Knol Handbook of Industrial Engineering (Year 2010 Version)

New Edition: Knol Online Handbook of Industrial Engineering - 2019  

Dr. K.V.S.S. Narayana Rao, Professor (Retired) National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai, India.

Industrial Engineering has three components:
Systems Efficiency Engineering, 

Machine Effort & Human Effort Industrial Engineering

Systems Design, Installation and Improvement Management. Articles describing various methods and techniques under each component are included in this handbook

Introduction to Industrial Engineering

Industrial Engineering

Focus of Industrial Engineering

THE PURPOSE AND EVOLUTION OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

Fundamentals of Industrial Engineering

The Component Areas of Industrial Engineering

   

Human Effort Engineering

Systems Efficiency Engineering - A Focus Area of Industrial Engineeering

Industrial Engineering and Systems Design

Human Effort Engineering - Methods, Techniques and Related Issues 

Work Station Design - An Activity of Human Effort Engineering 

Principles of Motion Economy

Motion Study - Human Effort Engineering

Motion Study - Operation Analysis - Questions

Ergonomics - Introduction

Man Machine Interface Devices - Design and Use - Industrial Engineering

Biomechanics in Industrial Engineering Curriculum

Safety Aspect of Human Effort Engineering - A Manual to Support

Safety Gloves

Human Effort - Nature and Effects

The Concept of Human Effort Engineering: HR Dimension

Systems Efficiency Engineering - Methods, Techniques and Related Issues 

Efficiency: A Focus Area of Industrial Engineering - Jesse Brogan

Method Study

Process Analysis - Questions/Check List

Installing Proposed Methods

5S System - Work Place Design (Industrial Engineering)

Fact Gathering for Office System Efficiency Engineering Studies

Value Engineering - Introduction

Statistical Quality Control – Industrial Engineering

Operations Research - An Efficiency Improvement Tool for Industrial Engineers

Engineering Economics is an Efficiency Improvement Tool for Industrial Engineers

Systems Design, Installation and Improvement Management

Methods, Techniques and Related Issues 

Engineering Economy or Engineering Economics: Economic Decision Making by Engineers 

Productivity Measurement

Systems Engineering - INCOSE View 

System Engineering Process and Its Management 

Pioneers and Expert Practitioners of Industrial Engineering

Frank B. Gilbreth: Some of His Industrial Engineering Achievements

Harrington Emerson - A Pioneer Industrial Engineer

Henry Laurence Gantt (1861-1919) - Industrial Engineer 

Shigeo Shingo - The Japanese Industrial Engineer

Industrial Engineering and Scientific Management in Japan

Organizing Industrial Engineering Department

Management and Industrial Engineer

Organizing for Industrial Engineering: Historical Evolution of Thinking

The Role and Career of the Industrial Engineer

A New Charter for Industrial Engineers

Industrial Engineering and Other Departments and Disciplines

Ergonomist - Is He an Industrial Engineer 

Management and Industrial Engineer

The Concept of Human Effort Engineering: HR Dimension

Industrial Engineering Programs

Industrial Engineering - Proposed Curriculum 

Good Industrial Engineering Programs

Teaching Industrial Engineering

The First Industrial Engineering Program in the World at The Pennsylvania State University

Articles, Books, Bulletin Boards, Course Pages

Article Series Directory – Management – Industrial Engineering

Industrial Engineering Course Pages  Knol 1713 to be added

Industrial EngineeringTechniques - Articles, Books, Courses

Maynard's Industrial Engineering Handbook - Book Information and Review Articles

Innovations in Industrial Engineering

SMED - Single Minute Exchange of Dies - An Industrial Engineering Innovation

5S System - Work Place Design (Industrial Engineering)

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Additional Materials

Articles

MOTION STUDY, W. Monroe Keyserling, Ph.D., Professor, Industrial and Operations Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

http://ioe.engin.umich.edu/ioe567/motion.pdf

Therbligs: The Keys to Simplifying Work, DAVID FERGUSON, CSP

http://homepage.mac.com/allanmcnyc/textpdfs/Therblgs.pdf

Lean Production and Basic Industrial Engineerg, Michel Baudin, Takt Times, Vol.2, September 1999, Pp.1-2

http://www.mmt-inst.com/takttimes9-99.pdf

QFD to Direct Value Engineering in the Design of a Brake System, 2002

http://www.mazur.net/works/qfd_ve_brake.pdf

Case Studies

A 36-Hospital Time and Motion Study: How Do Medical-Surgical Nurses Spend Their Time?

http://xnet.kp.org/permanentejournal/sum08/time-study.html

Electronics Manufacturing Company Hand Assembly Productivity Improvement, Journal of Industrial Technology, Volume 15, Number 1 - November 1998 to January 1999

http://atmae.org/jit/Articles/bail1198.pdf

MTM-UAS Analysis in Switch Assembly Line

Chapter 1,  Chapter 3

WORK MEASUREMENT FOR ESTIMATING FOOD PREPARATION TIME OF A BIOREGENERATIVE DIET, 2003

http://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/9237/1/TR001359.pdf

Research Papers

 Links updated on 5 May 2019

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