Optimizing large-volume scheduling for cost avoidance
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Belkina, Tamara
Advisor(s)
Daniel Whitney and Karen Zheng.
Date Issued
2016
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
This dissertation presents the results of developing optimization algorithms for use in operational scheduling of airplane stalls and paint hangars at the Boeing Company's Everett Delivery Center. With the increasing number of orders, more airplanes are coming out of the Everett Factory and into the flightline for painting, fueling, and other pre-delivery testing activities. While Boeing's existing infrastructure is still well able to support this increasing scale of operations, some of the existing manual scheduling processes become more time consuming and sprout inefficiencies. This existing scheduling process was mapped and analyzed, and an Excel VBA tool was developed in collaboration with Boeing's Applied Math group to provide visibility into cost avoidance opportunities for the Everett Delivery Center. As a result of this work, up to 35% of paint hangar costs have been identified as potentially avoidable.
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Thesis: M.B.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2016. In conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT.
Thesis: S.M. in Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, 2016. In conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (page 59).
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Sloan School of Management.
Institute for Data, Systems, and Society.
Engineering Systems Division.
Leaders for Global Operations Program.
MIT Department
Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
Sloan School of Management
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