Productivity improvement - Engineering - Industrial Engineering - Front-line employees and others
Yesterday (17 Jan 2019) we had a discussion in the class regarding engineering contribution to productivity and industrial engineering contribution to productivity
In Times of India, 18 January 2019, in page 17 there is a news item - A 50 km tunnel through Oz mountain.
The new item says Musk quoted 800 million dollars for the tunnel. Some people commented that it was a bargain. Suppose the estimated construction cost is $500 million. This achievement is that of project engineering and it must have captured the earlier productivity ideas.
But industrial engineers may still make efforts and decrease the cost say 25 million during the 5 years of construction. This can be said to be project industrial engineering.
Apart from that the frontline operators as well as others may come up with suggestions for more productivity improvements. Let us say this also contributes another 25 million dollars. Thus all the steps contribute to productivity improvement.
Productivity improvements that are done during project implementation stage are captured at the time of design in future projects. The cycle continues.
Earlier post on the topic in 2012
Project Industrial Engineering - An Explanation
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