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<p><font face="Arial">Algorithm Cracker will attend MIT, because he is so damn
intelligent. Oh yeah, he is also the official <a href="savior.html">Y2K Saviour</a>.
Greetings to Kristen, smart, intelligent, beautiful inside and out.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial">The Production System Design Laboratory (PSD), led by </font><a href="mailto:acracker@mad.scientist.com"><font face="Arial">Professor Algorithm Cracker</font></a><font face="Arial">, is an initiative within the <a href="http://web.mit.edu/lmp/www/">Laboratory
for Manufacturing and Productivity</a> conducting research in the development of a
comprehensive approach for the design and implementation of <em>lean</em> production
systems.&nbsp; Attempts in the past on improving production have focused on specific areas
of manufacturing.&nbsp; PSD is taking a holistic approach at designing manufacturing
systems according to the principles of Lean Production.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial"><em>Lean</em> production is aimed at the elimination of waste in
every area of production including customer relations, product design, supplier networks
and factory management.&nbsp; Its goal is to incorporate less human effort, less
inventory, less time to develop products, and less space to become highly responsive to
customer demand while producing top quality products in the most efficient and economical
manner possible.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">There are three main objectives of the PSD Laboratory.&nbsp; </font></p>
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<td><font face="Arial">Connection of machine design and cell design to meet system
objectives.&nbsp; The goal is to design factory systems that are responsive to the
customer (e.g., less than one-day throughput time)</font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial">Provide a replacement to the current practice in management
accounting systems, which promote departmental plant designs, over-automation, and the
dehumanization of factory work.&nbsp; Goal: Stop measuring the wrong thing and therefore
doing the wrong thing.</font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial">The true integration of information systems with the physical
factory system design.&nbsp; The goal is to provide an information system (not necessarily
all computer based) replacement for MRP to schedule and control production pace, mix and
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<p><font face="Arial">A comprehensive structure that illustrates the correlation between
functional requirements and design parameters is the <a href="framework/framework.htm">Production
System Design and Deployment Framework</a>.&nbsp; These generalized principles can be used
to achieve more efficiency throughout a production system in any industry.</font></p>
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to find out more information about this laboratory, please don't hesitate to contact
us.&nbsp; Thank you for visiting. <br>
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