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Design for manufacturing analysis on the Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
iRobot is responsible for delivering the Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle (SUGV) as part of the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) initiative. With increasing external competition and pressures, iRobot must deliver an ...
In vivo research scheduling and coordination in the pharmaceutical industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
(cont.) A multi-criteria objective function uses the researcher's preference to optimize both room assignments and procedure start time. A Tabu search meta-heuristic has been developed to generate a near-optimal solution. ...
Enabling manufacturing flexibility issue resolution in advanced vehicle development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
Manufacturing Flexibility is a broad term used to describe a metric that can be measured in many different ways. Current industry experts agree that Flexibility is one of the key measures that will help the automotive ...
Integrated decision support model for global sourcing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
Over the last decade, the U.S. aircraft industry has experienced increasing levels of international integration as companies seek to access global talent and resources, cut production costs, spread financial risk, and ...
Improving the manufacturing yield of investment cast turbine blades through robust design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
The manufacturing of turbine blades is often outsourced to investment casting foundries by aerospace companies that design and build jet engines. Aerospace companies have found that casting defects are an important cost ...
Creating a sustaining value engineering function within worldwide manufacturing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
Most product cost reduction in industry occurs during new product introduction (NPI). However, for some firms, a case can be made that product cost reduction efforts can be devoted towards products already in sustained ...
Improving the consumer demand forecast to generate more accurate suggested orders at the store-item level
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
One of the biggest opportunities for this consumer goods company today is reducing retail stockouts at its Direct Store Delivery (DSD) customers via pre-selling, which represents approximately 70% of the company's total ...
Achieving Six Sigma printed circuit board yields by improving incoming component quality and using a PCBA prioritization algorithm
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
Printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs) are the backbone of the electronics industry. PCBA technologies are keeping pace with Moore's Law and will soon enable the convergence of video, voice, data, and mobility onto a ...
Tailoring the prototyping process to achieve customer value
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
The main objective for prototyping is to get the most value out of the opportunity. Value may take the form of information, performance, displaying production readiness or proving capability for the amount of resources ...
The role of assessment in a lean transformation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
When starting the journey to become a Lean company, companies commonly face the problem of understanding how to manage a Lean transformation. Often times, the first step in managing a Lean transformation is to understand ...