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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"manufacturing strategies"”.
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Identifying the Small Apparel Manufacturer: A Typology of Manufacturing Strategies
… The objectives were to (a) determine if distinct manufacturing strategies existed among SAMs, (b) develop a profile of these groups using environmental factors known to affect the apparel industry and small businesses (i.e., customer service, operations, barriers, assistance, customer size, …
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Analysis of global manufacturing strategies for high volume high technology products
Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1997.
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Low volume manufacturing strategies for the automotive industry : a global and emerging economy perspective
Low volume manufacturing has become increasingly important for the automotive industry. Globalization trends have led automakers and their suppliers to operate in developing regions of the world were economies of scale can not always be achieved. Niche markets for the performance/sport cars and …
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Simulation modeling of information flows in decision making processes for design-to-manufacturing strategies
Most successful manufacturing companies were initially formed around a unique or superior product design. As a result of this trend, many companies, especially in high-technology industries, considered design and marketing the company's primary functions. When the United States had superior …
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Manufacturing Strategies for NITE-processed SiC/SiC Ceramic Composite Components in the Liquid Sandwich Vacuum Vessel for Fusion Reactors
… anisotropy present challenges in machining and manufacturing. A literature review explores existing strategies for manufacturing, machining, and joining SiC/SiC components within the nuclear fusion context. A manufacturing plan is proposed for the fabrication and joining of tubular components …
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Strategic cost management in a global supply chain
… integrated to pursuing increasingly outsourced manufacturing strategies, modeling and monitoring the total cost of manufacturing products has become crucial, and complicated. In the context of the automated test equipment industry, this thesis explores the impact of outsourcing on product cost …
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Fabrication Information Modeling (FIM)
This thesis discusses novel strategies to include physical media information at multiple dimensions and relating to diverse disciplines within traditional design tools. Specifically, it addresses challenges that arise when aiming at describing computational and manufacturing strategies for …
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Outsourcing of supply chain processes: evaluating the impact of congruence between outsourcing drivers and competitive priorities on performance
… used to collect data for this study from manufacturing firms operating in the United States. Next, we use structural equation modeling to examine the impact of alignment between individual competitive priorities and related groups of outsourcing drivers. This analysis finds a significant …
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A maturity model for process data analytics in biopharmaceutical manufacturing
… year, which builds up pressure to make their manufacturing processes faster, more consistent, and more productive. Increased digitalization is expected to address these needs by means of new capabilities related to the analysis of the data collected in the manufacturing process (a.k.a. process …
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On Demand Liquid Metal Programming for Composite Property Tuning
… these soft electronic devices, materials and manufacturing strategies are required for these soft, stretchable, and flexible systems. Further, the ability to effectively tune not only these mechanical properties but also their thermal and electrical properties is key to developing …
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Modeling design changes in vehicle assembly systems : platform transition strategies and manufacturing flexibility
… materials in most cases require dedicated manufacturing systems due to specific manufacturing requirements. Thus, lightweight vehicle systems will require a distinct divergence between today's manufacturing environment and the potential future manufacturing system. While many studies have …
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Simulating large deformation processes using an explicit element-free Galerkin method: with applications to material forming
… physical processes used in industry to inform manufacturing strategies. <br/><br/>A forming technique that has benefited from this increased computational power is the stretch blow moulding (SBM) process, which is the primary manufacturing technique used to produce polymer bottles for the water …
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Rapid supply chain strategy simulation development for enhanced cross-functional collaboration in high growth environments
… changes across NIKE's supply chain and manufacturing strategies to better serve the online consumer's ever-increasing service, quality and product offering expectations and to capture the revenue and gross-margin upsides of vertically-integrated retail. Given the ripple effects of this …
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Design and construction of a novel reconfigurable micro manufacturing cell
… A novel architecture for a reconfigurable micro-manufacturing cell (RMC) is presented in this research, aiming at delivering certain manufacturing strategies such as point of use (POU) and cellular manufacturing (CM) as well as several capabilities, including modularity, reconfigurability, …
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Design and manufacturing of a benchtop thermoforming machine
… the testing process, this work focuses on two manufacturing strategies for thermoforming parts: heating the air to the glass transition temperature before thermoforming, and heating the plastic to the glass transition temperature before thermoforming. Once this test was performed, the dimension …
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Photoelectrochemical and photophysical studies of carbon nanotube and molybdenum disulfide based light harvesting devices
… fundamental properties and developing relevant manufacturing strategies will thus pave the road toward high-performance, cost-effective, light-harvesting devices.</p> <p>This thesis has investigated single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) and molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) nanolayers for their …
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An Approach Towards Sustainable Synthesis of MXene and High-Performance Cementitious Composites
… to meet the critical need for sustainable manufacturing and improved mechanical properties in structural materials. Central to this research is the advancement in material science across two key areas: the development of environmentally friendly synthesis methods and the adoption of …
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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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Sustainable Mechanochemical Synthesis and Manufacturing of Metal-Organic Frameworks for Enhanced Hydrogen Storage
… To transition the synthesis and modification strategies from laboratory to industrial scale, a cold sintering-enabled synthetic manufacturing technique was developed for MOFs pelletisation. Initial application of established cold sintering protocols, involving simultaneous pressing and …
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Statistical models and techniques applied to the International Manufacturing Strategy Survey (IMSS) database
… relationships within the international manufacturing strategy survey (IMSS)database and other similar databases. The sample data for the research was taken from thefourth round of the IMSS (2005/06) database, which was the latest available release at thetime when the main report was …