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    • Understanding Lean Manufacturing According to Axiomatic Design Principles 

      Reynal, Vicente A.; Cochran, David S. (1996-11)
      The design and evaluation of manufacturing system design is the subject of this paper. Though much attention has been given to the design of manufacturing systems, in practice most efforts still remain empirically-based. ...

    • Axiomatic Design of Manufacturing Systems 

      Cochran, David S.; Reynal, Vicente A. (1996-11)
      This paper introduces the use of axiomatic design in the design of manufacturing systems. The two primary functional requirements of any manufacturing system are developed. These functional requirements are used to analyze ...

    • Factory Flow Benchmarking Report 

      Kilpatrick, Auston; Quint, Mitch; Ramirez-de-Arellano, Luis G.; Schoonmaker, James (1996-12)
      The Lean Aircraft Initiative benchmarked representative part fabrications and some assembly operations within its member companies of the defense aircraft industry. This paper reports the results of this benchmarking ...