MIT Sociotechnical Systems Research Center (SSRC): Recent submissions

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    • Factory Flow Benchmarking Report 

      Kilpatrick, Auston; Quint, Mitch; Ramirez-de-Arellano, Luis G.; Schoonmaker, James (1996-12)
      The Lean Aircraft Initiative benchmarked representative part fabrications and some assembly operations within its member companies of the defense aircraft industry. This paper reports the results of this benchmarking ...

    • Summary Report: Systematic IPT Integration in Lean Development Programs 

      Browning, Tyson Rodgers (1997-02)
      Integrated product development (IPD) has been established as a salient aspect of the lean enterprise paradigm. The drive towards IPD includes an impetus to organize around integrated product teams (IPTs), cross-functional ...

    • Implementation Workshop: High Performance Work Organizations 

      Klein, Jan; Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Joel; Barrett, Betty (1997-04)
      Since the rise of the industrial revolution, there are few challenges that compare in scale and scope with the challenge of implementing lean principles in order to achieve high performance work systems. This report ...