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Industrial Engineering of Systems - System Industrial Engineering



First published in this blog. Saturday, September 22, 2012

Industrial Engineering of Systems - System Industrial Engineering

Industrial engineers work on functional designs created by various engineers and managers and make them more efficient by improving resource use efficiency. Industrial engineers are to be associated with systems design or engineering process to make systems more efficient right from the first design stage. Presentation at a Global Conference on the topic (made in 2010 in Tokyo) is included in the article.


Author: Narayana Rao

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Have you industrial engineered your systems?

 The Toyota man,  Ohno said industrial engineering is profit engineering. If you have not industrial engineered your systems, you are leaving potential profit on the table. Industrial engineering is a set of techniques to evaluate your systems' functional designs for efficiency. Wherever there is scope, IE will improve the system's efficiency. What is efficiency? Efficiency or productivity is output/input. A functionally designed system is expected to achieve certain output. Actually the system is designed for a specific installed capacity. Industrial engineers work on this functional design and reduce resource input.

 

What is Industrial Engineering? 

"Industrial Engineering is Human Effort Engineering and System Efficiency Engineering. It is an engineering discipline that deals with the design of human effort and system efficiency in all occupations: agricultural, manufacturing and service. The objectives of Industrial Engineering are optimization of productivity of work-systems and occupational comfort, health, safety and income of persons involved."

Industrial engineers make special efforts to confirm that no quality deterioration takes due to increasing output from machine-man combinations. They demonstrate that same quality is produced after increase in productivity and reduction in cost of production and product. 

The definition emphasizes human effort engineering and system efficiency engineering. 

What are techniques of Industrial Engineering?

 

Human Effort Industrial Engineering - Techniques

 

1. Principles of Motion Economy

2. Motion Study

3. Workstation Design

4. Application of Ergonomics and Biomechanics

5. Fatigue Studies

6. Productivity/Safety/Comfort Device Design

7. Standardization of  Methods

8. Operator training

9. Incentive Systems

10. Job Evaluation

11. Learning effect capture

 

 

System (Engineering) Efficiency Improvement Techniques of Industrial Engineering 

 

1. Process Productivity Analysis - Machine Work Study - Human Work Study

2. Operation Analysis 

3. Time study for Process Cost Reduction

4. Value engineering

5. Statistical quality control

6. Statistical inventory control and ABC Classification Based Inventory Systems

7. Six sigma

8. Operations research

9. Variety reduction

10. Standardization

11. Incentive schemes

12. Waste reduction or elimination

13. Activity based management

14. Business process improvement

15. Fatigue analysis and reduction

16. Industrial Engineering Economy Analysis

17. Learning effect capture and continuous improvement (Kaizen, Quality circles and suggestion schemes)

18. Standard costing

19. 5S

20. SMED

21. IoT Implementation

22. Digital Twin Implementation

23. Automation - Autonomation

24. Seven Wastes Model

 

 

References

 

Industrial Engineering - Knols of Narayana Rao K V S S

 

 

I made presentation on the topic in the GloGift 2010 conference organized at the Keio University, Yokohama City, Tokyo. The presentation is given below (new version is to be added).

 



 Industrial Engineering of Systems

 

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