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Charles H. Fine
Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications - 61
Citations - 5586
Charles H. Fine is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supply chain & Flexibility (engineering). The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 59 publications receiving 5409 citations. Previous affiliations of Charles H. Fine include University of Texas at Austin.
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Clockspeed: Winning Industry Control In The Age Of Temporary Advantage
TL;DR: The Genetics of Business: Learning From the Fruit Flies and What Fruit Fl flies Teach Us About Business and the Secret of Life Supply Chain Design.
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Optimal investment in product-flexible manufacturing capacity
Charles H. Fine,Robert M. Freund +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model and an analysis of the cost-flexibility tradeoffs involved in investing in product-flexible manufacturing capacity, which provides a firm with the ability to...
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Manufacturing Strategy: A Methodology and an Illustration
Charles H. Fine,Arnoldo C. Hax +1 more
TL;DR: A methodology for designing manufacturing strategies has been successfully tested in actual manufacturing environments, including the Packard Electric Division of General Motors as discussed by the authors, which is a critical part of the firm's corporate and business strategies, comprising a set of well-coordinated objectives and action programs aimed at securing a longterm, sustainable advantage over competitors.
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Quality Improvement and Learning in Productive Systems
TL;DR: By introducing the idea of a quality-based learning curve, this paper links the previously disjoint literatures of quality control and learning curves to explain why high quality and low costs need not be inconsistent.
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Clockspeed-based strategies for supply chain design1
TL;DR: In this paper, a framework for strategic supply chain design that rests on an assortment of conceptual approaches is discussed. But, the authors do not discuss how to integrate the design of supply chain into the concurrent process of product and manufacturing system design.