Magazine: Bionic Humans

The article I choose to read is about bionic humans. This article is about the things that the humans have been able to do in the last years with the help of the technology and the deeper understand of the human body. This technology is still developing because they haven’t fully able to reproduce the functions or movements of a normal limb. This technology is trying to connect the nerves and the brain of a person to a prosthesis, even if some one lost something, the nerves still there so they try to connect the cables with the nerves. Even though this technology is not fully developed, a lot of good advances have been achieved. This type of engineering is really awesome and I like it a lot, but still I don’t want to study this type of engineering, I prefer Bio-technology.

A robot in my house

I would like to have a robot in my house that was able to make the breakfast all the mornings. This robot will cook some of the common food, like eggs, hot cakes, waffles, etc..., this will save me a lot on time because some times in the morning I would like to eat something delicious but some times I don´t have enough time and the ability to do it by myself. So this robot will save me time and will feed me with really delicious food.

Industrial robots videos

http://www.fanuc.co.jp/en/product/robot/index.html
http://www.adept.com/
http://www.densorobotics.com/
Adept quattro High-speed packaging-adept technology inc.flv

FANUC M-410iB, M.10iA construction products-FANUC robotics industrial automation.flv

Robots take over.flv

Other Lean Manufacturing topics

Six Sigma
Six Sigma at many organizations simply means a measure of quality that strives for near perfection. Six Sigma seeks to improve the quality of process outputs by identifying and removing the causes of defects and minimizing variability in manufacturing and business processes. Six sigma methods integrate principles of business, statistics and engineering to achieve tangible results.

Just in time (JIT)
It’s a strategy that strives to improve a business's return on investment by reducing in-process inventory and associated carrying costs. The process relies on signals or Kanban. This works like ask what you want and I give to you when you need it. In this process they don’t store everything they ask for what they need.

Kaizen
Is defined as a change for the better or continuous improvement. Its main objective is to reduce the times of the set up, with the purpose to reduce death times and the size of the orders. Also know as SMED It is associated with different aspects: eliminating wastes, improving efficiencies, processes and moral. You must standardize, then make improvements, change, then standardize and measure again.

Poka Yokes
Is a system against errors or fool proving, because it looks for the way that there is only one way o doing the things, so that there’s made always in the right way. Its purpose is to eliminate product defects by preventing, correcting, or drawing attention to human errors as they occur.

5 Why’s
The Five Whys is a simple process to follow to solve any problem. It starts with writing or having an effective problem statement. Problem statements determine the direction we head next. Problem statements should describe the current condition, use data where possible, and describe the gap in performance. You should avoid describing the solution, postulate as to the expected cause, be vague or ambiguous or combine multiple problems into one.

Takt Time
Takt Time is the pace of production (e.g. manufacturing one piece every 34 seconds) that aligns production with customer demand. In other words, it is how fast you need to manufacture product in order to fill your customer orders. Its calculate as: Total available production time divided by the customer & requirement.

What is Kanban

The Kankan is a method of just in time lean manufacturing. An employee come to the store and visually select items and see what they need. An electronic signal goes to the store´s regional warehouse detailing which items they need. The warehouse prepares a daily replenishment of the materials needed for the production in series. With this method there could always be a product and no money will be lost, because of the lack of a product in the shelf .

Lean Manufacturing: 5s Technique

After

Before

While cleaning Enrique's room, we applied the lean 5s technique. This helped us to be more efficient and clean the room in less time. In the following lines, we include a description of the first three steps.

Sort:

We divided the room in parts, so that each person was responsible to clean an specific place. Communication between the team was really useful in cleaning the room.

Set in order:

We arranged the material so that they were the most accesible as possible, and throw stuff that we do not needed. We placed each material where it needed to be (at the shelves, desk, etc.).

Shine:

Then we cleaned the floor and throw the trash so that accidents won't occur. Finally, we used specific cleaning products, like the vacuum cleaner and wood polisher, so the room would be really neat.

Now Enrique's room is safe and clean.

Team members: (Cecy Martínez, Ricardo González, Enrique Hernández, Luis Raúl Granillo, Miguel Avila)

Safety Improvements

On a visit to Alsuper Store, we encountered with different safety measures that are already good. Nevertheless, we think that the company can still make some improvements.

Good things:

•Workers use safety clothing and tools

•Machinery in good conditions (service lift)

•Signals for wet floors

•Clean environment

•Signals for places where entrance is forbidden.

•Security

•Speakers, so people can notice if something happens.

Possible Improvements

•More evacuation routes.

•Fire extinguishers.

•Signs for orders to follow if an emergency occurs.

•Ovens should be placed inside a separate room of the store. (if an explosion occurs, less people

will be damaged)

•More hoses in case of fire

(Due to security measures, we weren't able to take photos inside the store)

Team members: Cecy Martínez, Enrique Hernández, Luis Raúl Granillo, Miguel Avila, Ricardo González.

What is industrial engineering?

The industrial engineering is the engineering in charge of the development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of systems such as people, money, energy, material, etc... The industrial engineerings work in designing new prototypes for improving the efficiency of the industry and to save money, energy and resources. The industrial engineerings need to have abilities such as engineering analysis and synthesis, mathematics, physical and social science, etc... Industrial engineering is also known as operations management, management science, systems engineering, or manufacturing engineering.

What is a production line?

A production line is a set of sequential operations established in a factory whereby materials are put through a refining process to produce an end-product that is suitable for onward consumption.

What is the objective of a production line?

The objective of a product line is to make a product by dividing it in sectors. In the factories you specialize the workers to work in a certain part and made it with a better quality, by dividing the work and working in line you can make products very fast and with good quality, with this form of work the companies are able to produce more products.

What I want to study

I would like to study Biotechnology Engineering. The reason I would like to study this career, because this type of engineering focus in the molecular part of the body, like the ADN, the molecules or some traits in the chains of proteins in order to create a certain type of hair color ,etc... I like this carer because the abilities that you need like math, physics, chemistry, biology and those are the tasks that I like in the school, also this career has a lot of future because we are going to need this career a lot in the future in order to cure certain type of sicknesses. I would like to achieve a nobel for creating a certain vaccine for the virus or something like that. There are many fields where I could work like with humans, plants, environment etc..., because these career can be involved in a lot of different things.