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Showing 1 to 20 of 503 for “"Leaders for Global Operations Program."”.
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Cost accounting system for an emergency department
… (BIDMC), a Harvard teaching hospital, and MIT's Leaders for Global Operations program partnered to address this cost measurement issue for BIDMC's Emergency Department (ED). The joint team developed a cost accounting model and implemented it as a software system. Using the resulting system as a …
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Predictive earthquake damage modeling for natural gas distribution infrastructure
… while adding features necessary to account for distribution branch lines and above-ground meter sets. Research and analysis showed factors beyond ground-motion prediction equations could be used to estimate pipeline damage and were consequently included.
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Implementation of assembly automation in aircraft structures
Flexible automation for drilling and countersinking has been successfully implemented in the assembly of a small number of aircraft structures. These systems have demonstrated the capability to reduce the risk of repetitive use injuries, improve quality, and reduce labor costs. Despite these …
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Technology maturity analysis for assessing capacity and schedule risk of future automation projects
The need to improve risk assessment methods for automation projects within United States manufacturers exists due to a shift toward increased in factory automation stemming from industry pressure to reduce manufacturing costs and increase production rates. This study explores the hypothesis that a …
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Inventory management for perishable goods using simulation methods
… create new challenges to inventory and operations management. One example of this new type of products sold online includes the category of perishable goods. Perishable goods provide a unique inventory challenge due to the fact that products may expire at unknown times while in stock, …
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A predictive troubleshooting model for early engagement
… Card Assembly, the department responsible for the production of circuit card assemblies from across all of Raytheon's businesses. Circuit Card Assembly includes manufacturing, test, quality, finance and other groups, functioning as its own business within Raytheon IDS. Circuit Card Assembly …
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Mergers and acquisitions process improvement in a matrix organization
… division, there is no corporate expert neither for manufacturing due diligence or supply chain. The difference in the experience level of manufacturing managers in different divisions, and a division-centric view of the supply chain has lead sometimes to integration plans that don't fully take …
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Creation and sustainment of manufacturing technology roadmaps
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 organization reducing the time and resources required to bring new technology to …
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Lean principles in an aircraft assembly process
… production rate, and deliver exceptional quality for every product. The manufacturing firm that springs to mind as the standard bearer for all three is Toyota and the generalized lean manufacturing method known as the Toyota Production System. The literature on what lean manufacturing is and how …
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Aligning netbook microprocessor reliability to market demands
… microprocessor that opened up a new market for smaller mobile computers, commonly known as netbooks. During the subsequent two years, netbooks have grown to be a substantial component of the mobile computer industry, capturing a major share of mobile computer sales in 2009. As Intel …
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Reducing reworkable discrepancies through standard work for writing inspection instructions and data distribution
… occur on each aircraft it is a huge opportunity for improvement and cost reduction. It would be impossible to analyze each one that occurs on the line. However, last year at X Aerospace another researcher created a tool to categorize discrepancies by key words based on free form text describing …
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Fulfillment center storage optimization
… e-commerce is demanding operational improvements for efficient storage of large selections and the ability to quickly pick, fill, pack and ship single items and small orders. Online grocery fulfillment presents a new gamut of challenges due to the unique storage and handling requirements of …
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Using predictive analytics to address risk in complex supply chains
Li & Fung (LF) is a global supply chain manager for consumer product brands and retailers. Worldwide, LF contracts with over 13,000 factories. Frequently, these factories experience incidents, which are internally defined as "unplanned / unwanted events which have the potential to escalate or have …
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Complexity cost quantification and modeling for strategic portfolio management
… through effectively reducing complexity within operations. We apply this to a major healthcare company (referred to as Company X). The anticipated launch of new molecules and formulations into the existing high mix product portfolio presents significant challenges to contain cost and maintain …
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Improving multi-channel retail delivery performance in key market cities
… to improve delivery speed, reliability, and cost for digital retailers operating in key North American markets (i.e. New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago). Zone Skipping Transportation This project develops a zone skipping transportation model and associated business case for retailers with …
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Establishment of a novel Pichia Pastoris host production platform
… Line Development group at Amgen is responsible for manufacturing and optimizing the cell lines utilized in production of Amgen's biologic drug portfolio. Traditionally, these cell lines are produced from mammalian host organisms, primarily Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells, due to their unique …
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The business case for continuous manufacturing of pharmaceuticals
… system, which has existed in its current form for decades. This structure is the result of historical regulatory policy as well as the conservative nature of the industry. Recent clarification by US and European regulatory bodies has opened the possibility to new approaches to the …
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Distribution and replenishment optimization between locations of high and low real estate cost
… and adjust product allocation based on product information, demand and Real Estate costs.
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A capital equipment capacity planning methodology for aerospace parts manufacturing in a high-mix, low volume environment
… four-phased framework. This model was developed for the purposes of capital planning for capacity requirements at a large aerospace parts manufacturing plant. Implications for capacity planning of the nature of the aerospace industry, as well as the company and plant being studied are discussed, …
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Electricity meterings as an integral part of an energy conservation program
Energy management has always been an issue for facility managers, but is now coming under increased scrutiny as businesses become more concerned with greenhouse gas emissions and their environmental footprint. Contemporary research suggests that simply feeding back information on energy use can …
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