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Design and prototype of an automated system for commercially viable production using micro contact printing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
This dissertation is a documentation of the thought process, its justification and the implementation details that went into prototyping a fully automated system employing Micro Contact Printing, an emerging technique for ...
Review and improvement of reverse logistics in an electronics company
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
InFocus is a worldwide leader in the digital display market. Despite its success in sales, the company posted a net loss in profit in year 2005. The major reasons are its high operating cost and high inventory level. After ...
Improvement on service part supply chain with centralized management and global optimization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
This project was performed under the supervision of the global supply chain department of InFocus Corp. The company is having high service costs in the Asia Pacific region and desperate to lower the cost in the reverse ...
Production scheduling in a make-to-order job shop under job arrival uncertainty
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
We consider job release control to improve the due date performance in a make-to-order job shop with fluctuating job arrival and fixed due dates. The basic idea is to delay the release of non-urgent jobs and control the ...
Workload analysis and scheduling policies for a document processing centre
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
This thesis is the result of a six-month internship at the Steel Stock Department of Keppel FELS Singapore, a company which is involved in the design and construction of oil-rigs. The primary objective of this project is ...
Automation of soft lithography
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
This dissertation is a final documentation of the project whose goal is demonstrating manufacturability of soft lithography. Specifically, our target is creating micron scale patterns of resists on a 3 square inch, relatively ...
Design and prototype : a manufacturing system for the soft lithography technique
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
Ever since 1998 when the term "soft lithography" was first created, soft lithography techniques have drawn close attention of the academia and the industry. Micro contact printing is by far the most widely used soft ...
Inventory management of steel plates at an oil rig construction company
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
Keppel Fels produces make-to-order oil exploration rigs for the global market. Each rig requires close to 6000 metric tons of steel in the course of its production. Optimal management of this steel is very critical in this ...
Optimization of service parts planning for InFocus
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
A common problem faced by many industry companies, including InFocus, is that they are holding excess inventories and incurring unnecessary inventory holding costs yet are not able to achieve their expected customer service ...
Innovative color management methods for RGB printing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
The demand for printing excellent quality images has increased tremendously in parallel to the growth spurts in the digital camera market. Printing good quality images consistently, however, remains a difficult and/or ...