Course : IE 430          Instructors: Sanjay Joshi          Team Members: Casey Wong     Steve Wagner
Richard J. Koubek                                       Ginny Kim         Kofi Afriyie

    Executive Summary

                Kellogg is a well-known company for Frosted Flakes cereal and other types of cereal.
    It also produces many other products such as Pop-Tarts, Nutri-Grain, Cheeze-It, etc. The   
    Plant located in Muncy, PA is about 250,000 sq. ft. and only produces Pop-Tarts and Nutri-
    Grain bars. The facility is operated 24-7all year and almost everything is automated which
    only requires about 350 employees.

                In this factory, when Pop-Tarts are being produced, the Rows of 16 Pop-Tarts must be
    aligned so that the Pop-Tarts will be cut properly with minimum amount of waste. With the
    current system, the speed of the cutting process is 110-120 cuts per minute(CPM).
    However, the desired goal has been proposed to achieve150 cuts per minute which would
    increase its production by 25%. For this project, Kellogg and Penn State got together to
    create a group of students.            

                The goal of our project is to improve the overall cut rate of Pop-Tarts from 120 CPM   
    to 150 CPM by aligning the rows of Pop-Tarts in a more efficient way. The current Pop-Tarts
    alignment system is what is holding back the current process speed and is where the
    improvement will need to be made. Another goal of the project is to minimize the waste
    when increasing the speed.