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Analysis of customer-driven and systemic variation in the airplane assembly process
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
The Boeing Company has long been troubled by the unpredictable nature of the costs of the manufacturing and assembly of an airplane. Due to the complexity of the product it has been exceedingly difficult to determine whether ...
Level schedule implementation in unstable manufacturing environments
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
American Axle & Manufacturing Inc. (AAM), headquartered in Detroit (MI) is one of the major Tier 1 suppliers in the automotive industry. The main challenge in AAM plant 2 is production rate unstability due to downtime, ...
Optimizing paint blocking in an automobile assembly line : an application of specialized TSP's
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
In the automobile manufacturing industry, vehicle production is an assembly-line process. Automobile companies typically sequence vehicle production based on workload balancing factors, with little consideration of vehicle ...
Optimizing inventory levels using financial, lifecycle and forecast variance data
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Significant inventory write-offs have recently plagued ATI Technologies, a world leader in graphics and media processors. ATI's product-centric culture has long deterred attention from supply chain efficiency. Given that ...
Expedite requests in Raytheon's North Texas supply chain
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
In December 2004, a manager at Raytheon Company articulated in the form of an LFM (Leaders for Manufacturing) internship proposal his belief that someone should do something about the amounts of time and money that Raytheon's ...
Web-enabling an industrial manufacturer's supply chain
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Reducing variability in equipment availability at Intel using systems optimization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Equipment management is an important driver behind operational efficiency, since capital equipment makes up about 40% of the average semiconductor manufacturer's total assets. The main goal of this project is to reduce ...
Global supply chain design and optimization methodology
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
The work for this thesis was performed at Honeywell in the Automation and Control Solutions (ACS) division. The project focuses on ACS's manufacturing strategy regarding its global supply chain design, primarily discussing ...
Costs of complexity in Hewlett-Packard's inkjet printer business
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
This thesis deals with the cost of complexity at Hewlett-Packard's inkjet printer business. The term cost of complexity refers to the costs associated with offering a more diverse portfolio. The most basic example is to ...
Pan-European durable container strategy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)