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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Sloan School of Manufacturing."”.
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Using Virtual Business Systems to drive lean behavior in engineering design and support
… system. It first started at Raytheon's Andover manufacturing facility in early 2000 with the strategic objectives of linking Lean and Six Sigma behavior to customers' successes and gradually transforming Raytheon into a Lean workplace. VBS dashboards are projected onto flat screen panels located …
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Application of commercial best practices for new technology development within the constraints of defense contract funded R&D
This thesis explores the application of commercial best practices for new technology development within the constraints of the defense contract funded research and development (R&D) environment. Key elements of successful new product development (NPD) are identified from the literature, including …
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Restoring product focus across the value stream through organizational restructuring
… better performance lies beyond the capabilities of assets in their present configuration. A typical course of action is reorganization. A key consideration for organizational design is how the relationship between an organization's structure, the structure of its products, and the structure of …
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Mitigating the impact of a time-dependent production process
… wait times occur frequently during production manufacturing and increase cycle time. Since the wait time is integral to the value created by the process, it can be difficult to reduce the cycle time impact. The use of adhesives and the impact of their associated cure times is an example of such …
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Analysis of the effect of planning/design phase factors on rework
… great growth in their revenue and sales. One of the contributing organizations to that growth has been the Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) business sector. To continue this growth, SAS has started initiatives to improve their Operations. One of these initiatives is to reduce the amount of …
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Inventory management for drug discovery
… MA. The study focused on the development of inventory management processes for laboratory consumables. The pharmaceutical R&D process is characterized by a dynamic project portfolio, which results in a great diversity of stock-keeping-units, low repeat order rates and high variability in …