Browsing Lean Advancement Initiative by Title
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Challenges in the Better, Faster, Cheaper Era of Aeronautical Design, Engineering and Manufacturing
(2000-09)Starting in the 1990s, the aerospace industry was challenged to produce products and systems Better, faster, Cheaper. In this paper, we examine some of the underlying reasons for BFC and offer some thoughts to help frame ... -
Factory Flow Benchmarking Report
(1996-12)LAI benchmarked representative part fabrications and some assembly operations within its member companies of the defense aircraft industry. This paper reports the results of this benchmarking effort. In addition, this ... -
A FRAMEWORK FOR ACHIEVING LIFECYCLE VALUE IN AEROSPACE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
(International Council of Aeronautical Sciences, 2002)Creation of lifecycle value - a balance of performance with cost and other attributes - represents a challenge for the development of aerospace products in the twenty-first century. This paper examines the concept of ... -
A Framework for Integration from the Manufacturing Perspective
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002-01-30)-Industrial product maturity impact on manufacturing -What is manufacturing system design -The manufacturing system design framework -
The Guide to Lean Enablers for Managing Engineering Programs
(Joint MIT‐PMI‐INCOSE Community of Practice on Lean in Program Management, 2012-05)This document provides the findings of the Joint MIT‐PMI‐INCOSE Lean in Program Management Community of Practice that are based on a 1‐year project executed during 2011 and 2012. The community was made up of selected subject ... -
A Holistic Approach to Manufacturing System Design in the Defense Aerospace Industry
(International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 2002)Manufacturing has evolved to become a critical element of the competitive skill set of defense aerospace firms. Given the changes in the acquisition environment and culture; traditional “thrown over the wall” means of ... -
A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO MANUFACTURING SYSTEM DESIGN IN THE DEFENSE AEROSPACE INDUSTRY
(International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 2002)Manufacturing has evolved to become a critical element of the competitive skill set of defense aerospace firms. Given the changes in the acquisition environment and culture; traditional “thrown over the wall” means of ... -
Implementation Workshop: High Performance Work Organizations
(Masschusetts Institute of Technology, 1997-04)Since the rise of the industrial revolution, there are few challenges that compare in scale and scope with the challenge of implementing lean principles in order to achieve high performance work systems. This report ... -
Implementation Workshop: High Performance Work Organizations
(1997-04)A report on findings from the first Lean Aircraft Initiative (LAI) Implementation Workshop held on February 5-6, 1997. The report is not a "cookbook" or a "how to" manual. Rather, it is a summary of the first phase in a ... -
Implementation Workshop: High Performance Work Organizations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997-04)Since the rise of the industrial revolution, there are few challenges that compare in scale and scope with the challenge of implementing lean principles in order to achieve high performance work systems. This report summarize ... -
Improving the Software Upgrade Value Stream
(2001-09)This paper reports findings from a two-year study to identify Lean practices for deriving software requirements from aerospace system level requirements, with a goal towards improving the software upgrade value stream. -
Introduction to LAI
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001-09-26)Why LAI? How does LAI work? What use is LAI to others? How far has LAI come and where will we go next? -
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. This report outlines the ... -
Lean Aircraft Initiative Implementation Workshop #3: Customer and Supplier Integration Across the Supply Chain
(1999-02)The integration of customers and suppliers along the supply chain involves a fundamental transformation of the way business is conducted in the Aerospace industry. Lean Aerospace Initiative (LAI) members, as well as ... -
Lean Aircraft Initiative Implementation Workshop: Implementing Cross-Functional Teams in an IPPD Environment
(1998-01)There is an emerging consensus in the Aerospace sector around the importance of Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD). Now nearly every new program is now established around a set of Integrated Product Teams ... -
Lean Enterprise Self-Assessment Tool (LESAT)
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000-12-14)-Status report on June Executive Board commitments -Enterprise-level LESAT Beta Version -Detailed-level LESAT Development Plan -Industry and government participation and support requirements -Resource Needs -Executive ... -
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 ... -
Lean Transition of Emerging Industrial Capability
(2000-04)This volume of the final report documents the technical work performed from December 1998 through December 2002 under Cooperative Agreement F33615-97-2-5153 executed between the U.S. Air Force, Air Force Research Laboratory, ... -
Lean Transition of Emerging Industrial Capability (LeanTEC)
(2002-03)Lean Transition of Emerging Industrial Capability (LeanTEC) program was a cooperative agreement between the Boeing Company and AFRL conducted from January 1998 to January 2002. The results of this program are documented ...
