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(1996-12)LAI 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 effort. In addition, this ...
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(2003)Summary Inherent Safety is generally recognised as an important concept in the design of chemical plants. It is, however, often regarded as the sole province of engineers. Inspired by the successful development in the ...
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(2002-07-18)The global automotive supplier industry is undergoing a major restructuring and consolidation. The defining characteristics of the industry in the year 2000 and beyond will be fewer suppliers at all levels of the supply ...
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(2002-09-03)In the automotive industry, Saturn and NUMMI are often touted as exemplars of successful implementation of manufacturing employee involvement. Building on data and extended on-site interviews, this paper explores the ...
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(2002-06-26)No Abstract Provided
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(Labor Aerospace Research Agenda, 2001)For over five decades, Textron Systems has been an important contributor to the U.S. defense aerospace business. Its breakthroughs in thermal protection materials enabled NASA Apollo command modules and Air Force ...
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(International Council of Aeronautical Sciences, 2002)Creation of lifecycle value - a balance of performance with cost and other attributes - represents a challenge for the development of aerospace products in the twenty-first century. This paper examines the concept of ...
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(2002-09-10)An opportunity to study the technical and organizational impact of management accounting system changes has emerged with companies' adoption of activity-based costing (ABC). This paper provides a structured account of ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002-01-30)-Industrial product maturity impact on manufacturing -What is manufacturing system design -The manufacturing system design framework
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(1996)The paper is organized into seven sections. First, we define how we measure automation in the assembly plant study. Second, we describe the overall regional trends in the use of automation from 1989 to 1993/94. Third, ...
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(1997-08-15)Mobile communications and Internet based computer communications are the two fastest growing areas of communications indicating an enormous business potential in the intersection of these two domains. Since the introduction ...
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(2002-07-22)In this paper, we study the local dial-up Internet access market using a game theoretic model. In particular, we consider the Nash equilibrium of the service providers and examine their behavior on investment and output ...
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(2002-06-06)This paper is based on research from an in-progress project on the effect of globalization on competition and jobs in the automotive industry.3 Its purpose is to gain a clearer picture of the emerging economic geography ...
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