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Triage and treatment of strategic and operational problems in a semiconductor equipment consumables manufacturing company
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
The company studied in this internship project supplies consumable copper components to the semiconductor equipment industry. Growing in this industry has been much more difficult than the company's original 1995 business ...
Lean manufacturing at a tier-1 automotive supplier
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
The road to lean manufacturing has been long and hard for many companies. Intrigue Corporation is no exception. The company first introduced its version, the Intrigue Lean Manufacturing System, approximately ten years ago. ...
Managing a global supply chain with durable arm's-length supplier relationships
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
Rapidly changing technology and increased competition have made supply chain management and purchasing more and more critical in determining a companies competitiveness. Many industrial firms spend more than one half of ...
Integration of the design and manufacture of high-precision cast components
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
Product development process assessment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
For many companies, new product development is a major component of growth. For many luxury goods, such as high-end automobiles, watches, or furniture, product development organizations focus on quality and ultimately, ...
Measuring machine interference to evaluate an operator cross-training program
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
Avoiding the perils of cyclic growth on Dell's direct environment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
The high technology industry suffers from a phenomenon that is common to many businesses and industries throughout the world - a "hockey-stick" demand skew. Such a skew derives its name from the shape of the quarterly ...
Improving line yield at Fab17
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
Fab 17 was a Digital Equipment Corporation semiconductor manufacturing and development facility. In June of 1998, Intel purchased Fab 17 from Digital. Intel shifted the focus to manufacturing and implemented many Intel ...
Modeling design rework in a product development process
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
Managing the product development process is of vital concern to corporations. A critical aspect of product development that negatively impacts program cost and timing is rework. Unfortunately, in large organizations with ...
Implementing material and information flow improvements and setup time reduction in automotive gear machining
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
This thesis is based on the author's seven-month internship based in the gears machining module of the Saturn Powertrain, Transmission Manufacturing plant. This module has four primary functional areas with buffers between ...