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Mitigating the risk of a new workforce by reducing rework and rightsizing on hand inventory
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Dramatically increasing the hourly workforce at a rapid pace to support accelerated product demand in an aircraft manufacturing facility in a short amount of time resulted in: (1) increased rework, and (2) increased part ...
Lean concepts in customer care : adding value and reducing waste with proactive order status messaging
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
Information technology (IT), operational efficiency, and a strong relationship with customers are three critical components to Dell's success over the last twenty four years. Information technology throughout Dell's history ...
Accelerating time-to-market in the global electronics industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
In today's electronics industry, fast time-to-market (TTM) and time-to-profit (TTP) is key to customer satisfaction and firm competitiveness. Optimizing the product development and new product introduction (NPI) process ...
Analysis of email and phone queuing systems in a world-wide contact center network
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
Contact centers are operated by companies to answer customer inquiries via phone calls or email. Customers often equate the service they are provided while interacting with a contact center to the quality of a company's ...
Inventory optimization in an aerospace supply chain
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Strategic inventory management has become a major focus for Honeywell Aerospace as the business unit challenged itself to meeting cost reduction goals while maintaining a high level of service to its customers. This challenge ...
Demand allocation strategies in the seasonal retail industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Amazon.com is a publicly-held company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It revolutionized the retail industry by being one of the first major companies to sell goods over the Internet. It is an international company ...
Fab cycle time improvement through inventory control : a wafer starts approach
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Intel's Colorado Springs wafer fabrication facility, known internally as F23, has undertaken several initiatives to reduce cycle time including High Precision Maintenance (HPM), content reduction through the application ...
The application of value stream management principles in a batch production environment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
The need for continuous improvement within a value stream is very necessary in today's business environment and can be one of the key sources of competitive advantage. As a company learns and implements the tools and ...
Process for evaluating options for materials management outsourcing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
This thesis investigates the issues involved with the outsourcing of the materials management function within aerospace assembly, proposing a process for determining whether all or part of the responsibility should be given ...
Standardizing and improving test wafer processes : inventory optimization and a days of inventory pull system
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Over the past few years, the Intel Fab-17 facility has aggressively pursued lean methodology to reduce the manufacturing costs associated with its aging 200mm diameter wafer process. One area ripe with improvement opportunities ...