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Vertical integration and the portability of skill sets in high tech industries
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
Some companies use vertical integration to enter higher growth businesses and gain higher margins. Attractive business opportunities often appear just beyond one's stage in a value chain, leading companies to grasp for ...
Cost of quality tradeoffs in manufacturing process and inspection strategy selection
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
In today's highly competitive markets manufacturers must provide high quality products to survive. Manufacturers can achieve higher levels of quality by changing their manufacturing process and/or by product inspection ...
Submarine propulsion shaft life : probabilistic prediction and extension through prevention of water ingress
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Submarine propulsion shafts have demonstrated acceptable reliability performance when inspected and refurbished at least every 6 years. Designers wish to extend the inspection interval to 12 years without sacrificing ...
Microbially influenced corrosion in sour environments
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Microbially influenced corrosion (MIC) is a costly and poorly understood source of corrosion that plagues many modern industrial processes such as oil extraction and transportation. Throughout the years, many possible ...
Methodology for determining electronic transference numbers in molten sulfide melts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Electrolysis of molten copper (I) sulfide (Cu2S) in a sulfide-based electrolyte is being investigated for use as a direct path for copper extraction to replace the conventional process of smelting and electrorefining [1]. ...
Alternative passivation for silicon (100), environmentally benign manufacturing, and cooperative strategy in semiconductor industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
My personal involvement, as a research graduate student, sponsored by Engineering Research Center, a center created by National Science Foundation and Semiconductor Research Corporation demonstrates that, through industrial ...
Synthesis of functionalized few layer graphene via electrochemical expansion
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Single layer graphene is a nearly transparent two-dimensional honeycomb sp2 hybridized carbon lattice, and has received immense attention for its potential application in next-generation electronic devices, composite ...
Ceramic microforming process
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
A forming process for creating MEMS and mesoscale ceramic parts with micron scale features has been developed. This micromolding process takes advantage of clean room compatible techniques to create silicon etchings, which ...
Ab-initio simulation of novel solid electrolytes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
All solid-state batteries may be a solution to some of the problems facing conventional organic electrolytes in Li and Na-ion batteries, but typically conductivities are very low. Reports of fast lithium conduction in Li ...
Mold, flow, and economic considerations in high temperature precision casting
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
Casting high temperature alloys that solidify through a noticeable two phase region, specifically platinum-ruthenium alloys, is a particularly challenging task due to their high melting temperature and this necessitates ...