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Development of international supply chain strategies to support global sourcing and manufacturing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Globalization in sourcing and manufacturing is expected to offer several different kinds of benefits. Globalized companies can produce products at cheaper costs by accessing cheaper resources and they can be close to the ...
Development and application of management tools within a high-mix, low-volume lean aerospace manufacturing environment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
The design and implementation of a lean production system is a complex task requiring an intimate understanding of the fundamental lean principles. Much of the published lean literature is written at a high level of ...
Strategic outsourcing model : decision support for determining supply chain structure
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
Outsourcing is becoming the norm in business today. This is a natural insight from the management philosophy of the 80's and early 90's of doing only what is "Core" to the business. A company, if their main focus is to ...
Characterization of the cost of forecast error in a complex supply chain
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
The importance of forecast accuracy is increasing in the semiconductor industry due to two compounding factors. The complexity of the manufacturing process is increasing which causes manufacturing cycle times to increase ...
Implementing a new organization to manage manufacturing technology innovation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
The purpose of this research is to provide an academic, external perspective to facilitate the implementation and development of a new internal organization for Raytheon Missile Systems (RMS) with a focus on strategy and ...
Predicting department of medicine inpatients' discharges at US hospitals
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
In the last few years, US hospitals have faced severe challenges with bed capacity management that leads to capacity congestion. Delivering patients to the right bed at the right time is very important to patient care ...
Simulation and optimization of outbound operations in an e-grocer's warehouse
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
A second wave of online grocery retailers ("e-grocers") emerged in late 2000's after dot.com companies, such as Webvan, Streamline and Homegrocer, failed to break into the grocery market despite investing heavily on automated ...
Developing flexibility in assembly environments
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Manufacturing flexibility has been a topic of interest for both researchers and practitioners for several decades. Despite the amount of attention that flexibility receives, it remains a nebulous concept to those in industry ...
Lean transformation in aerospace assembly operations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
For the past two decades, virtually all manufacturing companies in the United States have adopted or are in the process of adopting lean manufacturing. Globalization has resulted in the increased availability of reliable, ...
Tailoring the prototyping process to achieve customer value
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
The main objective for prototyping is to get the most value out of the opportunity. Value may take the form of information, performance, displaying production readiness or proving capability for the amount of resources ...