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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)This thesis describes a project that applies the Design Structure Matrix (DSM) in support of the Manufacturing Excellence (MX) program at Cisco Systems, Inc to reduce the cycle time of new product development initiatives ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Traditionally, in Raytheon's Integrated Defense System Product Development Engineering Group, lean initiatives have not been fully adopted. Though the lean tools are useful, the engineering group is looking for more effective ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)As science and technology are increasingly at the center of global issues, diplomats are less capable of effectively completing their work without heavily relying on scientists and engineers for clarification and insight. ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Innovations are part of everyday reality in the business life of many companies. While for startups, success in business largely depends on success of innovations as they are trying to enter the market, for large monopolistic ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)The goal of this thesis is to investigate and demonstrate the application of a systems approach to drug safety. The recall of the prescription drug Vioxx (Rofecoxib) was used as a test case to study whether STAMP (Systems ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)Entrepreneurs are essential for creating companies, jobs and growing wealth in communities. Currently, existing entrepreneurial programs start with self-identified entrepreneurs and provide facilities for their growth. ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2015-08)The California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) adopted a "blended system" at the northern and southern termini of the planned first phase of its high-speed rail line. In this blended operation, the high-speed rail line ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)A student group at MIT in cooperation with the MIT Department of Facilities is currently working to install a Skystream 3.7 wind turbine on MIT's campus. This has raised several questions about how to best develop small ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)The semiconductor industry is characterized by a high cost of capital equipment and fast change in process technology. Therefore Intel ® Corporation as the world's largest semiconductor company has a significant advantage ...
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Challenges in the Better, Faster, Cheaper Era of Aeronautical Design, Engineering and Manufacturing (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, )“Better, Faster, Cheaper” (BFC) emerged in the 1990s as a new paradigm for aerospace products. In this paper, we examine some of the underlying reasons for BFC and offer some thoughts to help frame the thinking and action ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Enterprises, companies and organizations around the world strive to achieve competitive advantage by designing and implementing more advanced business and organizational architectures, streamlined and robust processes and ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)The ramp up phase is always the most risky part of any project, especially with a product material the company and its partners have very little experience with. One result of this lack of experience is frequent engineering ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)In this thesis, the control of hypertension provides the backdrop for my effort to investigate how clinical trial design has evolved for antihypertensive drug submissions reviewed and approved by the Food and Drug ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Efforts in managing diabetes, including the medical advances in novel therapies and public health policies of disease control and prevention, have not reduced the disease prevalence since 1990s. I analyze this phenomenon ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2015-01-04)Risks in product development lead to schedule and cost overruns and poor product quality. While many risk management frameworks have been published and research on specific practices has been conducted, little is understood ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)In the truckload transportation industry in the United States, a number of indexes are published that attempt to measure changes in rates, but no single index has emerged as an industry standard. Industry participants, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)Amazon's Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a promise to its customers that they will receive their orders on time. At the Fulfillment Center (FC) level, the SLA is based on the capability to fulfill open orders scheduled ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)This thesis explores the impact of relative lifecycle cost tradeoffs on technology strategy, and characterizes two factors driving these costs: population demographics, and uncertainty in component costs. The methodology ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)The purpose of this work is to demonstrate that is possible to characterize the US manufacturing activity utilizing public data. Analysis of the state of the art in manufacturing metrics showed that our approach is unique ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Over the past decade, the demand for digital information has increased dramatically with the rising use of the Internet and various types of multimedia data - text, audio, graphics, video, and voice. As a consequence, the ...
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