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Math in manufacturing: industrial engineer's work is impacting factory design. (Profile of a Winner).(Stanley Gershwin, Institute for Industrial Engineers award)

IIE Solutions, November, 2002

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When researcher Stanley Gershwin set out to study manufacturing systems, he had no idea his work would earn him two of IIE's prestigious awards in the same year. Gershwin won the IIE Transactions Award in design and manufacturing and the Outstanding IIE Publication Award for 2002. The associate director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity, Gershwin develops quantitative models that calculate the performance of a system.

"The goal of my research is to develop the kind of models of factories that are analogous to ...

 

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