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Enabling cultural shifts : an enterprise approach toward lean thinking
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
The Supply Planning Operations team, in a large manufacturing firm, faced a future where their complexity of scope was increasing without an increase in resource levels. As an effort to improve both efficiency and effectively ...
Supply chain performance improvement through forecasting
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Designing a strategic sourcing process for low volume, high technology products
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Axcelis Technologies, Inc. is a capital equipment manufacturer for the semiconductor industry. The semiconductor industry is evidenced by a volatile business cycle that follows the traditional bullwhip effect - that is, ...
Predicting manufacturing performance of new radar subassembly designs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
Program management systems for the semiconductor processing capital equipment supply chain
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
The Capital Equipment Procurement group of Intel Corporation is responsible for developing and procuring the semiconductor processing capital equipment that is used throughout all of the company's development and manufacturing ...
Transmission system overvoltage mitigation through the use of distributed generation (DG) smart inverters
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
The objective of this project is to demonstrate the technical ability and cost-effectiveness of reducing electric transmission system overvoltage violations using distributed generation (DG) smart inverters connected to ...
Developing a framework for global distribution in the biopharmaceutical industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
This paper addresses two basic questions about the outbound distribution operations with a case study example of a large biopharmaceutical company. First, the research work focuses on developing an efficient, scalable truck ...
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 ...
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 ...
An approach to strategic capacity planning using information visualization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)