Stevensville, MD – Miltec UV, 146 Log Canoe Circle (www.miltec.com) partnered with the University of Maryland QUEST Capstone Consulting Project this past fall. Quality Enhancement Systems and Teams (QUEST) is a multidisciplinary engineering, technology, and management program at the University of Maryland, College Park. Honors students from the A. James Clark School of Engineering, College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences and the Robert H. Smith School of Business participate in a challenging course of study that focuses on quality management, process improvement, and system design. The QV Consulting team consisted of five individuals: Catie Den, Accounting, Jill Gelinas, Supply Chain, Government & Politics, Liam Mercer, Finance, Operations, & Business Analytics, DJ Sharma, Computer Science, and Noah Vernick, Mechanical Engineering. The distinguished students analyzed Miltec UV’s current manufacturing processes and spaces in order to create an idealized design for the next 25 years. The goal was to optimize the flow of people and materials and recommend ways to reduce waste in their processes. These diversified students created manufacturing maps and flow charts to demonstrate efficient opportunities available through layout planning, restraint understanding, and projected production growth. The team completed their project by introducing ways to minimize distances travelled between various manufacturing areas, maximize flexible growth space, and advance production. “The program has given us a new perspective on how to layout our facility as we continue to grow. It has helped us identify the relationship of the flow and manufacturing processes here and we look forward to incorporating these new techniques” stated Max Gallade, Manufacturing Engineer at Miltec UV.