Browsing Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI) by Title
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Approaches to Calculating Systems Engineering Schedule in Parametric Cost Models
(2009-04-20)This paper provides two similar approaches for calculating project schedule from a systems engineering perspective. To illustrate the genesis of each approach, we provide two analogies; one from ... -
Approaches To Crisis Prevention In Lean Product Development By High Performance Teams And Through Risk Management
(2005-09)This thesis investigates crisis prevention in lean product development, focusing on high performance teams and risk management methods. Lean product development and the Munich Procedural Model (MPM) are the guiding ... -
Architecting Ambient Knowledge in Enterprises: IT Enabled Enterprise Integration & Transformation
(2008-04-01)Student research poster -
Architecting Lean Software Enterprises: The TODC Story
(2008-12-13)Workshop on Open Innovation in Services, University of Cambridge, UK presentation -
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Architecting Systems for Value Robustness: Research Motivations and Progress
(2008-04-07)The contemporary environment and large-scale systems challenges motivate research in support of a new paradigm: value robustness. Value robustness is defined as the ability of a system to continue to deliver stakeholder ... -
Architecting the Future Enterprise : a framework for supporting decision making in the selection of future states
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Enterprises that are successful over the long term are compelled to continuously transform in order to adapt to new contexts or economic environments. However, many of these transformation efforts fail to achieve their ... -
Architecting the Healthcare System for Stakeholder Value
(2009-01-21)The healthcare industry is a complex socio technical system comprised of multiple stakeholders driven by incentives, which often times are not aligned with one another, and with compromised ability to deliver to the patient ... -
As Assessment of the Degree of Implementation of the Lean Aerospace Initiative Principles and Practices within the US Aerospace and Defense Industry
(2004-02)This report is a formal documentation of the results of an assessment of the degree to which Lean Principles and Practices have been implemented in the US Aerospace and Defense Industry. An Industry Association team ... -
Assembly oriented design : concepts algorithms and computational tools
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998) -
Assessing Changeability in Aerospace Systems Architecting and Design Using Dynamic Multi-Attribute Tradespace Exploration
(2006-09-19)A framework for assessing changeability in the context of dynamic Multi-Attribute Tradespace Exploration (MATE) is proposed and applied to three aerospace systems. The framework consists of two parts. First, changeability ... -
Assessing Changeability in Aerospace Systems Architecting and Design Using Dynamic Multi-Attribute Tradespace Exploration
(2006-09-19)A framework for assessing changeability in the context of dynamic Multi-Attribute Tradespace Exploration (MATE) is proposed and applied to three aerospace systems. The framework consists of two parts. First, changeability ... -
Assessing Information Waste in Lean Product Development
(2007-08-28)Lean Product Development seeks to enhance the efficiency of product development projects by reducing and eliminating non-value-adding activities or waste, which can exist on every process level. The value stream through ... -
Assessing Stakeholder Salience Through the view of Lean Enterprise Transformation
(2010-09-09)LAI Webinar Knowledge Exchange Event presentation -
Assessing stakeholder salience through the view of lean enterprise transformation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Aerospace enterprises tend to take a strategic approach to managing their enterprise. This thesis posits that stakeholder theory presents another way of looking at the enterprise, as it incorporates elements of both structure ... -
Assessing Stakeholder Salience Through the View of Lean Enterprise Transformation
(2010-03-23)Student research poster, LAI Annual Meeting, Dana Point, CA -
Assessing the Challenges to a Geosynchronous Space Tug System
(2005-03-29)A space tug vehicle is designed to rendezvous and dock with a space object; make an assessment of its current position, orientation, and operational status; and then either stabilize the object in its current orbit or ... -
Automating Systems Engineering Risk Assessment
(2010-03-17)8th Annual Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER) presentation -
Avionics life-cycle forecasting model
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000) -
Axiomatic Design of Manufacturing Systems
(1996-11)This paper introduces the use of axiomatic design in the design of manufacturing systems. The two primary functional requirements of any manufacturing system are developed. These functional requirements are used to analyze ...