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(OR)² : operations research applied to operating room supply chain
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is ranked as the top hospital in New England and second nation-wide. It is also the largest hospital in New England; it uses an average of 58 operating rooms, where approximately 150 ...
Clearance pricing optimization at Zara
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
In almost thirty-four years after opening the doors to its first store, the Inditex Group has grown to be one of the largest fashion distributors in the world. Today the group operates more than four thousand retail stores ...
Business case assessment of unmanned systems level of autonomy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
The federal government has continually increased its spending on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) during the past decade. Efforts to drive down UAV costs have primarily focused on the physical characteristics of the UAV, ...
Using optimization and lean principles to design work cells and make capital purchase decisions for hole drilling operations in turbine airfoil manufacturing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
Classical manufacturing work cells have machines to perform each operation in the process, the number of each type of machine being chosen so that all machines would be equally busy. Although design of work cells for ...
Design for implementation : redesigning a planning process in a multinational company
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
As a consumer-packaged-goods company dealing with multiple suppliers, "Company X" (the company's real name has been disguised) has a clear need for an accurate raw material forecast. The current planning process has not ...
Quantifying the impact of customer allocations on supply chain performance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
This project investigates the impact that customer allocations have on key cost and service indicators at Intel Corporation. Allocations provide a method to fill orders during constrained supply, when total demand for a ...
An approach to strategic capacity planning using information visualization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Relating process measurements to customer dissatisfiers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
Forward thinking in reverse : design, implementation, and continuous monitoring of a closed-loop supply chain using optimization, simulation, and dashboard systems to maximize net recovery
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Developed during our recent six-month engagement at Dell-a leading computer manufacturer and services provider with one of the world's leading supply chains--we discuss a network flow-based mixed-integer linear program ...
Quality control and improvement in a low-cost, high-clockspeed manufacturing environment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)