Best Innovations in Metallurgy

The capstone of the MEng degree is group industry project in a manufacturing company. During the Spring semester student start meeting with with the company and their thesis advisor to identity the problem or opportunity to pursue, the project scope and expected deliverables. These meeting are usually weekly in-person or through video call. Then a the summer, starting in mid-May and going through mid-August students work on the company project full time. These projects – done in groups of three students per site – form the basis of the thesis portion of the degree. Student work on-site under the supervision of an MIT faculty member typically solving near-term problems for their company.

This project sought to Identify root causes of flux residue presence underneath the company can continue the to commercialization of this novel process. critical high performance circuit components It combined board architectural design-related issues and investigates alternative washing methods. It then recommended a new washing strategy and equipment to greatly reduce board failures.

Features of Our Project

This team was asked to increase the capacity of a complex assembly line to responded to high demand without significant capital investment.  Through the use of value stream mapping, they eliminated non value-adding steps, reduced WIP and added an analytical system for decisions making working with a local microfluidics start up company, this team looked at a number of issues related to scale up to mass production.  It identified opportunities for quality control improvement, and also studied certain critical processes.

• Boost the economy Industries stimulate economic growth by creating wealth and jobs.
• Increase exports Industries like manufacturing and technology contribute to a country's export earnings.
• Reduce unemployment Industrial development can help reduce unemployment and poverty.
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Our Client Review

The final assembly of ion implantation equipment must take place in a clean room. To reduce the time and expense of this assembly, the team developed a novel alignment system that can obviate in a plant assembly and allowed the equipment supplier to assemble on the customer site. This greatly reduces both the time and assembly and save considerable clean room capacity.

"The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do; with them, everything.“