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Showing 1 to 20 of 211 for “"Pratt"”.
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A design for a 200 ft. span pin-connected through Pratt Truss Railway Bridge
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1927.
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“The Stories That We Tell”: Mormon Women, Autobiography, and the Mormon Collective Memory of Persecution as Influenced by The Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt
… memory of persecution as formulated by Parley P. Pratt in his autobiography impacted the Mormon community for generations. With the help of theorists Maurice Halbwachs, Jan Assman, and others to explain collective memory and how it is transmitted, this dissertation examines the life cycle of a …
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Design and development of a supplier evaluation process
… sourcing is a strategy many companies, including Pratt & Whitney, use to reduce part costs. As they increase their efforts to resource products to low-cost regions, Pratt & Whitney needs a robust process to effectively evaluate potential suppliers and identify those suppliers that are most capable …
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Connected factory: real time data analysis for manufacturing efficiency
Pratt and Whitney is expecting an increase in demand for new engines and for parts supportive of aftermarket service, maintenance, and repair. To avoid expensive capital investments in additional production capacity, Pratt is taking several approaches to better utilize existing capacity. In a …
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Implementing change through a supplier evaluation process
… that incorporates more strategic suppliers. Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technology Corporation, is no different as it seeks to streamline selection of suppliers to satisfy their business and manufacturing needs. In addition to improved product costs, low cost sourcing also expands …
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Identifying and Assessing Aerospace Parts for Production in Additive Manufacturing
Pratt & Whitney is a major aerospace Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) of gas turbine engines for both the commercial and military sectors. Additive Manufacturing (AM) presents Pratt & Whitney with the opportunity to improve their supply chain and increase performance. Yet, given the complexity …
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Strategic Sourcing of Serial Production Processes in Jet Engine Manufacturing
… of an individual jet engine component at Pratt & Whitney can go through upwards of 40 manufacturing processes, from an airfoil’s single crystal casting to thermal plasma spray coatings and wire EDM-drilled cooling holes. Many of these processes are extremely specialized, requiring special …
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Accounting for system level interaction in knowledge management initiatives
… aircraft gas turbine engine (specifically the Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engine family). Unlike previous gas turbine engine DSM work, the matrix created in this thesis is generated from the point of view of the Systems Engineering organizations at Pratt & Whitney. The sequenced matrix captures the …
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Strategic raw material inventory optimization
… titanium alloy raw material supply chain for Pratt & Whitney. At the same time, Pratt & Whitney experiences a variety of rare but disruptive events within the supply chain that affect their raw material requirements. Examples of these disruptive events include customer drop-in orders, …
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Risk Aversion and Consumer Choice With Many Commodities
The Arrow-Pratt analysis of risk aversion offers a cogent explanation of how changes in attitudes towards risk affect the choices of expected utility maximizing agents whose preferences are defined over a single variable, wealth. The restriction of the analysis to utility functions of one argument, …
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Information flow & knowledge capture : lessons for distributed integrated product teams
… transition to the Module Center organization at Pratt & Whitney. We identify several critical enablers for efficient information flow and knowledge capture in a dispersed IPT environment by analyzing qualitative and quantitative survey data obtained at Pratt & Whitney, existing research in this …
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Forecasting and strategic inventory placement for gas turbine aftermarket spares
… industry. It is based on work performed at Pratt & Whitney, a major producer of turbine engines. The author worked in the Global Materials Solutions program, Pratt & Whitney's latest business venture, in which they will provide OEM quality materials for the CFM56 engine manufactured by CFM …
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Improving producibility in aerospace engine manufacturing : process automation vs. process reengineering
… any aerospace manufacturing operation, including Pratt & Whitney's Compression Systems Module Center, producibility problems can be major drivers of cost. Much of the literature focuses on design for manufacturability as a solution to producibility problems. While this is a valuable approach, this …
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Taxonomic studies on the genus Podocotyle (Trematoda: opecoelidae)
… of the Pacific Northwest coast by Ching (1960), Pratt and McCauley (1961), Arai (1969), and Hall and Pratt (1969), it was decided to expand the investigation to include these forms and other Podocotyle spp, from coastal areas of the world in an attempt to determine the number of valid species and …
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Bridging cultures: American Indian students at the Northfield Mount Hermon School
… School, headed by Army Captain Richard Henry Pratt, and the Northfield Seminary for Young Ladies, founded by evangelist D. L. Moody. While Captain Pratt was dedicated to the assimilation and acculturation of Native children into the dominant culture, D. L. Moody was determined to offer …
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Managing Identities in Managed Care: Top -Management -Team Responses to Organizational Complexity and Change
… integrated delivery system, using the Pratt and Foreman (2000) classification scheme as a reference point. Through a 18-month-long ethnographic case study, I gathered extensive qualitative data---including non-participant observations of management committee meetings and formal and …
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