Manufacturing, Robotics and Automation

Hands-on work in making things: building and testing drones and robotic systems, and teaching lean manufacturing and quality tools on a working assembly line.

These are the projects and publications we have done in this area. Each project links to its full page on erickjonesphd.com, and each publication links to the paper.

Projects

Drone Manufacturing

Drone Manufacturing

Students build and flight-test a quadcopter
Opens on erickjonesphd.com ↗

Lean Manufacturing Lego Demo

Lean Manufacturing Lego Demo

Teaching lean manufacturing with a Lego line
Opens on erickjonesphd.com ↗

Publications

  • Mohanraj, M.R., Ramalingam, N., Ravichandran, K.R., & Parameswaran, N. (2025). Hands-on approach towards Industrial engineering concepts through interactive Lego workstation assembly. Proceedings of the IISE Annual Conference & Expo 2025, 1768–1773. Paper