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Bringing quality into a Chinese organization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
Manufacturing responsiveness as a competitive advantage and implementation in a make-to-order environment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
Many companies have been successful differentiating themselves and creating growth opportunities by developing a competitive advantage through their manufacturing operations. During the last century, this operational ...
Enabling process improvements through visual performance indicators
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
Most modern production processes automatically generate volumes of rich data, including equipment states, material presentations, labor content, and quality non- conformances. Unfortunately, much of this data is either ...
Where India fits within Flextronics global supply chain
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
This project focuses on Flextronics International manufacturing strategy regarding its global supply chain design, and its export strategy from India. It also focuses on the application of the Flextronics case to the ...
Life cycle cost modeling of automotive paint systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Vehicle coating is an important component of automotive manufacturing. The paint shop constitutes the plurality of initial investment in an automotive assembly plant, consumes the majority of energy used in the plant's ...
Networking vendor strategy and competition and their impact on enterprise network design and implementation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
While a significant amount of literature exists that discuss platform strategies used by general IT vendors, less of it has to do with corporate networking technology vendors specifically. However, many of the same strategic ...
Total supply chain cost model
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
Sourcing and outsourcing decisions have taken on increased importance within Teradyne to improve efficiency and competitiveness. This project delivered a conceptual framework and a software tool to analyze supply chain ...
Reducing variability in a semiconductor manufacturing environment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
The main drivers in today's flash memory business are low cost and flexibility. Low cost requires high tool utilizations, whereas flexibility and ability to respond quickly to changing customer demands require short ...
Equipment protective capacity optimization using discrete event simulation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
Assembly and Test Manufacturing (ATM) at Intel faces new challenges caused by increased competition, cost pressure, and segmented markets. These forces combine to present ATM with increasing line items and processes in the ...
Level schedule implementation in unstable manufacturing environments
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
American Axle & Manufacturing Inc. (AAM), headquartered in Detroit (MI) is one of the major Tier 1 suppliers in the automotive industry. The main challenge in AAM plant 2 is production rate unstability due to downtime, ...