Browsing Lean Advancement Initiative by Issue Date

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    • Strategies for Lean Product Development 

      Walton, Myles (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999-08)
      The essence of lean is very simple, but from a research and implementation point of view overwhelming. Lean is the search for perfection through the elimination of waste and the insertion of practices that contribute to ...

    • Measuring Value in Product Development 

      Smith, Jim (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 

      Chase, Jim (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, ...

    • Lean Transition of Emerging Industrial Capability 

      Shroyer, E (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, ...

    • The Wrong Kind of Lean: Over-Commitment and Under-Represented Skills on Technology Teams 

      Lucas, William; Shroyer, Edward; Noel, Gerald; Schwartz, Brian (2000-05-17)
      This paper reports on results from five companies in the aerospace and automotive industries to show that over-commitment of technical professionals and under-representation of key skills on technology development and ...

    • Challenges in the Better, Faster, Cheaper Era of Aeronautical Design, Engineering and Manufacturing 

      Murman, Earll; Rebentisch, Eric; Walton, Myles (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 ...

    • Lean Enterprise Self-Assessment Tool (LESAT) 

      Nightingale, Debbie (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 ...

    • Understanding the Enterprise Value of Test: Characterizing System Test Discrepancies in the Spacecraft Industry 

      Weigel, Annalisa L. (2001-01)
      This paper highlights research characterizing the distribution and time impacts of spacecraft discrepancies found at the system level of integration and test. Reducing discrepancies will result in cycle time reduction and ...

    • Lifecycle Value Framework for Tactical Aircraft Product Development 

      Hallander, Ingrid; Stanke, Alexis (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 ...

    • Building the 21st Century Aerospace Workforce 

      Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Joel; Sleigh, Steve; Kochan, Thomas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001-05-09)
      Begin with a call to action. Present evidence on the dimensions of an employment crisis in the Aerospace Industry. Understand the links to issues of instability and lean. Focus dialogue on high leverage, mutual gains ...

    • Improving the Software Upgrade Value Stream 

      Ippolito, Brian (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 

      Murman, Earll (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?

    • Output from the 1998 Product Development Value Stream Workshop: A Framework for Understanding Information Flow in the Product Development Process 

      McManus, Hugh; Warmkessel, Joyce (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 ...

    • A Holistic Approach to Manufacturing System Design in the Defense Aerospace Industry 

      Vaughn, Amanda; Shields, J. Thomas (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 ...

    • The Pursuit of Acquisition Intrapreneurs 

      Forseth, Christopher (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 ...

    • A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO MANUFACTURING SYSTEM DESIGN IN THE DEFENSE AEROSPACE INDUSTRY 

      Vaughn, Amando F.; Shields, Tom (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 FRAMEWORK FOR ACHIEVING LIFECYCLE VALUE IN AEROSPACE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT 

      Stanke, Alexis (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 ...

    • Summary of Research Conducted by the Manufacturing Systems Team 1994-2002 

      Vaughn, Mandy; Shields, Thomas; Gutowski, Timothy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
      The Manufacturing Systems team was one of the research teams within the Lean Aerospace Initiative (LAI) whose goal was to document, analyze and communicate the design attributes and relationships that lead to significant ...

    • Value Creation Through Integration Workshop 

      Warmkessel, Joyce (2002-01-30)

    • A Framework for Integration from the Manufacturing Perspective 

      Shields, Tom (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002-01-30)
      -Industrial product maturity impact on manufacturing -What is manufacturing system design -The manufacturing system design framework