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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"aerospace assembly"”.
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Lean transformation in aerospace assembly operations
… efforts in Mitchell Engine Company's* Final Assembly Plant will be provided as a case study. Focus on the JP-3525 fan case assembly cell provides specific examples on how shop floor improvements, assembly cell redesign, and flow can improve process cycle time and decrease variability. The …
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Quantifying the business case for aerospace assembly automation
As aerospace Original Equipment Manufacturer's (OEM's) order backlogs soar to between six to ten years and growing, the community sees automation as vital to increasing throughput. Yet the community seems divided on the quantifiable financial benefits. While automation in aerospace assembly dates …
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Implementing pull production within an aerospace assembly operation
… a global supplier of technologically advanced aerospace and industrial products. The main objective of the internship was to convert from a push system, where orders are expedited and scheduled at multiple points in the process, to a pull system driven by a bin size or finished goods …
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Process for evaluating options for materials management outsourcing
… of the materials management function within aerospace assembly, proposing a process for determining whether all or part of the responsibility should be given to suppliers. A flowchart tailored to the aerospace assembly process has been developed to address strategic as well as cost concerns. …
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Optimizing the assembly sequence of an aerospace manufacturing process
… and consolidation for much of the defense aerospace industry. Many defense contractors sought to integrate lean manufacturing principles and techniques into their business, as a means of becoming more cost-competitive in bidding for a shrinking defense budget, and to enable moves into …
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Variation propagation modelling and cost-oriented process optimisation for aircraft assembly
… in parts can make it difficult to achieve all assembly Key Characteristics (KCs) simultaneously. Despite assigning tight tolerances to sub-component manufacture, part variation propagation necessitates expensive and time consuming variation management processes such as shimming in order to …