Creative Dad On the Job · Pathways · Engineering & Production
912W-PLK
Our hardware-kit line is too slow. Measure it, improve it, and show me in numbers that it's faster and the quality is at least as good.
Welcome to the plant. You're the new improvement team at Northgate Fasteners (fictional), a small company that packs hardware kits for furniture makers. Orders are going out late, and the Plant Manager wants your help.
Client: The Plant Manager (the teacher). The line workers, played by our partner team, are the people who will use our new method.
The kit line is too slow, and the company is missing orders. The manager needs more good kits per run without more defects.
The twist: Just before Trial 2, the Plant Manager says one worker is out today, so the line has 3 workers. The new box of label cards is also the wrong size (the teacher mixes the 2.5 × 3.5 in batch into the label tray).
Mapped means the framework is verified and the teacher confirms the evidence. It isn't a claim that a project meets a standard.
Not tagged in this brief: ISTE Students.
Creative Dad On the Job is in-class client project work. It is not a paid, off-campus On-the-Job Training (OJT) placement.
Totals and Amazon links come from the materials sheet.
Materials links go to Amazon. Prices are estimates and may change.
Digital downloads only. $0 to buy. Printing is noted separately.
$0 to buy. Printing $3–$5, noted separately.
Quick Start would drop Required items: Hex bolts, about 1/4 in × 1 in, Hex nuts to match, Flat washers to match, Small zip bags, about 3 × 4 in, Card stock for label cards (regular + wrong-size batch), Digital stopwatches, Masking tape (to mark stations) — the brief has no print-only version; check it still works
Up to $25 per class.
About $46–$80 per class. Can't fit: the brief's default kit is about $46–80 (+ $0–5 trays if bought). Even with school stopwatches the brief says about $36–65. Would need: parts bought once and reused for years (treated as program stock, not a per-class cost), or a smaller kit; owner decision. No new prices invented.
The bigger kit, with every optional item included.
About $46–$85 per class.
Sessions, role duties, deliverables, materials, free tools, and the teacher setup use the same Creative Dad account as the project library. There is no separate student login.