Honors Theses
Date of Award
Spring 5-10-2025
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Department
Engineering
First Advisor
Mike Gill
Second Advisor
Rick Hollander
Third Advisor
Jack McClurg
Relational Format
Dissertation/Thesis
Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate the production and documentation of the SmartPhone Projector Capstone for the Center of Manufacturing Excellence (CME). This document follows the production development from the beginning Spring 2024 problem definition all the way to the Fall of 2024 final product. This project was completed by a team of five undergraduate students, including an accounting major, finance major, biomedical engineering major, and two mechanical engineering majors. The goal of this project was to design and build a SmartPhone projector, then carry out a full production run located on the CME shop floor. To begin the project, a detailed project plan was created, including design elements, marketing strategy, financials, prototyping, and results. The project plan was executed on the platform ProjectLibre, and the schedule dictated weekly milestones and sequential tasks. The next aspect of the project was prototyping. This involved creating initial project designs on SolidWorks. The next step was carrying out an initial market research plan, gathering marketing results, and improving the initial design. Once the preliminary design was confirmed, plans for the full production run began. This included estimated production cost, mock business plans, and process layout mapping. During the trial production run, changes were made to optimize Lean manufacturing principles and improve quality. The final stage of this project was to demonstrate a full production run on four varying stages of the SmartPhone Projector. The authors of this thesis will carry out a full analysis of the product development process and the application of Lean manufacturing principles.
Recommended Citation
Cohen, Ross G. and Thomas, Piper G., "A PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS FROM CONCEPT TO PRODUCTION: SMARTPHONE PROJECTOR" (2025). Honors Theses. 3219.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/3219
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