Superior Filament Case

To obtain information about Superior Filament and their process, the team sat down and conducted an interview with the CEO, Cedric Kennedy, and the CTO, Aubrey Woern. The interview questions can be seen in appendix 1. During the interview process, multiple questions were structured to figure out what the company produces and what their processes are to make products. While figuring out the basic company information, the project team got down into how their processes work and how they obtain the materials needed to create those products.
After interviewing multiple employees and looking over their current process in obtaining recycled plastics, the quality issues are due to the inconsistency in the quality of recycled plastics obtained from the suppliers. The quality of the recycled plastics plays a major role in the quality of the …show more content…
Observations made were that the high costs and inconsistencies in the plastics quality are the main problems for Superior Filament. Seeing this shows that Superior Filament needs to find a way to obtain these plastics themselves, but it has to have an efficient cost. One idea is for Superior Filament to set up donation bins around grocery stores and the campus to collect empty water bottles. For the grocery stores, Superior Filament would place the bins by the can recycling center to collect the bottles that the store doesn't accept and customers throw away. This should work as a cheap and efficient way to collect recycled material to use for the filament. For the school, Superior Filament would set up donation bins by building entrances with the bigger bins being by the commons or eating areas. With being environmentally friendly being in, a lot of students should be sure to recycle used plastic bottles in Superior Filaments bins. The hard part is competing with other companies for the recycled