Browsing Theses by Subject "Leaders for Manufacturing Program."
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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 ... -
Analysis of email and phone queuing systems in a world-wide contact center network
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Contact centers are operated by companies to answer customer inquiries via phone calls or email. Customers often equate the service they are provided while interacting with a contact center to the quality of a company's ... -
The application of value stream management principles in a batch production environment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)The need for continuous improvement within a value stream is very necessary in today's business environment and can be one of the key sources of competitive advantage. As a company learns and implements the tools and ... -
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 ... -
Building flexibility in the volatile aftermarket parts : supply chains of the defense aerospace industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Within the Integrated Defense Systems of The Boeing Company, aftermarket support of military aircraft serves as an increasingly large source of revenue. One of the newest contracts between Boeing and the U.S. Government ... -
Cost modeling in the integrated supply chain strategic decision process
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)This thesis is based on an internship at Honeywell Aerospace's Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) Leadership division. This work focuses on the role and use of analytical cost models in the strategy development process. The ... -
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 ... -
The Dell operating model
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Dell, Inc. is well known for its dramatic and continually improving operational performance in terms of unit cost, inventory level, production capacity, and labor efficiency. However, in late 2002, several members of Dell's ... -
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 ... -
Design and analysis of an enterprise metrics system
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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 ... -
Developing a circumstance-based innovation strategy for a midsized aerospace manufacturer : fostering intrapreneurship, opening boundaries, and seeding disruption
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)This thesis derives a seven-stage methodology and presents a case study for developing an actionable innovation strategy for manufacturing firms. The methodology is based around a careful examination of their firm's ... -
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 ... -
Driving a lean transformation using a six sigma improvement process
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Successive transformations within manufacturing have brought great efficiencies to producers and lower costs to consumers. With the advents of interchangeable parts between 1800 and 1850 in small arms manufacturing (Hounshell, ... -
Enabling cultural shifts : an enterprise approach toward lean thinking
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)The Supply Planning Operations team, in a large manufacturing firm, faced a future where their complexity of scope was increasing without an increase in resource levels. As an effort to improve both efficiency and effectively ... -
Enabling manufacturing flexibility issue resolution in advanced vehicle development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Manufacturing Flexibility is a broad term used to describe a metric that can be measured in many different ways. Current industry experts agree that Flexibility is one of the key measures that will help the automotive ... -
Enterprise design for dynamic complexity : architecting & engineering organizations using system & structural dynamics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)As the business world is neither linear nor static, the mastery of its "chaotic" nonlinear dynamics lies at the heart of finding high-leverage policies that return uncommon benefits for marginal costs. Today's global ...
