{"75411":{"#nid":"75411","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Fall 2011: Railcar Management Senior Design Team Wins First Place","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAfter a semester of collaborating with corporate partners to\nsolve an industry specific problem using new methodologies and innovative\napproaches in their solutions, three out of seventeen teams of undergraduate\nstudents in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\nwere chosen as finalist in the Senior Design Competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe three finalist teams, listed in alphabetical order by\norganization, include:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECaterpillar, Inc.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ERailcar Management, Inc.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EWhirlpool\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team who worked on a project sponsored by Railcar\nManagement, Inc. (RMI), a leading software solutions provider for railroad\ncompanies, received the coveted first place award in the competition. Guided by\nfaculty advisor, Xiaoming Huo, students Sikander Hajiyani, John Kang, Zachary\nLaguna, Sojeong Lee, Camilo Lotero, Clara Moon, and Tina Yu were chosen for\ntheir project \u201cPrivate Fleet Optimization.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are ecstatic with the results of our three month\ncollaboration with Georgia Tech and these undergraduate students,\u201d said David\nBell, Senior Director of RMI\u2019s ShipperConnect Solutions.\u0026nbsp; \u201cThe team was tasked with analyzing hundreds\nof rail shipment scenarios and transportation variables to deliver a solution\nthat optimizes rail shipments and reduces transportation costs.\u0026nbsp; The projected savings are quite significant\nand we are evaluating how we can incorporate their findings into our rail fleet\noptimization solution.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe two other teams (Caterpillar and Whirlpool) were honored\nas runners-up in the competition.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Caterpillar team included students Katie Davignon,\nDanielle DeBow, Christine Eldridge, Brad Gay, Young Gul Kim, Heeseung Moon,\nCourtney Suen, and Daniel Wood, guided by faculty advisor, Pelin Pekgun.\nCaterpillar purchases packaged products from over 1,000 suppliers\nglobally.\u0026nbsp; Suppliers individually select\ntheir packaging material vendors, passing costs to Caterpillar.\u0026nbsp; To reduce costs by consolidating this large\nvendor base, the team designed and implemented a combinatorial auction in a project\ntitled, \u201cCaterpillar, Inc.: Consolidating Packaging Material Vendors to Reduce Supply\nChain Costs.\u201d This allows vendors to offer price discounts on product bundles\nas well as bid on individual products.\u0026nbsp;\nThe team also developed a vendor selection tool via an integer program\nincorporating business constraints.\u0026nbsp; The\nsolution provides an estimated annual savings of $700 thousand \u2013 $1 million in\nthe Midwest region, and is scalable for global implementation.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Whirlpool team was guided by faculty advisor Seong-Hee\nKim, and included Michele Bertolino, Ana Herbst, Andy Jones, Adam Liem, Travis\nNemes, Melanie O\u2019Gorman, Samantha Russel, and Eric Sood. For their project\ntitled \u201cBatching Outbound Shipments for Whirlpool Corporation,\u201d the team\ninvestigated the implementation of batch-picking shipments at a regional\ndistribution center for Whirlpool Corporation, the world\u2019s largest appliance\nmanufacturer.\u0026nbsp; An Excel-based\noptimization tool was created to strategically batch shipments to more\neffectively utilize carrying capacity of clamping forklifts across the\nnetwork.\u0026nbsp; Due to the decrease in labor\nhours, this could result in an estimated savings of $1.1 million annually.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAll senior students in ISyE culminate their undergraduate\neducational experience with the Senior Design course in order to provide\nfirsthand experience at solving real world problems in a team environment.\nStudents typically work in teams of five to seven individuals with 15-25 Senior\nDesign teams running each semester. Each group is advised by an ISyE faculty\nmember, and the faculty coordinator manages the overall course. Companies\ninterested in submitting a project for consideration can either contact Joel\nSokol\u003Cstrong\u003E, \u003C\/strong\u003Eat 404 894-6484 or can post a project through the ISyE webpage at\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/seniordesign\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/seniordesign\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\nSenior design teams look for projects before the start of the fall and spring\nsemesters.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThree out of seventeen teams of undergraduate\nstudents in ISyE\nwere chosen as finalist in the Senior Design Competition.\u0026nbsp; The\nteam who worked on a project sponsored by Railcar Management, Inc. received the\ncoveted first place award.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27511","created_gmt":"2011-12-22 14:05:36","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:53","author":"Ashley Daniel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-12-22T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-12-22T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"75421":{"id":"75421","type":"image","title":"Railcar Management, Inc. 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