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Stepping toward a smarter factory at Canam
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Canam Group ("Canam") is a manufacturer of steel components and building products used in the construction industry. The company uses a distributed network of manufacturing centers throughout North America to build and ...
Establishment of a novel Pichia Pastoris host production platform
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
The Cell Line Development group at Amgen is responsible for manufacturing and optimizing the cell lines utilized in production of Amgen's biologic drug portfolio. Traditionally, these cell lines are produced from mammalian ...
Process enablers for successful reverse engineering inside large organizations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Reverse engineering has the potential to be a strategic advantage for many engineering companies. As companies continuously look for new ways to improve their business and technical expertise, reverse engineering facilitates ...
Utilizing automated inspection to identify surface quality defects within the automotive body assembly process
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Nissan relies on inspectors to perform manual inspections in order to ensure vehicles are produced with a high-quality surface finish. These inspections occur throughout the vehicle assembly process and are meant to identify ...
Improving asset utilization and manufacturing production capacity using analytics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Industrial organizations have increasingly invested in IoT technologies to monitor, control, identify faults in, and optimize operations. With increasing competition, a push to lower manufacturing costs, and pressure to ...
Assessing the impact of historical operational data from complex assets on predictive maintenance models
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Over the past one hundred years, maintenance concepts have evolved from a simple "fix when broken" approach to advanced prognostic methods used today that leverage large amounts of historical, operational, and primary ...
Distribution and replenishment optimization between locations of high and low real estate cost
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
As companies expand and innovate, it is sometimes prudent to be conservative when incorporating new products and technologies. Instead of constructing buildings to store new products, firms may look to optimize re-allocation ...
Impact of part proliferation on a high mix low volume manufacturing environment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This project set out to create a framework for conducting a cost benefit analysis of part proliferation looking into first, second and third order effects of part specialization within the entire Caterpillar enterprise. ...
Evaluation of automated storage and retrieval in a distribution center
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
In the face of e-commerce growth and rising customer delivery expectations, companies must adapt to meet shorter contract shipping requirements with existing infrastructures. The "Amazon effect", an evolution resulting in ...
Reducing variations in a highly constrained environment in order to increase production capacity
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Variations and the negatives effects it causes on production capacity and planning are topics of significant interest in the manufacturing communities. This research investigates the hypothesis that, when operating in a ...