Engineering Systems Division: Recent submissions

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    • Patterns of Product Development Interactions 

      Eppinger, Steven D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2002-05)
      Development of complex products and large systems is a highly interactive social process involving hundreds of people designing thousands of interrelated components and making millions of coupled decisions. Nevertheless, ...

    • The Effect of e-Business on Supply Chain Strategy 

      Simchi-Levi, David; Simchi-Levi, Edith (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2002-05)
      Internet technology has forced companies to redefine their business models so as to improve the extended enterprise performance - this is popularly called e-business. The focus has been on improving the extended enterprise ...

    • Physical Limits to Modularity 

      Whitney, Daniel E. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2002-05)
      Architecture, specifically the definition of modules and their interconnections, is a central concern of engineering systems theory. The freedom to choose modules is often taken for granted as an essential design decision. ...