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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Technical and operational uncertainties dynamically change environments for engineering systems. Flexibility allows systems to continue delivering value as the uncertainty unfolds. Uncertainty can better be managed by ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)In recent years, many of the Department of Defense's major acquisition programs have experienced significant budget overruns and schedule delays. Closer examination of these programs reveals that in many cases, technologies ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)This thesis focuses on determining the cost of customization for different components or groups of components of a car. It offers a methodology to estimate the manufacturing cost of a complex system such as a car. This ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)A variety of events inside a firm and in its environment can motivate managers to rethink their supply chain strategy. However, the evaluation and reformulation of a firm's supply chain strategy is not a trivial problem, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)The research conducted for this thesis was performed at "Company X", a U.S.-based engineered goods manufacturer. This project focused on the company's Advanced Manufacturing group and its process technology development ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Amazon.com is a leading retailer and UPS is the leading package delivery company in the world. Amazon spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year shipping products to customers via parcel carriers such as UPS. Arguably, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Utilizing alternative materials is an important tactic to improve the environmental performance of products. Currently a growing array of materials candidates confronts today's product designer. While life-cycle assessment ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)The objective of this thesis is to depict the role of metrics in the evolving journey of enterprise transformation. To this end, three propositions are explored: (i) metrics and measurement systems drive transformation, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)Internal Medicine Associates (IMA) is the largest primary care practice at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) with over 40 attending physicians, 60 residents, and 80 support staff that deliver care to more than 30,000 ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Large engineering projects design, engineer and construct much of the world's energy, transportation and defense infrastructure. These large scale engineering endeavors are highly visible, have long lasting impacts and are ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)Since 2012, more than 1300 cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) have been diagnosed worldwide, the vast majority of which have occurred in Saudi Arabia and over 40% of which have ended in death. In Spring 2014, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)Shrinking government budgets due to economic woes has aerospace and defense contractors scrambling to sustain their business and minimize the effects of budget sequestration. Given the global economic climate and the level ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Efforts to understand the determination of needs of new weapon systems must take into account inputs and actions beyond the formally documented requirements generation process. This study analyzes three recent historical ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)The global village in which we live enables increased trade and commerce across regions but also brings a complicated new set of challenges such as terrorist activity, human and drug smuggling and theft in foreign or ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)DNA synthesis technologies are advancing at exponential rates, with production of ever longer, more complex, and less expensive sequences of double stranded DNA. This has fostered development of industrial scale design, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Value-added processes that bear associated wait times occur frequently during production manufacturing and increase cycle time. Since the wait time is integral to the value created by the process, it can be difficult to ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Dramatically increasing the hourly workforce at a rapid pace to support accelerated product demand in an aircraft manufacturing facility in a short amount of time resulted in: (1) increased rework, and (2) increased part ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)Personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical to the protection of healthcare workers responding to infectious disease outbreaks. The ability of the PPE supply chain to provide adequate and consistent supply when there ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Mobile application ('apps') development is a recent pandemic phenomenon; companies that are not associated with mobile technologies are noticing it and want to develop their own mobile apps. However, these companies do not ...
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