Our plant manufactures north of 500,000 joints of pipe a year and each joint needs to have ends cut for squareness (approx. 1 million cuts). The main project for this intern will be focused on improving tool life at the cutoff line. Tool life has decreased by about 60% from peak values in 2020. Currently we get less than 15 cuts per tool at $17/tool and well over half a million in losses. 

PROJECTS:

• Validating and monitoring KPIs
• Benchmarking between operators
• Identifying sources of variation
• Eliminating sources of variation
• Designing experiments to compare different vendors tools.
• Work directly with vendor on addressing tool defects.
• Providing recommendation for primary supplier based on summer results.

QUALIFICATIONS & EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:

• Focus on Mechanical, Industrial or equivalent engineering degree.
• Proficient in Excel.
• Experience with other statistical software such as Minitab is a plus.