Tag: University of Waterloo

Engineering better decisions

IISE Simulation Competition

Brief In a group of three, we competed against school across Canada and the northeastern United States in a simulation competition and were awarded third place. The project focused on maximizing the efficiency of a construction project using Arena Simulation Software. We each shared roles and collaborated, although I focused more on the implementation and…
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Statistical Process Control (SPC)

CONCEPT INTRODUCTION With Statistical Process Control, the name of the game is stabilizing a process by correcting special causes and improving it by targetting common causes with process or method changes. The goal is generally to avoid non-conformances and hence scrap and rework, meet specifications, and ensure the customer receives what they want. This is…
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