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The Boeing Company is the world's largest aerospace company and is constantly evaluating improvement opportunities to the production system. It is of ongoing interest to the company to have to tools to assess new manufacturing ...

Historically, Company X has undertaken multiple projects to improve On-time Delivery (OTD) goals but not all of these have resulted in significantly improved performance. As a government contractor, Company X is evaluated ...

This project focuses on the creation of a novel tool to detect and flag potential errors within Amgen's capacity management forecast data, in an automated manner using statistical analysis, artificial intelligence and ...

The principle driver of maintenance costs for commercial jet engines is the replacement of components that, upon inspection, are determined to be damaged beyond their repairable limits. In order to better predict the ...

The primary goal of this project is to link critical product quality attributes in biological medicines with patient outcomes as evidenced by clinical trial data. This project adopts a novel methodology of applying statistical ...

Printed circuit boards (PCBs) are core components of virtually every modern electronic device, from smartphones to servers. Accordingly, printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) has become core to Flex, a leading electronics ...

A key value stream for Company X is a manufacturing area dedicated to production of precision electro-mechanical systems, of which they are contracted to service during the complete lifecycle. Currently, the production ...

For top wholesale retail companies, the demand for products from US-based customers (wholesale, digital, and direct to consumer) is extremely high. However, the available supply of a product is contingent upon the success ...

This project set out to create a framework for conducting a cost benefit analysis of part proliferation looking into first, second and third order effects of part specialization within the entire Caterpillar enterprise. ...

In the biotechnology industry, commercial manufacturing of biologic drugs occurs in large-scale production bioreactors (15,000L), but process development occurs in lab-scale production bioreactors (2-3L). Cell culture ...