Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Productivity and Industrial Engineering News - Bulletin Board

New. Popular E-Book on IE,

Introduction to Modern Industrial Engineering.  FREE Download.

In 0.1% on Academia.edu. 9800+ Downloads so far.

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August - Harrington Emerson Month of Industrial Engineering and Productivity Management.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2024/07/august-harrington-emerson-month-of.html



How Enterprise DevOps Tool MSP Can Help Bring Tools Management Costs Down
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Perceived health and productivity when working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic
Article type: Research Article

Authors: Appel-Meulenbroek, Riannea; * | Voulon, Thijsa | Bergefurt, Lisannea | Arkesteijn, Moniqueb | Hoekstra, Bartelec | Jongens-Van der Schaaf, Pityd

Journal: Work, vol. 76, no. 2, pp. 417-435, 2023

Why the US has A Productivity Problem?
CNBC
26 August 2023

More articles from Work
https://content.iospress.com/articles/work/wor220681

WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation is an interdisciplinary, international journal which publishes high quality peer-reviewed manuscripts covering the entire scope of the occupation of work. The journal's subtitle has been deliberately laid out: The first goal is the prevention of illness, injury, and disability. When this goal is not achievable, the attention focuses on assessment to design client-centered intervention, rehabilitation, treatment, or controls that use scientific evidence to support best practice. 

The Modula Horizontal Carousel storage system to cut costs, increase productivity - #IndustrialEngineering #ProcessChart Analysis

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Labor productivity in the U.S. has been falling. Prior to the data from the most recent quarter, the country had seen five consecutive quarters of year-over-year declines in worker productivity.




I am a happy. Prof. Beth Cudney, Ph.D, Professor of Data Analytics, Maryville University liked my comment. 
"Industrial engineering inputs to the product development process are important. Product industrial engineering makes significant contribution to product development."
on the post: 


Remember F.W. Taylor. Birthday - 20 March 1856.

To be remembered for Productivity Improvement System, Productivity Engineering of Machine Tools, Shop Management, Scientific Management. 


Frederick Taylor's Productivity System for Rapidly Attaining The Maximum Productivity - Part 1

#IndustrialEngineering  #Productivity

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2018/07/frederick-taylors-piece-rate-system.html


Productivity Engineering of Machine Tools and Machining - F.W. Taylor - Part 1

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/05/machine-work-study-machine-tool-metal.html


F.W. Taylor - Shop Management - With Appropriate Sections.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2016/03/fw-taylor-shop-management-with.html


F.W. Taylor Scientific Management - With Appropriate Sections

#FWTaylor

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2016/03/fw-taylor-scientific-management-with.html


Online Free Access Handbook of Industrial Engineering includes all modules of IE Online Course Notes.





Schedule work in small segments of 25 minutes
Pomodore technique of time slots for work

1.7.2023

DECA Manufacturing,  Lexington, OH,  manufactures high-quality wire harnesses and cable assemblies. 

 The company's achieved  significant productivity gain through a Schleuniger machine,  CrimpCenter 36 S fully automatic crimping machine. "We process a substantial amount of sealed wire leads, and the CrimpCenter's throughput is amazing. We have easily increased productivity by 50 to 100%, improved quality and instantly unlocked new abilities, even attracting new customers," said Haring.

The MultiStrip 9480 cut and strip machine, eliminated manual stripping of inner conductors when processing multiconductor cable, increasing efficiency. They are even looking at adding to their Cut & Strip line to serve a niche they have built for processing larger gauge cable.




19.1.2023

Identifying Main Drivers for Productivity
Work Design for Productivity.

Damon Baker Thinks Lean Has a Marketing Problem; the Need to Speak the CEO’s Language
By Mark Graban On Aug 16, 2022
Discussion between Damon Baker and Mark Graban on Lean Danaher Business System

April 2022


Principles of motion economy for human effort industrial engineering. Principles of machine economy for machine effort industrial engineering.

The True Cost of Building a Big Data Solution
December 31st, 2014
https://www.cooladata.com/blog/true-cost


Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Industrial Engineering (ICIE 2020): Volume II

Andrey A. Radionov, Vadim R. Gasiyarov
Springer Nature, 22-Feb-2021 - Technology & Engineering - 1416 pages

This book highlights recent findings in industrial, manufacturing and mechanical engineering, and provides an overview of the state of the art in these fields, mainly in Russia and Eastern Europe. A broad range of topics and issues in modern engineering are discussed, including the dynamics of machines and working processes, friction, wear and lubrication in machines, surface transport and technological machines, manufacturing engineering of industrial facilities, materials engineering, metallurgy, control systems and their industrial applications, industrial mechatronics, automation and robotics. The book gathers selected papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Industrial Engineering (ICIE), held in Sochi, Russia in May 2020. The authors are experts in various fields of engineering, and all papers have been carefully reviewed. Given its scope, the book will be of interest to a wide readership, including mechanical and production engineers, lecturers in engineering disciplines, and engineering graduates.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=_70fEAAAQBAJ


Work-holding solutions from AMT
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Additive Manufacturing Economics - A Critical Piece to the AM Business Case | GE Additive On-Demand
27 Apr 2022

International Conference on Smart Manufacturing and Automation Technology ICSMAT on September 16-17, 2022 in Zurich, Switzerland
Date: September 16-17, 2022
Final Submission: August 16, 2022

Some themes

Decision technologies for smart manufacturing
Equipment diagnosis and predictive maintenance
Equipment productivity improvement
Factory modeling, analysis and performance evaluation
https://conferenceindex.org/event/international-conference-on-smart-manufacturing-and-automation-technology-icsmat-2022-september-zurich-ch

High-pressure tank manufacturing method
Dec 27, 2019 - Toyota
https://patents.justia.com/patent/11312062


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F.W. Taylor Industrial Engineering Week - (14 March - 20 March) - Date of Birth: 20th March, 1856.

Frederick Winslow Taylor - A Pioneer Industrial Engineer. Started the first IE department.
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/04/frederick-winslow-taylor-pioneer.html


Articles Recommended for Reading








Interesting search results
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World Productivity Day  - June 20

https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/world-productivity-day/
#ProductivityDay
#WorldProductivityDay

Special Promotion of Posts

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Techniques of Value Analysis and Engineering by L.D. Miles, Book Information, Review and Summary

278.

Value Analysis and Engineering - Examples by L.D. Miles

279.
Work Simplification Education and Training to All - Principle of Industrial Engineering


280.
Human Effort Industrial Engineering - Design of Human Effort for Increasing Productivity, Comfort, Health and Income


281.
Productivity Science - Determinants of Productivity


282.
Productivity Science of Machining I - Industrial Engineering Research by Taylor Part 1.
For every basic production process we need productivity science.
 

283.

Method and Motion Study in a Printing Company - 2019


284.
Taylor Society Bulletin on Industrial Engineering - Taylor's Way


285.
Warehouse Industrial Engineering - Introduction

288.
Zero Defect Movement and Six Sigma Method - Scalingup of Six Sigma in GE 


289.
THE EIGHTH PRINCIPLE OF EFFICIENCY: STANDARDS AND SCHEDULES - Harrington Emerson


290.
Material Handling Analysis in Methods Efficiency Engineering. Based on Operation Analysis by Maynard and Stegemerten.

291.
Productivity and IE in Tire Manufacturing 

292.
Productivity Improvement in Machine Shop - F.W. Taylor


293.
Supply Chain Efficiency - Supply Chain Waste Elimination - Lean Supply Chain


294.
F.W.Taylor - The Principles of Scientific Management and Industrial Engineering


295.
Productivity Incentives - Principle of Industrial Engineering

296.
Industry 4.0 - IIoT - Productivity Engineering

297.
Hand Tools, Cutting Tools and Machine Accessories for Productivity

298.
Industrial Engineering is Redesign of Products and Processes in Different Technologies for Increasing Productivity.

299.
Pennsylvania State University - Industrial Engineering Programs

TAYLOR'S INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING - PROF. DIEMER. 


Process Improvement - Process Industrial Engineering - Methods and Techniques

















Blog  Industrial Engineering Knowledge Center - Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course.

Reading Performance of Learners of the course Since 1 June 2021.

Target. 50 readers for each of the 300 lessons.


7 Feb 2022

132nd Ranked post - 50 readers

Design Thinking and Industrial Engineering

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/05/design-thinking-and-industrial.html

221st ranked post - 34 readers
Industrial Engineering through Process Mining

297th ranked post - 24 readers

300th Ranked post - 23 readers  
News - Information for Inspection Activities Productivity Improvement. 


Ubiquity of Industrial Engineering Principle of  Industrial Engineering

Illustration: Google's  Engineering Productivity Department - Evolution of the Department through Automation of Testing. Emergence of Software Engineering Productivity Engineer & Specialist. 


My advocacy now is IEs must first concentrate on improving engineering elements and then move into productivity managerial elements and non-engineering areas. Machine work study or machine effort improvement, value engineering and design for manufacturing and assembly are major engineering based IE methods. All are available as existing methods.

2021





Efficiency of Production - Core Machine & supporting equipments, facilities, services and employee’s efforts

The efficiency of production not only depends on sophistication of core machine but also the various 
supporting equipments, facilities, services and employee’s efforts which are located in a plant.

C Gnanavel, R Saravanan, M Chandrasekaran and J J Jayakanth, "Improvement of Productivity in TIG Welding Plant by Equipment Design in Orbit," IOP Conf. Series: Materials Science and Engineering 183 (2017) 012020 doi:10.1088/1757-899X/183/1/012020
International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering Research.


Schneider Electric’s Smart Factory


Schneider Electric’s smart factory used Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity with power meters and predictive analytics to capture more detail on energy consumption (such as precisely when and where it happens in the plant). IoT based data capture and  analysis. Energy use fell by 26 percent, CO₂ emissions by 30 percent, and water use by 20 percent.


Schneider's focus is much more than energy consumption; it’s about reducing any consumption of resources by making everything much more efficient and, at the same time, organizing circularity all over the life cycle of products,. “This occurs within and beyond the factory and organizes the whole chain of services so that everything gets recycled. We apply digital technology all the time to everything we do, and every three years we gain 10 to 12 percent in energy efficiency. But we want to raise the bar as we go forward—and that’s coming from our operational teams on the shop floor.”

How does Schneider Electric use digital technologies? “We believe that everything should be connected on the shop floor,”

The GLN’s 90 manufacturing sites have collectively established themselves as beacons of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, challenging the notion that environmental responsibility is inherently at odds with productivity and, by extension, profitability. They show that companies no longer have to choose between competitiveness and sustainability: smart manufacturing helps them achieve both. In fact, our recent data show that 64 percent of the lighthouses improved their sustainability by reducing consumption, resource waste, and carbon emissions.

For example, confronted with increasingly complex manufacturing processes and insistent demand for high product quality, Contemporary Amperex Technology, in Ningde, China, combined AI, advanced analytics, and edge and cloud computing. Within three years, the company had dramatically reduced its defect rates. It also increased labor productivity by 75 percent while reducing energy consumption by 10 percent a year.

“The most important thing here is that you must have an overall view of the whole carbon footprint, from the mining of the material—the supply material—to the battery manufacturing, the battery usage, and in future, battery recycling, so you can put everything in your mind as a whole system,” said Robin Zeng, founder and chairman of Amperex.

Another company—AU Optronics (AUO)—invested in customized automation at a newly designated lighthouse site in Taichung and built a digital-analytics and AI development platform to improve productivity and cut energy use. “4IR technologies play a leading role in our development of a sustainable environment,” said Paul Peng, AUO’s CEO. “The application, optimization, and use of real-time intelligence-control technology can improve environmental sustainability—it significantly reduces water consumption, electricity consumption, and the usage of raw materials. On average, we find that energy savings of more than 1.5 percent can be achieved every year.”

For executives, it’s crucial that 4IR is about not only the production process but also the entire operating model. In 2020, industry-leading sites used technology within the four walls of a single manufacturing facility. In 2021, companies have been accelerating their efforts on a bigger scale: connecting value chains, using new business models, and creating whole ecosystems with a more acute focus on productivity and environmental sustainability.

For the GLN’s members, lighthouses are the critical scale-up vehicle, serving as a sort of minimum viable product (MVP) for a new company-wide operating system. By connecting ecosystems, lighthouses can unlock new opportunities that build on what they have already achieved. For example, Innolux, which produces consumer-electronics equipment, responded to constantly increasing quality requirements from customers by investing in advanced automation, IoT technology, and advanced analytics at its new lighthouse site, in Kaohsiung. The
transformation improved the company’s process capabilities by 40 percent, reduced its yield losses by 33 percent, and unlocked new production opportunities for niche products.

“Innolux achieves digital transformation through a systematic approach, advancing in three dimensions: automation, data, and intelligent technology. We have also realized worry-free production through smart manufacturing with intensively educated Industry 4.0 talent,” said Jin-Yang Hung, the company’s chairman and CEO. “The imperative, in a manufacturing business of this size, is production at scale. Now, with intelligent data, I think we can also achieve great production for niche products.”

 Protolabs, has its first lighthouse location in Plymouth, Minnesota (United States) “Our mission was to automate traditional manufacturing—to provide molded parts in days, at a fraction of the price of traditional molders,” . The company embarked on a transformation journey that took it from a prototype-only provider to a production supplier by leveraging its digital thread to connect customers to its injection-molding production services. “Over time, we extended this digitization approach to other services, including CNC  machining, sheet-metal fabrication, and 3-D printing.”

What’s next? The company is expanding its internal transformation to include its digital network of premium partners, creating a larger ecosystem of digital manufacturers that “expands our offerings for our customers and broadens how we can serve them,” .

 Western Digital, which has two new lighthouses, in Malaysia and in Thailand. “We have thousands of engineers designing the products of the future, which will enable the digital economy. So making sure we have a workforce that’s ready to build that technology is just critically important to us.”

Another facility that focused on a broad program to up- and reskill its workforce and on investments in digital and analytics was the De’Longhi plant in Treviso, Italy, which makes bean-to-cup automated coffee machines. When it transformed itself from a relatively uncompetitive site into a manufacturing lighthouse, its lead times fell by 82 percent and its labor productivity rose by 33 percent.

The first lighthouse of US-based manufacturer Flex is its site in Althofen, Austria.  Confronted by strong competition from lower-cost regions, the factory raised its quality standards and generated new revenue streams through digital transparency and advanced analytics, both deployed not only on the shop floor but also across the supply chain. This effort raised revenue by 50 percent within the same physical footprint.




Agile Manufacturing: The 21st Century Competitive Strategy

A. Gunasekaran
Elsevier, 25-Jan-2001 - Technology & Engineering - 820 pages

Agile manufacturing is defined as the capability of surviving and prospering in a competitive environment of continuous and unpredictable change by reacting quickly and effectively to changing markets, driven by customer-designed products and services. Critical to successfully accomplishing AM are a few enabling technologies such as the standard for the exchange of products (STEP), concurrent engineering, virtual manufacturing, component-based hierarchical shop floor control system, information and communication infrastructure, etc.

The scope of the book is to present the undergraduate and graduate students, senior managers and researchers in manufacturing systems design and management, industrial engineering and information technology with the conceptual and theoretical basis for the design and implementation of AMS. Also, the book focuses on broad policy directives and plans of agile manufacturing that guide the monitoring and evaluating the manufacturing strategies and their performance. A problem solving approach is taken throughout the book, emphasizing the context of agile manufacturing and the complexities to be addressed.


Interesting Productivity and Industrial Engineering
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Very happy.  1.6K Users in a week.  Google Analytics. for  Industrial Engineering Knowledge Center,   https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com New Users last week was higher than forecast.
We forecast New Users of 372 to 1.28K for Aug 23 – 29, 2021 but your actual New Users of 1.6K is higher than this range.


Productivity Management


Productivity Management - Slides

https://www.slideshare.net/SteveBrauner/managing-productivity

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/00438029810222469/full/html

https://www.pharmaguideline.com/2017/09/total-productivity-management.html

https://ores.su/en/journals/productivity-management/

https://onepetro.org/APIAM/proceedings/API85/All-API85/API-85-E001/51933

https://ideas.repec.org/b/tkp/tkpmon/978-961-6914-05-5.html

https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-productivity-management-assessment/45937

https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Productivity_Management.html?id=0jyOKj8S_iYC



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Toyota Motors - Kaizen Professionals - Highly Skilled Technicians

Kaizen professionals from various divisions at the plant (Kamigo Plant, Toyota Motors) , known as “highly skilled technicians” were brought together to plan and setup the layout for the entire process  from engine assembly to quality inspection prior to shipping. Jigs (auxiliary tools for positioning and fixing components and tools) and tools were also arranged in a way that facilitates line operation.

During the operation,  three highly skilled technicians are stationed on the line to oversee operations and make improvements to any work processes that appear to be causing difficulty.


Highly skilled technicians are required in process planning laboratories and industrial engineering laboratories.

Innovative Manufacturing Approach Reduces Costs and Optimizes Electrification Time to Market (by Comau)

More creativity, effort, and frankly, time are required turn new technologies bought into profitable investments. Industrial Engineers have to lead.

Focusing on technologies that augment workers instead of replace them to maintain social harmony and progress of society with peace and happiness. 
-  Stanford University professor Erik Brynjolfsson.
How to prepare for the AI productivity boom
12 July 2021


Centers to promote technology use profitably


Automation technologies can offer considerable value to organizations, but only if they are implemented strategically, on a large scale, and in support of business goals. They also require the businesses using them to actively monitor performance and make adjustments over time.

Sophisticated users of automation are creating automation centers of excellence (COEs),  a dedicated team of individuals who set standards, provide consulting and development assistance, and monitor the technology’s progress.
Thomas H. Davenport and Gina Schaefer 
May 26, 2021

Industrial engineers have to take active part in automation centers of excellence.


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Smart Paint Circulation System for Smart Manufacturers.
Patvin Engineering Private Limited

Performance Productivity - Harvard Business School faculty
New research on performance productivity from Harvard Business School faculty on issues including the development of internationally comparable firm-level measures of management practices and their impact in productivity, the unacceptable cost of toxic workers, and why gender diversity can improve companies' financial performance.


WORLD SOYBEAN PRODUCTIVITY

2019-2020
Brazil 3333 In Kg. per Hectare
India  800  In Kg. per Hectare 


Insights – Jul 1st, 2021
AI: What it means for Productivity and the Future of Work.- Professor Erik Brynjolfsson 

FORDLIIVE UPTIME SYSTEM DELIVERS PRODUCTIVITY BOOST FOR VAN FLEETS WITH LAUNCH OF FORD TELEMATICS ESSENTIALS
28-JUN-2021 | DUNTON, UK


TF technology reduces scrap rate at MOPS

Scrap rates are down 2%, and productivity is up at MOPS PRESS just a few months after the installation of two new Toggle Free - TF1350 SC high pressure die casting machines from Italpresse Gauss. The new TF machines are helping the business to meet growing demand for larger structural components that require casting consistency and absolute precision.

Digital transformation drives productivity gains alongside industrial automation in many companies across the world.
IRC Industrial/Production Practice Group | 28.06.2021


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Well Appreciated Messages on Linkedin and FaceBook. Promotion for IE

The primary focus of industrial engineering has to be improvement of engineering in processes to increase productivity by harnessing the full current state body of engineering knowledge. Industrial engineering is engineering++.

10. 27 May 2021
Companies require both effectiveness and efficiency focus. Of course learning modules or courses can be different. Every manager has to understand the effectiveness dimension to get a price and efficiency dimension to get profit. - Narayana Rao KVSS
Good response in Whatsapp groups, shared on FB and Twitter

9. 6 May 2021
The  core profession....INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING is concerned with continuous improvement of engineering and related aspects in engineering systems to increase productivity. It is system efficiency engineering and human effort engineering - Narayana Rao. Taylor - Narayana Rao Principles of Industrial Engineering


INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING is  continuous improvement of engineering and related aspects in engineering systems to increase #productivity. It is system efficiency engineering and human effort engineering - Narayana Rao. Principles of Industrial Engineering



8. IE, JIT, and TOC- Common foundation of cost reduction per unit, productivity and profit.

Industrial engineering and lean have a natural connection. IE and TOC also have a common connection. The profit and productivity orientation. Why inventory for every item ordered on the same formula. TOC says inventory before and after a bottleneck have benefit compared to others. Takt time calculations are to support JIT. Do not produce before the need. But Ohno said it seems, it does not matter if you keep inventory where needed. Overall cost reduction is the goal. Problem solving of each production step is the means. Do not accept any engineering problem or managerial problem as permanent. Try and solve it. Waste will get further reduced. Productivity will improve. - #profnrao


7. Transformation through technology introduction first time and continuous improvement of that transformation. Both are needed. Learning has to be continuous after the discontinuous transformation.  28 January 2021 (In response to a comment on https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/introducing-rise-sap-business-transformation-service-christian-klein/ )


6. Industrial Engineering is ENGINEERING First. Industrial engineers can be the first engineers to experiment with new technology that has relevance for the organization. 27 January 2021

5. IE as ENGINEERING for Productivity and Profitability.
I appreciate Alin Posteucă and Shigeyasu Sakamoto
Manufacturing Cost Policy Deployment (MCPD) and Methods Design Concept (MDC)
By Alin Posteuca, Shigeyasu Sakamoto
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=QOjeDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT210#v=onepage&q&f=false

4. Industrial Engineering 4.0
Right Technology. Right Process Design. Right Industrial Engineering.
Industrial Engineering is Productivity Accelerator; Profit enhancer.
Industrial Engineering 4.0 - IE in the Era of Industry 4.0 - Blog Book
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/12/industrial-engineering-40-ie-in-era-of.html


3. Industrial engineers must have the knowledge of engineering methods and technologies applicable for the processes for which they are responsible for productivity and quality improvement.

2. Industrial Engineering is Prosperity Engineering for consumers, employees, producers and society.

For each 100 million dollars cost of production, there can be one MS IE and 6 BSIEs.
Value Creation Model for Industrial Engineering - Productivity Engineering


1. Say YES to Knowledge Based Industrial Engineering. 

Use recent developments in engineering & technologies in process improvement for productivity.

No IGNORANCE Industrial Engineering. 


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Principles of Industrial Engineering

Paper Available Online - Free Download
Proceedings - 2017 Industrial and Systems Engineering Conference
INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERS
https://www.xcdsystem.com/iise/2017_proceedings/papers/2569.pdf

Industrial engineering Principles, Methods Tools and Techniques
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/03/industrial-engineering-principles.html


Industrial Engineering is Redesign of Engineering Systems and Implementation of the Redesigned Engineering System to Realize Increased Productivity and Reduced Unit Cost of Production of Its Output. The Output can be Product or Service. (Narayana Rao, 27 September 2019).

Industrial Engineering Knowledge Revision Plan - One Year Plan


The plans are liked by hundreds of professional industrial engineers in the Linked communities of industrial engineering

January - February - March - April - May - June

July - August - September - October - November - December

Say YES to Knowledge Based Industrial Engineering. 

Use recent developments in engineering & technologies in process improvement for productivity.

No IGNORANCE Industrial Engineering. 


2020 Machine Shop Cost Reduction News

Engineering and Technology News 2019


2021





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Expert and Novice Performance in an Industrial Engineering Virtual World Simulation
John L. Elson II, Universal-Publishers, 22-Feb-2007 - Business & Economics - 244 pages


Free courses on Productivity from APO



Lean and Continuous Improvement 2020: 12 Top Reads in the Past 12 Months




1. When the Toyota Way Meets Industry 4.0
The real message here is: "adopt and adapt technology that supports your people and processes."
Jeffrey Liker
AUG 27, 2020

2. How Can Lean Help in a Crisis?
The first issue is understanding human nature, then coming up with a sensible reaction, and thirdly, learning as we go.
Keep in mind. “safety first, value flow second, cost third”
Lean thinking is about training to solve small crises – problems – daily. When the real tsunami hits, mental habits about reacting and learning from one’s reactions, relationships and coordination reflexes are in place to better deal with outage and its consequences.
Michael Ballé ( Michael Ballé, PhD, is a lean management practitioner, business writer, and author. His most recent book, co-authored with father Freddy Ballé, is Lead With Respect: A Novel of Lean Practice, published by the Lean Enterprise Institute.)
MAR 12, 2020



3. 

The Patois of the Toyota Production System
A guided walk through 8-Step Problem Solving

Phil Ledbetter (Phil Ledbetter worked in production leadership at Toyota Motor Manufacturing – Kentucky for 16 years. He’s the author of The Toyota Template, The Plan for Just-In-Time and Culture Change Beyond Lean Tools. Phil is the principal consultant at The Toyota Template. .)
MAY 11, 2020

Patois is the dialect of a local group that significantly varies from the language of the country.
4 Problems in Process.

1. Deviation from a standard.

2. The standard is met, but a higher standard is now required/desired.

3. Achievement of the standard is inconsistent.

4. No standard exists.



4. Lean Manufacturing in a Digital World

smart technologies enable better decisions, faster. Support operational excellence.  

Jill Jusko
MAR 12, 2020


5. Drive Out Fear - Deming. Fear Can Cause Good People to Do Stupid Things

Don't let it happen. These three steps go a long way toward reducing fear and allowing good people to focus on doing great things.

John Dyer
DEC 17, 2019





https://www.industryweek.com/supply-chain/media-gallery/21141688/top-25-supply-chains-of-2020

https://www.industryweek.com/leadership/article/22024777/top-10-predictions-for-global-manufacturing-in-2018-idc

https://www.industryweek.com/technology-and-iiot/media-gallery/22028670/top-10-technologies-to-watch-in-2020

https://www.industryweek.com/manufacturing-technology-an-industryweek-event/media-gallery/22027228/exposing-the-top-ten-manufacturing-tech-trends-of-the-2020s

https://www.industryweek.com/white-papers/whitepaper/21147534/top-opportunities-to-modernize-your-mobile-inspection-processes

https://www.industryweek.com/technology-and-iiot/article/22028264/scaling-up-your-iiot-innovation

https://www.industryweek.com/operations/article/21123696/2019-iw-best-plants-award-winners-a-salute-to-excellence

https://www.industryweek.com/leadership/media-gallery/21119530/the-year-in-review-industryweeks-top-contributed-stories-in-2019

APR 07, 2020
Expanding, Optimizing Melting for Wheel-Making
Hertwich Engineering is supplying three furnaces to expand aluminum recycling for Otto Fuchs, the automotive forger and ring-roller.
https://www.foundrymag.com/melt-pour/article/21128136/expanding-optimizing-melting-for-wheelmaking-sms




Improving Organizational Performance: The Cube One Framework
It is connected to productivity
Richard E. Kopelman
Routledge, 06-Dec-2019 - Business & Economics - 364 pages
This book presents the Cube One framework, which provides a basis for understanding, diagnosing, and improving organizational performance. It is based on the premise that successful organizations enact practices that satisfy three key constituents: the enterprise itself, customers, and employees. This book offers a uniquely empirical approach by examining enterprise-, customer-, and employee-directed practices. Validity evidence is provided by survey research, studies of financial metrics, and the analysis of cases involving well-known organizations (such as Google, Four Seasons, and Mayo Clinic). The Cube One framework is equally applicable to organizations in the for-profit, nonprofit, and government sectors. After reading this book, students and scholars, as well as organizational practitioners in the fields of organizational behavior and management, will find a practical approach to improving organizational performance.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=LtzBDwAAQBAJ


Explaining Productivity Differences: Comparative Analysis of Automotive Plants in Japan, the United States, Thailand and China
Hiromichi Shibata
Springer, 26-Jul-2016 - Business & Economics - 59 pages
This book, in contrast with previous research and popular discussions that focus on the productivity of workers, identifies the critical influence of supervisors and engineers as key drivers of productivity differentials. To do so, it analyzes productivity at a Japanese car component plant and its three offshoot plants located in the United States, Thailand, and China and how productivity evolved at these plants from the mid-1990s to the early 2010s. The author’s participatory observation approach reveals that productivity and work practices converged to a limited degree over the years at all four plants.

Particularly influential are the persistent differences at these plants in the extent to which workers learn how to combine and integrate their production skills with troubleshooting skills. Supervisors play a key role in developing this integration in Japan, while worker skills remain separated in the other countries. Integrated skill development is promoted in Japan through the trusting relationships that first-line supervisors enjoy with their workforce. In the plants abroad, in contrast, the persistence of workers’ control over their individual skill development and careers impedes the development of integrated skills. Manufacturing engineers at the Japanese mother plant also play key linking roles, thereby enhancing communications and problem-solving on the shop floor, whereas manufacturing engineers at the US, Thai, and Chinese plants play more limited and compartmentalized roles. As a result, productivity remains high in Japan and lags in the other plants. Surprisingly, Japanese managers remain reluctant to introduce these more productive work practices in the offshoot plants.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=KlS_DAAAQBAJ


Japanese Management in Evolution: New Directions, Breaks, and Emerging Practices
Tsutomu Nakano
Routledge, 20-Jul-2017 - Business & Economics - 320 pages
Japanese Management in Evolution illustrates the significant changes that have been taking place in Japanese business by focusing on "emerging industries" in the relatively neglected service and "creative" sectors as well as other key industries, and to put those changes in historical perspective by providing an overview of business development since World War II. By employing state-of-the-art research techniques and unconventional innovative approaches in analysing Japanese management – including network and discourse analysis, ethnographic explorations, and more – the book reveals historical developments and in-depth analyses of established and emerging composition of sectors and industries where cultural capital matters. Throughout the book, the common theme conveyed to readers is a consistently strong message that the change is ongoing and the evolution of management style is real in the Japanese context.

The book would be of great interest to researchers, academics and practitioners in fields of global management, international management, and Asian capitalism.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=ZsEtDwAAQBAJ

Case Study Data on Productivity and Factory Performance: Combines (harvesters-threshers)
Lester I. Pearle
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1954 - Combines (Agricultural machinery) - 159 pages
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=w1jdGIpkQmYC

Rethinking production systems design for increased efficiency
By Tiago Simões, Anabela Carvalho Alves and Paula Carneiro
Industrial and Systems Engineering at Work
March 2015    |    Volume: 47    |    Number: 3
The member magazine of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers

This mixed assembly project was developed in the assembly section of a company that manufactured machine tools like guillotines and press brakes.
https://www.iise.org/industrialengineer/Details.aspx?id=38776

The Lean Practitioner's Field Book: Proven, Practical, Profitable and Powerful Techniques for Making Lean Really Work
Charles Protzman, Fred Whiton, Joyce Kerpchar, Christopher Lewandowski, Steve Stenberg, Patrick Grounds
Taylor & Francis, 03-Sep-2018 - Business & Economics - 1602 pages
While there are numerous Lean Certification programs, most companies have their own certification paths whereby they bestow expert status upon employees after they have participated in or led a certain number of kaizen events. Arguing that the number of kaizen events should not determine a person's expert status, The Lean Practitioner's Field Book: Proven, Practical, Profitable and Powerful Techniques for Making Lean Really Work outlines a true learning path for anyone seeking to understand essential Lean principles.

The book includes a plethora of examples drawn from the personal experiences of its many well-respected and award-winning contributors. These experts break down Lean concepts to their simplest terms to make everything as clear as possible for Lean practitioners. A refresher for some at times, the text provides thought-provoking questions with examples that will stimulate learning opportunities.

Introducing the Lean Practitioner concept, the book details the five distinct Lean Practitioner levels and includes quizzes and criteria for each level. It highlights the differences between the kaizen event approach and the Lean system level approach as well as the difference between station balancing and baton zone.

This book takes readers on a journey that begins with an overview of Lean principles and culminates with readers developing professionally through the practice of self-reliance. Providing you with the tools to implement Lean tools in your organization, the book includes discussions and examples that demonstrate how to transition from traditional accounting methods to a Lean accounting system.

The book outlines an integrated, structured approach identified by the acronym BASICS (baseline, analyze, suggest solutions, implement, check, and sustain), which is combined with a proven business strategy to help ensure a successful and sustainable transformation of your organization.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=8n10DwAAQBAJ

2019 

UK Economy Has Too Few Robots

The UK is lagging behind the world's other advanced economies in the shift to robots and automation in the workplace - putting jobs, businesses and the prosperity of whole regions at risk, according to an influential group of MPs sitting on the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee.

The committee in its report published in September 2019.

 Gains are typically achieved through advances in technology and increased skill levels within a workforce.
https://www.questia.com/read/1P4-2326847124/uk-economy-has-too-few-robots


Economic and Social History: Industry and Trade, 1880-1960
Pages 140-208

A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 7, the City of Birmingham. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1964.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol7/pp140-208


Scientific management at work: the Bedaux system, management consulting, and worker efficiency in British industry, 1914-48
Authors: Weatherburn, Michael
Item Type: Thesis or dissertation
https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/25296

MENTAL LOADING OF PROCESS OPERATORS : AN ATTEMPT TO DEVISE A METHOD OF ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT
J. B. KITCHIN &A. GRAHAM
Pages 1-15 | Published online: 26 Apr 2007
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00140136108930502


Moving Towards Productivity and Quality Excellence
Fong Ho-Keng BE MBA MSc
Partridge Publishing Singapore, 21-Sep-2018 - Business & Economics - 286 pages
This book provides the knowledge foundations and strategic directions to organizations aiming to move towards quality, productivity and business excellence. Through latest case studies and practical examples, readers will be guided from identifying and prioritizing the opportunities for improvement, measuring and analyzing the root causes, to eliminating the sources of the problems. Readers will also be exposed to the information technology used in the “Trilogy of Moving Towards Business Excellence”. For example, moving towards quality excellence can be achieved through digitalization of ISO9001:2015 quality management system. In addition to dispensing with most of the paper work as well as the internal audit, it will also ensure that the key requirements of the latest version of ISO9001:2015 are complied with and executed effectively. Both the quality and productivity of the organization will be enhanced. Total Factor Productivity is heavily used to help organizations move towards productivity excellence. System integration is one of the key techniques used to achieve this goal. For example, when a high-technology operations system, such as BD, ECOM, FINTECH, AI, IOT etc., is integrated into HIMS-BEST, the organization will attain the 1+1=3 synergic benefit. It will achieve the organizational goals in addition to achieving the operational goals.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=ZdVwDwAAQBAJ



40% savings in cycle time in injection moulding

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23 October 2019


9 Recommended Books You Must Read To Increase Productivity
Posted on September 20, 2019
https://criticalthinkers.in/9-recommended-books-you-must-read-to-increase-productivity/

A major study by the Scottish Centre For Employment Research is ongoing into how to improve management practice to boost productivity and better enable innovation.
Scottish Government set target of joining the top quartile of OECD countries for productivity. But  Scotland is still 20 per cent below the target

National productivity is regarded as crucial to sustainable economic growth. It  boosts businesses’ profitability and increases household incomes due to higher wages for additional production.

A multi-layered research team at Strathclyde Business School (SBS) at the University of Strathclyde is doing research to find out what needs to be done to improve productivity. The business school’s Scottish Centre for Employment Research (SCER) is doing the study.
Involved
SBS Professor Tricia Findlay
Professor Colin Lindsay
Professor Arnold Bakker, Erasmus University, and Professor Evangelia Demerouti, Eindhoven University of Technology
Thursday 19 September 2019
https://www.scotsman.com/business/strathclyde-business-school-wants-to-change-the-way-we-work-1-5007528




How Does An Electric Water-Activated Tape Dispenser Improve Productivity? in the the packing and shipping process in your warehouse.
Productivity Perk #1: Operating Electric Tape Dispensers Is Faster
Productivity Perk #2: Electric Tape Dispensers Cut To Pre-Set Lengths
Productivity Perk #3: Reduced Movement Required To Seal Cartons
https://ipgblog.blogspot.com/2019/07/how-does-electric-water-activated-tape.html#comment-form

OPEN ACCESS
New Approaches for Cost Grouping in Cost Management and Accounting
A Kholkin1

Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, Volume 272, 3. Section two
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/272/3/032203

The Impact of Target Costing (TC) on Reduction of Manufacturing Costs “Empirical Study”
HASSAN, KARRAR MOHAMED; MOHAMED, AL HADI ADAM
URI: http://repository.sustech.edu/handle/123456789/21913
Date: 2018-11-01
http://repository.sustech.edu/handle/123456789/21913

Making cost engineering count
July 2019 | Article
By Denise Cheung, Wolfgang Günthner, Patricio Ibanez, and Stephan Mohr
https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/our-insights/making-cost-engineering-count

THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE IS OPEN ACCESS
Productivity analysis of machining milled surfaces
J Kundrák, V Molnár and I Deszpoth

Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, Volume 448, Number 1
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/448/1/012012/meta


Concreting Productivity - 2018 Productivity Science
http://casopisi.junis.ni.ac.rs/index.php/FUArchCivEng/article/view/3033/2101

Cube Automation Productivity Case Studies
https://www.cubeautomation.com/company/projects/automatic-palletizing-machine/

Isuzu rolls out 10,000th vehicle from its SriCity facility
Isuzu Motors India rolled out the 10,000th vehicle from its SriCity plant in Andhra
Pradesh. It was an Isuzu D-Max V-Cross that rolled out from its assembly line
marking a milestone along with company’s commitment to the Indian market.
Since the inception of the Isuzu’s plant in 2016, it has been producing D-Max VCross, mu-X – the full-size 7-seater SUV and D-Max S-Cab and Regular Cab models
for the commercial segment.


Isuzu Motors India crossed the cumulative sale of 10,000 units in March 2018
which includes the models that were manufactured at Hindustan Motors facility
near Chennai till early 2016. The facilitiy was inaugurated  in April 2016 and the
first V-Cross was rolled out from the plant, speaking the commencement of its
manufacturing operations in India. The plant follows the highly regarded ‘Isuzu Manufacturing
Management’ philosophy which translates into delivering quality across all
products.

Data-Driven Productivity
https://www.pmcorp.com/Resources/SeminarsandWebinars.aspx


26th CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA May 7-9, 2019
Edited by John W. Sutherland, Steven J. Skerlos, Fu Zhao
Volume 80,
Pages 1-774 (2019), Open Access Papers
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-cirp/vol/80/suppl/C

Boom Lift
http://www.quickaccess.co.in/boom-lift.html

Productivity Improving - Cost Reducing 3PL Solutions from Mahindra Logistics Ltd.

MAHINDRA LOGISTICS leading the way with asset-light integrated supply-chain solutions
May 23, 2019
Interview with Sushil Rathi, COO, MLL, PGDIE(NITIE)


Third-Party Logistics or 3PL concept has actually originated from the automotive sector. 3PL services now include shipping the components to the manufacturing plant, storing them, getting them to the assembly line and finally taking the end product to the market. Now a typical automobile plant’s job is to assemble the vehicle. All sub-assemblies and components  comes from the suppliers. It is the logistics partner who brings all required sub-assemblies and components to the assembly line. This makes logistics one of the key function areas in automotive industry today. To cater to auto sector, MLL made Auto & Engineering (A&E) as one integrated business vertical. It provides value-added services with many innovations and a unique approach that emphasizes service and productivity (total cost reduction). It offers many value-added services like multi-modal transportation, warehousing solutions, stores and linefeed services, yard management, large contractual workforce management, just-in-time services, aftermarket logistics, return logistics, layout and process design support.

One Innovation explained in detail:

Final Assembly of tractors at stock-yards. 

Instead of moving fully-built 5-6 tractors, components like tires, wheels, chimneys and other large components are transported separately to the stockyards. More tractors in SKD format are transported per vehicle and final assembly is done at the stockyard. This process redesign helped bring the logistics cost down for the customer.   They are also able to deliver to their customers faster.

Bundle Redesign to increase Truck Space Utilization

Suggested to the client  to reduce the size of their TMT bars’ bundle size so as to accommodate more packets in the new higher load truck, reducing the cost of logistics by 10% which can be passed on to the end customers.

MLL serves over 350 corporate customers across various industries like Automobile, Engineering, Consumer Goods and E-commerce. It has  a set of 40 engineers working on the solutions and the processes. Automation is an important area for innovation.

http://www.motorindiaonline.in/corporate/mahindra-logistics-leading-the-way-with-asset-light-integrated-supply-chain-solutions/

We have to improve our work habits, productivity levels to compete with China: NR Narayana Murthy
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/expert-view/we-have-to-improve-our-work-habits-productivity-levels-to-compete-with-china-nr-narayana-murthy/articleshow/69531561.cms



How a High Tech Electronics Company Saved Millions by Attacking their Mechanical Spend
The aPriori Customer profiled in this Case Study is in the High Tech Electronics (HTE) industry vertical, and focuses on the design and manufacture of networking equipment, servers and switches.
https://resources.apriori.com/apriori-blog/case-study-implementing-a-culture-of-cost-awareness

ASM International enhances ALD productivity with new 300 mm XP8 Quad Chamber Module

ASM International enhances ALD productivity with new very competetive 300 mm XP8 Quad Chamber Module providing:
High productivity platform for PEALD and PECVD Processing of up to 16 wafers at a time.
The XP8 architecture enables integrated processing using both DCMs and QCMs for flexibility and productivity optimization.
https://aldfinancials.blogspot.com/2019/01/asm-international-enhances-ald.html


Agile Velocity Is Not a Measure of Productivity
Posted On March 18, 2019  By Lean Agile Training
https://leanagiletraining.blogspot.com/2019/03/agile-velocity-is-not-measure-of-productivity.html

Book Series "Increasing Productivity in Software Development"
https://www.software-productivity.com/2018/06/book-series-increasing-productivity-in.html

3D printer that prints solid, 100% dense, precise, and strong metal objects


Specs:

3D Printing process: Selective Powder Deposition (SPD)

Build volume: about 285x240x97mm (or any custom size)

Pourer diameter: 1mm, 2mm (or any custom size)

Layer height: 0.1 to 1.0mm (user configurable in GUI)

Min width of a detail: one pourer diameter

Min height of a detail: one layer height

Powders cost: $2 to $16 per kg.

Announcement:
To meet the growing demand, we are starting to look for business partners who would manufacture and sell the printers under their own brand name. We will provide the manufacturing files, the controller board with the firmware, and the iro_ui slicer software. The printers shall have a label, saying "Licensed by iro3d.com". Contact us for the details.

FAQ

What metals are supported?
The printer itself is material agnostic, and can pour any powder that flows though a small hole. In theory, SPD should work with any metal combinations where the infill metal has lower melting temperature than the powder. But different metals might require different baking temperatures and different fluxes. In theory, for not-very-reactive metals, such as iron, copper, nickel, tin, zinc, lead, molybdenum, manganese, cobalt, tungsten, palladium, cadmium, silver, gold, platinum - we can use coke (carbon) as a flux. So far, we have tried carbon steel, brass , bronze, copper-iron, and copper-nickel. For other alloys, which contain silicon, aluminum, chromium, vanadium, magnesium, or titanium - a different flux should be used. Suggestions are welcome.

What's the shrinkage?
There is no shrinkage. The metal powder is not sintered, but infused with infill metal. So, the size and shape is preserved.

What's the print time?
Print time very much depends on the size and complexity of the object. Rough average would be about 24 hours.

Is there any post-processing required?
Yes. After filling the crucible with the powders, you would need to bake it in a kiln.

What's the baking temperature?
The baking temperature must be in-between melting temperatures of the infill metal and the metal powder. Pure copper infill metal melts at 1084°C. Pure iron powder melts at 1538°C. So, to print with copper-iron the temperature must be between 1084°C and 1538°C. For example 1184°C. For carbon steel, the melting temperature of the infill metal depends on the carbon content. There are many resources on the Internet that assist with calculation of melting temperatures of different alloys. For example this one: this one. For example, for carbon steel infill metal with 4.3% carbon, the baking temperature must be between 1147°C and 1538°C. For example 1250°C. The carbon content of the resulting 3D print is the proportional average of the carbon content of the powder and the infill. For example, with iron powder with apparent density of 3 g/cm3, and infill metal with 4.3% carbon, the carbon content of the resulting 3D print would be around 2.6%

What's the baking hold time?
The hold time should be sufficient for the heat to get to the middle of the crucible and melt the infill metal. The minimum hold time depends on the size and thermal conductivity of the crucible, the mass, and the difference between the melting temperature of the infill metal and your baking temperature. For copper-iron or copper-nickel, with baking temperature of 1184°C, and the crucible shown in the video, the hold time of 2 hours was sufficient.

What kind of kiln is required?
For copper infill metal, your kiln should be able to go above the copper melting temperature, which is 1084°C, so most pottery kilns would work. A kiln with programmable digital controller is preferred, because it can be programmed to go slowly though quarts inversion temperature, which is useful if you use a clay crucible. A new pottery kiln might cost you about $1000. A used one you might find for a few hundred dollars on Craig's List, if you look for a while. For carbon steel the minimum required temperature would depend on the carbon content, from 1147°C to 1538°C.

How can I buy the printer? How much does it cost?
You can order the printer by email. The standard size costs $5000 plus shipping. (On June 1st, 2019, the price will go up to $6000.) The price of a custom size printer depends on the size. It's likely that in the near future we'll have a second standard size with print volume of 610x610x380 mm.

Where can I buy the consumables? (metal powders, support powders, infill metal, and crucibles)
You can buy consumables from 3rd parties. The powders should be able to flow though 0.9mm hole. For that, they should be spherical enough, and have particle size of about 50-150 microns. The powders and the infill metal shouldn't have too many impurities. For example, oxygen cause babbles in the printed object. The crucibles should be able to withstand the baking temperature. It's probably better to buy consumables specifically intended for SPD process. We prefer consumables from TriDPrinting.com - please contact them directly. Their phone number is on their home page.

What are the practical applications for SPD?
There are many. One is to print molds in tool steel (for plastic injection molding) with conformal cooling channels. Another, is to print large objects, like a car engine block, or even huge once, like a vault door.
http://iro3d.com/



Management Process Industrial Engineering - Part 1

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Interesting Google Book Links

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=59Qi-X9PEgoC&pg=PA14#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=4bKIb9L-_WMC

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=W7xaDwAAQBAJ

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235250809_The_role_played_by_Frederick_Taylor_in_the_rise_of_the_academic_management_fields


IE as CEO - Panel Discussion
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Purdue Industrial Engineering
2017


Industrial Engineering 4.0 - IE in the Era of Industry 4.0


Industrial Engineering 4.0


Industry 4.0 - IIoT Technology - Industrial Engineering - Productivity Science
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/12/industry-40-iiot-technology-industrial.html

Industry 4.0 - IIoT - Productivity Engineering
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/12/industry-40-iiot-productivity.html

Industry 4.0 - IIoT - Productivity Management
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/12/industry-40-iiot-productivity-management.html


Industrial Engineering Knowledge Revision Plan - One Year Plan


The plans are liked by hundreds of professional industrial engineers in the Linked communities of industrial engineering

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2019

Technology and Manufacturing News
https://tmanews.com/

Design for Manufacture MArch Degree
This programme teaches students how to place their design skills in the context of fast-evolving developments in construction, fabrication, assembly and automation.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/programmes/postgraduate/march-design-for-manufacture

Special Issue "Sustainable Industrial Engineering along Product-Service Life Cycle/Supply Chain"
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2019
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/industrial_engineering

The practical application of the principles of industrial ... Society of industrial engineers. - 1920

Corporate Author: Society of industrial engineers.
Published: [Chicago, The Frederick H. Jaenicken co., printers, 1920]
Full book available for reading


Engineering Management 2005

A suitable employment for industrial engineers
GE CAREERS

Cost Excellence & Productivity Manager (OFS)
https://jobs.gecareers.com/ShowJob/Id/85311/Cost-Excellence-Productivity-Manager-(OFS)-Houston,-TX/

McKinsey Article
Zero-based productivity: Going granular and end-to-end across the supply chain
March 2019
https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/our-insights/zero-based-productivity-going-granular-and-end-to-end-across-the-supply-chain

CIM Courses @ PSU

https://www.engr.psu.edu/cim/courses.htm

https://www.engr.psu.edu/cim/ie450/ie450page.htm

https://www.engr.psu.edu/cim/ie550/ie550page.htm

Advances in Mechanical Engineering
0.848 Impact Factor
Table of Contents
Volume 11 Issue 3, March 2019
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ade/current


Industrial Engineer
The Boeing Company

Date posted 03/13/2019
Location Huntsville Alabama United States

Position Responsibilities:

Supporting product and process design teams throughout all phases of product life-cycle

Applying basic Industrial Engineering concepts, techniques, analysis and decision tools to promote and implement changes in manufacturing, engineering and service operations.

Developing models, data bases and spreadsheets to analyze data (e.g., statistics, operations research, engineering economics), and provide summary analysis and metrics as directed by higher level employees for consultation to customers (e.g., management, departments, suppliers).

Applying basic industrial engineering techniques and concepts to product and process design teams throughout all phases of product life-cycle, resulting in a robust product design and work statement that meets program requirements.

Research, design, develop, improve, and implement processes as directed to enhance schedule performance, lower cost, and improve quality, through the application of Lean and other Industrial Engineering concepts for large scale systems integration and asset utilization.

Utilize engineering methods (e.g., mathematical models, simulation, statistics) to assist in developing optimal process designs and efficient utilization of resources (e.g., facilities, personnel, materials, equipment) in the creation and validation of products.

Analyze and support the design of the value stream, including capability, capacity (e.g., make/buy, supplier selection, risk analysis, supplier performance), throughput, work flow and logistics (e.g., critical path, lead-time, transportation, factory layout).
https://jobs.boeing.com/job/huntsville/industrial-engineer/185/11185707

A suitable employment for industrial engineers
GE CAREERS

Cost Excellence & Productivity Manager (OFS)
https://jobs.gecareers.com/ShowJob/Id/85311/Cost-Excellence-Productivity-Manager-(OFS)-Houston,-TX/

McKinsey Article
Zero-based productivity: Going granular and end-to-end across the supply chain
March 2019
https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/our-insights/zero-based-productivity-going-granular-and-end-to-end-across-the-supply-chain


Process Line Productivity - Benefit from New Innovations
https://www.flsmidth.com/en-gb/solutions/process-line-productivity

Labor Productivity and Costs
US Department of Labor Page
Labor productivity is a measure of economic performance that compares the amount of goods and services produced (output) with the number of hours worked to produce those goods and services. The BLS also publishes measures of multifactor productivity.
Read: Productivity in Transit: A New Measure of Labor Productivity for Urban Transit Systems
https://www.bls.gov/lpc/


Driving Productivity Growth Through Innovation in High Value Manufacturing
With leadership from two of the N8 universities, Sheffield City Region and the Lancaster Local Enterprise Partnership area have collaborated to produce a Science and Innovation Audit (SIA) describing the regions strengths in High Value Manufacturing.

This vision, of a “Northern Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Corridor”, will drive productivity and innovation by bringing together existing and emerging capital assets and research programmes.
https://www.n8research.org.uk/economic-impact/northern-powerhouse/driving-productivity-growth-innovation-high-value-manufacturing/

Metal Printing - 100 Times Faster


Desktop Metal plans to sell two different types of machines: a relatively inexpensive “desktop” model suitable for designers and engineers fabricating prototypes, and the other  that is fast and large enough for manufacturing on commercial scale. Several innovations facilitate the development of these machines based on  Sachs’s original invention and  the development of very high-speed ink-jet printing for depositing the binder. Successively printing about 1,500 layers, each 50 micrometers thick and deposited in a few seconds, the production-scale printer can build up a 500-cubic-inch part in an hour. That’s about 100 times faster than a laser-based 3-D printer can make metal parts.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604088/the-3-d-printer-that-could-finally-change-manufacturing/

https://www.desktopmetal.com/products/studio/

2018


Manufacturing Engineering Process Control Automation
November 2018 Issue
http://mepca-engineering.com/november-2018/


Additive Hybrid Machine Tool Advancements Springing Up
October 16, 2018 by Robb Hudson - CEO, Mitsui Seiki USA, Inc.
https://advancedmanufacturing.org/additive-hybrid-machine-tool-advancements-springing-up/

Improvement Is Not Optional - It is done periodically per a schedule

No matter how busy this shop gets, it continues to pull teams of employees out of production so they can focus on solving problems to make incremental process changes. The advances add up. Today, this is a very different shop than it once was.

 Peter Zelinski
Article Post: 9/1/2014
https://www.mmsonline.com/articles/improvement-is-not-optional

Workholding’s Clever New Concepts: Part II
May 1, 2007 by Robert B. Aronson - Senior Editor
Don’t overlook this path to productivity
https://advancedmanufacturing.org/workholdings-clever-new-concepts-part-ii/

Automatic magazine bar feeders
For those turning parts from barstock, automatic magazine bar feeders can provide an affordable way to achieve manufacturing efficiency.
9/19/2016
https://www.productionmachining.com/articles/choosing-an-automatic-bar-feeder


Zero Base Budgeting for Productivity - McKinsey July/August 2018 Articles



Call for Productivity Improvement by CEO - Boeing



Free Issue of IJPR with articles on Smart Manufacturing

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tprs20/56/1-2

January 2018


PRONTO Quick Jaw Change System for productivity

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Robots manufacturing  shoe uppers 20 times faster than humans.

Using the Grabit robotic system’s electroadhesion technology, Nike is able to manufacture its shoe uppers 20 times faster than humans.
January 24, 2018
https://www.automationworld.com/article/industry-type/discrete-manufacturing/nikes-robotic-material-handling


Benefits Of an Industry 4.0 CMMS

Reducing maintenance costs
Reducing asset downtime and asset failure
https://www.mobility-work.com/blog/industry-40-cmms-future-maintenance-happening-now

Top-10 Inspiring TED Talks: Productivity, Creativity and Balance

https://www.actitime.com/productivity-tools/ted-talks.php


Productivity Improvement Using AI, Robots and Lidar


Doxel's  business is making construction cheaper, and their method  is combining massive amounts of data with deep-learning techniques.

 Using autonomous robots equipped with lidar, Doxel scans construction sites every day to track progress and check that things have been installed correctly.  In a recent pilot study on a medical office building, Doxel says it managed to increase labor productivity on the project by a staggering 38 percent.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/doxel-ai-startup-using-lidar-equipped-robots-on-construction-sites

THE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT WORK MODEL - Chad Higgins | May 8, 2017

PROCESS STABILIZATION
PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS
PROCESS STANDARDIZATION
PROCESS DOCUMENTATION
https://www.pmfortoday.com/a-new-work-model-that-changes-how-you-approach-process-improvement/


What is Azure Cost Management?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management/overview

How to Build a Motion-Sensored IoT ''Smart'' Pumpkin
https://dzone.com/articles/how-to-build-a-motion-sensored-iot-smart-pumpkin?fromrel=true


2017


December 2017

Innovative, High Productivity Fiber Laser Tube Cutting

TruLaser Tube 5000 fiber laser tube cutting machine from TRUMPF is the world’s first tube cutting machine with a solid-state laser to eliminate the need for a fully enclosed housing, making it quick and easy to load individual tubes and profiles or to remove finished parts while the machine is in operation.
December 30, 2017
http://www.fabricatingandmetalworking.com/2017/12/innovative-high-productivity-fiber-laser-tube-cutting/

TruLaser Tube 5000 fiber laser tube cutting machine is one more example of Product Productivity Engineering

It's time to select new leaders for IISE board for future
http://www.iise.org/ISEMagazine/details.aspx?id=45709


Measuring and Improving Productivity: A New Quantitative Approach
By Radovilsky, Zinovy D.; Gotcher, J. William
Industrial Management, Vol. 34, No. 3, May/June 1992

a. What are the factors that affect productivity?

b. How do we measure these factors?

c. What is the appropriate approach to analyze these factors?

d. What is the model that can be used for predicting productivity growth while varying the factors' values?

We attempted to analyze productivity in connection with losses which occurred during the production process.
https://www.questia.com/magazine/1P3-530445/measuring-and-improving-productivity-a-new-quantitative

Select Bibliography on Productivity
Quantitative Techniques in Production and Productivity
By D. Thakur
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=qTJ4ZiZbDQoC&pg=PA343#v=onepage&q&f=false

November 2017

“Industry 4.0, Leapfrog Opportunity for India” - Productivity Week Theme - India 2018
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/11/productivity-industry-40-leapfrog.html

Productivity Solutions - Franklin Covey - Personal Improvement
https://www.franklincovey.com/Solutions/Productivity.html

Productivity Research Network
NUS Business School
Singapore
https://bschool.nus.edu.sg/strategy-policy/productivity-research-network

Lancaster University Management School
Lancaster, United Kingdom
http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/research/research-centres/productivity-efficiency/

Productivity Features of New Ford Truck
https://www.ford.com/trucks/super-duty/features/productivity/


October 2017


Four theories to explain the UK’s productivity woes
https://www.ft.com/content/b6513260-b5b2-11e7-a398-73d59db9e399


What is productivity? And why does it matter that it is falling again?
What does this mean for ordinary people? Why should it concern us (UK Economy)? And what can we do about it?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/productivity-what-is-it-meaning-define-uk-economy-explained-a7986781.html


September 2017

Boosting productivity - Research identifies small changes that lead to big improvements in performance
By Heather Stringer
September 2017, Vol 48, No. 8
http://www.apa.org/monitor/2017/09/boosting-productivity.aspx

Productivity in the UK - Research Brief for Parliament
September 20, 2017
http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/SN06492




July 2017

Functions of Industrial Engineering

June 2017

A good description and discussion on Industrial Engineering and Systems Engineering and combining the two in practice.
Chapter 1 of  Handbook of |Industrial and Systems Engineering, Second Edition, Ed. by Adedeji Badiru.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=xFPOBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q&f=false

The First 50 Years of the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan: 1955–2005
Don B. Chaffin
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/maize/13855463.0001.001/1:3/--first-50-years-of-the-department-of-industrial?rgn=div1;view=fulltext


Top 20 Personal Productivity Blogs

https://www.scoro.com/blog/top-productivity-blogs-2016/


10 Must-Follow Productivity Gurus and Their Top Tips
http://blog.anderspink.com/2016/03/10-must-follow-productivity-gurus-and-their-top-tips/


May 2017

Principles of Industrial Engineering Presented in IISE Conference


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OECD Compendium of Productivity Indicators 2017
You can download the full statistics and content.
http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/industry-and-services/oecd-compendium-of-productivity-indicators_22252126


April 2017

Productivity of Government Activities - McKinsey Report


"If all countries were to match the productivity improvements already demonstrated in government activities, the world’s governments could potentially save as much as $3.5 trillion a year by 2021—equivalent to the entire global fiscal gap."
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-sector/our-insights/the-opportunity-in-government-productivity


Gone with the Headwinds : Global Productivity

IMF Staff Discussion Notes No. 17/04
Author/Editor:Gustavo Adler ; Romain A Duval ; Davide Furceri ; Sinem Kiliç Çelik ; Ksenia Koloskova ; Marcos Poplawski-Ribeiro Publication Date: April 3, 2017 Electronic Access:Free Full Text (PDF file size is 1736 KB)

Productivity growth—the key driver of living standards—fell sharply following the global financial crisis and has remained sluggish since, adding to a slowdown already in train before. Building on new research, this note finds that the productivity slowdown reflects both crisis legacies and structural headwinds.
https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/Staff-Discussion-Notes/Issues/2017/04/03/Gone-with-the-Headwinds-Global-Productivity-44758

March 2017

Understanding US productivity trends from the bottom-up
Joseph Parilla and Mark Muro, 2017

Productivity remains a critical source of prosperity.  Since 2004, productivity has been expanding at its slowest clip in the post-war era. Its causes—from declining breakthroughs in major technologies, to inefficiencies in major sectors like education, healthcare, and housing, to simply a mismeasurement issue—remain the subject of much debate.
https://www.brookings.edu/research/understanding-us-productivity-trends-from-the-bottom-up/

March 2017


THE COMING PRODUCTIVITY BOOM: Transforming the Physical Economy with Information
http://www.techceocouncil.org/clientuploads/reports/TCC%20Productivity%20Boom%20FINAL.pdf

2016


December 2016

CEOs recognize the importance of Productivity


At the leadership level, executives of US manufacturers clearly recognize the importance of productivity. In a recent BCG study, more than 90% of the executives surveyed cited productivity as one of their top five most important corporate initiatives.
Productivity Now: A Call to Action for US Manufacturers, BCG Persepctives
DECEMBER 14, 2016
https://www.bcgperspectives.com/content/articles/lean-manufacturing-operations-productivity-now-call-to-action-us-manufacturers/

The Power of Productivity: An Assessment of UK Firms and Factors Contributing to
Productivity Enhancement
Dr Alexander Grous
London School of Economics and Political Science, December, 2016
http://www.lse.ac.uk/businessAndConsultancy/LSEConsulting/currentProjects/Vodafone-Final-v3--Power-of-Productivity---LSE-report.pdf

November 2016

See entire issue of Journal of Industrial Engineering Sep - Oct 1964 for role of IEs in various types of organizations.


August 2016

Productivity as the key to economic growth and development (English)
http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/314741472533203058/Productivity-as-the-key-to-economic-growth-and-development

June 2016

UK Government's Productivity Plan Review 2015-16

Investment Association UK's Productivity Plan 2016

Australia NATIONAL ENERGY PRODUCTIVITY PLAN 2015–2030
Boosting competitiveness, managing costs and reducing emissions
https://scer.govspace.gov.au/files/2015/12/National-Energy-Productivity-Plan-release-version-FINAL.pdf


Links between weak investment and the slowdown in productivity and potential output growth across the OECD
Patrice Ollivaud, Yvan Guillemette, David Turner - OECD, France
08 June 2016
http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/economics/links-between-weak-investment-and-the-slowdown-in-productivity-and-potential-output-growth-across-the-oecd_5jlwvz0smq45-en


May 2016

US productivity slips for first time in three decades
Prospect of wage stagnation
MAY 26, 2016
https://www.ft.com/content/925d8e6c-226f-11e6-9d4d-c11776a5124d

April 2016

Why Has the Cyclicality of Productivity Changed?
What Does It Mean?
http://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/files/wp2016-07.pdf

Industrial Engineers – Improving Processes for More Efficiency

by Brian Rooney
October 20, 2015
OREGON EMPLOYMENT DEPARTMENT
Interesting writeup
https://www.qualityinfo.org/-/industrial-engineers-improving-processes-for-more-efficiency

Workshop Presentations on Benchmarking Project Efficiency, 30.01.2015

https://www.ieee.de/chapters/tcm/ppe141114/

Center for Productivity Innovation
UT Knoxville
http://cpi.utk.edu/Home.html

News on Industrial Engineering in Africa

http://www.siemens.co.za/industrial-engineering/news.html


2015

Industrial Engineering Knowledge Revision Plan - One Year Plan


January - February - March - April - May - June

July - August - September - October - November - December

In months after June the articles prescribed have to be modified as a new scheme is started in 2015.




July 2015
New Metal Property reduces cutting force by half and speeds machining - Industrial engineering faculty of Purdue involved in research on machining
http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2015/Q3/twin-discoveries,-eerie-effect-may-lead-to-manufacturing-advances.html
https://engineering.purdue.edu/~tribmat/research.html
http://www.engineering.com/AdvancedManufacturing/ArticleID/10486/New-Metal-Property-Speeds-Machining.aspx

June 2015


Industrial Engineering, Management Science and Applications 2015
Mitsuo Gen, Kuinam J Kim, Xiaoxia Huang
Springer, Jan 1, 2015 - 1085 pages
This volume provides a complete record of presentations made at "Industrial Engineering, Management Science and Applications 2015 "(ICIMSA 2015), and provides the reader with a snapshot of current knowledge and state-of-the-art results in industrial engineering, management science and applications. The goal of ICIMSA is to provide an excellent international forum for researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to share cutting-edge developments in the field and to exchange and distribute the latest research and theories from the international community. The conference is held every year, making it an ideal platform for people to share their views and experiences in industrial engineering, management science and applications related fields.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=pmd1CQAAQBAJ



IIE Transations - Index to All Volumes
http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/uiie20#

D.R. Towill P. Childerhouse, (2011),"Industrial engineering priorities for improved demand chain
performance", International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Vol. 60 Iss 3 pp. 202 -
221
Permanent link to this document:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17410401111111961


IE Course Notes by Prof Sam ADEJUYIGBE
http://www.unaab.edu.ng/attachments/470_MCE%20510%20-%20Submitted%20Copy%20for%20E%20Book.pdf

HR  DIMENSION IN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
(With special reference to Power Projects Construction)
Dr. B. Kuberudu, , Ch.Sreenivasa Rao , and  B.Sridhar
International Journal of Advanced Technology in Engineering and Science
Volume No 03, Special Issue No. 01, March 2015
http://ijates.com/images/short_pdf/1427122074_757.pdf



ARGON has developped a service that allows for very fast scanning of fuel tanks with immediate feedback for adjusting the cooling fixture. The procedure has saved TI Lokeren (Belgium) up to 80% in time and material cost for the process approval for a Volvo fuel tank. Additionally the total geometry of the fuel tank is captured so no areas are overlooked.
http://www.argon-ms.be/nl/node/42

"Thanks to ARGON we have significantly decreased our costs and increased the dimensional quality of our products" says Michel De Clercq, Industrial Engineering Manager of TI Automotive Lokeren.

A New Curriculum for Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management for BS and MS Degrees
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
Volume 102, 22 November 2013, Pages 560–567
6th International Forum on Engineering Education (IFEE 2012)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042813043085


Comparing Engineering Management and Industrial Engineering programs
http://search.asee.org/search/fetch;jsessionid=mnzrqmht8zf6?url=file%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%2FE%3A%2Fsearch%2Fconference%2F21%2FAC%25201997Paper137.pdf&index=conference_papers&space=129746797203605791716676178&type=application%2Fpdf&charset=



May 2015

Recent Advances in Industrial Engineering - Articles - Springer Collection
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=wlb1CAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Articles on Lean Manufactuing and Product Development by S. Vinodh, NIT Trichy
vinodh_sekar82@yahoo.com


March 2015

IEOM International Conference on Operations Excellence and Service Engineering, September 10-11, 2015, Orlando, USA

What is Operational Excellence in Manufacturing and Supply Chain?



November 2014

Industrial Engineering Strategy  -  Companies have define their industrial engineering strategy. Do they intend to benefit from it? By how amount? Through what organization structure? How many industrial engineers will they employ? What tools they will emphasize? What are the bottle neck areas in the plant? etc.

Faculty Directory of IE Faculty Members

Compiling a directory of faculty members in top IE programs and institutes. This is the first step to compile research output in the area of IE in recent years.

Industrial Engineering Professors - Faculty - Top IE Programs and Institutes


July 2014
July - Industrial Engineering Knowledge Revision Plan


19 June 2014

Industrial Engineering Knowledge Revision Plan - Started on 17 June 2014

8.3.2014
A division of Aldevron, a biotech company has invited researchers from University of Wisconsin-Madison to study its processes and improve the speed. The normal focus in biotech companies is to make efforts to improve yield.
http://www.xconomy.com/wisconsin/2014/02/19/madison-biotech-supplier-goes-lean-to-stave-off-foreign-competitors/


26 Feb


New Lessons from Toyota - 2014 

Deryl Sturdevant,  Retired as president and CEO of Canadian Autoparts Toyota (CAPTIN)
The two pillars of the Toyota Production System are the philosophy of continuous improvement (kaizen) and training, skilling  and empowerment for people, particularly line workers. Involvement of line workers in improvement activities in a systematic manner rather than in a sporadic manner through suggestions schemes is a special feature of TPS. The line management is responsible for improvement on a continuous basis apart from the staff help. It is an American idea implemented very well in Japan.  Evaluation tools keep upgrading the bar every year in Toyota.

Rank-and-file workers know far more any particular tool than do executives. The job of executives is to understand how all the tools combine to make an effective and efficient system.

For creating any change, you need knowledge and passion. With lean journey also it is the same. You need knowledge and passion.

SMED activity is still going on in Toyota. In making an aluminum-alloy wheel five years ago, changeover required about four or five hours. But now, the process was modified so that the changeover time is down to less than an hour.

One of the basic Toyota approaches: Try and perfect any improvement before you recommend implementing it elsewhere. But once again as a principle, perfection is a moving target.
http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/manufacturing/still_learning_from_toyota


The Lean System of Motivation
http://www.lmmiller.com/blog/2014/02/23/corporate-culture/employee-involvement-empowerment-engagement-happened/

Bringing lean thinking to energy
Beset by rising costs, resource-intensive manufacturers are applying lean-management thinking in new ways to reduce the amount of energy used in production, to increase resource productivity—or both.
McKinsey Article - Feb 2014
http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/energy_resources_materials/bringing_lean_thinking_to_energy


The Remedy: Bringing Lean Thinking Out of the Factory to Transform the Entire Organization
http://www.amazon.com/The-Remedy-Bringing-Transform-Organization/dp/0470556854


21 Feb

Industrial Engineering - Productivity Enhancing Technology Development

1000th Published Post in Industrial Engineering Knowledge Center Blog
What is Industrial Engineering?
Industrial Engineering is Human Effort Engineering and System Efficiency Engineering.
Technology is a subsystem in the Systems made efficient by industrial engineers. Hence creating efficient technology or more productive technology is a task of industrial engineering

19 Feb 2014

The Productivity Manual: Methods and Activities for Involving Employees in Productivity Improvement

Elizabeth A. Smith, Taylor & Francis, 1995 - Business & Economics - 234 pages
Managers and supervisors will appreciate the manual's straightfoward, problem-solving approach. Trainers will benefit from the quantitive and qualitive techniques for measuring, analyzing, and reporting organizational and personnel achievements.
Google Book Link http://books.google.co.in/books?id=zj2jspgdcn4C

PepsiCo’s (PEP) productivity plan


PepsiCo’s (PEP) productivity plan from 2015 through 2019 will result in cost savings of $1 billion a year, About 40 percent  will come from labor cuts. Under the plan, PepsiCo will increase investment in manufacturing automation, close some manufacturing facilities, reengineer its distribution network in developed markets to be more efficient, share more back-office services, and simplify organization.
Productivity at the company hasn’t kept pace with sales growth. There are opportunities because of previous investments made in information systems, to make supply chain more efficient and go-to-market systems more efficient.
PepsiCo employed 278,000 employees in fiscal 2012, down from 297,000 a year earlier.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-13/pepsicos-productivity-plan-will-further-reduce-employee-headcount

UK's Productivity’s Lost Decade – And How To Avoid Another
Strong GDP and employment growth throughout 2013 has highlighted productivity’s continued weakness. At the onset of the recession in Q1 2008, productivity initially fell. However, it has not recovered and remains 4% below the pre-crisis peak on an output per hour basis. Productivity has now fallen back to where it was in Q4 2005. Without improvements, we will have lived through almost a decade of stagnant productivity.
http://www.cps.org.uk/blog/q/date/2014/02/14/productivity-s-lost-decade-and-how-to-avoid-another/


Getting Lean with Your Healthcare Practice:
Five Tips for Improving Provider Productivity with an EHR
EHR - Electronic Health Records
http://www.athenahealth.com/whitepapers/physician-productivity/

Introduction to Software Productivity
Galorath Incorporated
2010 presentation
http://www.galorath.com/blogfiles/Galorath%20Productivity%20Introduction%20slides.pdf


Book Review: Growing the Productivity of Government Services by Patrick Dunleavy and Leandro Carrera
In this book Patrick Dunleavy and Leandro Carrera ask why government productivity has been so neglected in the study of economics and public management. Chapters cover customs regulation, tax services, and the need to embrace digital change, and the book concludes with some clear and practical advice.
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/archives/39735


12 Feb 2014

Productivity Day in India


It is important to study carefully the definition of management by Koontz and O'Donnell

"Management is the process of designing and maintaining an environment in which individuals, working together in groups, efficiently accomplish selected aims."

Also they say in the chapter on productivity,

"In reality this entire book on management is about productivity."

Are management professionals and professors following that idea?




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http://video.mit.edu/watch/innovation-in-manufacturing-from-product-innovation-to-productivity-8622/


 THE WORLD'S TOP 10 MOST INNOVATIVE Solutions from COMPANIES IN PRODUCTIVITY Improvement of people in general
http://www.fastcompany.com/most-innovative-companies/2014/industry/productivity

NitroDesk Announces Cockpit Mobile Productivity Management Solution
Cockpit allows for management of TouchDown corporate data container
http://www.darkreading.com/management/nitrodesk-announces-cockpit-mobile-produ/240165992

Committed to sustainable productivity
Atlas Copco is a world-leading provider of sustainable productivity solutions. We serve customers in more than 180 countries with products and service focused on productivity, energy efficiency, safety and ergonomics.
http://www.atlascopco.in/us/

Photoshop Keyboard Eliminates Shortcuts For Increased Productivity
The Shortcut-S is a computer keyboard created specifically for designers that use Photoshop and other graphics and video software. The keyboard has 319 tactile keys that are customizable.
http://www.psfk.com/2014/02/photoshop-productivity-keyboard.html#!vr6Gl

9 Feb 2014

11 Ways to Improve Your IT Team's Productivity

http://www.cio.com/article/747843/11_Ways_to_Improve_Your_IT_Team_s_Productivity


What is Lean Management?

Lean Management is management with simultaneous emphasis on customer satisfaction or goal achievement and productivity or resource consumption.
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2014/02/lean-management.html


Liquid Lean: Developing Lean Culture in the Process Industries

Published: February 24, 2010 by Productivity Press Content:346 Pages |
Author(s):Raymond C. Floyd
http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781420088625



Forth International Productivity Cartoon Festival: 

No. 164, 6th Boostan St., Opposite White Tower ( Burj-e-Sefid) , Pasdaran Ave., Tehran, Iran.
http://www.cwn-news.com/festival/2142-the-forth-international-productivity-cartoon-festival,-iran-2014


CERTIFICATE IN CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTIVITY MANAGEMENT (CCPM)
The programme is a collaboration between BCA Academy and The Singapore Contractors Association Ltd (SCAL).  It caters to the specific needs of the contractors and builders in managing construction productivity. The course will be conducted over 12 sessions.  Each session will last for 3 hours in the evening, once a week.
http://scal-academy.com.sg/Course.aspx?ID=67


Wide range of connectors with molded-on control cables, guarantees high productivity for your machines and systems, even in the most rugged conditions.


Designed for harsh environments, especially "no-contact" zones in the food industry, the new generation of connectors supplements the proven connectors of the M12 Food & Beverage Classic Line.
http://www.lumberg-automation.com/en/Lumberg_Automation/news/High_productivity_for_machines_and_systems/index.phtml

Labour Productivity in Coal Mining Sector in India: With Special to Major Coal Mining
States
The production of coal has increased from 35 million tons in 1951 to 409.3 million tons in 2004. At the same time, the Average Daily Employment (ADE) has increased from 352 thousand in 1951 to 405 thousand in 2004.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2390524


Oracle User Productivity Kit (UPK)
Oracle User Productivity Kit (UPK) is an easy-to-use, comprehensive content development, deployment and maintenance platform designed to increase project, programme and user productivity. With over 4 million users globally, it features out-of-the-box integration with core systems and the ability to support any application.
http://myriad-it.com/solution/productivity-solutions/


Productivity & Efficiency at Forefront of LexisNexis at LegalTech New York 2014
Portfolio of integrated analytical, workflow and productivity solutions drives insights and better outcomes for law firms and legal departments
“Driving efficiency and productivity is at the core of our business,” said Bob Romeo, CEO of Research & Litigation Solutions at LexisNexis.
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140203006522/en/Productivity-Efficiency-Forefront-LexisNexis-LegalTech-York-2014#.UveZ0WKSxe4

Role of information literacy in agricultural productivity and food security: An international perspective
Conference
80th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, Lyon, France in August 2014
http://www.ifla.org/node/8379

German firm to train farmers in productivity in Uganda
http://www.monitor.co.ug/Business/German-firm-to-train-farmers-in-productivity/-/688322/2195654/-/15cdwlqz/-/index.html

The National Center for Transportation Systems Productivity and Management (NCTSPM)
conducts transportation related research in the areas of safety, state-of-good-repair, and economic competitiveness. NCTSPM is a collaboration between Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Transportation Institute, Florida International University, University of Central Florida, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and each university’s state Department of Transportation.
http://www.nctspm.gatech.edu/

Port productivity: Handling freight more efficiently
February 5, 2014|By Doreen Hemlock, Sun Sentinel
Some 140 port experts from around the nation met in Fort Lauderdale this week to discuss ways to boost port productivity in a conference.
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2014-02-05/business/fl-port-productivity-20140205_1_port-everglades-portmiami-cranes



Productivity Improvement - Manufacturing Process Improvement Consulting by Maverick
As your productivity improvement consultant, MAVERICK begins by evaluating the current state of your operations regarding man, machine, material and methods — lean manufacturing’s 4M perspective on improving production processes. Then we compare benchmark findings with best-in-class operations and help you close the gaps. Because we are able to leverage the experience of 500 professionals working across the country — noting what works and what doesn’t — we’re able to incorporate best practices that might not be obvious otherwise.
Columbia, IL (World HQ)
265 Admiral Trost Drive
PO Box 470
Columbia, IL 62236
http://www.mavtechglobal.com/services/strategic-manufacturing-solutions/productivity-improvements


The Lean CFO: Architect of the Lean Management System

Published: September 16, 2013 by Productivity Press Content:151 Pages
Author(s):Nicholas S. Katko
http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466599406


5 Feb 2014

2014 Asia-Pacific Productivity Conference

The Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis (CEPA) in the School of Economics at The University of Queensland is pleased to invite you to attend the 10th Asia Pacific Productivity Conference (APPC) from 8 -11 July 2014 in Brisbane, Australia.
Conference Dates: Jul 8, 2014 to Jul 11, 2014
Deadline for paper submissions: Feb 15, 2014
Deadline for participant registration: Thursday, May 15, 2014
The conference will consist of theoretical and applied sessions, as well as special-focus sessions targeting specific industries and topics. This will include topics on efficiency and productivity in industries such as the banking and energy sectors, regulated industries, agriculture, USA productivity, EU and APEC productivity, Asia-KLEMS and many more.
http://www.appc2014.com.au/

Heidelberg India fixing productivity with maintenance tips
Heidelberg India hosted a seminar on key maintenance and advanced trouble shooting techniques in sheetfed offset printing in Kochi.
Haribabu, head of customer service at Heidelberg addressed the audience on activities required for a print-shop, and how such efforts promote best results in print production through his presentation on ‘benefits of maintenance’.
http://www.printweek.in/News/371584,heidelberg-india-fixing-productivity-with-maintenance-tips.aspx



Improving productivity and profitability
Maintenance can help American businesses avoid losing more than $500 billion every year to equipment breakdowns or inefficiencies.
http://www.onlineamd.com/amd0214-maintenance-profitability.aspx


Variable-speed drive gives Energy Savings + Productivity Improvements - ABB
 While there is a gradual improvement in those willing to invest in drives, there still remains some 90 percent of installed motors that are not speed controlled. A further 95 percent of the 11 million motors installed in the UK are oversized. Savings of more than 50 percent can be achieved by the use of a drive on these applications.
http://abbukenergy.blogspot.in/2014/02/energy-savings-productivity.html

Global Total factor productivity (TFP) dipped below zero in 2013

Total factor productivity (TFP), that is, how well labour inputs combine with capital inputs to generate output, was also low, dipping below zero in 2013

DAVE: a tool for software QA productivity
DAVE stands for DAta VErification. The way it works is rather simple: first, the user chooses the environments (dev, test or prod). Second, they enter either the email address or the order key/id of the customer they’re trying to verify and press the Submit button
http://techblog.chegg.com/2014/02/04/meet-dave-a-tool-for-qa-productivity/

SFI ACHIEVES 15 PERCENT INCREASE IN PRODUCTIVITY


. It adopted and integrated lean manufacturing and continuous improvement principles into its culture and work processes. During this journey, it was determined that SFI's welding operations at its Memphis plant needed to be radically revamped and updated.

SFI's welders have been using the Lincoln Power Wave® machines and Power Feed™ wire feeders for nearly a year now and have seen a consistent 15-percent productivity gain.
http://www.lincolnelectric.com/it-it/support/application-stories/Pages/sfi-steel-aluminum-fabrication-productivity.aspx


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Professionalism in precision sheet metal manufacturing
A commitment to reducing waste and making key investments helps DeWys Manufacturing earn The FABRICATOR’s 2014 Industry Award
http://www.thefabricator.com/article/shopmanagement/professionalism-in-precision-sheet-metal-manufacturing

The Powermax125, a professional-grade plasma metal cutting and gouging system, that works as hard as you do. With the maximum power and performance for air plasma in our line, the Powermax125 severs 57 mm (2-1/4") thick metals at 125 mm/min (5 ipm). With 100% duty cycle and Powermax reliability, it is ready for the most demanding cutting and gouging jobs.
http://www.thefabricator.com/video/powermax125-more-power-to-build-

Increasing Marketing Productivity and ROI with Tealium iQ - Case Study
http://static.tealium.com/assets/pdf/casestudy-vintners.pdf

The McKinsey Infrastructure and Capital Productivity Academy (MICA)
Dubai
http://www.mckinsey.com/client_service/operations/expertise/capital_productivity/mckinsey_infrastructure_and_capital_productivity_academy

Productivity and Efficiency of Groundnut Farming in Northern Taraba State, Nigeria
G.B. Taphee, A.A.U. Jongur
http://infinitypress.info/index.php/jas/article/view/189


The Construction Productivity Handbook
https://www.construction-institute.org/scriptcontent/more/ir252_2d_more.cfm
http://witandwisdomofanengineer.blogspot.in/2014/02/the-construction-productivity-handbook.html


Textura-PQM Software Helps Subcontractors Improve Efficiency and Enhance Productivity
http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1298925/textura-pqm-helps-subcontractors-improve-efficiency-and-enhance-productivity


Improving productivity, efficiency and safety through automation and reliable communication infrastructure
MINING.com Editor | February 3, 2014
http://www.mining.com/web/improving-productivity-efficiency-and-safety-through-automation-and-reliable-communication-infrastructure/


Productivity and Industrial Engineering News - January 2014

Updated  2019,  28 December 2019,  27 September 2019, 26 July 2019,   27 Jan 2019,  5 January 2019

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