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Showing 1 to 20 of 8240 for “"manufacturing"”.
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Implementation of lean manufacturing in a remote manufacturing facility
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1993.
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A Methodology Incorporating Manufacturing System Capacity in Manufacturing Cost Estimation
… Design for Manufacturability to integrate manufacturing and design has been shown over the years to reduce manufacturing costs and increasing overall revenues. Much research has been provided with a focus on integrating the design of a product and its respective manufacturing processes, but …
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Manufacturing system design : flexible manufacturing systems and value stream mapping
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2002.
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Modeling and simulation of manufacturing flexibility in circuit board manufacturing
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1993.
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Effective Integration of Additive Manufacturing at a Large Manufacturing Company
Additive manufacturing (AM) has the potential to create significant value at large manufacturing companies such as Corning, but to date adoption has been slow. Corning invested in AM early, establishing a central AM team in 2006. While the team has developed technical AM expertise and supports …
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Design and Reconfiguration of Manufacturing Systems in Agile Manufacturing Environments
Agile manufacturing has become a topic of great interest over the past several years. The entire domain of modeling and analyzing different types of agile manufacturing environments and systems, however, remain largely unexplored. The objective of this research is to provide fundamental insight …
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Manufacturing execution systems
The term Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) was created in 1990 by Advanced Manufacturing Research (AMR) to describe the suite of software products which enables the execution of manufacturing through the integration of planning and control systems. The purpose of this dissertation is to …
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Manufacturing Excellent Engineers
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have been criticised by employers, government and graduates themselves, for not adequately developing required work skills. An example of practice that does develop student skills is a short industrial placement (SIP) where students are expected to solve a real …
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Manufacturing bio-tiles
… the mechanical properties, and scaling up the manufacturing of bio-tiles for widespread commercial use. With the uptake of bio-tiles, there is potential to decarbonise an age-old industry and reduce dependence on fossil fuels, and other construction materials can now follow.
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Modeling the implementation of advanced manufacturing technologies in the Cypriot manufacturing industry
For the Cyprus Manufacturing Industry, previously committed to the production of medium quality standard products, the increased and changing nature of competitive pressures represents a fundamental challenge. The major problems the Cyprus manufacturing industry is facing appear to be labour …
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The Development of a Manufacturing Failure Mode Avoidance Framework for Aerospace Manufacturing
… is particularly challenging in high value manufacturing which is characterised by expensive product and manufacturing systems and relatively low production volume. This thesis introduces a method for the design of robust and reliable manufacturing processes through the prevention of …
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Implementing cellular manufacturing methodologies to improve the performance of a manufacturing operation
Many traditional high-mix, low-volume manufacturing facilities utilize process villages, whereby similar operations are grouped together in an effort to gain efficiencies. While process villages can improve certain metrics and increase capacity utilization, many wastes can be created that outweigh …
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From Layout to Manufacturing
Tilgangur þessa verkefnis var að kanna möguleikann á að fækka vinnustundum og auka skilvirkni í hönnun breytilegra tækja og tækjahluta hjá Marel með aðstoð tölvustuddrar hönnunar (CAD) og með aðferðafræði einingarvæðingar (e. modularization). Þróaður var vinnuferill til að framkalla framleiðslugögn …
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Modelling manufacturing systems flexibility.
… a significant competitive advantage to manufacturing organisations. The rapid rise in global sourcing, has resulted in manufacturers having to offer greater levels of customisation, thus a wider product range is essential to an organisation's competitiveness. The rate at which new …
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Internet-based manufacturing database
… Web as a tool for deploying the Internet based Manufacturing database for insert selection. The rapid phase of development of Internet and its wide usage in the areas of business and Engineering has opened a wide spectrum for the areas of research. This tool is useful in the selection of the …
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Metals for Additive Manufacturing
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Normative perspectives in manufacturing
… a normative approach in two infrastructural manufacturing decisions: quality and product development. Quality, as employed in the research, is defined as satisfying customer needs given a market segment. Product defects lead to customer dissatisfaction and have a negative economic impact. …
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Productivity measurement in manufacturing
… lifting out those aspects which are important to manufacturing operations. The discussion of theory culminates in a list of criteria which can be applied to the development of any productivity measurement system. All the key concepts are demonstrated by way of example.
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Optical networking equipment manufacturing
… and computer assembly, has recently begun manufacturing equipment for the optical networking equipment (ONE) industry. The expansion to include ONE manufacturing requires the development of new skills in handling optical fiber and components, a new supply chain strategy, and a new approach …
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The marketing-manufacturing interface.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management. Thesis. 1972. M.S .
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