Group 3 Research
Activities
Group
3 is actively engaged in numerous research projects with
both interns and Ph.D. students. From this page you can
access summaries of current research projects.
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Student |
Primary Company |
Notes |
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18-Apr-97 |
Daniel T.
Crocker |
HP |
Provide a
realistic comparison of the manufacturing costs
of various global manufacturing strategies for
this division of HP. An estimation of the costs
is thus the first step to discussing alternate
strategies. |
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18-Apr-97 |
Robert Moeller |
Ford |
The thesis goals
are to identify a production system's location
along the continuum of production systems and to
propose methods to improve the production
system's positioning within this continuum. |
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18-Apr-97 |
Stephen H. Muir |
Intel |
Opportunity
exists to increase wafer starts capacity without
purchasing additional capital equipment by
optimizing the product loadings across multiple
facilities running the same process technology |
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7-Apr-97 |
Jennifer Felch |
HP |
Developing a
methodology and actual supply chain models for
inventory analysis. One of the most interesting
results of the project is a model that simulates
some of the dynamics of the PC industry and the
resulting effect on customer delivery of a PC
based medical solution. |
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7-Apr-97 |
Steven R. Harman |
Allied Signal |
Help
AlliedSignal Aerospace's Engines Division (AE)
implement lean manufacturing. Includes
participating on Kaizen improvement teams,
developing a rough-cut capacity model for the
Static Components Production Center, and helping
develop and implement a consumption-based (pull)
production system. |
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5-Apr-97 |
Micael Miller |
Kodak |
Design and
implement a production scheduling policy that
minimizes schedule disruption associated with
rerunning products that have experienced low/no
yield. Revamp inventory safety stocking policies
that reflect the statistical variability of the
process and followup testing. |
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7-Mar-97 |
Hari Abhyankar |
Teradyne |
To
create a computationally efficient procedure that
allows the user to determine optimal service
levels for purchased components in the presence
of a budget constraint on the average on hand
inventory. |
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7-Mar-97 |
Jeremie Gallien |
HP |
The
goal of this project is to develop new tools for
analyzing the inventory management of assembly
systems with long stochastic leadtimes and a
large number of components. |
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