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Raytheon PB 440 disk interface design
… the Magnafile 8502 disk storage unit to the Raytheon PB 440 computer. The computer can use the disk for both data storage and recovery. However, data must be exchanged in blocks of 1024 words (one complete track on the disk). The interfacing was designed incorporating diode-to-transistor …
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Defining Core Manufacturing Capabilities at Raytheon Missiles & Defense
Raytheon Technologies makes a diverse array of products ranging from microelectronic components to fully integrated exo-atmospheric missiles and jet engines. In order to better rationalize its operations strategy, the organization is implementing a methodology to identify its manufacturing …
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Developing metrics for concurrent engineering at Raytheon Company's Surface Radar Group
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2001.
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Business model transformation for the international division of a fortune 100 high technology company
Raytheon Canada in Waterloo, Ontario offers a very interesting but challenging research case. As one of the international divisions of Raytheon Corporation, the company has a business model similar to its parent company. The company however is facing new trends in its business environment which …
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Using visual analytics to drive lean behavior in program management office
Raytheon recently won a large order for one of its programs (Program X) leading to a doubling of monthly production. With a relatively larger order, Raytheon reduced the acquisition unit price to the customer. Thus, there is a burning platform to evaluate the current program assessment tools and …
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Driving cycle time reduction through an improved material flow process in the electronics assembly manufacturing cell
… value at many companies throughout the world. Raytheon IDS's lean program, "Raytheon Six Sigma" became a top priority in the past ten years at the Integrated Air Defense Center (IADC) in Andover, MA. However, as Raytheon's corporate goals state, they want to take this further and bring …
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Information technology (IT) as a mechanism to build trust and foster collaborative innovation in the buyer-supplier relationship
… suppliers: trust. During a research project at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems in Andover, Massachusetts, the author strove to learn how the dynamic of trust in a buyer-supplier relationship affects the companies' interactions, and how SCM leaders can influence this dynamic. First, through …
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Accelerating value capture of SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) system : governance model and process
Raytheon produces a diverse range of defense products using a wide range of business systems and tools that are not currently integrated. To achieve the corporate vision of "one company", in 2005, Raytheon began to deploy its SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, called "PRISM", focused on …
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Applying an enterprise architecting framework to design enterprise sales and operations planning
Raytheon Company, a leader in aerospace and defense, has experienced tremendous growth through mergers and acquisitions. In particular, the company's Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) business unit was largely formed through acquisitions of E-Systems and Texas Instruments and a merger with Hughes …
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A predictive troubleshooting model for early engagement
Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) is home to Circuit 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 …
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Evaluation and Implementation of Augmented Reality for Aerospace Operations and Sustainment
… is motivated to support strategic development at Raytheon Technologies – Raytheon Missiles & Defense. The objectives include proposals for technology down selection and development processes to enable augmented reality capabilities for operations and sustainment of fielded products and to leverage …
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Using a Design for Project Implementation (DFPI) methodology to accelerate Return on Investment (ROI) of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System
… to the DFPI methodology and design tools at Raytheon Company. The methodology was deployed on process improvement projects targeted on leveraging the increased capability gained from a recent transition to an SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) system integrated solution. In this thesis we …
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Expedite requests in Raytheon's North Texas supply chain
In December 2004, a manager at Raytheon Company articulated in the form of an LFM (Leaders for Manufacturing) internship proposal his belief that someone should do something about the amounts of time and money that Raytheon's North Texas plants spent handling expedite requests-requests that someone …
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Mitigating the impact of a time-dependent production process
… one that appears frequently on products made at Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems (SAS). Using a typical Raytheon pod system (RPS) as a case study, this thesis examines various ways to mitigate the impact of these value-added associated wait times (VAAWT) on cycle time. Adhesives with long cure …
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Enabling supply chain cooperation with information sharing
… software and hardware components designed by Raytheon employees to improve operational performance by facilitating and reinforcing lean behavior. It has helped contribute to four years in a row of twenty-percent yearly reductions in costs by providing near real-time metrics information, …
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Analysis of engineering management characteristics employed in the defense industry
… that make up most of the defense industry, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman, have very similar organization characteristics. They mostly use a matrix structure to run their businesses. They exhibit group relationships, employ an intermediate degree of centralization, …
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Component-derived manufacturing yield prediction in circuit card design and assembly
… in troubleshooting and rework costs per product. Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) Circuit Card Assembly (CCA) manufactures highly complex circuit cards at a high mix / low volume scale for various purposes. Due to the high input variability and small production lot sizes of this level of …
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Creation and sustainment of manufacturing technology roadmaps
… of manufacturing technology roadmaps at Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems (SAS). It demonstrates how by using a stakeholder analysis and demonstrating a positive value proposition to all stakeholders agreement and adoption can be created across a large organization.
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Applicability of lean manufacturing and quick response manufacturing in a high-mix low-volume environment
… does not fit neatly is circuit card assembly at Raytheon Systems Limited in Glenrothes, Scotland, where the author conducted his six-month LFM internship. Five steps towards manufacturing improvement are focused on in this thesis: choosing metrics, reorganizing the factory, selecting lot sizes, …
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Intrapreneurship as a tool for lean transformation : case study of VBS, intrapreneurship in IT space by Oladapo E. Bakare.
… VBS, an intrapreneurial group within Raytheon IDS, is used as a case example of the impact of intrapreneurship on lean transformation. VBS has played a key role in monitoring and promoting lean culture at IADC (Integrated Air Defense Center and manufacturing site for IDS) at Raytheon. …
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