Abstract:
Web Industries manufactures at-home COVID-19 testing kits. Currently, they are experiencing inefficiencies in their assembly line, specifically with their inventory replenishment, inventory staffing, and abrupt stalls within their conveyor system. Solving these issues would allow Web Industries to cut down on production expenses and increase their productivity of at-home COVID-19 tests for public consumption. After creating the original inventory design, Web Industries did not have any new ideas on how they could eliminate inventory or how to combat the idle time of the inventory staff. They also assumed the stalls in their conveyor system were due to a programming issue that could not be modified, resulting in a non-optimal production rate and idle time among the kitting staff. We were able to make adjustments to the sensors within the conveyor system to increase productivity by 30%, as well as implement a new Just-In-Time Kanban inventory design which helped eliminate 50% of the excess in-progress inventory in the kitting area and cut inventory labor costs by 70%.