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Process improvements in laser diode manufacturing : identifying variation and the economics of reducing it
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
Co-ordinating flows across supply chains in the low volume gas turbine industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
The industrial gas turbine (IGT) market is experiencing exponential growth where competition is based upon technical performance and time to market. Product sales are limited by the ability of the Original Equipment ...
Using and extended enterprise model to increase responsiveness
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
OEMinc's new business model is a dramatic departure from that used in the past. The company has moved steadily upstream in the supply chain, leaving more and more of the manufacturing effort to suppliers. Literature shows ...
Organizational learning in a platform team environment and the development of hard-top doors
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
Evaluation of continuous batch processing for vertical diffusion furnaces
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
Development of lightweight insulating refractories for steelmaking and other high-temperature process industries
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
Product design for supply chain : quantifying the costs of complexity in Hewlett-Packard's retail desktop PC business
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
Over the past several years, Hewlett-Packard Company's North America Consumer Computing (NACC) division has faced pressures to increase retail product variety in response to growing customer demand. As they pursue incremental ...
Implementation of a manufacturing process platform
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
As companies grow and innovate, they offer an increasing number of products. Product proliferation must be managed through a product development process, which is supported by key competencies of the company in the form ...
Variation reduction of a closed-loop precision ceramic micromachining process
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
This report details the investigation of the micromachining of a TiC.A1203 ceramic using a closed-loop lapping process. Currently the micromachining process laps a ceramic bar with only a priori flatness adjustment. Bar ...
Seisan! ... Ichi ... Ni ... San! : the kick of Design for Six Sigma in the automotive industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
In today's aggressive business environment, many manufacturing firms are searching for new strategies or methodologies that will provide some type of competitive advantage. Recently, in order to address that issue, the ...