Revision as of 14:13, 28 November 2012

Purpose

This gate is all about the reassembly of the wrench back to its original state from craftsmen. We will be talking about the order in which each component is put back together and how the components are reassembled inside the wrenches plastic body. Also we will be talking about a specific mechanism that has a key role in the job of our impact wrench. Lastly we will come up with three different design revisions that could potentially improve our device through at least one of the four GSEE factors.

Project Management: Critical Project Review

Cause for corrective action

Workload

Nearing the end of the semester and finals week just two weeks away, the workload is getting larger and larger for almost all of the group members, so this is has caused a need to be as efficient as possible when working on this gate. This means getting all of our group members together and splitting up the workload so no two or three group members are putting in a much larger workload than the rest of the group. For our last gate we ran into a serious issue with people not putting forth the work needed to split up the sections evenly. So for this gate we have ben forced to come up with a meeting minute that will be emailed out to all of the group members and an instructor to show what everyone is assigned and make it so there are no excuses for not getting the work done that is assigned to each member. We hope by doing this the group members that were not putting forth the necessary work in the beginning will be held accountable for their lack of work and/or lack of quality of work. So now by emailing everyone their assignment for the gate instead of just verbally going over what is expected from each member, as a group we can easily keep track of what is being asked and expected of each other.

Group Meetings and Group Management

With gate four we are met with a new obstacle in thanksgiving break. We had group members going home at all different times for break which made it hard to get a group meeting before everyone left for break. So because of this we agreed as a group we would just meet up as soon as possible once we were back on campus, and stay in contact over email during our break. Although it would make for our first group face to face meeting just five days before the gate was due it was the only option we had. As far as anything that has changed from the previous gate for group meeting and management; not much has changed in that we are holding two group meetings each week. Our problem is just getting our whole group to show up to these meetings to get our plan across and make sure we are all on the same page to complete the gate early so we can go over it at an office hour.

Reassembly Process