Role of Industrial Engineers in Technology Commercialisation

Conference Paper presented at 5th International Conference of AIMS

Abstract

Industrial Engineering has its primary focus on design of work systems integrating man, machine and material. Industrial engineering department is expected to develop manual elements in man-machine interaction that will make the system productive and the man comfortable. Each time a new technology is to be commercialized by an organization, industrial engineers have to understand the technology first and then assess the human involvement required to come out with design of manual elements required in the production process. The paper is an attempt to examine the existing literature in this area of industrial engineering practice.

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Article on IE

Reclaiming traditional IE responsibilities.
IIE Solutions, September, 1995 by Howell, Walker T.

Down load Value Analysis L D Miles

Download the original lecture by L D Miles on value analysis/ value engineering

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Neglect of Industrial Engineering in Management Literature

As I am going through the book on Management by Koontz, O'Donell and Weihrich, the thought comes to me that they should have covered industrial engineering and tools and techniques in it in many places. Similarly, many management books have not included any reference to industrial engineering. Industrial engineering profession needs to correct this.

Industrial Engineers in McKinsey

McCoy, Faulkner Melissa

E-mail: melissa.mccoy@edi.gatech.edu

Class: ‘89 (BS)

Comments: Upon graduation, I accepted a job with Freudenberg-NOK (a tier I automotive supplier) in GA. I met my husband there. We were then transferred to the corporate headquarters in MI. I then worked for Chrysler Corp. After returning to GA in 1996, I went to work for GA Tech. I have spent most of my career consulting on Mfg. Systems Improvements. After the first of the year I will be joining McKinsey & Company as a Mfg. Specialist based out of Atlanta.

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The complete, untold story of McKinsey & Co.'s founding father
This is the authoritative and insightful account of Marvin Bower, who helped found McKinsey & Co. in 1939 and served as managing director of the firm from 1950 to 1967, and of how Bower, an attorney, took a concept known as industrial engineering and transformed it into what we now know as management consulting. As Dick Cavanagh, now CEO of the Conference Board, said, Bower "didn't just preach values, he practiced them. . . . He was a teacher as well as a leader."

Best Industrial Engineer - Ashok Pandit MD Tata Sponge Iron Ltd.

Mr Ashok Pandit who was appointed Managing Director of Tata Sponge Iron Limited, with effect from 5th January 2001, has to his credit an experience of over 13 years in industrial engineering at Kaiser Steel Corporation USA, 12 years practicing engineering at Tata Steel as well as heading the Tubes Division of Tata Steel, an independent profit center, as Executive in Charge for 7 years.

Having passed his senior cambridge examination from the Doon School/ Cambridge University in 1958, he did his B. Sc. (Hons) in physics from Utkal University, B.Sc. (Engg.) in mechanical engineering from Utkal University. B.S. Mechanical Engineering from University of Washington, Industrial Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, USA and M.A. in Environmental Administration from the University of California, USA.

Closely associated with several executive committees and apex councils of various professional bodies like past Chairman of the India Management Board of the International Tube Association, India, ex-chairman of the Precision Tubes Division of CII, he is presently National President of the Indian Value Engineering Society (INVEST).

He was conferred the RS Murthy National Award in 1985, the Ramaswamy Cup for Best Industrial Engineer in 1987, the HK Firodia Gold Medal in 1991 and the highest honour bestowed by the Indian Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIIE)-the Lillion Gilbreth Award for promotion of the industrial engineering discipline in India and for the introduction of innovative ideas in industrial engineering in 1994. He is the only person to have won all eight professional national awards of IIE and that too within a span of 10 years.