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Showing 1 to 20 of 299 for “"mass production"”.
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Career Education: A Third Grade Mass Production Project
1 PDF file (110 pages)
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Paradigm shift--from mass production to mass customization
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1991.
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Manufacturing and design of low cost stackable drawer for mass production
This thesis explores a next generation storage unit design for warehouses that increases stiffness, decreases assembly time, maintains or improves gross cubic utilization (GCU) - the amount of total available space that is actually utilized by product within the unit-while minimizing costs related …
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Tropical Technology and Mass Production: The Expansion of Cuban Sugarmills, 1899-1929
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1991.
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Fashion's Influence on Garment Mass Production: Knowledge, Commodities and the Capture of Value
… force over the configuration of garment production industries. Yet through fashion, garments as commodities are complexly embedded in social and cultural processes and in the specificities of place. Although the structures of the global garment production industries have been the subject …
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The indirect architect : linking design services and mass-production to improve workforce housing
… and a narrow impact on this building type. As mass-production increasingly becomes a viable means of developing budget housing, and as companies seek to market these building products, architects stand to grow their role within the design field. This thesis is supported by a literature review, …
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The design and manufacture of mass production equipment for a pencil with a seed
Autosprout is the mass manufacturing equipment envisioned to produce Sprout, a pencil with a seed. This pencil concept was developed by MIT students a successful round of funding and first production run through Kickstarter. The goals for Autosprout are to fully automate the manufacturing process, …
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Beyond mass production--flexible production systems and manufacturing performance in thw world auto industry
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1991.
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Factory and Material Flow Design for Mass Production of an Advanced Process Control Educational Device
… FrED development was to build a FrED factory for mass production in order to provide the physical kits for both offline and online classes. This thesis proposed a factory design based on collected user needs, which included office and production area to effectively support mass production. …
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Development of a tool management system for use in a mass production metal working facility
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1993, and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1993.
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Industry's master machine : factory planning and design in the age of mass production, 1900 to 1930
Thesis (Ph.D)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1987.
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The Responsibilities of the Architect: Mass Production and Modernism in the Work of Marco Zanuso 1936-1972
… an architecture in which the serial nature of mass production would be explicit. The first chapter, whose topic is Zanuso's relationship to Italian modern architecture between the two World Wars, relates his embrace of mass-production around 1946, in essays on prefabricated architecture, to his …
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Mass production readiness of a hardware start-up : assessing and improving product designs for manufacturing and assembly
… of the challenges faced by a start-up during its production scale-up phase. It does so by presenting three case studies and emphasizing upon the importance of design for manufacturing and assembly, 3D printing and knowledge of existing solutions before solving a problem.
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Synthesis of dual offset Gregorian reflector antennas with very low cross polarization under practical constraints for mass production
… manufacturing constraints for large scale production are imposed on low-cost dual offset Gregorian reflector antennas. In particular, a design for adequate clearance between the bottom of the main reflector and feed axis is addressed. These constraints are not taken into account by other …
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Exploration of large scale manufacturing of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microfluidic devices
… Casting PDMS parts is found to be the best mass production process after evaluating several different production methods. Automation of the manufacturing process is introduced as a solution to the need for mass production. Changing variables within the production process and its effects are …
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Application of Equilibrium-based PAH Adsorption to Modelling Graphene Synthesis in a Microwave-Assisted Plasma Reactor
… of graphene is impeded by issues in graphene mass production. Recently, a potential production method that uses a microwave-assisted plasma reactor to produce graphene has been developed, and this method might make mass production of graphene possible. To aid in development of this new method, …
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Automation of soft lithography
… a continuous reel-to-reel design, ideal for mass production, as well as printing-side-up design in order to minimize the distortion of relief features of PDMS stamp. The machine we created not only demonstrated the manufacturability of microcontact printing, our initial project goal, but also …
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Industrial culture and the challenge of English capitalism: Perceptions of economic change in the British engineering press, 1885-1925
… examines the British response to the rise of mass production industries beginning in the late 19th century. It challenges the frequent complaint that British entrepreneurs in this period were not alive to the possibilities of monopolistic capitalism until after American and German …
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