INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING. Concerned with the design, improvement, and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, information, equipment, and energy. It draws upon specialized knowledge and skill in the mathematical, physical, and social sciences together with the principles and methods of engineering analysis and design, to specify, predict, and evaluate the results to be obtained from such systems. (Official definition of the Institute of Industrial Engineers.)
http://www.iienet2.org/Details.aspx?id=2584
I recently came across the book - Hospital Industrial Engineerig by Harold Smalley and John Freeman. In this books there is a reference to a book by R.N. Lehrer, The Management of Improvement: Concepts, Organization, and Strategy.
Do we have books dedicated to the design aspect of industrial engineering and installation aspect of industrial engineering?
Friday, May 2, 2008
Friday, December 28, 2007
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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http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dg3h8m78_8hn62zbhn
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.
Download full paper from
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dg3h8m78_8hn62zbhn
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Article on IE
Reclaiming traditional IE responsibilities.
IIE Solutions, September, 1995 by Howell, Walker T.
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
http://minds.wisconsin.edu/bitstream/1793/5652/1/124.pdf
http://minds.wisconsin.edu/bitstream/1793/5652/1/124.pdf
Monday, October 15, 2007
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.
Friday, September 14, 2007
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.
http://www.ces.clemson.edu/ie/people/alumni/alumnibook.htm?alumnibook_mp.htm
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."
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.
http://www.ces.clemson.edu/ie/people/alumni/alumnibook.htm?alumnibook_mp.htm
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."
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