Browsing Lean Advancement Initiative by Issue Date
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Acquisition Reform
(1994-06)This report reviews the six most recent major acquisition reform reports, starting in 1949 with the Hoover Commissions and including McNamara's Total Package Procurement, Fitzhugh Commission, the Commission on Government ... -
Manufacturing Change at the John Deere Harvester Works: Report on the Visit of the Ad Hoc Lean Aircraft Initiative Team, June 7, 1994
(1994-11)On June 7, 1994, an Ad Hoc team from LAI visited John Deere to conduct an informal benchmark of John Deere's successful change to Leaner Manufacturing. This report summarizes the results of that trip, as well as summarizing ... -
Summary of Inventory Pilot Project March 1993 - December 1994
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994-12)The Lean Aircraft Initiative began in the summer of 1992 as a “quick look” into the feasibility of applying manufacturing principles that had been pioneered in the automobile industry, most notably the Toyota Production ... -
Toward Lean Hardware/Software System Development: An Evaluation of Selected Complex Electronic System Development Methodologies
(1995-02)The development of electronic hardware and software has become a major component of major DoD systems. This report surveys a wide set of new electronic hardware/software development methods and develops a system to evaluate ... -
The Software Factory: Integrating CASE Technologies to Improve Productivity
(1996-07)This report addresses the use of computer-aided software engineering (CASE) technology for the development of aircraft software. -
Labor Support Survey Summary Report
(1996-10)One of the main cost drivers in the defense aerospace industry is overhead personnel. Traditionally, labor support ratios have been used as an efficiency measure and to control overhead levels. This report outlines the ... -
Preliminary Observations on Program Instability
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996-10-10)This white paper reports emerging findings at the end of Phase I of the Lean Aircraft Initiative in the Policy focus group area. Specifically, it provides details about research on program instability. Its objective is ... -
Preliminary Observations on Program Instability
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996-10-10)This white paper reports emerging findings at the end of Phase I of the Lean Aircraft Initiative in the Policy focus group area. Specifically, it provides details about research on program instability. Its objective is to ... -
Axiomatic Deisgn of Manufacturing Systems
(1996-11)This paper introduces the use of axiomatic design in the design of manufacturing systems. The two primary functional requirements of any manufacturing system are developed. These functional requirements are then used to ... -
Understanding Lean Manufacturing According to Axiomatic Design Principles
(1996-11)In this paper, a sequence of implementation steps will be developed through the application of axiomatic design. This sequence will provide a design methodology for lean production which connects manufacturing system design ... -
Factory Flow Benchmarking Report
(1996-12)LAI benchmarked representative part fabrications and some assembly operations within its member companies of the defense aircraft industry. This paper reports the results of this benchmarking effort. In addition, this ... -
Summary Report: Systematic IPT Integration in Lean Development Programs
(1997-02)This document provides a summary report of the M.I.T. Masters Thesis, "Systematic IPT Integration in Lean Development Programs" by Tyson R. Browning. These studies argue for the inclusion of program integration principles ... -
Implementation Workshop: High Performance Work Organizations
(Masschusetts Institute of Technology, 1997-04)Since the rise of the industrial revolution, there are few challenges that compare in scale and scope with the challenge of implementing lean principles in order to achieve high performance work systems. This report ... -
Implementation Workshop: High Performance Work Organizations
(1997-04)A report on findings from the first Lean Aircraft Initiative (LAI) Implementation Workshop held on February 5-6, 1997. The report is not a "cookbook" or a "how to" manual. Rather, it is a summary of the first phase in a ... -
Implementation Workshop: High Performance Work Organizations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997-04)Since the rise of the industrial revolution, there are few challenges that compare in scale and scope with the challenge of implementing lean principles in order to achieve high performance work systems. This report summarize ... -
Lean Implementation Considerations in Factory Operations of Low Volume/High Complexity Production Systems
(1997-11)The researchers of the Lean Aircraft Initiative developed a hypothesized lean implementation model seeking to provide its members guidance on implementing lean transitions in factory operations of low volume/high complexity ... -
Lean Aircraft Initiative Implementation Workshop: Implementing Cross-Functional Teams in an IPPD Environment
(1998-01)There is an emerging consensus in the Aerospace sector around the importance of Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD). Now nearly every new program is now established around a set of Integrated Product Teams ... -
Benefits of Implementing Lean Practices and the Impact of the Lean Aerospace Initiative in the Defense Aerospace Industry and Government Agencies
(1999-01-31)In the 1980’s, many United States industrial organizations started developing new production processes to improve quality, reduce cost, and better respond to customer needs and the pressures of global competition. This new ... -
Lean Aircraft Initiative Implementation Workshop #3: Customer and Supplier Integration Across the Supply Chain
(1999-02)The integration of customers and suppliers along the supply chain involves a fundamental transformation of the way business is conducted in the Aerospace industry. Lean Aerospace Initiative (LAI) members, as well as ... -
The Lean Value Principle in Military Aerospace Product Development
(1999-07)This document takes a critical look at the first lean principle, Value. The meaning of value is ivestigated in: 1.) general context, 2.) product development context and 3.) the business literature context. Insights about ...
