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Applying a Design for Six Sigma Approach to a Product Development
(2005) Busquets, Pol; Chalmers tekniska högskola / Institutionen för teknikens ekonomi och organisation; Chalmers University of Technology / Department of Technology Management and Economics
The Value of Wireless Communication in Industrial Environments
(2005) Löwbäck, John; Persson, Pontus; Chalmers tekniska högskola / Institutionen för teknikens ekonomi och organisation; Chalmers University of Technology / Department of Technology Management and Economics
Framgångsfaktorer i Semcons kvalitetsutveckling
(2005) Denzler, Linus; Chalmers tekniska högskola / Institutionen för teknikens ekonomi och organisation; Chalmers University of Technology / Department of Technology Management and Economics
Towards Robust Design at Volvo 3P
(2005) Yaghootkar, Kazem; Leelawong, Ronrapee; Chalmers tekniska högskola / Institutionen för teknikens ekonomi och organisation; Chalmers University of Technology / Department of Technology Management and Economics
Change Management and the Phenomenon of Employees Resistance
(2005) Zhang, Beiyi; Chalmers tekniska högskola / Institutionen för teknikens ekonomi och organisation; Chalmers University of Technology / Department of Technology Management and Economics
Integrating DFSS with DMAIC for Product Improvement at Volvo Car Corporation
(2005) Ahmed, Muddasir; Cheng, Liangta; Chalmers tekniska högskola / Institutionen för teknikens ekonomi och organisation; Chalmers University of Technology / Department of Technology Management and Economics
Kvalitetsverktyg i produktionstest
(2005) Wallgren, Sara; Chalmers tekniska högskola / Institutionen för teknikens ekonomi och organisation; Chalmers University of Technology / Department of Technology Management and Economics
Innovation Systems in Honduras, Nicaragua and Bolivia
(2005) Arribasplata, Carol; Jimenez Zuniga, Rolando; Chalmers tekniska högskola / Institutionen för teknikens ekonomi och organisation; Chalmers University of Technology / Department of Technology Management and Economics
Development of Quality Assurance Tool for Manual Assembly
(2005) Glasmästar, Erik; Forsberg, Fredrik; Chalmers tekniska högskola / Institutionen för teknikens ekonomi och organisation; Chalmers University of Technology / Department of Technology Management and Economics
Discrete Event Simulation as a Decision Support Tool in the Early Phases of Improvement Projects at Volvo Car Corporation
(2005) Faget, Patrick; Herrmann, Frank; Chalmers tekniska högskola / Institutionen för teknikens ekonomi och organisation; Chalmers University of Technology / Department of Technology Management and Economics
Improvement and Redesign of a Kanban System by using Six Sigma
(2005) Johansson, Andreas; Thibaut, Manuel; Chalmers tekniska högskola / Institutionen för teknikens ekonomi och organisation; Chalmers University of Technology / Department of Technology Management and Economics
Transnational Collaboration for Learning and Knowledge Sharing
(2005) Decker, Benoit; Chalmers tekniska högskola / Institutionen för teknikens ekonomi och organisation; Chalmers University of Technology / Department of Technology Management and Economics
Durability Prediction
(2005) Lewén, Theodor; Sari, Tolga; Chalmers tekniska högskola / Institutionen för teknikens ekonomi och organisation; Chalmers University of Technology / Department of Technology Management and Economics
Alternative solutions for terminal traffic: A study of short distance transports in Schenker DB Logistics Swedish network
(2006) Sterky, Patrik; Norell, Marcus; Chalmers tekniska högskola / Institutionen för teknikens ekonomi och organisation; Chalmers University of Technology / Department of Technology Management and Economics
This research project presents an investigation of different alternatives for producing transportation services for terminal-to-terminal goods on relations shorter than 200 kilometres in Schenker DB Logistics network in Sweden. To be successful in today s transport market, a company must be cost efficient, have high reliability and good customer service. The company can become more successful in the competitive freight transport market by searching for alternatives to decrease costs, increase flexibility, better utilise unused resources and find other alternatives to how transportation services can be produced. The main purpose of this thesis is to investigate alternatives for producing the terminal to terminal transportation services. How can Schenker utilise unused resources to lower the costs and how will this affect the efficiency and flexibility in the system? Would usage of distribution trucks in terminal-to-terminal traffic be efficient? The research methodology applied can be described as a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. The research approach is inductive as inspiration of the presented alternatives originates from the conducted primary and secondary data collection through written materials and structured interviews with experts within the organisation. The work has been divided in to two parts. First, a weight criteria method has been used to evaluate future transport alternatives. The second part investigates the usage of distribution trucks as an alternative to line haul trucks. The relations investigated are between Göteborg, Borås and Vänersborg. The main conclusion from the results of the multi criteria analysis reveals that making more use of the distribution trucks for transporting terminal-to-terminal goods during night-time best fulfils the criteria set up in the used analysis model. The results of the conducted study indicate that using distribution trucks in terminal-toterminal traffic will cost the same as using line haul trucks, but the capacity is slightly lower. Distribution trucks can serve as an ad hoc solution when there is a capacity problem picking up all the part loads and the terminal goods for the haulier. A distribution truck can that day be used to transport the terminal-to-terminal goods and by doing so save capacity for the line haul truck, which can concentrate on the part loads. Increased usage of swap bodies and city trailers would create more flexible vehicle combinations. Better flexibility can be used to increase the total efficiency in the transport network. Offering help with making better cargo units at the terminal for the truck driver will probably not result in decreased overall cost. Technical loading is mainly suited for a homogenous freight flow, which Schenker doesn t have. It would therefore not help Schenker to decrease costs associated with the loading and unloading process.
Innovation and Market Analysis of INGENASA
(2006) Palma, Marco; Jing, Qiu; Chalmers tekniska högskola / Institutionen för teknikens ekonomi och organisation
The purpose of this master thesis project is to identify the intangible resources needed by the biotechnology firm INGENASA to design technological innovations and markets. For this purpose, a theoretical method has been set-up to gather and analyse the information needed to obtain a good overall picture of key aspects of the knowledge based process in this company. Our analysis indicates that the most critical intangible resource in the innovative process is the company knowledge in the scientific and technical field (e.g. knowhow, experience and capabilities in different areas of science). Due the specialised nature of its business, the human capital is one of the most important intangible resource of INGENASA and the key drivers of the innovative process. Therefore, the success of INGENASA is highly depended on its ability to retain and attract qualified scientific and technical personnel. The development of future innovations will be depended on how well the company can manage to create marginal improvement of customer utility (e.g. reliability) by controlling certain parameters of its products such as their technical performance (e.g. specificity, sensitivity, etc), for example, by implementing and applying cutting-edge technologies (e.g. RT-PCR and phage display) and know-how. It will be important to continue creating customer utility of flexibility and efficiency through technical accessibility provided by INGENASA’s technical support. The analysis indicates that the most important intangible resources needed in its current market are its brands, patents and contractual agreements with different parties. (e.g. clients, distributors and R&D partners). Also, INGENASA generates structural control based on three intellectual building blocks. The first building block is based on the biotechnical control consisting in patents to claim the key components (e.g. antigens), and their applications in veterinary diagnostic and disease preventions and contractual agreements with employees and R&D partners. The second building blocks is based on trademarks and trademarks rights used to communicate the value experience (e.g. reliability) to the customers and to claim its specific connection to the company. The third intellectual building block is based on commercial agreement with clients (e.g. food and animal firms, and govermental laboratories) and distributors in the diagnostic field to extract financial value from the invention and value proposition. Our analysis indicates that there is a great window of opportunities for INGENASA in China due the high economical losses in the animal industry, specially in the swine industry, caused by infectious diseases. For example, until now there is not any advanced diagnostic product for porcine rotavirus in this market. When approaching this market, INGENASA can plan to acquire intellectual property rights such as patent rights concerned with antigens, method patents, or design patents to establish a defensive wall for business in China. For the long time development in China, it is necessary for INGENASA to acquire trademark rights and establish brand reputation in this market, which requires this company to get to know trademark system, the culture and customers. Secrecy protection is also of importance in this approaching process. When being infringed, firstly INGENASA can ask for administrative remedy that has become one important feature of Chinese system. In this approaching process INGENASA desires to take use of low labour cost combined with advanced technology to gain competitive edge. There are several entry models that INGENASA can choose such as exporting, licensing, establishing venture or purchasing venture. The analysis indicates that the appropriate entry models for INGENASA at the present stage are license or joint venture. In the way of license or joint venture INGENASA is able to cooperate with Chinese partners by contributing advanced technology to gain low cost labour, marketing network and other valuable local resources. How to balance the relationship with cooperative partner, establish structural control by keeping the leadership in technology, holding intellectual property rights all the time and designing contractual obligations are of significance for business in this market. By getting to know various customers and implementing effective marketing strategies INGENASA is capable to establish brand recognition in this market for long-time development. Being aware of some difficulties, INGENASA needs to pay attention to intellectual capital management and protection as well as other issues, for example, importance of connection and culture differences. In general, intellectual property rights, proper entry model, desirable cooperation partner, designed contractual relationship and customer strategies may enable INGENASA to become a successful actor in this huge market with great potential.
Quality Improvements in a Leading Eye Care Company - Learning from Six Sigma?
(2006) Sennerdal, Ola; Chalmers tekniska högskola / Institutionen för teknikens ekonomi och organisation; Chalmers University of Technology / Department of Technology Management and Economics
The Cataract Operations area in a leading eye care company is facing problems with decreasing the defects per unit for the manufacturing of its surgical instruments. The company s current methodology of solving problems and decreasing the number of defects (Six Step Problem Solving Process) is in need of improvements. The main purpose of this thesis is to investigate if the methodology of Six Sigma and/or Design for Six Sigma can reveal improvements for the current problem solving procedure at a leading company in eye care products. To carry out this thesis and fulfil its purpose, a case study and a theory study have been conducted. The practical part of the methodology consists of taking on one of the biggest mechanical problems in this Cataract Operations area at a leading eye care company and trying to solve it with the company s procedure. The theoretical part is made up by a literature review of Six Sigma and Design for Six Sigma. Using Six Sigma as a model, improvement potentials for the Six Step Problem Solving Process could be found and suggested improvements could be given. The results explain that the Six Step Problem Solving Process used at the Cataract Operations area misses parts of the framework and methodology that the strategy of Six Sigma strives for. Training, the measurement system, and supplier and employee involvement for this process can be improved. The methodology steps and the associated toolbox used to solve problems also need advancements necessary to solve various types of problems. These improvement potentials can be realized with the help of Six Sigma. Four different suggestions of how to implement these improvement potentials for the Six Step Problem Solving Process are given.
Fostering growth at Informatics Strategic Advisors
(2007) Hallberg, John; Chalmers tekniska högskola / Institutionen för teknikens ekonomi och organisation; Chalmers University of Technology / Department of Technology Management and Economics
Foreign construction companies developing supplier relations
(2007) König, Sabine; Chalmers tekniska högskola / Institutionen för teknikens ekonomi och organisation; Chalmers University of Technology / Department of Technology Management and Economics
Critical Aspects when Implementing Pull Flow Systems -A Study at Renault Spare Parts and accessories
(2007) Lind, Anna; Chalmers tekniska högskola / Institutionen för teknikens ekonomi och organisation; Chalmers University of Technology / Department of Technology Management and Economics
Purchasing strategy methodology
(2007) Sebban, Nicolas; Chalmers tekniska högskola / Institutionen för teknikens ekonomi och organisation; Chalmers University of Technology / Department of Technology Management and Economics

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