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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Material shortages"”.
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Operational improvement at a mass customization semiconductor equipment manufacturing facility through inventory consolidation
… and Associates (Varian), a subsidiary of Applied Materials (AMAT), through material shortage reduction. Varian manufactures highly customized implantation equipment. Sub-assemblies that form an implantation tool are manufactured in the supermarket at Varian. The company is currently trying to …
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A Study of the Effectiveness of Nitrogen, Manganese, and Copper as Substitutes for Nickel in Low-Chromium Stainless Steels.
… United States has experienced several strategic material shortages prompted by crises such as World War II and the Korean War. Historically, the issue of a critical materials policy by the United States was not addressed until shortages of materials hindered the manufacturing capabilities of …
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Lean manufacturing in a mass customization plant : inventory correction and shortage measurement
… revealed that the main problem was chronic raw material shortages. Further investigation revealed improper supply chain and inventory management. Moreover, existing metrics for parts shortage measurement were found to be lacking in accuracy. Based on the principles of postponement, it is …
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Implementing postponement into low-volume/high-variability manufacturing
… to manufacturing technology, improvements in material science, design variations, and individual part engineering modifications. In order to be responsive to fluctuating demand while minimizing costs, AX must broadly implement postponement into numerous applications as a way to extract the …
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Capturing value in outsourced aerospace supply chains
… poor supplier quality, high inventory holdings, material shortages and project cost overruns which have impacted their profitability. A series of analytical models and optimization methods is also introduced to specifically address the challenges and opportunities identified via the framework.
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Bolshevik voices: radio broadcasting in the Soviet Union, 1917 - 1991
… years of Soviet broadcasting were hindered by material shortages and an inability to understand the special qualities of radio. The Stalin years and World War II transformed the purpose and function of broadcasting in Russia. The greatest challenge to central broadcasting came for foreign radio …
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Restructuring inventory location at semiconductor equipment manufacturing plant
This thesis tackles the Supermarket (SMKT) material shortage problem at Varian Semiconductor Equipment and Associates (Varian), in a bid to improve the SMKTs On-Time Delivery. The SMKT is a sub-assembly area that creates intermediate assemblies in a multi-stage ion implanter production process. …
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Quality improvement, inventory management, lead time reduction and production scheduling in high-mix manufacturing environments
… from two industry projects conducted at Applied Materials Varian Division in Gloucester, MA and at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, MA. This thesis addresses the improvement of a quality metric used at Applied Materials through the means of material shortage reduction and lead time …
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A Framework for Construction-Driven Designs
… and pandemic caused price escalations and material shortages requiring real time pricing and use of available equipment are showing that construction industry needs to shift toward creating designs that will be driven by the construction process or construction-driven designs. The …
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Knowledge Representation and Decision Support for Managing Product Obsolescence
… examples. Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) obsolescence provides the basis for this study. Second, an ontology-based hybrid approach for integrating heterogeneous data resources in existing obsolescence management tools is proposed. Third, decision support models …
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Dynamic scheduling of manufacturing systems with setups and random disruptions
… to random disruptions such as failures or raw material shortages, which are common in production environments. In this thesis, we study policies that address the setup scheduling problem dynamically, in response to current conditions in the system. A new heuristic, called the Hedging Zone …
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A Framework For A Decision Support Model For Supply Chain Management In The Construction Industry
Materials are one of the areas that require special attention while creating a project's master plan as well as during the daily construction progress. The absence of materials when needed is one of the main causes of loss of productivity at a jobsite. Inefficient materials management can lead to …