[Iefac.list] Project case now available: 2013-2014 Material Handling Student Design Competition

[Mike Ogle]

Announcing Case Availability for the 2013-2014 Material Handling Student Design Competition
The MHDC is offered by the College Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE, www.CICMHE.org)

http://www.mhi.org/cicmhe/competition

Teaching materials handling? Facility layout or design? Operations management? Supply Chain or logistics systems?

Looking for a team project with real facility project data to use in your course?

This competition, now in its 19th year, provides an opportunity for you to offer a five-week team project for your class.  Students use real-world data to design a warehousing facility and apply what they have learned regarding material handling, warehousing, facility design and operations management.  The five-week window for students to work on the case may be chosen to fit your semester/quarter course schedule.  The competition is to be performed in teams of four students (or less), up to two of the four can be graduate students.  Case description files may be downloaded, reviewed and distributed at any time, but competition entries must be submitted within eight weeks from the date that the data files for the case are provided, but no later than June 13, 2014 without prior approval by CICMHE.

Case Description

This case study focuses on a distribution facility retrofit project at ABC Inc., a major electronics products company. Although brick and mortar stores are not growing, the company is noticing significant increases in online ordering and growth of three types of small stores carrying smaller and smaller subsets of the company's products. The Engineering Team at ABC Inc. is challenged with retrofitting the current distribution centers to meet the demands of multiple channels of orders, including the high growth of the online and small store orders.

CICMHE thanks Reddwerks (www.reddwerks.com<http://www.reddwerks.com>) for developing the case this year.

Procedures for Faculty Advisors of Teams

A case description, judging criteria, and rules/guidelines for the competition are already available for review on the CICMHE design competition site at www.mhi.org/cicmhe/competition<http://www.mhi.org/cicmhe/competition>.  When teams are nearly ready to be assigned the case, faculty advisors are asked to request the case data files from CICMHE at mhi.org.  The case data file will then be provided.  Teams then have five weeks to work on the case.  To allow additional time for instructors to assess projects, pick a single entry from each school, and allow teams to assemble all the items required, entries have up to eight weeks from the date of initial download of the files.  Please see the full set of rules/guidelines on the site.

Cash Prizes for Student Team Members, Travel Support for Faculty Advisors of Winning Teams

CICMHE and the Order Fulfillment Solutions council (OFS, www.mhi.org/OFS<http://www.mhi.org/OFS>) provide cash prizes for the winning entries ($2000, $1500, and $1000 prizes for first, second and third place) as well as winning team's home department ($500 per department for each winning entry).  In addition, OFS support funding is available for the faculty advisors of the top three teams to travel to the 2015 ProMat show to be held in Chicago, IL on March 23-26, 2015 to be recognized for their achievement.

In the past ten years, teams from the following schools have won cash prizes and/or honorable mentions:

Auburn University (2005-2006 winner)
California Polytechnic State University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Montana State University (2002-2003, 2006-2007 winner)
New Mexico State University
North Carolina State University
Ohio University
Ohio State University
Penn State University
Rochester Institute of Technology (2011-2012 winner)
Texas A&M University
University of Arkansas (2009-2010 winner)
University of Florida
University of Louisville
University of Nebraska-Omaha
University of Oklahoma
University of Pittsburgh
University of Washington
Virginia Tech (2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2010-2011 winner)

Get your school involved!  The case overview, competition rules/guidelines, judging criteria, and summaries of past student design competitions and their winners are available at the following website address:

http://www.mhi.org/cicmhe/competition

Competition Sponsors

The Material Handling Student Design Competition is sponsored by the College Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE is part of the MHI industry trade association, www.CICMHE.org, www.mhi.org<http://www.mhi.org>), the Order Fulfillment Solutions council (www.mhi.org/OFS<http://www.mhi.org/OFS>).  This year's case materials were provided by MHI and OFS member company Reddwerks and are based on compilations of actual client data files.

Please direct any questions you may have about the competition rules and eligibility to CICMHE at mhi.org.

Thank you,

Mike

Mike Ogle
On behalf of the College Industry Council on Material Handling Education


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