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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Manufacturing Innovation"”.
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Business implications of manufacturing innovation : the experience of increasing automation in smaller to medium sized companies.
Despite the considerable potential of advanced manufacturing technologies (AMT) for improving the economic performance of many firms, a growing body of literature highlights many instances where realising this potential has proven to be a more difficult task than initially envisaged. Focussing upon …
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Implementing a new organization to manage manufacturing technology innovation
… The new organization, named the Advanced Manufacturing Development Center (AMDC), is chartered to work concurrently with the design community to develop state-of-the-art manufacturing technology to compliment the next generation engineering designs. This thesis documents the efforts of a …
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Innovating the city : challenges and opportunities in establishing incubators and districts in Paris and Boston
… of industries in specific sectors such as manufacturing, innovation, technology, and advanced services. In this effort to leverage distinctive strengths there has been a movement in cities to seed entrepreneurship as part of broader innovation and industrial strategies. This thesis takes a …
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Education and practice factory : from factory design to first product delivery
… was launched with support from the Massachusetts Manufacturing Innovation Initiative as part of the education and workforce development program of American Institute of Manufacturing Photonics. It is an advanced manufacturing facility integrated in an academic environment, and is designed to be …
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Methodology to manage process technology innovation
… This project focused on the company's Advanced Manufacturing group and its process technology development methodology. The newly founded Advanced Manufacturing group started multiple innovation projects, but did not successfully implement any of them so far. Lack of organizational integration, …
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An empirical analysis of manufacturing re-shoring and supply chain risk
… years, the U.S. is committed to improving its manufacturing competiveness by investing in manufacturing innovation and increasing its labor force productivity. With rising labor costs in China and the current economic recession in Europe the timing could not be better for the U.S. to surge …
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Innovation capability and firm performance heterogeneity in the small and medium sided enterprise sector
… heterogeneity. It also proposes several innovation indicators that measure a firm’s capability to innovate so as to help understand the innovation of small medium sized enterprise (SME) as a contributor to firm productivity. In this study, I propose and estimate a structural model …