I design facility layouts, improve workflows, and build the tools that support them. Currently a Lean Project Manager Intern at Siemens, working across teams and projects and getting hands-on with every side of the operation.
I'm Felton Walton, an Industrial Engineering student at the University of Texas at Arlington and a Terry Foundation Scholar, currently interning at Siemens in Grand Prairie, Texas.
Over the past year and a half at Siemens I've moved from the manufacturing floor, running time studies, line balancing, and 5S, to supporting project work on a new expansion facility: business cases, CapEx forecasting, floor plan design, and sourcing custom equipment directly with fabricators. I like problems where the physical layout, the workflow, and the numbers all have to agree.
Along the way I've picked up a habit of automating repetitive work: AutoLISP scripts that generate label sheets and parts catalogs in AutoCAD, simulation models in Witness, and an AI assistant built with a classmate that answers campus navigation questions from official university documents.
Before any of that, I learned operations the direct way, running my own event vending business since 2021. It's a business that keeps me close to the community it serves.
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This is a live simulation of a five-station assembly line. You have three extra operators and two lean tools. Push output past 75 an hour without letting work pile up on the floor.
Press start and watch where the work piles up. The red station sets the pace for the whole line.
Illustrative model with made-up cycle times, not Siemens data. The clock runs 90 times faster than real time.
A podcast on referrals, reputation, and how businesses grow. I interview industry professionals across every industry about what actually brings customers through the door.
Watch on YouTubeThe Low Voltage line builds its products through a chain of assemblies and sub-assemblies. I wanted to know where the time actually went, from the first part picked to the finished section.
The studies became the foundation for a later effort to move parts to the operator instead of the other way around.
Siemens, May 2026 to presentSupporting a warehouse expansion as a Lean Project Manager Intern, working under the project lead on layout, workflow, and equipment.
A lot of drafting work is the same drawing made a hundred times. I wrote tools so the data does the drafting.
Built with Rosangela Caicedo for IE 4300, Artificial Intelligence in Industrial Applications.
As team captain, I led a project predicting flight delays and translating the results into something an operations team could use.