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    Project Charter Document: Format For System/Process Improvement or Design Project

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    This project charter outlines a student team's project to reduce changeover times on CNC turning centers at ABC Machining Company. The project aims to reduce changeover times from 4 hours to 30 minutes by standardizing changeover procedures, organizing tools and workspaces, identifying non-value added steps, and piloting improvements. Key activities include observing current changeovers, analyzing inefficiencies, brainstorming solutions, prioritizing ideas, and testing a new process. If successful, the project would increase production capacity and responsiveness to customers.

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    Project Charter Document: Format For System/Process Improvement or Design Project

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    This project charter outlines a student team's project to reduce changeover times on CNC turning centers at ABC Machining Company. The project aims to reduce changeover times from 4 hours to 30 minutes by standardizing changeover procedures, organizing tools and workspaces, identifying non-value added steps, and piloting improvements. Key activities include observing current changeovers, analyzing inefficiencies, brainstorming solutions, prioritizing ideas, and testing a new process. If successful, the project would increase production capacity and responsiveness to customers.

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    This project charter outlines a student team's project to reduce changeover times on CNC turning centers at ABC Machining Company. The project aims to reduce changeover times from 4 hours to 30 minutes by standardizing changeover procedures, organizing tools and workspaces, identifying non-value added steps, and piloting improvements. Key activities include observing current changeovers, analyzing inefficiencies, brainstorming solutions, prioritizing ideas, and testing a new process. If successful, the project would increase production capacity and responsiveness to customers.

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    Project Charter Document: Format For System/Process Improvement or Design Project

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    This project charter outlines a student team's project to reduce changeover times on CNC turning centers at ABC Machining Company. The project aims to reduce changeover times from 4 hours to 30 minutes by standardizing changeover procedures, organizing tools and workspaces, identifying non-value added steps, and piloting improvements. Key activities include observing current changeovers, analyzing inefficiencies, brainstorming solutions, prioritizing ideas, and testing a new process. If successful, the project would increase production capacity and responsiveness to customers.

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    Project Charter Document: Format for System/Process Improvement or Design Project

    1. Company/Organization Name:

    2. Project Team:
     Student-team
     Team members from Company, one of whom must be the project champion or process owner

    3. Project Title:

    4. Project Duration:
     Start Date and Target Date to achieve project goal

    5. Project Motivation:
     3-4 sentences to explain why this project is important to the company

    6. Project Goal:
     Must clearly identify the process/system that is being improved or designed
     For projects to improve an existing system/process:
    o Define the specific performance measures that the project aims to improve
    o Must indicate current baseline value of the performance measure as well as the
    improvement target that the project aims to achieve
     For projects to design a new system/process:
    o Define the requirements (target value of key performance metrics) that the new
    system/process design should satisfy (e.g., throughput, cycle time, etc.)
    o Also, define constraints that need to be met (e.g., amount of space available for layout
    of an assembly line)

    7. Project Scope:
     Clarify what is in-scope as well as out-of-scope

    8. Project Activities and Milestones:


     What are the activities/steps that you will perform
     What are the associated milestones

    9. Project Deliverables:
     What will be the tangible outcomes from the project

    10. Endorsement Statement from Project Champion or Process Owner


     The statement should acknowledge the importance of this project and the company’s
    commitment to provide necessary resources and support to ensure successful project
    completion.
    SAMPLE PROJECT CHARTER

    Company/Organization Name: ABC Machining Company

    Project Team:
     John Doe, Abe Thomas, Jane Smith, Nancy Yang
     Mike Smith (Shop supervisor), Roger Johns (Mfg. engineer), Ginger Inda (VP Operations)

    Project Title: Changeover Time Reduction for CNC Turning Centers

    Project Duration:
    Start Date: February 8; Target Date to achieve project goal: April 30

    Project Motivation:
    Due to growing product variety and reducing production batch sizes, the company has to make frequent
    set-up changeovers of its CNC Turning Centers. The set-up changeover currently takes an undesirably
    long amount of time, and is impacting the company’s ability to meet customer demands for
    responsiveness. Achieving reduction in changeover will increase available production capacity, reduce
    inventory and production costs, and improve customer satisfaction.

    Project Goal:
    Our team aims to reduce the set-up changeover time on CNC turning centers from the current average of
    4 hours to 30 minutes per changeover. (Set-up changeover time is defined as the time elapsed from
    production of the last good part in the previous run to the first good part in the new run).

    Project Scope:
    This project is limited to the single-turret Mazak-300 series CNC Turning Centers

    Project Activities and Milestones:


    1. Data gathering/observations of current changeover process for at least 3 products (by end of Feb)
    2. Current state analysis to identify non-value added effort and performance variability (March 1st week)
    3. Brainstorming session with machine operators and supervisor to identify root causes and
    improvement ideas (March 2nd week)
    4. Prioritization of ideas; Development of standardized changeover instructions (March 3rd week)
    5. 5S exercise to improve space/tool organization (April 1st week)
    6. Recommendations and business case and impact analysis (April 2nd week)
    7. Pilot test new/improved process (April 3rd week)

    Project Deliverables:
     Standardized and improved set-up changeover procedures
     Prioritized list of recommendations and justification for improvement ideas
     Presentation and written report of the project findings

    Endorsement Statement from Project Champion or Process Owner


    Set-up changeover reduction on our Mazak CNC turning centers is of strategic importance to our
    company. We will provide the team the necessary access to company personnel, information and other
    resources for the duration of this project to ensure that they are successful in achieving the project goal.
    = Ginger Inda, VP of Operations, ABC Machining Company

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