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Labor Support Survey Summary Report
(1996-10)One of the main cost drivers in the defense aerospace industry is overhead personnel. Traditionally, labor support ratios have been used as an efficiency measure and to control overhead levels. More recently, several ... -
LAI Healthcare Research
(2009-10-14)Agenda: • Research Motivation and LAI Alignment • LAI Healthcare Research Pipeline • Overview of Research Projects • Final Comments -
LAI Learning Assessment: Putting the "R" in Lean
(2000-07-18)An assessment of learning processes in the LAI Consortium -
Lean Aerospace Initiative Research Projects Phase III
(2001-10-15)Summary of Lean Enterprise Team Projects, Product Development Team Projects, Manufacturing Systems Team Projects, Supplier Networks Team Projects, Organizations and People Team Projects, Acquisition Team Projects -
Lean Aircraft Initiative Product Development Team Effectiveness
(1995-10)The current study explores the relative influence of function managers and team leaders in managing integrated product development teams (IPTs). This study was prompted by the results of an earlier study, completed in ... -
Lean Implementation Considerations in Factory Operations of Low Volume/High Complexity Production Systems
(1997-11)The researchers of the Lean Aircraft Initiative developed a hypothesized lean implementation model seeking to provide its members guidance on implementing lean transitions in factory operations of low volume/high complexity ... -
The Lean Value Principle in Military Aerospace Product Development
(1999-07)This document takes a critical look at the first lean principle, Value. The meaning of value is investigated first in a general context, in the context of Lean Thinking, and finally in the context of other product ... -
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The Pursuit of Acquisition Intrapreneurs
(2002)This report represents research conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the Lean Aerospace Initiative (LAI) program. The research focused on identifying Acquisition Intrapreneurs, viewed and defined ... -
The Software Factory: Integrating CASE Technologies to Improve Productivity
(1996-07)This report addresses the use of computer-aided software engineering (CASE) technology for the development of aircraft software. Real-time embedded software is becoming the key to implementing avionic systems functionality ... -
Space System Architecture
(2004-09)Final Report of SSPARC: the Space Systems, Policy, and Architecture Research Consortium (Thrust II and III) -
Summary of Research Conducted by the Manufacturing Systems Team
(2002)The Manufacturing Systems team was one of the research teams within the Lean Aerospace Initiative (LAI) whose goal was to document, analyze and communicate the design attributes and relationships that lead to significant ... -
Summary Report: Systematic IPT Integration in Lean Development Programs
(1997-02)Integrated product development (IPD) has been established as a salient aspect of the lean enterprise paradigm. The drive towards IPD includes an impetus to organize around integrated product teams (IPTs), cross-functional ... -
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Toward Lean Hardware/Software System Development: Evaluation of Selected Complex Electronic System Development Methodologies
(1995-02)As part of the Lean Aircraft Initiative, a research program studying the applicability of lean production principles to the defense aircraft industry sponsored by the Air Force and over 20 aerospace companies, this report ... -
Understanding Lean Manufacturing According to Axiomatic Design Principles
(1996-11)The design and evaluation of manufacturing system design is the subject of this paper. Though much attention has been given to the design of manufacturing systems, in practice most efforts still remain empirically-based. ... -
Understanding the Enterprise Value of Test: Characterizing System Test Discrepancies in the Spacecraft Industry
(2001)The goal of this research is to characterize the distribution and time impacts of spacecraft discrepancies found at the system level of integration and test, as well as understand the implications of those distributions ...