In the past week, ISE Team has worked on the following activities:

• 5S: We started the first steps of the 5S philosophy in order to improve organization, effectiveness of work, and better use of the facility space. Also, we designed a new tool board and we expect to finish its manufacturing process by the end of the next week.
  
• Implementation of the Activity Board: After discussing with colleagues and Professor, we decided that the best way to promote communication between groups and to keep on track the activities of each group and their faced problems would be to develop an Activity Board, where the teams can post their needs and activities.
  
• Financial Plan: The Spartan Superway staff gave us material for studying and developing a financial plan to help the project as a whole.
  
• Supply Chain: During this week we started to make an inventory of the actual number of tools and materials that we have in the facility. Also, the teams started to look what they need to do their job and we are planning to buy or acquire those materials next week or as soon as possible.
  
• Meeting with Supreeta: We discussed with Supreeta about our worries, doubts and how we could define our main objective in the project. After this meeting we realized what we need to do in order to help the project and the other teams, and right after we were capable of putting some ideas discussed into practice.

3rd week progress

After the starting weeks has passed, we could have an idea of what we can do in order to improve efficiency, effectiveness and give better condition to everyone that works on our facility. Well, the first step was to organize the factory. And how would we do it? Djonatan and I had the idea of implementation of the 5S philosophy.

First we tried to elaborate a 5S training for our coworkers, which the main objective was to make everyone understand the significance of the methodology and also to make possible the organization of the tools, material and space of the facility. So, at the beginning of the week, Marcela helped me and Djonatan in the confection of the slideshows for the presentation. On Wednesday, we presented the training for everyone and on the same day we started the first phase of the 5S methodology: The sorting phase, where we eliminate not-needed items and perform an initial cleaning. 

At the end of the week,the ISE team had a meeting with Ron, Dr Furman and Eric. This meeting helped us to enumerate what is important to each one of the group, what we could do about those things and then activities were assigned to us in order to help the other teams and the project as a whole.