Education in Action

Tauber team projects provide students with opportunities to tackle operations-related challenges at top companies. Over the summer, 56 business and engineering students worked on 25 team projects sponsored by 20 global firms. Tauber team project sponsors are leaders in a wide range of industries, including aerospace, internet commerce, high tech, automotive, energy, and retail. The institute is pleased to strengthen relationships with our 2021 project sponsors: American Industrial Partners, Amazon.com Inc, Beyond Meat, The Boeing Company, Brunswick Corporation, Curation Foods, Estee Lauder, Ford Motor Company, General Motors Company, Herman Miller, Howmet Aerospace, Mayo Clinic, C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, PepsiCo, Inc., Pfizer, Inc., Stanley Black & Decker, Stoneridge, Target Corporation, and The Whirlpool Corporation. Tauber students addressed substantive issues such as lean process design and implementation, manufacturing site strategic assessment, supply chain implementation, strategic capacity analysis, material handing redesign, new product development strategy, product complexity analysis, manufacturing process design, and machine learning and advanced analytics. A successful project results in a significant return on a sponsoring company’s investment. Initial sponsoring company calculations indicate the 2021 Tauber team projects averaged $43 million per project savings over three years. The projected savings total was $989 million. This excludes one Tauber Project which created an estimated $1+ billion dollar additional revenue generation.