engineering
• Market research for product development
• The design process
• Material considerations
• Innovation
• Applied technical research

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Flow Chart
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Tool 4

• Cost Analysis
• Productivity Improvement
• Traditional Productivity tools
• Japanese Techniques

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Tool 5

• Quality Systems
• Metrology and Inspection
• Statistics in Quality
• Data-Based Systems
• 8-D Systems
• Reliability and Quality
• Synchronized Kaizen Opportunities

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Tool 6

• Automation and computer integration
• Cad-Cam systems plus
• Computer analysis and control
• Networks, artificial intelligence and beyond

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Objectives to Mass Produce

• Form a Workable Assembly Line
• Increase Product Stability
• Reduce Waste and Defects
• Alter Design to meet Consumer Needs
• Set a Daily Production Quota

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How did we Reach Them

• Got more members involved with production
• Used thicker wood, different fasteners, stronger
  joints
• Measure twice cut once
• Different Drawer locations
• Wanted to assemble 5 per day

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Design Changes

• Different Materials
• Plywood to Pine
• ½ to 1
• Pencil Holder
• 9 Holes to 5 Holes
• Eliminate nail heads
• Use biscuit joints instead

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Final Product
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Jigs We Used
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Problems We Encountered

• Materials
• Wood Defects
• Crooks
• Cupped
• Warped

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Problems We Encountered

• Band Saw
• Too thin of a blade
• No clamping space
• Machines we could have used
• Planer to take care of warped wood
• Air nailer to fasten pieces

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Need more info?

• Go to
• http//www.indeed311.com/teamao
• E-mail epoffen_at_bgnet.bgsu.edu
• We will send you the info you desire