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aVoilà : optimizing and evaluating procurement paths across the commercial aviation product life cycle
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Spirit AeroSystems is engaged in an unprecedented collaboration to supply a composite fuselage section for a new aircraft program. In most cases, Spirit cannot effectively leverage its composite sourcing experience with ...
Sustainability in the product cycle : adopting a shared standard for the apparel industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Decisions made by product designers strongly influence the social and environmental impacts that a consumer product will have over its lifetime. This study examines the Sustainable Apparel Index, a decision-support tool ...
The Brazilian Pension System from an innovative perspective
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
The demographic changes and the growth in expenses of the social security make the current pension system in Brazil unsustainable, creating opportunities for the complementary fund industry. This work discusses the current ...
787 mid-body job precedence networks for improving production rate
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
In a complex manufacturing environment, generating schedules, identifying deviations, and recovering from delays have a significant impact on total operational performance. At Boeing's 787 plant, a precedence network was ...
Design and optimization of global distribution supply chain at McCain Foods
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Network design has been successfully used by numerous organizations to achieve supply chain excellence through cost effectiveness and superior utilization of resources. This thesis addresses how network optimization methods ...
Prospects for application of US shale gas technology in Eastern Europe : legal, economic and environmental concerns Poland vs. Ukraine
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
It is obvious to everybody today that energy is a very important strategic element of the countries' economy. Continuously growing population and industrial sectors demand more and more energy for successful development ...
Leviathan's double bottom line : Sovereign wealth funds as tools of strategic statecraft by Shannon A. Murphy.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Sovereign wealth accounts for a massive, and growing, source of global financial capital. Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) hold about $5 trillion in assets, nearly double the aggregated assets of the global hedge fund community. ...
Creation and sustainment of manufacturing technology roadmaps
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Manufacturing technology roadmaps align manufacturing capability development to product development and the driving business need. Roadmaps allow an executable business strategy to be communicated to all levels of an ...
Objective assessment of manufacturing technology investments
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Amgen is a biotechnology company with manufacturing plants throughout the world. New manufacturing technologies are constantly being developed and implemented in order to address cost, quality, regulation, and competitive ...
Creating supply chain visibility : a case study on extending Intel's Unit Level Traceability to customers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
In an effort to enable supply chain visibility for Intel products, the Customer Unit Level Traceability (ULT) Program was formed to help extend Intel's ULT capability to the customer level. Increased traceability of Intel ...