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Identification of leading indicators for producibility risk in early-stage aerospace product development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Producibility is an emergent property of product development and manufacturing systems that encapsulates quality, product compliance, cost, and schedule. Detailed product definition and process variation have traditionally ...
Building flexibility in the volatile aftermarket parts : supply chains of the defense aerospace industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Within the Integrated Defense Systems of The Boeing Company, aftermarket support of military aircraft serves as an increasingly large source of revenue. One of the newest contracts between Boeing and the U.S. Government ...
Value chain concept for power electronics based products
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Integration of renewable energy, general decentralization of generating power and a high degree of automation may trigger a technological change in grid infrastructure, away from electromechanical products and towards more ...
Systems level approach to process improvement initiatives in a semiconductor manufacturing environment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
Many successful companies have difficulty implementing large-scale change initiatives such as Lean, Six Sigma, outsourcing or Advanced Process Control. This can often be due to the fact that they treat large-scale improvement ...
Airline operating cost reduction through enhanced engine health analytics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Engine Health Management (EHM) is a comprehensive maintenance service offered by engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney (PW) to its airline customers. In its current form, engine performance is monitored through recorded ...
System redesign within complex, technically integrated products
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
The process by which complex, technically integrated products are designed and introduced can be a source of competitive advantage, especially when marketplaces are sensitive to product quality levels. An extension of this ...
Analysis of urban air transportation operational constraints and customer value attributes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is a concept that proposes to provide short-range transportation solutions that enable customers to travel point-to-point more quickly than they can today using cars or public transportation. The ...
Modeling and analysis of performance of the steering angle sensor development project
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
In the highly competitive automotive industry, OEM and tier-I suppliers face the problem of determining costs and creating accurate and rapid schedules for current and future product developments. Successful companies in ...
Systems thinking applied to automation and workplace safety
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
This thesis presents the results of a study to compare Systems-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA), a hazard analysis methodology based on a new model of accident causation called Systems-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes ...
Ranking CubeSat communication systems using a value-centric framework
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
This work focuses on the application of a streamlined version of Multi-Attribute Tradespace Exploration (MATE) as a first-order analysis tool to aid in the selection of CubeSat communication systems. As CubeSats have become ...