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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Computer manufacturing"”.
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Analyzing and improving throughput of Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems in personal computer manufacturing
… completed during a 6.5 month MIT Leaders for Manufacturing (LFM) internship at Dell Corporation's personal computer manufacturing facility in Lebanon, Tennessee (EG1) from June 2004 to December 2004. This work relates primarily to efforts to analyze and improve the throughput of the Automated …
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Root cause analysis of low on-time delivery performance at a computer manufacturing plant
Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1997, and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1997.
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A Systems Methodology for Measuring Operational Organization Effectiveness: A Study of the Original Equipment Computer Manufacturing Industry, 1948 to 2001
<p>Optimizing operational organizational effectiveness is the central, although often unstated, goal of engineering management and systems engineering research and applications. Two fundamental problems remain to be addressed in pursuit of this goal. First, despite over fifty years of research in …
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A new framework for making sourcing decisions regarding low-volume, high-complexity products
Compaq Computer Corporation's High Performance Systems Business Unit (HPSBU) manufactures a series of high-end computer servers called Alpha Servers. These servers are manufactured in relatively low volumes, typically for large institutions that require complex computer systems - either rapid …
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Intelligent order scheduling and release in a build to order environment
Dell's computer manufacturing process involves a complex system of material flow and assembly. This includes intelligent replenishment of sub-components from local warehouses according to the manufacturing schedule, just-in-time manufacturing of custom configured computer systems including …
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Ergonomic product and process design
… intended to prevent ergonomic injuries. A large computer manufacturer, Dell Inc, is targeting significant reductions in their factory injury rates. This thesis describes the evaluation of two desktop computer manufacturing facilities. As part of this work, OSHA logs from 2002 were analyzed, …