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Building flexibility in the volatile aftermarket parts : supply chains of the defense aerospace industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Within the Integrated Defense Systems of The Boeing Company, aftermarket support of military aircraft serves as an increasingly large source of revenue. One of the newest contracts between Boeing and the U.S. Government ...
Managing subsystem commonality
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Value stream analysis and mapping for product development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
This thesis explores of Value Stream Analysis and Mapping (VSA/M) as applied to Product Development (PD) efforts. It contains three parts: the background and history of PD VSA/M, a report of the current PD VSA/M practices ...
Systems level approach to process improvement initiatives in a semiconductor manufacturing environment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
Many successful companies have difficulty implementing large-scale change initiatives such as Lean, Six Sigma, outsourcing or Advanced Process Control. This can often be due to the fact that they treat large-scale improvement ...
Opportunities for lean thinking in aircraft flight testing and evaluation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
The application of Lean principles and practices has been shown to help aerospace companies reduce waste and maximize value to help meet the changing demands of the market. The most visible area of influence has been ...
Avionics life-cycle forecasting model
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
Organizational structures for technology transition : rethinking information flow in the integrated product team
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
Lifecycle perspectives on product data management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
Implementing a new IT system often requires the enterprise to transform in order to maximally leverage the capabilities generated by the new system. The challenge in using IT as an enabler to change arises from the need ...
Metrics for enterprise transformation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
The objective of this thesis is to depict the role of metrics in the evolving journey of enterprise transformation. To this end, three propositions are explored: (i) metrics and measurement systems drive transformation, ...
Multi-attribute tradespace exploration and its application to evolutionary acquisition
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)