Lean Advancement Initiative: Recent submissions

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    • The Wrong Kind of Lean: Over-Commitment and Under-Represented Skills on Technology Teams 

      Lucas, William; Shroyer, Edward; Noel, Gerald; Schwartz, Brian (2000-05-17)
      This paper reports on results from five companies in the aerospace and automotive industries to show that over-commitment of technical professionals and under-representation of key skills on technology development and ...

    • Summary of Research Conducted by the Manufacturing Systems Team 1994-2002 

      Vaughn, Mandy; Shields, Thomas; Gutowski, Timothy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
      The Manufacturing Systems team was one of the research teams within the Lean Aerospace Initiative (LAI) whose goal was to document, analyze and communicate the design attributes and relationships that lead to significant ...

    • Strategies for Lean Product Development 

      Walton, Myles (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999-08)
      The essence of lean is very simple, but from a research and implementation point of view overwhelming. Lean is the search for perfection through the elimination of waste and the insertion of practices that contribute to ...