Industry Projects

 
Project List
(company names bave been suppressed)

 
Company List
(Research and Consulting Projects, Advisory and Director Boards)

 
Web, Internet and On-line Products and Services

A Global Conglomerate: Strategy for entry into new industries. Evaluation of new venture investments in software, web-based and internet projects. Development of a business strategy for venture activity.

Software Company in Learning Management: Advisory board. Product development and positioning, product launch strategy, prototype software development in India.

Call Center and eCRM Solutions Provider: Board of Directors (till 2000), strategic planning.

E-learning Software Company (now aquired): Advisory Board (till 2001).

Hardware and Software Supplier of Virtual Environments for TV Broadcasts: Strategic planning, business plan development and product introduction strategy for a new digital graphics based product for corporate communications.

Supplier of Off-shore IT-enabled Services: Developing off-shore sources for development of software products, web site design and maintenance and content creation, for US companies.

 
Software and Decision Systems Development

Manufacturing Software Company: Design and development of advanced scheduling algorithms for factory scheduling. Development of methods for interfacing MRP and scheduling packages.

Computing Desktop Software Company: Architecture and design of a desktop spreadsheet based modeling package for teaching and education.

Data Mining Software Company: Software development (algorithms, user interfaces), company and product strategy, strategic alliance with an Indian software company.

Shop Floor Data Collection Software Company: Development of factory scheduling systems.

Gas and Electric Utility for a Metro Area: Call management, vehicle routing and assignment of tasks for field service personnel (Turn-on/Shut-off crews).

Enterprise Software Developer: Development of systems architecture, algorithms and package design for an MRP system.

On-site Fleet Services Provider: Development of a PC based van and crew scheduling system implemented at 40 sites.

Office Equipment Company: Design of a system for delivery performance monitoring and evaluation; setting of buffer inventory levels.

Software Products and Services Company: Product positioning and product definition for Demand Chain and Supply Chain management software products.

 
Work Flow and Business Process Analysis

Legal Publishing Company: Operations analysis of editorial and composition operations for legal publishing.

Accounting and Legal Publishing Company: Development of a quality management system for electronic and print publishing, organizational design and conformance quality management; Analysis of the electronic publication process, including process mapping, analysis and diagnosis.

Global Professional Publishing House: Operations and process analysis of several groups and divisions including Code Operations.

Publisher of On-line Technical and Legal Databases: Capacity planning and staffing to meet response time targets, work flow analysis and design.

National Business Services Provider: Evaluation of work flow management and scheduling systems for a non-manufacturing (document processing) environment.

 
Business and Industrial Marketing

Manufacturing Software Developer: Marketing strategy for state-of-the-art scheduling and factory management systems.

Automotive Engine Manufacturer: Segmentation and strategy in markets for truck engines.

Agricultural Equipment Manufacturer: Development of a strategy for marketing new production technologies; Analysis of spare parts pricing.

 
Organizational Design and Development

Agricultural Equipment Manufacturer: Total reorganization of national sales force.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority: Organizational analysis and design. Development of new organizational structure for the Regional Transportation Planning Division.

Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency: Organizational assessment and design. New matrix organizational structure combining functional-expertise departments and project-process aligned teams. Development of team chartering process.

On-line (Electronic) Publisher: Planning and organizational design of work groups for production of on-line legal data-base services.

Legal Publisher: Analysis of operations and organization. Development of a new organizational structure based on work teams.

Marketing Division of an Office Equipment Provider: Development of a management development program in systems and new technologies for senior marketing managers.

 
Costing, Financial Analysis and Project Selection

Latin American Technology Consulting Firm: Cash flow analysis, computer modeling, economic and socio-economic impact analysis for a steel plant in Peru.

City Hospital: Development of a functional budget preparatory to creating a program budget; development of cost allocation methods.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority: Project portfolio selection, scenario analysis, funding options analysis for a multi-billion dollar project.

Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency: Development of functional specifications for a project chartering system.

Corporate IT Group for a Global Technical Publisher: Development of a field based method for information system design and evaluation.

Office Equipment Manufacturer: Research projects on justification of new technology; design of automated manufacturing systems; costing in automated factories.

 
Supply Chains, Logistics and Distribution

Global Medical Equipment Manufacturer: Capacity strategy for lead time reduction and surge handling in high volume plastic parts production; integration of production and distribution strategy.

Large Indian Conglomerate: Strategy development workshop for process industries (Cement, Aluminum, Carbon Black, Fertilizer); Strategy development seminars for all senior managers across all group sectors.

Household Products Manufacturer: Analysis of the national production and distribution network for liquid soap and cleaner products.

Laboratory Equipment Manufacturer: Interface between sales/marketing, inventory management and production planning in small batch chemical process industry.

Consumer Products Manufacturer: Distribution center and warehouse location strategies, stocking and transportation policy, for nation wide distribution system.

Computer Manufacturer: Analysis of multi-plant production planning system. Integration of MRP with pull techniques; analysis of release policy interactions between plants; buffer placement and planning under uncertainty.

Agricultural Chemicals Manufacturer: Analysis of manufacturing and distribution (logistics) systems. Development of operational strategies to improve working capital requirements, asset management and return on assets.

Medical Equipment Manufacturer: Japanese division - Inventory management, forecasting and planning, international sourcing issues.

Global Distributor of Industrial Equipment: Design of distribution systems, inventory management and transportation policies for US wide parts distribution system.

Office Equipment Manufacturer: Determination of delivery policy for a JIT parts delivery system.

 
Plant Design, Automation and Equipment Choice

Factory Automation and CIM Consultant: Development of CIM product strategy and architecture; application software architecture for a work cell controller; design and evaluation of CIM systems for automotive plants.

Car Manufacturer: Development of a CIM analysis for material control in a metal and plastic parts manufacturing plant; design for a quality management system in a radio assembly plant; design of CIM systems for an automated instrument cluster assembly facility.

Automotive Parts Manufacturer: Warehouse design, equipment choice and operating policies for an automotive parts supply facility.

Manufacturer of Packaging Equipment: Economic evaluation and capacity choice for a parts machining cell.

 
Production Planning and Scheduling

Office and Consumer Equipment Manufacturer: Research projects on batching to control lead times and design of cells; development of hybrid Kanban/MRP control scheme.

Car Manufacturer: Test of a prototype scheduling system (CLASS) at a fully automated "lights-out" manufacturing plant. Evaluation of results done by the Advanced Engineering Systems Group showed that CLASS significantly outperformed all other competitors.

Machine Tool Manufacturer: Evaluation of scheduling methods for job shops and cells.

Software and Systems Supplier and a National Metals Industry Consortium: Evaluation and assessment of scheduling systems for a process environment; evaluation of planning and control architecture.

Steel Company: Assessment of MRP II suitability for steel process environment.

Laboratory Electronic Equipment Manufacturer: Development of a hybrid MRP/Kanban system for a PCB operation.

Automotive and Building Products Manufacturer: Design of a dynamic Kanban system for plant control. The system has worked successfully for 15 years.

Automotive Parts Manufacturer: Evaluation of scheduling systems and integration with MRP.

Manufacturer of Heat Sinks for Electronic Equipment: Implementation of pull control; review of manufacturing plans, layouts.

Manufacturer of Industrial Sensors: Planning, order tracking and material flow in a make-to-order shop. Productivity and lead time analysis.