Krishna Krishnan and Ehsan Salari along with Laila Cure from Western Michigan University (expected to join WSU in January 2015) have agreed to a contract to help RedGuard, a Wichita manufacturing company. The work performed by the faculty and student team from Nov. 1-July 30, will help the company to be more efficient, achieve significant cost reductions and streamline processes. In addition, the team will design a new facility in Wichita for enhancing the production capability of the company. The team will apply lean principles and concepts from the current production facility to the design of the new one. The work will add jobs to the local economy, according to Krishnan.
