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Positioning Industrial Engineering in the Era of Industry 4.0, 5.0, and Beyond: Pathways to Innovation and Sustainability
45 Pages Posted: 23 Jan 2025 Last revised: 16 Jan 2025
Ocident Bongomin
Moi University; Africa Centre of Excellence II in Phytochemical, Textile and Renewable Energy (ACE II-PTRE); Ain Shams University; National Crops Resources Research Institute; Ndejje University; Pabplek Advanced Simulation and Modeling Solutions
Date Written: January 14, 2025
Abstract
Industrial Engineering (IE) has continually evolved to optimize systems and processes, addressing the demands of an ever-changing industrial landscape. From its historical roots in work organization to its current role in Industry 4.0 and the emerging Industry 5.0 paradigm, IE has remained central to fostering innovation, efficiency, and sustainability. Industry 5.0 shifts the focus to human-centric, ethical, and sustainable practices, leveraging advanced technologies such as cognitive digital twins, collaborative robots, and resilient systems to enhance human-machine collaboration and environmental responsibility. This highlights strategies for advancing the IE profession and academic programs, ensuring their relevance in the digital era. Additionally, it identifies six future research directions, including Human-AI collaboration, Adaptive and resilient systems design, advanced sustainability models, ethical and inclusive systems design, digital twin integration, and quantum computing, as key enablers for driving innovation and achieving global sustainability goals. By bridging the technological advancements of Industry 4.0 with the human-centric and sustainable objectives of Industry 5.0, IE is positioned to lead the transformation of industrial systems, fostering a resilient, inclusive, and sustainable future.
Pillars of the Industry 5.0 Used in Industrial Engineering
Florin-Daniel Edutanu, Mariana Ciorap and Dragos-Florin Chitariu
Nov 21, 2024
Bulletin of the Polytechnic Institute of Iași. Machine constructions Section
VOLUME 70 (2024): ISSUE 1 (MARCH 2024)
This paper examines the perspective through the lens of the three principles proposed by I5.0: human-centric, sustainability and resilience, which outline these new manufacturing technologies used to improve production processes in most fields, including industrial engineering. The pillars of the I5.0 concept identified in this paper will describe the amplification of this digital transformation and the more meaningful and effective collaboration between humans and machines and systems in their digital ecosystem. These pillars underpin a new industrial revolution and define a new level of organisation and control over the future entire product life cycle value chain.
Less than one hundred Scopus-indexed articles mention the 5th industrial revolution (5IR) in their titles or abstracts starting from 2016. Also, many works can be found in Google Scholar. So, what is the difference between the 4th and the 5th industrial revolutions?
Rundle (2017) describes the 5IR as being faster, more scalable, and affecting more people through the nature of the technology at their disposal than previous ones. The European Economic and Social Committee (2018) describes the 5IR as "…focused on combining human beings' creativity and craftsmanship with the speed, productivity and consistency of robots" (EESC, 2018).
The Fifth Industrial Revolution, 5IR, is the idea of people and machines working together harmoniously, emphasizing the well-being of multiple stakeholders ― society, businesses, workers and customers. It thus paves the way for an (r)evolution in thinking about and harnessing human-machine collaboration for greater societal well-being (Noble, 2022).
The European Economic and Social Committee (2018) describes the 5IR as "…focused on combining human beings' creativity and craftsmanship with the speed, productivity and consistency of robots" (EESC, 2018).
We can see one focus of IE 5.0 "combining human beings' creativity and craftsmanship with the speed, productivity and consistency of robots". This is the human effort industrial engineering focus in IE 5.0. In IE 4.0 the focus is on understanding connected machines, devices and using them in processes to increase productivity.
Blog Book - Industrial Engineering 4.0 - IE in the Era of Industry 4.0
European industry is a key driver in the economic and societal transitions that we are currently undergoing.
In order to remain the engine of prosperity, industry must lead the digital and green transitions.
This approach provides a vison of industry that aims beyond efficiency and productivity as the sole goals, and reinforces the role and the contribution of industry to society.
It places the wellbeing of the worker at the centre of the production process and uses new technologies to provide prosperity beyond jobs and growth while respecting the production limits of the planet.
It complements the existing "Industry 4.0" approach by specifically putting research and innovation at the service of the transition to a sustainable, human-centric and resilient European industry.
Why Industry 5.0?
Industries can play an active role in providing solutions to challenges for society including the preservation of resources, climate change and social stability.
The Industry of the Future approach brings benefits for industry, for workers and for society.
It empowers workers, as well as addresses the evolving skills and training needs of employees. It increases the competitiveness of industry and helps attract the best talents.
It is good for our planet as it favours circular production models and support technologies that make the use of natural resources more efficient.
Revising existing value chains and energy consumption practices can also make industries more resilient against external shocks, such as Covid-19 crisis.
How to make it happen?
This approach to industry contributes to 3 of the Commission’s priorities: "An economy that works for people", "European Green Deal" and "Europe fit for the digital age".
Elements related to the future of industry are already part of major Commission policy initiatives
adopting a human-centric approach for digital technologies including artificial intelligence (Proposal for AI regulation)
up-skilling and re-skilling European workers, particularly digital skills (Skills Agenda and Digital Education Action plan)
modern, resource-efficient and sustainable industries and transition to a circular economy (Green Deal)
a globally competitive and world-leading industry, speeding up investment in research and innovation (Industrial Strategy)
These are just some examples that demonstrate the strong links between the industrial transition and other societal developments.
Experts from research and technology organisations as well as funding agencies discussed the Industry 5.0 concept during 2 virtual workshops on 2 and 9 July 2020.
ESIR a high-level expert group advising the Commission on how to develop a forward-looking and transformative research and innovation policy, are currently developing a new policy brief on industry. It will provide concrete policy recommendations and actions for attaining Industry of the Future goals and will provide an important basis for advancing European and national-level policy initiatives and making sure the development is in line with the Commission's political priorities.
The growing number of companies, businesses organizations, and governments referring to INDUSTRY 5.0 and calling it "THE FUTURE STRATEGY results in the need to prepare and share the outline of INDUSTRY 5.0 global development for the next two years.
I hope it will help you to understand and to see your role in the global transformative journey that turns the EARTH from a global landfill to BLUE MARBLE again
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A FRAMEWORK FOR DESIGNING WORK SYSTEMS IN
INDUSTRY 4.0.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING DESIGN, ICED19
TPS is Industrial Engineering System of Toyota Motors.
Taiichi Ohno on Industrial Engineering
Taiichi Ohno in Toyota Production System: Beyond Large Scale Production,
Advocating Profit-Making Industrial Engineering
After World War II, the United States influenced Japan greatly in many ways.
Aggressive Japanese businesses imported and adopted America's high-level production and manufacturing technology. In academia and business, a great number of American business management techniques were also studied and discussed. For example, Japanese businesses carefully studied industrial engineering (IE), a company-wide manufacturing technology directly tied to management that was developed and applied in the United States.
Defining industrial engineering seems to be fairly difficult. When first introduced, it was pointed out that the Toyota production system was method engineering (ME), not IE. Don't be confused over the meanings.
To me, IE is not a partial production technology but rather a total manufacturing technology reaching the whole business organization. In other words, IE is a system and the Toyota production system may be regarded as Toyota style IE.
What is the difference between traditional IE and the Toyota system? In brief, Toyota style IE is mekeru or profitmaking IE, known as MIE.
Unless IE results in cost reductions and profit increases, I think it is meaningless.
There are various definitions of IE. A former head of the American Steel Workers' Union defined its function as that of entering a plant to improve methods and procedures and to reduce costs. And this is exactly so.
"IE is the use of techniques and systems to improve the method of manufacturing. In scope it: ranges from work simplification to large-scale capital investment plans."'
"IE has two meanings. One aims at improving work methods in the plant or in a particular work activity. The other one means the specialized study of time and action. However, this is the work of a technician. Essentially, an industrial engineer studies systematic approaches to improvements. "
I would like to add a definition from the Society for Advancement of Management (SAM), an organization that succeeded the Taylor Society:
Industrial engineering applies engineering knowledge and techniques for the study, improvement, planning, and iniplementation of the following:
1. method and system,
2. qualitative and quantitative planning and various standards including the various procedures in the organization of work,
3. measuring actual results under the standards and taking suitable actions.
This is all done to exercise better management with special consideration for employee welfare, and it does not restrict business to lowering the cost of improved products and services.'
I have listed various IE definitions, each saying good things, because they are useful references. However, in private business, implementing IE effectively is not easy.
The reason I call Toyota's industrial engineering profitmaking IE is my wish that the Toyota production system born and raised at Toyota Motor Company be comparable or superior to the American IE's business management and manufacturing system.
We are very happy that the Toyota production system has become, as I intended, a company-wide manufacturing technology directly tied to management. And, fortunately, it is extending to the outside cooperating firms as well.
Quotes from Above.
Japanese businesses carefully studied industrial engineering (IE), a company-wide manufacturing technology directly tied to management that was developed and applied in the United States.
When first introduced, it was pointed out that the Toyota production system was method engineering (ME), not IE.
TPS is Industrial Engineering System of Toyota Motors.
IE is a system and the Toyota production system may be regarded as Toyota style IE.
Toyota style IE is mekeru or profitmaking IE, known as MIE.
Unless IE results in cost reductions and profit increases, I think it is meaningless.
Essentially, an industrial engineer studies systematic approaches to improvements.
It is my wish that the Toyota production system born and raised at Toyota Motor Company be comparable or superior to the American IE's business management and manufacturing system.
Industrial engineering (IE), a company-wide manufacturing technology directly tied to management that was developed and applied in the United States.
We are very happy that the Toyota production system has become, as I intended, a company-wide manufacturing technology directly tied to management.
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Taiichi Ohno repeats what Taylor said. Improve every element of an operation/process.
Improve machining processes, install autonomous systems, improve tools, rearrange machines, improve transportation methods. Examine available resources and the materials at hand for manufacturing. optimize their use.
Prevent the recurrence of defective products, operational mistakes, and accidents, and by incorporate workers' ideas."
Toyota Industrial Engineering that is Ohno's Industrial Engineering is improving every element of the process and reducing every delay, defect and machine breakdown (Naryana Rao)
Toyota style Industrial Engineering - Ohno
"We have eliminated waste by examining available resources, rearranging machines, improving machining processes, installing autonomous systems, improving tools, analyzing transportation methods and optimizing the materials at hand for manufacturing. High production efficiency has also been maintained by preventing the recurrence of defective products, operational mistakes, and accidents, and by incorporating workers' ideas." Taiichi Ohno (P. 21)
Source: Taiichi Ohno, Toyota Production System: Beyond Large Scale Production, pp. 21-22.
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Japanese businesses carefully studied industrial engineering (IE), a company wide manufacturing technology improvement discipline that is directly tied to management.
The success of Toyota in cost reduction, productivity improvement, and international competitiveness and its celebrated Toyota Production System, fulfilled the dream of Yoichi Ueno (that Japan can guide US in improved practices of efficiency improvement). The success of #Toyota and the World Class #TPS was built on the sustained efforts many Japanese persons who understood Taylor and Gilbreth's writings and improvised them in implementing them in Japanese companies.
Summarized from Taiichi Ohno's Book - Toyota Production System: Beyond Large Scale Production,
IE is not a partial technology improvement discipline but it is a total manufacturing technology improvement discipline reaching the whole organization. Toyota production system utilizes Toyota-style IE.
Jun. 17, 2020. Toyota Launches New Model Harrier in Japan
Toyota style industrial engineering is mokeru or profit-making industrial engineerng (MIE). Unless IE results in cost reductions and profit increases, I (Taiichi Ohno) think it is meaningless.
A former head of the American Steel Workers' Union defined IE's function as that of entering a plant to improve methods and procedures and to reduce costs.
"IE is the use of techniques and systems to improve the method of manufacturing. In scope it ranges from work simplifications to large-scale capital investment plans"
IE aims at improving work methods in the plant or in a particular work activity. An industrial engineer studies systematic approaches to improvements.
Definition of IE according to Society for Advancement of Management (Successor to Taylor Society)
Industrial engineering applies engineering knowledge and techniques for the study, improvement, planning and implementation of the following:
1. Method and system
2. Qualitative and quantitative planning and various standards including the various procedures in the organization of work.
3. Measuring actual results under the standards and taking suitable actions.
This is all done to exercise better management with special consideration for employee welfare, and it does not restrict business to lowering the cost of improved products and services.
Ohno said he included various definitions as each is good description. But he indicated that implementing IE effectively is not easy.
Ohno made a wish that IE as used in Toyota will be superior to the IE used in American Business.
Toyota style Industrial Engineering - Ohno
"We have eliminated waste by examining available resources, rearranging machines, improving machining processes, installing autonomous systems, improving tools, analyzing transportation methods and optimizing the materials at hand for manufacturing. High production efficiency has also been maintained by preventing the recurrence of defective products, operational mistakes, and accidents, and by incorporating workers' ideas." Taiichi Ohno (P. 21)
Source: Taiichi Ohno, Toyota Production System: Beyond Large Scale Production, pp. 71-72.
Japanese Leaders in Efficiency - Productivity Movement - Industrial Engineering.
Taylor's Industrial Engineering in New Framework - Narayana Rao
Industrial Engineering - Definition Principles of Industrial Engineering Functions of Industrial Engineering - Productivity Science - Productivity Engineering - Productivity Management. Focus Areas of Industrial Engineering Machine Work Study
Industrial Engineering is System Efficiency Engineering.
It includes Machine Effort and Human Effort Industrial Engineering.
Industrial Engineering is concerned with efficiency design or productivity design during initial product or process design and productivity improvement on a continuous basis during the life of the product and process. Industrial engineers participate in the installation of processes and process improvement projects and take full responsibility to make their designs or design modifications actual implementations and results generators.
Engineers and design and produce.
Value Creation for the Organization by Industrial Engineers
Industrial engineering learners have to understand the potential for value creation by them in the companies. The compensation or income received is always related to the value created by a professional. Hence for industrial engineering students as well as professionals, understanding value creation potential is extremely important. A model is presented in this essay on value creation (2020).
Value Creation for the Organization by Industrial Engineers - Productivity Engineering Potential
Online Education/Training Session on "Effective Industrial Engineering and Productivity Management."
I developed an online education/training session on "Effective Industrial Engineering and Productivity Management." I can present the session in one hour, one and half hour or two-hour long sessions. The sessions will be valuable when company industrial engineers and other engineers and managers attend as a group. Industrial engineers require active cooperation and participation of other engineers and managers in their studies and projects. Hence a common presentation and discussion on effectiveness will be very useful.
Supporting Information.
Effective Industrial Engineering - Some Thoughts by Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.
Effective industrial engineering has to satisfy management about the contribution it made to the organization year after year.
The prime contribution of IE has to be cost reduction through productivity improvement.
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Industrial engineers (IE) are employed and productivity improvement and cost reduction are practiced in many companies using IE philosophy, principles, methods, techniques and tools. Apple Inc. - Industrial Engineering Activities and Jobs
It is important that industrial engineers have to recognize that scientific management was evaluated by Lilian Gilbreth, a psychologist from a human behavior perspective and a positive opinion was given. Industrial engineering, appeared as a part of the system of management and engineering developed to reduce cost of products made using engineering processes and methods.
After discussing the contribution of Taylor and Gilbreth in more detail, the contribution of many other industrial engineering researchers, professionals, consultants and authors are provided in a series of notes to introduce more industrial engineering concepts. These concepts and their applications will be discussed in more detail in various focus area modules of the course.
Unless special effort to know is made, engineers take 10 years to know engineering developments and implement them in their company processes - L.D. MILES.
Prime Turning (TM) - New Turning Process with High Productivity
RE-INVENTING TURNING, SANDVIK COROMANT TECHNICAL PAPER, 2018 https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/06/sandvik-coromant-cutting-tools.html
Toyota style Industrial Engineering - Waste Elimination - Ohno
"We have eliminated waste by examining available resources, rearranging machines, improving machining processes, installing autonomous systems, improving tools, analyzing transportation methods and optimizing the materials at hand for manufacturing. High production efficiency has also been maintained by preventing the recurrence of defective products, operational mistakes, and accidents, and by incorporating workers' ideas." Taiichi Ohno (P. 21)
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The success of Toyota in cost reduction, productivity improvement, and international competitiveness and its celebrated Toyota Production System, fulfilled the dream of Yoichi Ueno (that Japan can guide US in improved practices of efficiency improvement). The success of #Toyota and the World Class #TPS was built on the sustained efforts many Japanese persons who understood Taylor and Gilbreth's writings and improvised them in implementing them in Japanese companies.
Sakichi Toyoda - Toyoda Loom Works - invented an automatic power loom, Jikoda (autonomous automation), 5 Whys
Kiichiro Toyoda - dreamed of branching into automobiles, started in 1933.
Frustrated by difficulties in engine casting, begins process study.
1936 - creates Kaizen improvement teams
Resigned 1948 due to poor sales.
Department of War TWI program -
1950 - Deming visits Japan. at request of Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers, June-August 1950, trains 100s of engineers, managers and scholars in statistical process control and quality.
JUSE - > Genichi Taguchi - consults with Toyota
In 1957 cousin Eiji Toyoda takes over. Visits Ford. Implements Ford mass production standards.
Frederick Taylor's PSM -> Shigeo Shingo
Toyota Production System
Many folks may think that Japan achieved market dominance through robots, or being workaholics. Not so.
Taiichii Ohno - graduated from Nagoya Technical High School, joined Toyota in 1943 -
Shigeo Shingo - late 50s to 60s - consulting with Toyota
Eiji Toyoda..
Started in 1948 - based on work of Deming
muri - inconsistency
mura - overburden
muda - waste
design out mura - be able to meet required results smoothly - Tai Chi
decrease muri - increase flexibility without stress - Yoga
eliminate muda - eliminate waste - Shaolin Kung-Fu
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to remove. - Saint-Exupery
Unable to eliminate bottlenecks in production
EOQ - Economic Lot Size - calculation of best use of line, production must be high enough to meet demand for different models
different model = different parts, different dies, different procedures, different tools
high downtime for line changeover = high economic lot size
high economic lot size = high stock of parts inventory
high stock of inventory = investment of $$$, land costs in Japan are expensive, high cost for big warranty
lesser diversity of models
First - rework factory and models to make use of standard parts, tools, and processes.
Next goal is SMED
biggest component of changeover is die exchange
examine process -
die weighs many tons
use crane to remove old and install new
requires minute measurement to put into place
done by hand and by eye
tested by making test stampings, wasting time and resources
process took 12 hours to 3 days
improve
invest in precision measurement devices
record necessary measurements for each die
install according to measurements rather than by hand and eye - changeover to 90 minutes
FRS - fixed repeating schedule
die changes in standard sequence
scheduling tool changeovers as the new product moved through factory
scheduling use of cranes
SMED achieved
Single Minute Exchange of Die
<10 minutes to change die.
EOQ = 1 vehicle.
Just in time manufacturing
intangible benefits
stockless production
reduction of process footprint = free floor space
productivity increased
ability to changeover more
elimination of defects
improved quality of each product
improved quality from
increased safety due to simpler setup
simplified housekeeping
lower expense of setup
operator preferred = better worker satisfaction
lower skill requirements
elimination of waste
goods are not lost due to deterioration in inventory
new attitudes on work process among staff
Source:
TPS by Ken Harris
http://knol.google.com/ k/ken-harris/tps/ 6p1yn013rxws/2
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Kaizen eno Yon Dankai - Improvement in 4 Steps - History of Kaizen in Japan
The course's first module is introduction to industrial engineering. It starts with history of industrial engineering.
The second module describes the fundamental IE concepts initiated by Taylor, Gilbreth, Emerson, Gantt. In the second generation industrial engineers the contribution of Maynard and Barnes are highlighted. Then we have Japanese contributions. The contribution of Shigeo Shingo is specially included.
The developments in industrial engineering since 1880 were formulated into a discipline of engineering in 1908 by Prof. Diemer. The developments up to 2017 were summarized as principles of engineering by Narayana Rao and were presented in the IISE Annual Conference at Pittsburgh. The paper is part of the proceedings of the conference.
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The third module takes the principle of productivity science forward.
The following modules are the discussion of the principle of productivity engineering, the primary engineering activity or the primary activity of industrial engineering.
2. F.W. Taylor, made comments in ASME Annual meetings.
3. F.W. Taylor presented paper discussing cost aspects of belt transmission practices and gave his suggestions for minimizing costs associated with belt transmission systems.
4. F.W. Taylor presented a paper outlining a system to increase productivity of machine - man combination (A department to study time taken by machines and men and minimize the time taken was advocated. Time study. This department became industrial engineering department).
4a. The need for an engineer who understands cost aspects of engineering decisions was outlined. Such an engineer was called as industrial engineer or production engineer. (Harvard Business School faculty member 1901)
8. Industrial engineering course was started in Penn State College by Prof. Diemer in 1908.
9. Principles of Scientific Management was published by F.W. Taylor. Productivity science, Productivity Engineering, and Productivity Management was proposed in these principles (1911).
10. C.B. Going authors the book, Principles of Industrial Engineering in 1911.
12. Time study according to Taylor is breaking a task (process and operation) into elements and examining every feature and its relation to time taken to complete the element. Taylor advocated study of number of operators doing the same element to identify the method of doing the element in minimum time. Thus a best practice is identified and based on this and other observation, development of productivity science of the element has to be developed. Time measurement is involved, but more important is understanding the relation between various features and time taken.
An operation has to be improved by selection of elements each taking minimum time (combination of best practice elements.)
13. Motion study is to be done by recording motions of each hand of the operator (Gilbreth). Workmen use different motions when they want to do fast work. Even Gilbreth advocates study of multiple operators to identify the fastest motions giving quality work. Gilbreth recognized time measurement to identify the fastest methods of doing work.
14. Process Chart was proposed by Gilbreths in 1921 to record the process in terms of operations or tasks of different categories.
Therefore we can see the role of element improvement, operation improvement and process improvement in total improvement of processes.
16. A factory has many processes being used parallely. Production of each part is a process. Factory facilities are to be selected to maximize efficiency of processes. Processes have to take less time and cost less.
17. H.B. Maynard developed a popular predetermined human motion measurement system (MTM).
18. Based on observations of motions, Gilbreth developed principles of motion economy - part of productivity science of human effort. Prof. Barnes did number of experimental studies on these principles.
19. The engineering done by industrial engineers to increase productivity can be categorized into three important areas. Facilities Industrial Engineering, Product Industrial Engineering, and Process Industrial Engineering
20. The main methods of product industrial engineering are value analysis & value engineering and design for machining & assembly. Value analysis identifies opportunities for value improvement. Value engineering develops the concepts for improvement and does the detailed engineering to implement the concept.
21. Process industrial engineering uses process charts to describe the process (say process of producing a part) comprehensively in terms of operations. The operations included in the process are termed as operation (material processing or transformation), inspection, transport, storage and temporary delays. Industrial engineers have to improve each of the operations in terms of improving its elements to increase productivity and reduce cost.
22. Process level analysis is termed ECRS method. E stands for examining the effectiveness of operation in contributing to the completion of the process. If the output of the operation is not satisfactory to the customer, it has to be modified first to make it effective. Only effective operations have to examined for increasing efficiency without affecting effectiveness. Effectiveness first, efficiency next is to be a principle of industrial engineering. E also represents eliminate. If the operation is redundant or can be eliminated by changes in any other operation, it can be totally removed from the process. The possibility of such an occurrence has to be investigated.
C represents combining two operations in sequence. This is reducing of division of labor in the process. Similarly even the possibility of splitting an operation further and doing it on two different machines or work stations can also be examined. This is increasing division of labor.
R represent rearrangement of operations. The sequence of operations is changed to get productivity advantage.
S stands for simplification or improvement of the operation. For doing it operation analysis needs to be done.
In a process, 5 types of operations are identified. Material processing, inspection, transport, storage and delay. Operations occur in processes. For each operation included in the process, a detailed operation detail sheet has to be prepared for analyzing the operation and improving it. Analyzing the operation involves evaluation of engineering and managerial elements. Industrial engineers need to have full knowledge of the elements related to the processes under their management. Then only they can identify waste and improvement opportunities based on the questions raised in the analysis.
24. Material Processing Operations
Machines, material, men and many other consumable materials, energy and information are used in material processing operations. In manufacturing, it is engineering that drives this operation. Industrial engineers need to have full knowledge of basic production processes or methods, various machines and accessories, cutting tools and other consumable used. The core elemental activities involved are information transfer, setting up the machine, loading the work piece, machining or machine activity, and unloading the work piece, and operator inspection of the incoming material, in-process work piece and finished work piece.
25. Inspection Operations
Normally in a process chart practice, the inspection carried out by a specially designated inspector is included as this operation. To improve inspection operations, the IE has to know in detail the measuring instruments and measuring processes.
To do productivity engineering of processes, Industrial engineers have to learn new technology as it appears.
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About AI - A new technology.
Moving Beyond Islands of Experimentation to AI Everywhere
The agile teams needed to kick-start artificial intelligence must give way to companywide structures in order to scale the technology across a business. - Amit Joshi, Ivy Buche, and Miguel Paredes Sadler
Company has to make the technology available and train persons. In the case of industrial engineering, it is industrial engineers who have to evaluate and implement AI in each element of the processes as appropriate and rational. No doubt process designers have to implement AI in each of the processes. The AI technology team has to train process designers and industrial engineers in engineering
