Browsing Theses by Subject "Engineering Systems Division."
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An abridged enterprise assessment model to promote consistent reassessment : model development, assessment process and results analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Enterprise assessment is increasingly important, both as a cross-time and cross-industry measurement and as a guiding force in enterprise transformation. Assessments provide crucial information about strengths, areas for ... -
Accelerating time-to-market in the global electronics industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)In today's electronics industry, fast time-to-market (TTM) and time-to-profit (TTP) is key to customer satisfaction and firm competitiveness. Optimizing the product development and new product introduction (NPI) process ... -
Accelerating value capture of SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) system : governance model and process
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Raytheon produces a diverse range of defense products using a wide range of business systems and tools that are not currently integrated. To achieve the corporate vision of "one company", in 2005, Raytheon began to deploy ... -
Adapting the Lean Enterprise Self Assessment Tool for health care
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)The Lean Enterprise Self Assessment Tool (LESAT) is a product of the Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This tool has been applied by many organizations to gage their progress ... -
Applying an enterprise architecting framework to design enterprise sales and operations planning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Raytheon Company, a leader in aerospace and defense, has experienced tremendous growth through mergers and acquisitions. In particular, the company's Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) business unit was largely formed through ... -
Applying enterprise architecting to the business acquisition process
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Background: Since the 1980s, the pace and dollar value of acquisitions in the US have grown at an astounding rate (Hitt, Sirower). The benefits from many of these acquisitions are elusive, with 60% of recent acquisitions ... -
Applying lean enterprise principles to optimize delivery of customer service
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Many companies have realized significant value through the application of lean principles to manufacturing and supply chain operations. Dell Inc. in particular garnered international fame for its ability to manufacture and ... -
Architecting the Future Enterprise : a framework for supporting decision making in the selection of future states
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Enterprises that are successful over the long term are compelled to continuously transform in order to adapt to new contexts or economic environments. However, many of these transformation efforts fail to achieve their ... -
A case study : creating momentum and self-sustaining change in product development through continuous improvement efforts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Traditionally, in Raytheon's Integrated Defense System Product Development Engineering Group, lean initiatives have not been fully adopted. Though the lean tools are useful, the engineering group is looking for more effective ... -
Commonality in complex product families : implications of divergence and lifecycle offsets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Commonality, or the sharing of components, processes, technologies, interfaces and/or infrastructure across a product family, represents one of many potential tools for increasing corporate profitability. Industrial interest ... -
Corporate decision analysis : an engineering approach
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)We explore corporate decisions and their solutions under uncertainty using engineering methods. Corporate decisions tend to be complex; they are interdisciplinary and defy programmable solutions. To address these challenges, ... -
A cost model for testing unmanned and autonomous systems of systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)The evolutionary nature of Unmanned and Autonomous Systems of Systems (UASoS) acquisition needs to be matched by equally evolutionary test capabilities in the future. There is currently no standard method to determine what ... -
Creating high performance enterprises
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)How do enterprises successfully conceive, design, deliver, and operate large-scale, engineered systems? These large-scale projects often involve high complexity, significant technical challenges, a large number of diverse ... -
Cycle time reduction through wafer starts control
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Intel's Fab 17, located in Hudson, Massachusetts, has experienced dramatic improvements in its cycle time performance in the last two years. These improvements have been attributed to lean implementation efforts, reduced ... -
Demand allocation strategies in the seasonal retail industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Amazon.com is a publicly-held company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It revolutionized the retail industry by being one of the first major companies to sell goods over the Internet. It is an international company ... -
Designing and implementing auxiliary operational processes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Amazon.com, one of the largest and most profitable online retailers, has been experiencing such dramatic growth rates that it must continually update and modify its fulfillment process in order to meet customer demand for ... -
Designing the lean enterprise performance measurement system
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)The research contained in this thesis explores design attributes of the enterprise performance measurement system required for the transformation to the lean enterprise and its management. Arguments are made from the ... -
Development of a global facility location analysis tool
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)With an economy and customer base that is global, companies are increasingly expanding outside their home country's borders. Many times this is done to take advantage of lower labor or material rates, to increase proximity ... -
Disciplined agility for process control & automation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Process automation vendors must consider agility as a basis to gain a competitive edge in innovation. Process Automation systems can impact the operating cost of manufacturing equipment, the safe control of large quantities ... -
The dynamics of circular migration in Southern Europe
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)During economic crises, governments establish policies that facilitate the creation of jobs, goods and services that make their economies more resilient. Often this requires innovative social programs that match global ...
