Title: Assignment: Final Written Report
Course: Manufacturing Analytics (ATE Central)

Introduction

In this assignment, you will prepare a written report for submission. Your stakeholder for the report is the plant manager who gave you the initial problem statement. In your report, you will need to include visuals, tables, and short paragraphs to clearly and succinctly deliver your findings and recommendations.

Download the dataset that you will use for this project here. Use the skills that you have accumulated in this course and program and identify anything that you feel might be an issue in this dataset. You may use any program that you are familiar with. What are your findings and based off your analysis what is your recommended call to action. Remember your audience and present the information accordingly.

Objectives

- Analyze the initial problem statement from the plant manager.
- Develop visuals and tables to communicate your data findings.
- Write short paragraphs that clearly explain your findings and recommendations.

Instructions

Structuring your Report

For your written report, you will be communicating your data findings. As a general reminder, your report should be formatted to include:

- Introduction
  - Paraphrase the problem statement and your assumptions.
- Body
  - What are your findings?
  - Visualizations
  - Description of what the visuals show you
  - Results
- Conclusion
  - What does the data suggest about possible changes to be made?
  - What is your conclusions?

Submit

You will turn in a report, Excel or Power Bi files, and submit the code that you used to get your answers as a separate file along with your report.

Length is not as important as substance. If you have completely answered the questions proposed, you will not be graded or docked for length.

Project Tracking

Since you will create your projects in programs that are outside of Canvas, you will need to follow state guidelines for remote work. You can do this in one of two ways:

1. TopTracker: Sign into TopTracker and add your time for this and the other visualization project assignments in the TopTracker Project called Data Visualization.

2. Lab: Come to the lab and inform the instructor that you are working on this assignment at the beginning of the time you spend on it. When you finish, inform the instructor so they can note it in the gradebook.

**Make a note on this assignment of which option you chose when you submit it on Canvas.