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Designing internal logistics processes for new manufacturing site
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
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 ...
Predicting solder defects in printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) process
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
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 ...
Incremental airline schedule design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
We consider the problem of integrating flight schedule design and fleet assignment decisions at airlines. The flight schedule design problem involves selecting and scheduling the set of flight legs that an airline will ...
Convenient truths : empowering employees, empowering energy choices
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Journey Health is an industry leader in medical testing, touching a large portion of Americans each year. To maintain this position, the company makes strategic investments in R&D, business development, and continuous ...
Floor health predictive support for highly automated distribution centers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
While automated mobile inventory systems have greatly increased productivity, it has also created a new set of operational challenges. Floor health events, such as fallen product, spills, disabled robots, and floor access ...
A systematic approach for assessing next generation technologies and solutions in biomanufacturing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Amgen is one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies and competes globally to advance important medicines in a highly competitive marketplace. Biologics manufacturers such as Amgen have traditionally ...
Automated Guided Vehicles for Material Flow in Fulfillment Centers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)
The eCommerce industry utilizes fulfillment centers for product inventory, order
packaging and distribution. The fulfillment process at Amazon has been highly
automated within their Amazon Robotics (AR) Sortable facilities, ...
Robust network design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
As an equipment manufacturer for the mining and construction industries, Caterpillar's business is heavily impacted by the cyclicality of these two industries. To be competitive in the market while investing prudently to ...
Building customization capability
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Submitted to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Sloan School of Management on May 7, 2004 in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degrees of Master of Science in Civil and Environmental ...
Modeling and centralization of strategic inventory for repairable and long lead-time spare parts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
This thesis develops an optimal inventory model for repairable and long leadtime spare parts for an Engine overhaul business. In addition, it presents a business case for centralization of inventory. Pratt & Whitney purchased ...