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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. 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 ... -
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 ivestigated in: 1.) general context, 2.) product development context and 3.) the business literature context. Insights about ... -
Lifecycle Value Framework for Tactical Aircraft Product Development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Linköping University, 2001-04)Due to a dramatic reduction in defense procurement, the benchmark for developing new defense systems today is performance at an affordable cost. In an attempt to encircle a more holistic perspective of value, lifecycle ... -
Manufacturing Change at the John Deere Harvester Works: Report on the Visit of the Ad Hoc Lean Aircraft Initiative Team, June 7, 1994
(1994-11)On June 7, 1994, an Ad Hoc team from LAI visited John Deere to conduct an informal benchmark of John Deere's successful change to Leaner Manufacturing. This report summarizes the results of that trip, as well as summarizing ... -
Measuring Value in Product Development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000-03)“What is value in product development?” is the key question of this paper. The answer is critical to the creation of lean in product development. By knowing how much value is added by product development (PD) activities, ... -
Measuring Value in Product Development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000-03)“What is value in product development?” is the key question of this paper. The answer is critical to the creation of lean in product development. By knowing how much value is added by product development (PD) activities, ... -
Output from the 1998 Product Development Value Stream Workshop: A Framework for Understanding Information Flow in the Product Development Process
(2001-10)The descriptions below and the attached diagrams are outputs of the 1998 LAI Product Development Focus Team workshop on the Value Chain in Product Development. A working group at that workshop was asked to model the product ... -
Preliminary Observations on Program Instability
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996-10-10)This white paper reports emerging findings at the end of Phase I of the Lean Aircraft Initiative in the Policy focus group area. Specifically, it provides details about research on program instability. Its objective is ... -
Preliminary Observations on Program Instability
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996-10-10)This white paper reports emerging findings at the end of Phase I of the Lean Aircraft Initiative in the Policy focus group area. Specifically, it provides details about research on program instability. Its objective is to ... -
A Proposal for Enterprise Value Phase of the Lean Aerospace Initiative
(2002-10-31)The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) submits this proposal for the Enterprise Value Phase of the Lean Aerospace Initiative (LAI) in response to the October 9, 2002 Request for Proposal (RFP) F33615-02-2-5501 ... -
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. -
Space System Architecture: Final Report of SSPARC: the Space Systems, Policy, and Architecture Research Consortium (Thrust I and II)
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004-09)The Space Systems, Policy and Architecture Research Consortium (SSPARC) was formed to make substantial progress on problems of national importance. The goals of SSPARC were to: • Provide technologies and methods that ...