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Principles of Human Effort Industrial Engineering.


1.Develop a science for each element of a man - machine system's work related to efficiency and productivity.
2. Human Effort Industrial  Engineering for Increasing Productivity - Principle of Industrial Engineering
3. Motion Economy - Principle of Industrial Engineering
4.Operator Comfort and Health - Principle of Industrial Engineering
5. Selection of Operators - Principle of Industrial Engineering
6.Principles of Equity in Compensation
7. Productivity Methods Training - Principle of Industrial Engineering
8.Work Simplification Education and Training  to All - Principle of Industrial Engineering
9. Continuous Improvement - Employee Participation Principle of Industrial Engineering 
10. Productivity Incentives - Principle of Industrial Engineering
11. Principles of Differences in Productivity or Output of a person
12. Hearty Cooperation - Principle of Industrial Engineering
13.Respect for People Principle of Toyota Way.


Principles of Human Effort Industrial Engineering in Detail.


Develop a science for each element of a man - machine system's work related to efficiency and productivity.


The productivity science developed is the foundation for industrial engineering in productivity engineering and productivity management phases.

F.W. Taylor made the initial experiments to develop productivity science of machines as well as for men. The experiments done by Taylor in the case of machines, tools and cutting parameters were many over a period of 30 years. Similarly, Gilbreth proposed and wrote on the development of science for human effort and he published number of papers in the area of productivity science of human effort. Ralph Barnes did his Phd work in the area of productivity science of human effort.


“Productivity science is scientific effort, that in any specific work situation, identifies the appropriate philosophy, culture, systems, processes, technology, methods and human physical action and behavior and elements of each of them of that will maximize positive (social, environmental and economic) outcomes relative to the resources consumed.” - Narayana Rao (IISE 2020 Annual Conference Proceedings)

Human Effort Industrial  Engineering for Increasing Productivity - Principle of Industrial Engineering


Human resources employed in engineering systems have their own needs. Industrial engineers are unique in engineering disciplines in taking up the engineering of human effort. They have to synthesize the theories of human sciences, some of which are developed by industrial engineering also, to design human work for an optimal combination of productivity, income, comfort, health, safety and satisfaction of the employed.

IISE - BOEING EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR Human Effort Industrial  Engineering

BOEING EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR COLLABORATION IN PRODUCTIVITY, WORKPLACE SAFETY AND ERGONOMICS

Sponsored by The Boeing Company
Recognizes the strategy and policy deployment that is the context of work in the area of productivity, safety and ergonomics. How does this project, initiative fit in the overall organization’s operational excellence initiatives?

Eligibility: 

IISE members. Members of the IISE Board of Trustees and Honors Steering Committee are ineligible.
Criteria: 

Quantified impact on productivity, workplace safety and ergonomics
Innovative solutions with potential for broad application
Collaborative efforts between industry and academia
Contributions to IE profession


Motion Economy - Principle of Industrial Engineering


Operators use motions to work manually using hand tools and or to operate machines. Principles of motion economy were developed by Gilbreth and others based on the productivity science developed out of the frameworks created by Taylor and Gilbreth. They need to be employed in human effort industrial engineering in all engineering activities of the processes producing goods or services. Many of these principles are applicable in human effort applied to non-engineering activities also.


Principles of Motion Economy


Use of the Human Body

1. The two hands should begin as well as complete their motions at the same time.

2. The two hands should not be idle at the same time except during rest periods.

3. Motions of the arms should be made in opposite and symmetrical directions and should be made simultaneously.

4. Hand and body motions should be confined to the lowest classification with which it is possible to perform the work satisfactorily.

5. Momentum should be employed to assist the worker wherever possible, and it should be reduced to a minimum if it must be overcome by muscular effort.

6. Smooth continuous motion of the hands are preferable to straight line motions involving sudden and sharp changes in direction.

7. Ballistic movements are faster, easier and more accurate than restricted (fixation) or controlled movements.

8. Work should be arranged to permit an easy and natural rhythm wherever possible.

9. Eye fixations should be as few and as close together as possible.


Arrangement of the workplace

10. There should be a definite and fixed place for all tools and materials.

11. Tools, materials and controls should be located close to the point of use.

12. Gravity feed bins and containers should be used to deliver material close to the point of use.

13. Drop deliveries should be used wherever possible.

14. Materials and tools should be located to permit the best sequence of motions.

15. Provisions should be made for adequate conditions for seeing. Good illumination is the first requirement for satisfactory visual perception.

16. The height of the work place and the chair should preferably arranged so that alternate sitting and standing at work are easily possible.

17. A chair of the type and height to permit good posture should be provided for every worker.

Design of tools and equipment

18. The hands should be relieved of all work that can be done more advantageously by a jig, a fixture, or a foot-operated device.

19. Two or more tools should be combined wherever possible.

20. Tools and materials should be prepositioned whenever possible.

21. Where each finger performs some specific movement, such as in typewriting, the load should be distributed in accordance with the inherent capacities of the fingers.

22. Levers, hand wheels and other controls should be located in such positions that the operator can manipulate them with the least change in body position and with the greatest speed and ease.

References

Ralph M. Barnes, Motion and Time Study Measurment of Work, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980


Operator Comfort and Health - Principle of Industrial Engineering


As human effort engineers, industrial engineers are concerned with comfort and health of operators.

The productivity improvement and the consequent extra production from a man-machine combination should not lead to discomfort, fatigue and musculoskeletal disorders.

Principles of Ergonomics

1. Work in neutral postures
2. Reduce excessive forces
3. Keep everything in easy reach
4. Work at proper heights
5. Reduce excessive motions
6. Minimize fatigue and static load
7. Minimize pressure points
8. Provide clearance
9. Move exercise and stretch
10. Maintain a comfortable environment

Good explanation with illustrations is available in  http://www.danmacleod.com/ErgoForYou/10_principles_of_ergonomics.htm


Principles of Fatigue



Fatigue refers to the issues that arise from excessive working time or poorly designed shift patterns. It is generally considered to be a decline in mental and/or physical performance that results from prolonged exertion, sleep loss and/or disruption of the internal clock. It is also related to workload, in that workers are more easily fatigued if their work is machine-paced, complex or monotonous.

Fatigue results in slower reactions, reduced ability to process information, memory lapses, absent-mindedness, decreased awareness, lack of attention, underestimation of risk, reduced coordination etc. Fatigue can lead to errors and accidents, ill-health and injury, and reduced productivity. It is often a root cause of major accidents


Key principles in fatigue


1.Fatigue needs to be managed, like any other hazard.
2.It is important not to underestimate the risks of fatigue. For example, the incidence of accidents and injuries has been found to be higher on night shifts, after a succession of shifts, when shifts are long and when there are inadequate breaks.
3.The legal duty is on employers to manage risks from fatigue, irrespective of any individual’s willingness to work extra hours or preference for certain shift patterns for social reasons. Compliance with the Working Time Regulations alone is insufficient to manage the risks of fatigue.
4.Changes to working hours need to be risk assessed. The key considerations should be the principles contained in HSE’s guidance. Risk assessment may include the use of tools such as HSE’s ‘fatigue risk index’.
5.Employees should be consulted on working hours and shift patterns. However, note that employees may prefer certain shift patterns that are unhealthy and likely to cause fatigue.
6.Develop a policy that specifically addresses and sets limits on working hours, overtime and shift-swapping, and which guards against fatigue.
7.Implement the policy and make arrangements to monitor and enforce it. This may include developing a robust system of recording working hours, overtime, shift-swapping and on-call working.
8.Problems with overtime and shift-swapping may indicate inadequate resource allocation and staffing levels.
9.There are many different shift work-schedules and each schedule has different features. This sheer diversity of work and workplaces means that there is no single optimal shift system that suits everyone. However, a planned and systematic approach to assessing and managing the risks of shift work can improve the health and safety of workers.
10.There are a number of key risk factors in shift schedule design, which must be considered when assessing and managing the risks of shift work. These are the workload, the work activity, shift timing and duration, direction of rotation and the number and length of breaks during and between shifts. Other features of the workplace environment such as the physical environment, management issues and employee welfare can also contribute to the risks associated with shift work.
11.Sleep disturbances can lead to a ‘sleep debt’ and fatigue. Night workers are particularly at risk of fatigue because their day sleep is often lighter, shorter and more easily disturbed because of daytime noise and a natural reluctance to sleep during daylight.

( Source: http://www.hse.gov.uk/humanfactors/topics/fatigue.htm    )

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/07/operator-comfort-and-health-principle.html

Selection of Operators - Principle of Industrial Engineering


There has to be science that guides selection of operators. Management has to select persons based on specified criteria for each category of jobs and then train them specially. Now it is being termed competence based approach. Taylor made it a principle in scientific management. Physical capacity, intelligence, aptitude,  knowledge, skill etc. are to be specified for each job category and appropriate way of testing people for these specifications are to be developed by management.

Principles of Equity in Compensation


In Equity Theory Towards a General Theory of Social Interaction (The Academic Press, 1976), J. Stacy Adams proposed that an employee continuously monitors his or her inputs and outputs on the job, and perceives an equitable situation when the ratio of his or her inputs and outputs are equal, to those of other employees. If this ratio is not equal, the employee may feel angry (as a result of not being paid enough) or guilty (as a result of being paid too much). Either feeling could result in dissatisfaction or discomfort.

(  Pay equity: Iinternal and external considerations  )


Productivity Methods Training - Principle of Industrial Engineering

Taylor emphasized the importance of training in creating a change in the systems of an organization in his writings. The following discussion is from Shop Management.

The most important and difficult task of the organizer (of change)  will be that of selecting and training the various functional foremen who are to lead and instruct the workmen, and his success will be measured principally by his ability to mold and reach these men. They cannot be found, they must be made. They must be instructed in their new functions largely, in the beginning at least, by the organizer himself; and this instruction, to be effective, should be mainly in actually doing the work. Explanation and theory will go a little way, but actual doing is needed to carry conviction.

To illustrate: For nearly two and one-half years in the large shop of the Bethlehem Steel Company, one speed boss after another was instructed in the art of cutting metals fast on a large motor-driven lathe which was especially fitted to run at any desired speed within a very wide range. The work done in this machine was entirely connected, either with the study of cutting tools or the instruction of speed bosses. It was most interesting to see these men, principally either former gang bosses or the best workmen, gradually change from their attitude of determined and positive opposition to that in most cases of enthusiasm for, and earnest support of, the new methods. It was actually running the lathe themselves according to the new method and under the most positive and definite orders that produced the effect. The writer himself ran the lathe and instructed the first few bosses. It required from three weeks to two months for each man.
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/08/train-operators-in-high-productivity.html

The speed foreman of the shop must be able to train operators to achieve specified productivity.
The quality foreman of the shop must be able to train operators to produced the specified quality in specified standard time. - F.W. Taylor.


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

Continuous Improvement - Employee Participation Principle of Industrial Engineering 

Productivity Incentives - Principle of Industrial Engineering

Productivity improvement will be done only when it is beneficial to people involved. Customers, employees and company have to get the benefit. Customers have to get price reduction, employees extra income and company extra profits through cost reduction per unit.

In the initial days of implementation of new productivity methods or process, employees are given incentives in proportion to the incremental extra production achieved and it is called incentive. After the process is stabilized, the fixed monthly or weekly payments are increased. Incentives are offered once again when new more productive methods are implemented.


Principles of Differences in Productivity or Output of a person

It is empirically observed by IEs that in a group of workers there can be difference of 100% in output between the top performing worker and the lowest performance workers.


Hearty Cooperation - Principle of Industrial Engineering



How to develop hearty cooperation?

F.W. Taylor included hearty cooperation as a principles in Scientific management. But how to achieve hearty cooperation was not described by him. As an engineer by education and profession, he is not the right person to discuss how to achieve it. In his writing he might have mention some acts he has done to increase cooperation.  Henri Fayol in his essay on "General and Industrial Administration" also included cooperation as a principle. Chester Barnard discussed cooperation in much more detail. At the present moment, Organizational Behavior is the subject that is discussing cooperation in more detail as the subject is concerned with managers and employees in organizations.

Industrial engineers have to master the subject of Organizational Behavior, implement it in the practice and must engage continuous discussion regarding the utility and limitation of the concepts, relations, and implications developed so far in the discipline.

Respect for People Principle of Toyota Way.
(Added on 12.9.2022)

We respect others, make every effort to understand each other, take responsibility, and do our best to build mutual trust.

Toyota Way - As Described by Toyota Officially

Related Materials

Human Factors Engineering Considerations in Safety - Principles and Practices










Ud  11.7.2024,   27.10.2023,12.9.2022, 22.10.2022
Pub 17.2.2012

(C) K.V.S.S. Narayana Rao, 2012, 2021
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2026 Machine Shop Engineering, Technology & Industrial Engineering - Productivity Improvement & Cost Reduction News

 


Say YES to Knowledge Based Industrial Engineering. 

Use recent developments in engineering & technologies in process improvement for productivity. Develop files for each production process and accumulate the items of your interest. Do knowledge management.

Forward Thinking About Productivity: Assess each engineering and technology develop about its productivity benefit for the processes of your organization.
 

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Published 01/23/2026
Putting the "Plate" Gage to Use
How do you measure tight-tolerance parts on a plate gage without stumbling into subtle errors? George Schuetz explains his process.
George Schuetz
Director of Precision Gages, Mahr Inc.
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Troubleshooting Processes Experiencing Drift or Shift
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Scaling intelligently by getting more from your people, your equipment, your data and your decisions is a worthy goal for the new year

Scaling /growing/expanding Under Constraint: Machining Technology Investment Strategies for 2026.


Every machine, system and software package must earn its keep inside your strategic plan. Even tools and other accessories have to be acquired rationally.

Novo Modo, the young five-axis shop  is a clear example. Instead of chasing pricier hardware, founder Joseph Alonso focused on workholding and repeatable cells. Crimping parts and using windowed frames instead of machining dovetails is a small change, but it eliminates entire operations, setups and the need for a separate “dovetail machine.” Standardized offsets and modular zero-point workholding dropped setup time from an hour to a few minutes, and a complex satellite gimbal can go from a 45-pound block to a finished, 2.5-pound part in a single operation.  Novo Modo’s advantage is how its fixtures, preparation and workflow elevate  cell and make it give more output. 

FANUC's calls AI Servo Tuning helps when servo behavior is the root cause of a surface finish flaw or contour issu., This tool lets a technician diagnose and correct it in minutes instead of days. When “identical” machines are not behaving identically, it helps bring them in line. 

Shops that routinely handle materials like Inconel get ahead by being intentional with end mills and cutting strategies: tool materials that balance hardness and toughness, geometries and coatings that hold a sharp edge and tool paths that manage heat. Taken together, those choices can dramatically increase metal removal rates in tough materials, and the only “new investment” necessary is better decision-making.

American Precision Museum's  “Innovation Station”  traces  a line from handwork to line shafts to done-in-one machining, robotics and 3D printing. Capabilities advance incrementally as each generation combines more operations and reduces variation.

Scaling intelligently by getting more from your people, your equipment, your data and your decisions is a worthy goal for the new year

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Maintenance System Industrial Engineering








News - Information for Maintenance Operation Analysis


University of Reims Champagne Ardenne
MAINTENANCE AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING (GIM)

UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGICAL DEGREE IN MAINTENANCE AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING (GIM)
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Maintenance system  industrial engineering is the study of resource use in various maintenance activities with a view to increasing the efficiency or eliminating the waste wherever possible. While the maintenance is carried out to keep the machines and equipment in good condition to perform, resources are used the activity. This resource use is carefully investigated by the industrial engineering to identify and remove waste. Industrial engineering succeeded in reducing the cost of many processes designed in the first iteration by the managers by significant percentage and hence it is a very important activity in systems design or systems engineering.

Famous example of  manufacturing industrial engineering, is Henry Ford's production system redesign, that reduced the price of the automobile by half. Taylor reduced cost of many manufacturing activities. Gilbreth and Harrigton Emerson also achieved similar cost reduction in construction activity and rail road operations.

Industrial engineering has two components - System efficiency engineering and Human effort industrial engineering.

In another explanation, we can say industrial engineering consists of productivity science, productivity engineering and productivity management.


System Industrial Engineering - System Human Effort Engineering - System Efficiency Engineering

Human Effort Engineering - Techniques

1. Principles of Motion Economy
2. Motion Study
3. Workstation Design
4. Application of Ergonomics and Biomechanics
5. Fatigue Studies
6. Productivity/Safety/Comfort Device Design
7. Standardization of  Methods
8. Operator training
9. Incentive Systems
10. Job Evaluation
11. Learning effect capture
12. Work Measurement


EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT TECHNIQUES OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING


1. Process Analysis
2. Operation Analysis
3. Layout Efficiency Analysis
4. Value engineering
5. Statistical quality control
6. Statistical inventory control and ABC Classification Based Inventory Systems
7. Six sigma
8. Operations research
9. Variety reduction
10. Standardization
11. Incentive schemes
12. Waste reduction or elimination
13. Activity based management
14. Business process improvement
15. Fatigue analysis and reduction
16. Engineering economy analysis
17. Learning effect capture and continuous improvement (Kaizen, Quality circles and suggestion schemes)
18. Standard costing

Industrial Engineering in Different Functions of an Industrial Organization


Industrial Engineering in Data Center Design and Processes

Logistics System Industrial Engineering

Maintenance 

Maintenance System Industrial Engineering

Product Industrial Engineering

Quality - Inspection System Industrial Engineering

Supply Chain Industrial Engineering - Bibliography


Industrial Engineering Techniques Specially Applied in Maintenance IE


Replacement analysis
Group replacement analysis
Total productive maintenance
Predictive maintenance - IIoT Support
Spare parts inventory decisions
Spare parts storage
Maintenance activities ergonomics
Maintenance work measurement
Lean Maintenance - Lean Smart Maintenance
Poka Yoke design for maintenance
Reduction of maintenance time (using 5S and SMED techniques)

New techniques - 2017

Smart Maintenance
Maintenance 4.0

Advanced predictive maintenance (PdM), enabled by extensive sensor integration and machine-learning techniques, is one of the most widely-heralded benefits of the fourth industrial revolution. The idea is certainly a compelling one, and many companies in asset-intensive sectors are pursuing  investments in digital maintenance and reliability. Many companies are offering summer internships to students in this area and are getting pilot projects done.


Progress of Industrial Engineering of Maintenance in Japan.



1961 The Japan Management Association (JMA) establishes a Plant Maintenance Committee.  JMA is the body responsible for promotion of scientific management in Japan.
1964 A system for awarding PM Awards is established.
1969 The Plant Maintenance Department is dissolved and the Japan Institute of Plant Engineers is established.
1971 The concept of plant maintenance with total participation (Total Productive Maintenance) is proclaimed.
1981 The Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance is launched, following approval from the Ministry of International Trade and Industry as charitable corporation.
1989 The definition of TPM is revised. The Society of Plant Engineers Japan is established.
1990 The Japan Association of Maintenance and Service Contractors is launched.
2005 JIPM Solutions company limited is separated and transferred from JIPM as a profit-seeking corporation.
2012 JIPM was approved as a public interest incorporated association by the prime minister.

https://www.jipm.or.jp/en/company/history/

Mission Statement JIPM 2017


We contribute to promoting safe, secure and reliable production and maintenance activities, as well as stabilizing and improving quality, in the world of industry through supporting problem-solving related to the enhancement of productivity, equipment-management technologies, and maintenance technologies and skills.

https://www.jipm.or.jp/en/company/mission/

Total productive maintenance - Evolution in Industrial Engineering/Scientific Management


In a message in a 2013 JIPM video, Seiichi Nakajima mentions the foundation of industrial engineering in the development of total productivity maintenance. 


Total productive maintenance is planned maintenance is for increasing productivity and reducing defects. It is a zero defect, zero loss approach to equipment engineering and management involving design, manufacturing, operation, and maintenance.

Digital-Maintenance - McKinsey


To capture everything digital can offer in increasing reliability and reducing costs, companies should boost their digital-maintenance ambitions.

Advanced predictive maintenance (PdM), enabled by extensive sensor integration and machine-learning techniques, is one of the most widely-heralded benefits of the fourth industrial revolution. The idea is certainly a compelling one, and it is encouraging companies in asset-intensive sectors to pursue investments in digital maintenance and reliability.

However, treating PdM as panacea for maintenance and reliability challenges may prove to be short-sighted. Today's advanced predictive techniques can only be practically applied to a subset of use cases. An over-emphasis on one approach means companies won’t position themselves to capture all the potential benefits of a fully digitized maintenance and reliability function. Companies  focused on increased uptime and improved maintenance efficiency have to use all the techniques available.

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/our-insights/digitally-enabled-reliability-beyond-predictive-maintenance

Lean Smart Maintenance (LSM)


Maintenance is a strategic factor and key enabler for smart factories. Therefore, it needs to be intelligent – SMART – and cost-efficient – LEAN. The Lean Smart Maintenance (LSM) concept combines these two perspectives and enables a dynamic, smart and value-oriented maintenance/asset management for smart factories. This paper introduces LSM and explains its major components. It consists of efficiency drivers, e.g. maintenance processes and planning, outsourcing, and effectiveness factors, e.g. data and knowledge management, qualification and maintenance strategy. Besides that, an LSM implementation model is introduced. The four-step LSM implementation model is described with a maintenance strategy example.

http://www.lean-smart-maintenance.net/fileadmin/projects/lsm/Publikationen/LSM_WhitePaper.pdf


Articles and Papers


A PROPOSED MODEL FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Published 2025-12-11
Nigel Sookdeo, Dave Persad

Emerson Process Management on Maintenance Cost Reduction, Time Reduction, Productivity Improvement


Reducing operations & maintenance costs - Emerson
Emerson Process Management 2003.  www.PlantWeb.com. Reducing operations & maintenance costs with PlantWeb® digital plant architecture.

PlantWebís predictive intelligence increases maintenance productivity by detecting and diagnosing potential equipment problems before they grow ñ  reducing the frequency, severity, and cost of repairs while enabling your team to  avoid unnecessary and unproductive tasks.

%RAV. One frequent benchmark of maintenance productivity is annual maintenance cost as a percentage of replacement asset value (RAV). For example, a plant spending $5,000,000 annually to maintain assets that  could be replaced for $100,000,000 has a 5% RAV.

The worst plants are operating with 20% RAV. The best are operating with 2% RAV. Typical plants operate at 6 to 7% RAV.
For a plant with $250,000,000 in assets to maintain, moving from typical to best-in-class status could mean over $10,000,000 in annual savings.

Recent data shows that 86% of maintenance is reactive (too late) or preventive (unnecessary). 

Span of control. For operations, one measure of productivity is the number of loops each operator manages. 
A typical plant might have 125 loops per operator, so managing 1500 loops would require 48 operators to staff four shifts. In a best-in-class plant, on the other hand, each operator might handle 250 loops ñ requiring only 24 operators over the same number of shifts. At a fully burdened cost of $80,000 per year for each operator, the savings would approach $2,000,000 annually. Even greater productivity and economic benefits are possible when operators also have the tools and information to continuously optimize energy use, feedstocks, and other economic factors for the loops they control, as well as to reduce costs in related areas such as safety, health, and environment; utilities; and waste and rework.

Waste in Maintenance Activities


Too much of the work done by maintenance teams is unnecessary, unproductive, or even counterproductive. 
Unnecessary work. Over half of typical maintenance activities are unnecessary. This includes routine equipment checks as well as preventive maintenance on equipment that doesnít need it. 
• One analysis showed that 63% of all instrument work orders did not result in corrective action, because there was nothing wrong with the equipment. 
• A study of 230 valves scheduled for rebuilding during a shutdown found than only 31% needed such extensive service. 

Unproductive work. In a typical plant, the maintenance department averages about 30% is wrench time. The rest of the time they are doing data entry and retrieval, work-order reporting, and other paperwork. Best-practices plants use automated tools to manage this information more efficiently, increasing wrench time to 50% or more.
Counterproductive work. Some maintenance actually reduces equipment reliability. Problems can result from incorrect re-assembly, incorrect tightening, misalignment, or other errors. In fact, as many as 
70% of equipment failures happen shortly after initial installation or major preventive maintenance.
 

Inefficient  maintenance strategies 


 Many of these problems could be reduced by adjusting the mix of reactive, preventive, predictive, and proactive maintenance strategies so maintenance workers can focus on doing the right things at the right time. 
1. Reactive maintenance. Fixing equipment when it breaks. This is the most basic maintenance strategy. Its major drawback is obvious: the cost to repair (or replace) equipment that ís run to failure is typically 
much higher than if the problem were detected and fixed earlier. Also there is additional  cost of lost production during extended downtime. 
2. Preventive maintenance. A preventive strategy assumes equipment is relatively reliable until, after some period of time, it enters a wear-out zone where failures increase. To postpone this wear-out, equipment is serviced on a calendar- or run-time basis. It may or may not require the maintenance. On 
average, preventive maintenance  is about 30% less expensive than reactive maintenance. Hence development of preventive maintenance method gave higher productivity and lower costs.

But about 30% of preventive maintenance effort is wasted, and another 30% turns out to be harmful because of errors committed in disassembly and reassembly and calibration. 

3. Predictive maintenance. The third strategy overcomes these drawbacks by constantly monitoring actual equipment condition and using the information to predict when a problem is likely to occur. With 
that insight, you can schedule maintenance for the equipment that needs it ñ and only what needs it − before the problem affects process or equipment performance. That ís a great way to improve maintenance productivity, as well as reduce costs for repairs and unexpected downtime. 

A best-practices plant uses predictive maintenance for most equipment where condition-monitoring is practical, limiting reactive and preventive strategies to equipment that ís not process-critical and will cause little or no collateral damage if run to failure.

4. Proactive maintenance. The next strategy is proactive maintenance, which analyzes why performance is degrading and then corrects the source of problems. The goal is not just to avoid a hard failure, but to 
restore or even improve equipment performance. For example, a valve failure might be caused by excess packing wear, which in turn was caused by poor loop tuning that caused the valve to cycle continuously. Retuning the loop will prevent further failures while also improving process performance. 

The best-practices plant of the future will actually spend more on maintenance to include this proactive approach in their arsenal ñ and more than regain the investment in increased plant efficiency.


Training Course from Emerson - 2003 - Operations & Maintenance 101 - Maintenance Strategies and Work Practices to Reduce Costs


Rosemount 5300 Guided Wave Radar with a Smart Wireless THUM™ Adapter.: Reduce Operations and Maintenance Costs with Guided Wave Radar Diagnostics and Wireless Communication


Potential Results 
• Reduce operations costs
• Decrease maintenance costs
• Minimize risk of lost throughput 
• Decrease safety risks
• Reduce project costs
2010
https://www.emerson.com/documents/automation/case-study-reduce-operations-maintenance-costs-guided-wave-radar-diagnostics-wireless-communication-rosemount-en-87502.pdf


ESSENTIAL ASSET MONITORING.

Improve Reliability and Reduce Your Costs.
Up to 5 percent of production availability is lost annually due to unscheduled slowdowns and shutdowns. 
Just nine asset classes account for the majority of this loss.
2013

Emerson Provides Services to  Alaska's Largest Wind Farm 
08/09/2021
Emerson announced the completion of a digital transformation project to increase the reliability of clean energy generation at Golden Valley Electric Association’s (GVEA) Eva Creek wind farm. The project improves the management of Alaska’s largest wind farm.
Emerson’s sustainable grid solutions have delivered fast results, increasing the reliability of GVEA’s wind turbines and contributing to a 65% reduction in operations and maintenance costs.


More Articles
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LUBRICATION AND GREASING: WORKING PRINCIPLE
22 July 2016
https://www.mobility-work.com/blog/lubrication-and-greasing-working-principle

AUTONOMOUS MAINTENANCE: 5 STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION
4.0 Context
https://www.mobility-work.com/blog/autonomous-maintenance-5-steps-to-successful-implementation
29.5.2016


Why You Should Try Smart Maintenance
http://www.reliableplant.com/Read/30723/smart-maintenance

What Is Lean Maintenance?
2004
http://www.mt-online.com/october2004/what-is-lean-maintenance

Six Sigma Keys to Lean Maintenance
2004
http://www.mt-online.com/november2004/six-sigma-keys-to-lean-maintenance

Six Sigma in Maintenance
SIX SIGMA CONCEPT IN THE MAINTENANCE PROCESS OF TECHNICAL SYSTEMS
2005
http://facta.junis.ni.ac.rs/me/me2005/me2005-08n.pdf

Plant maintenance management practices in automobile industries: A retrospective and literature review
2010
http://upcommons.upc.edu/revistes/bitstream/2099/9948/1/pophaley.pdf


Total Productive Maintenance Review and Overall Equipment Effectiveness Measurement
Osama Taisir R.Almeanazel
Department Of Industrial Engineering, Hashemite University, Zarqa, 13115 Jordan
http://www.jjmie.hu.edu.jo/files/v4n4/JJMIE-129-08_Revised(11)/JJMIE-129-08_modified.pdf



VTT operation and maintenance solutions deliver trouble-free, predictable fleet operation. Our smart solutions optimize safe fleet operation and maintenance, and constitute new competitive service business models for your knowledge-intensive services. Thanks to our significant experience and deep knowledge in this area, we are able to optimize the total operating performance of your fleet. We can also minimize your maintenance time with fast failure identification and recovery.
http://www2.vtt.fi/service/machines_and_vehicles_operation_and_maintenance.jsp?lang=en


Analysis and Scheduling of Maintenance Operations for a Chain of Gas Stations
Mehmet Savsar
Kuwait University, College of Engineering and Petroleum, P.O. Box 5969, 13060 Safat, Kuwait
Journal of Industrial Engineering
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 278546
Received 6 November 2012; Revised 2 February 2013; Accepted 3 February 2013
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jie/2013/278546/


Analysis on Costs for Aircraft Maintenance
U. PeriyarSelvam, T. Tamilselvan, S. Thilakan and M. Shanmugaraja
Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Park College of Technology,
Karumathampatti, Coimbatore – 641 659.
Advances in Aerospace Science and Applications.
ISSN 2277-3223 Volume 3, Number 3 (2013), pp. 177-182
© Research India Publications
http://www.ripublication.com/aasa.htm
http://www.ripublication.com/aasa/aasav3n3spl_08.pdf

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An Assessment of Maintenance Practices and problems in Jordanian Industries
K. K. Tahboub. 2011
Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

http://jjmie.hu.edu.jo/files/v5n4/JJMIE-206-09.pdf


ESTABLISHING MAINTENANCE RESOURCE LEVELS USING SELECTIVE MAINTENANCE
Ilyas Mohammed Iyoob, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, Texas, USA
C. Richard Cassady, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
Edward A. Pohl, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville,
Arkansas, USA
2006
http://ilyasiyoob.com/IyoobCassadyPohl_The_Engineering_Economist.pdf


ANALYSIS OF MANAGEMENT METHODS AND APPLICATION
TO MAINTENANCE OF GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANTS
MSc thesis
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
University of Iceland
2008
http://www.os.is/gogn/unu-gtp-report/UNU-GTP-2008-05.pdf




DUTTA, U, Maze, T, (1987) APPLICATION OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING TECHNIQUE IN TRANSIT MAINTENANCE, ITE Journal, Volume 57, Issue 6, p. 45-49.
http://www.worldtransitresearch.info/research/1757/



Maintenance and Industrial Engineering (GIM)
University Technological Degree in Maintenance and Industrial Engineering (GIM)
http://www.univ-reims.eu/courses/available-courses/degrees-and-preparations-to-teacher-examinations/science-technologies-health/university-technological-degrees,177,261.html


Book Engineering Maintenance - Modern Approach - B.S. Dhillon, 2002
http://site.iugaza.edu.ps/sabdelall/files/2010/02/Engineering_Maintenance_a_modern_approach.pdf




Just-in-time Maintenance, Repair, & Overhaul (Presentation)
Anonymous. IIE Annual Conference. Proceedings (2008): 1-34.



Updated 
 2026 - 1.4.2026
2022 - 8.2.2022,   2021 - 3.12.2021 18 Nov 2021,  4 August 2021, 24 May 2021,  2019 - 24 August 2019
2018 -  12 June 2018, 21 August 2017,  21 April 2015
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Industrial Engineering Case Studies 2024 Onwards

 


Case Report| September 11 2026

Enhancing productivity and efficiency in electrical device manufacturing: a case study on leveraging rapid improvement events (RIEs) and lean tools


Productivity Improvement by Implementation of 5-S System: An Excellent Case Study in Indian Context


Productivity Improvement in Agricultural Equipment Manufacturing Industry

https://pmicorp.in/case-study/productivity-improvement-in-agricultural-equipment-manufacturing-industry/


2025



Implementation of a Lean Manufacturing Approach to Improving Productivity in SMEs: A Case Study in a Cloth Manufacturing Company

https://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?pid=S2224-78902025000300007&script=sci_arttext

Productivity improvement through lean tools in cement industry – A case study

Heliyon. 2025 Jan 22;11(3):e42057. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e42057

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11795787/

Productivity Improvement Through Lean Tools in Cement Industry – A Case Study

February 2025Heliyon 11(11):e42057

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/388276241_Productivity_Improvement_Through_Lean_Tools_in_Cement_Industry_-_A_Case_Study


Productivity Improvement of Garments Industry by Implementing Line Balancing Algorithms—A Case Study

Mst. Anjuman Ara et al.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/eng2.70125


Cases of Genba Kaizen Consulting

[Case Study] Productivity Improvement Project at an Overseas Factory

A Multidimensional Approach Targeting a 30% Increase in Productivity

https://genbakaizen.com/results/13867/


Productivity-Transformation-in-SMEs-Case-Studies-from-Sri Lanka

https://www.apo-tokyo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Productivity-Transformation-in-SMEs-Case-Studies-from-Sri-Lanka_V5.pdf


Productivity Improvement in a Small-Scale Industry

29 Jan 2025 — The study aims to identify NVA activities, record cycle and idle time, assess workforce utilization, and provide recommendations for manpower planning.



2024

Improving Space Utilization in Warehouse

https://www.productivity.ac.uk/news/improving-productivity-through-efficient-space-utilisation-a-case-study-with-jane-wallace-jones/

Enhancing productivity through work study - A case of electric power pole cross arm fabrication

Yonas Mitiku Degu

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11226887/


Study on Labor Productivity Improvement Based on Situational Awareness and Improved Value Stream Mapping

https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/14/5/1253


Productivity Improvement of Assembly Line-by-Line Balancing Technique: Case Study Textile Manufacturing Company Karachi Pakistan

https://journalsajsse.com/index.php/SAJSSE/article/view/814



IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY IN AN SME IN THE METALWORKING SECTOR THROUGH LEAN MANUFACTURING AND TPM TOOLS - A CASE STUDY IN PERU

Vol. 35 No. 2 (2024): The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering / Case Studies

https://sajie.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/3013


Kaizen: Improving Productivity and Reducing Waste in a Manufacturing Company: a Practical Case Study

https://openaccessojs.com/JBReview/article/view/4241


Plastics processing machinery manufacturing : A Kaizen Case Study in Productivity Enhancement - Summary Report by Concept Business Excellence Pvt. Ltd.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/plastics-processing-machinery-manufacturing-kaizen-aq4if/





A Case Study on Reducing Cycle Time and Improving Productivity in Leading Gear Manufacturing Company

December 2021International Journal of Mechanical Engineering 6(3):3908-3921

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/377086295_A_Case_Study_on_Reducing_Cycle_Time_and_Improving_Productivity_in_Leading_Gear_Manufacturing_Company


Productivity Improvement by Cycle Time Reduction Using Time and Motion Study a Case Study of Electrode Manufacturing Company

https://www.academia.edu/81854107/Productivity_Improvement_by_Cycle_Time_Reduction_Using_Time_and_Motion_Study_a_Case_Study_of_Electrode_Manufacturing_Company


Productivity Improvement through Work Study The Case of Peacock Shoe Factory

https://etd.aau.edu.et/items/784a018b-4356-4fc7-8e1e-2ecac9e9c42e

https://www.linkedin.com/in/raj-sanne-a016a5/    shared many case studies in IE areas from his LinkedIn profile.

A print manufacturer example of activity based costing By Raj Sanne 

https://lnkd.in/p/d4xPaVXg










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What is New in IE Theory and Practice? Industrial Engineering Bulletin Board - Industrial Engineering Knowledge Center



INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING PHILOSOPHY
I would like to state the philosophy of industrial engineering as "engineering systems can be redesigned or improved and installed periodically for productivity increase or improvement." The primary drivers of productivity improvement are developments in basic engineering disciplines and developments in industrial engineering (developments in productivity science, productivity engineering and productivity management). The additional drivers are developments in related disciplines, for example, economics, mathematics, statistics, optimization techniques, ergonomics, psychology and sociology etc. - Narayana Rao, 1 April 2021.

Engineering developments are continuously monitored by IEs for their productivity effect and productivity engineering is developed appropriately. Thus engineering and industrial engineering grow together and help the society in becoming resource efficient.

INTRODUCTION TO MODERN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING. EBook. FREE Download.
Most popular IE publication on Academia-  Edu platform.  12,975+ Downloads/Views. 
https://www.academia.edu/103626052/INTRODUCTION_TO_MODERN_INDUSTRIAL_ENGINEERING_Version_3_0


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Industrial Engineering Case Studies 2024 Onwards - New Collection
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2026/10/industrial-engineering-case-studies-2024.html

Productivity Industrial Engineering - October 2026 Issue of Modern Industrial Engineering 
675+ views of the issue.


Modern Industrial Engineering - LinkedIn Newsletter May 2026 Issue  - Focus: Philosophy, Principles and Practices of Industrial Engineering.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/philosophy-principles-practices-industrial-engineering-kvss-tedgf/ 



Celebrate the birthday of F.W. Taylor in your Industrial Engineering Department and Company. Share what you are implementing in your company from Taylor's Ideas.

Birthday of F.W. Taylor 20th March. Modern Industrial Engineering March  2026 Issue - Taylor Month of IE - Contribution of F.W. Taylor to Industrial Engineering and Productivity Management - Implemented and Neglected
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/march-2026-issue-taylor-month-ie-contribution-fw-industrial-kvss-71nlc
#IndustrialEngineering #Productivity #CostReduction  #Products  #Processes #Facilities




Industrial Engineering - The Discipline and Prospects. Presentation by Purdue Office of Future Engineers.
27 Feb 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hbgB8g9njc

What is Industrial Engineering? | The optimization-focused major making everything more efficient
Penn State College of Engineering
22 Oct 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpzkJlS94Lk


Industrial/Productivity Engineering - More Value for Less Resources - For Company Prosperity and Society Prosperity.

Best Wishes for a Happy New Year of Prosperity.


What is New in Management Theory and Practice in 2026?
https://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2015/09/management-theory-and-practice-bulletin.html



Unveiling a New Playbook for the High-Uncertainty Era (and a Secret Project!)
Samraat Sardesai
Design-Driven Entrepreneur | Founder @ Ideus Concepts & Co-founder @ Plus Innovations Technology
May 23, 2026
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/unveiling-new-playbook-high-uncertainty-era-secret-project-sardesai-cfhtc/

10 Heuristics for Breakthrough Innovation.
every week I will be detailing one core heuristic principle, exploring its origin, its academic foundation, and how you can apply it directly to your professional and day-to-day life.

Heuristic #1: Axiomatic Deconstruction (First Principles Thinking)

See you next week for Heuristic #2: Trajectory Displacement (How to move the goalposts and sneak up on the industry giants).

I am  happy to inform that I addressed  a global seminar emphasizing role of IE in cost management, a measure of manufacturing excellence in December 2025. 

Seminar YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/live/zel67peHfsQ
First presentation itself is on managing cost.

Seminar Presentation.
Managing Cost - Cost Management - Seminar Presentation - Additional Information


2000+ Industrial engineers are connected to me on LinkedIn, 2800+ subscribed to my LinkedIn Newsletter. 30,000+ read my blog. How do I help these industrial engineers and managers/engineers interested in IE to do good to their companies and society? 

An Attempt to find and to present some guidelines.

Industrial Engineering Challenges and Field Level Barriers - Information Needs - Interaction with Industrial Engineers.


Hello, This year I am focusing on maintaining Industrial Engineering Bulletin Board - Industrial Engineering Knowledge Center on a regular basis to collect what is happening in industrial engineering theory and practice. Once such a collection is there for some months, we know the current trends, solutions and issues.

I am trying to write articles more in the LinkedIn Newsletter. 
January 2026 Issue -  MODERN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING Newsletter - Improvement Management of Performance Areas - Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and Productivity
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/january-2026-issue-improvement-management-performance-kvss-dfb2c/

The other thing I would like to do is collect challenges and barriers that  industrial engineers are facing in the field. The idea is to search for solutions in the published materials or  ask some senior industrial engineers and faculty to gives us some guidance.

Industrial Engineering Challenges and Field Levels Barriers - Issues for Debate and Resolution  https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/04/industrial-engineering-issues-for.html
Through this I hope some useful content for industrial engineering effectiveness can be created for use. I am contacting industrial engineers in my network through messages.

I also request you to please respond with your ideas in this regard in comments. Please send a connect request to join our IE network.


INTRODUCTION TO MODERN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING. Version 3.0. 

Very Popular Free Download  IE EBook. 11,700+ Downloads/Views so far.
https://academia.edu/103626052/INTRODUCTION_TO_MODERN_INDUSTRIAL_ENGINEERING_Version_3_0


Read  A to Z of Industrial Engineering - All Posts

MODERN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING Newsletter - January 2026 Issue 
Improvement Management of Performance Areas - Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and Productivity

 large body of work has grown around how processes can be developed, enhanced and generally improved. The area was started by F.W, Taylor in 1880's with his studies to increase productivity through determining appropriate speed at which machine tools have to be run and operators have to perform. Process studies had further contribution from Gilbreths in the form of process chart. H.B. Maynard and R.L. Barnes provided more detailed descriptions. Maynard developed the procedure of operation analysis. Processes are made up of operations. Read for more.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/january-2026-issue-improvement-management-performance-kvss-dfb2c/



2026


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April 2026

April 21 - Birthday of L.D. Miles who developed Value Engineering (product industrial engineering).


An occasion for industrial engineers to celebrate and involve all employees. You can circulate a newsletter or bulletin describing the methods and techniques of product industrial engineering. Also you can inform your department achievements in product industrial engineering.

Essays on product industrial engineering and value engineering are provided in the April 2026 issue of my newsletter.

I would be happy to clarify any issue in the area.

May 2026 Issue will be on Philosophy, Principles and Practices of Industrial Engineering. I request you to please inform any new practices you started in the last two years. You can also inform the practices you are now using intensively.



March 2026


Optical Vision Systems Transform Microchip Handling Accuracy
March 24, 2026


esmo AG, a leading provider of special machine engineering, automation technology, and semiconductor handling, relies on optical inspection technology from senswork in its Talos system series.

Microchips are becoming smaller, more sensitive, and more diverse, which also increases the demands on automated handling systems. This is exactly where Talos comes in: a handling system from esmo that significantly simplifies the testing process for microchips. The compact system can be flexibly adapted to different test environments and ensures reliable handling, whether from trays, tubes, or tapes.

Hexagon Boosts Shopfloor Productivity with Advanced TubeInspect and BendingStudio XT
March 23, 2026
Hexagon has made a major update to its tube and wire inspection software that helps series production lines slash cycle times, with further improvements that optimise the manufacturing processes of electric vehicle components. Integrated support for handheld 3D scanners now extends game-changing tube and wire measurement and process digitalisation capabilities of BendingStudio XT to any metalworking operation to use on a project basis.

At the core of Hexagon’s enhanced offering is the TubeInspect system – its purpose-built inspection cell that provides near-instant non-contact inspection of parts directly on the shopfloors of leading global manufacturers. High-speed optical measurement delivers precise results in seconds, ensuring every component meets tight tolerances regardless of shopfloor conditions.

MES related


https://appliedsmartfactory.com/semiconductor-blog/manufacturing-execution/mes-part-5/

https://www.oracle.com/industrial-manufacturing/smart-factory-requirements/

https://web-material3.yokogawa.com/31/32920/overview/Guide_to_Smart_Manufacturing_in_Process_Industries_R.pdf

https://www.unido.org/sites/default/files/unido-publications/2024-10/UNIDO%20-%20Guidelines%20for%20the%20establishment%20of%20a%20Smart%20Factory%20Lab_Automotive%20Sector_Final.pdf



Sparc Technologies Building a Scalable Path to Commercial Graphene Technology
Mar 15, 2026,
https://www.tradingview.com/news/smallcaps:6be4c310b094b:0-sparc-technologies-building-a-scalable-path-to-commercial-graphene-technology/

Magnetic Gears Promise Cleaner Drivetrains-But Rare Earth Dependence Still Stands in the Way
Mar 14, 2026


Scaling Vector Search: Comparing Quantization and Matryoshka Embeddings for 80% Cost Reduction
Navigating the performance cliff: How pairing MRL with int8 and binary quantization balances infrastructure costs with retrieval accuracy.

Oleg Tereshin
Mar 12, 2026
https://towardsdatascience.com/649627-2/

TPG Consulting Insights will focus on core business challenges - from workflow optimization and cost reduction to strategy execution and change enablement - helping your leadership teams build scalable operations that support long-term growth.
The Poirier Group

Turning Strategy Into Results: Cut Waste. Fix Root Causes. Improve Performance!
March 10, 2026  This edition features the following topics:
Process Red Flags: 4 symptoms your workflows are holding you back
Hidden Waste: the real reason costs rise (and why headcount cuts don’t fix it)
Root Cause Toolkit: fix problems once, so they don’t come back
Case Study: $4M annual savings through process optimization + role clarity + automation
Quick Wins: 5 actions you can apply this month
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/turning-strategy-results-cut-waste-fix-root-causes-improve-gexoe/

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February

February 2026


3.
Harrington Emerson's Tenth Efficiency (Productivity Management) Principle (1911): Standardized Operations. 
Lesson 349  of  Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course -  Productivity Management Module. 

CISCO AI Summit 3.2.2026 Today Live Stream
Productivity in Robot economy is growing at a slow rate. - Intel CEO.

SME Blog  Post
How Dr. Sampson Gholston Connects Students and Industry?
Chair and professor of the Department of Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington, Dr. Gholston continues to connect students, curriculum and industry through SME.


Preparing for physical AI: 5 critical infrastructure components

Physical AI refers to a branch of artificial intelligence that enables machines to perceive, understand and interact with the physical world by directly processing data from a variety of sensors and actuators. For the new age of industrial operations, the evolution from digital agents to physical robots that can “sense, decide and act” represents the next multi-trillion-dollar frontier. Whether it is a fleet of autonomous warehouse robots or vision-enabled assembly arms, intelligence is moving directly into the physical environment.


From chaos to cruise control: Generative AI and the next era of human-centric warehouse management.

Generative AI WMS: the perfectly planned trip

Generative AI flips the traditional WMS experience on its head. Rather than forcing employees to adapt to rigid workflows, AI adapts to them. Questions can be asked in natural language, data is delivered instantly, and repetitive tasks no longer steal attention from high-value work.

Imagine asking your WMS a simple question:

"Are any Costco orders at risk of missing their shipment deadlines today?"

Sewing Needles are Categorized primarily for either hand sewing or machine sewing, with different types designed to work optimally with specific fabrics and threads. Choosing the correct needle helps ensure quality stitching and prevents damage to the material.

Was OEE discussed in 1911 itself?
The machine end-efficiency in some plants is not over 4 per cent of the guaranteed capacity. (1911, Harrington Emerson)


Dr. Charles Dagher
Leading Expert & Pioneer of Lean-Agile Manufacturing for Apparel 4.0

The Biggest Mistake in Lean Apparel: Confusing SMED with Apparel Factory Reality.

SMED was engineered for tool replacement inside a fixed production system. The line remains in place. Team structure stays intact. Flow logic is stable. That context matters.

In apparel, an order change is not a tool change. When styles shift, machines are moved, operators reassigned, skills misaligned, balance collapses, and support must reset. What’s labeled a changeover is in fact a system teardown followed by reconstruction. 



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Harrington Emerson's Ninth Efficiency (Productivity Management) Principle: Standardized Conditions. 
Lesson 348  of  Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course -  Productivity Management Module. 

Concept Note on THEME FOR THE 68TH NPC PRODUCTIVITY WEEK (2026): CLUSTERS AS GROWTH ENGINE: MAXIMIZING PRODUCTIVITY IN MSMEs

1.
Harrington Emerson's Eighth Efficiency (Productivity Management) Principle: Standards and Schedules 
Lesson 347  of  Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course -  Productivity Management Module. 

January 2026

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Harrington Emerson's Efficiency (Productivity Management) Principles (1911):
Planning - Standards and Schedules - Despatching - Standardized Conditions. - Standardized Operations.- Standard-Practice Instructions. 
Despatching, like other principles, is a sub-division of the science of management, a part of planning.
Harrington Emerson's The Seventh Efficiency (Productivity Management) Principle: Planning and Despatching.
Lesson 346  of  Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course -  Productivity Management Module. 
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/10/chapter-9-seventh-principle-despatching.html

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Data based industrial engineering. Productivity Analytics. Industrial Engineering Data. Harrington Emerson - The Sixth  Efficiency Principle (1911): Reliable, Immediate, Adequate, and permanent Records. 
Lesson 345  of  Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course -  Productivity Management Module. 
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/10/chapter-8-sixth-principle-reliable.html


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February 2026 - Industrial Engineering Lessons - Notes - Industrial Engineering Knowledge Center
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/february-2026-industrial-engineering-lessons-notes-knowledge-kvss-48cic

Harrington Emerson - The Twelve Principles of Efficiency (Principles of Productivity Management, 1911) - Part 1. 
Lesson 344  of  Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course -  Productivity Management Module. 



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Norck Formally Unveils Its Integrated Engineering and Production Ecosystem to Accelerate Industry 4.0 Transformation
Driving Manufacturing Agility: How Norck’s Integrated Engineering Increases Efficiency by 35%
https://www.einpresswire.com/article/886569730/norck-formally-unveils-its-integrated-engineering-and-production-ecosystem-to-accelerate-industry-4-0-transformation



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"Smart Electronics Production: AI, Machine Vision, and Industry 4.0 in PCB, Harness, and System Integration" - Milan Laghubhai Mangukiya

(ISBN: 978-81-993653-8-4), available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats (https://www.amazon.com/dp/8199365382, https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0GGT8X2BB)

Milan Mangukiya  holds a UK design registration titled "Intelligent Process Optimization Computer Architecture for Adaptive Electronic Manufacturing Workshops," validating the  industrial applicability of his innovation. In the industry, he led the High Volume Programmers project at Innovative Electronics Corporation (USA), delivering measurable cost reduction and efficiency gains in high-volume production.

Milan Laghubhai Mangukiya
Contribution to Design to Deployment of Electronic Systems - Reliable Electronic Infrastructure
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/314280/20260125/design-deployment-how-milan-laghubhai-mangukiyas-engineering-focus-supports-reliable.htm


Smart Electronic Manufacturing - Links 

https://www.sw.siemens.com/en-US/digital-thread/smart-manufacturing/electronics-manufacturing/


MES for Electronics Manufacturing

25-80% increase in manufacturing efficiency through Digital Thread from offer to product

Smart Manufacturing integrates design, engineering, planning, production and analytics

https://www.znt-richter.com/en/mes/electronic-manufacturers


https://resources.sw.siemens.com/en-US/video-smart-manufacturing-for-electronics/


AI in Electronics Manufacturing: Empowering the Smart Factory Era

https://kohyoungamerica.com/ai-in-electronics-manufacturing-empowering-the-smart-factory-era/


https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1688551971010670474/3162811656885272799

https://www.dunkermotoren.com/en/knowledge/white-papers/smart-electronics-manufacturing


Driving Innovation in the Electronics Manufacturing Industry

https://www.smartfactorymom.com/industry/electronics/


Industry 4.0 & Smart Factories: The Future of Electronics Manufacturing

https://fenix-mfg.com/industry-4-smart-factories-electronics-manufacturing/


Introducing Smart Factories into Electronic Manufacturing Services

https://asteelflash.com/newsroom/introducing-smart-factories-into-electronic-manufacturing-services/

Performance Indicators and Digital Value Stream Mapping 
Implementation: An Industry 4.0 Application in SME
Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management 
Windsor, Canada, October 14-16, 2025 
Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management 
Publisher: IEOM Society International, USA 
Published: October 14, 2025 
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Angassu-Girma-Mullisa/publication/399961152_Performance_Indicators_and_Digital_Value_Stream_Mapping_Implementation_An_Industry_40_Application_in_SME/links/6971c16ff5b9fd48849b36e9/Performance-Indicators-and-Digital-Value-Stream-Mapping-Implementation-An-Industry-40-Application-in-SME.pdf

An Agent-Based Framework for Sustainable Perishable Food Supply Chains

Digital Twin Technology for Predictive Maintenance in Industrial Engineering
Authors
Arjun Raj, Digital Twin Engineer and Mohamed Rifaz, Smart Manufacturing Engineer

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Carbon dioxide turned into starch: China’s new lab-based process boosts productivity by 10x
This new enzymatic process turns CO₂ into starch, offering an alternative to corn-based industrial production.
By Christopher McFadden
Jan 24, 2026 
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/carbon-dioxide-turned-into-starch-china


Humanoids on the Factory Floor: The Next Frontier of Automation

Alex Greenberg, Director of Robotics 4.0 Simulation, Siemens Digital Industries Software Jan 24, 2026

https://www.advancedmanufacturing.org/smart-manufacturing/humanoids-on-the-factory-floor-the-next-frontier-of-automation/article_71901e22-e1b1-422d-87cd-b3578e8b127c.html

Industrial AI: applied to the optimization of industrial processes

Technical overview of industrial AI applied to optimize processes, reduce variability, and improve operational stability.

By Mario Toyo on January 24, 2026

https://inspenet.com/en/articulo/industrial-ai-on-industrial-processes/

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German humanoid robot set to transform factory work with human-like skills

Agile ONE’s sensor-rich hands mimic human dexterity, enabling precise, stable handling of tools and parts for delicate or forceful tasks.

Agile One features human-like dexterity, onboard AI, and tactile fingertips for precise manipulation.

According to the Munich-based firm, Agile ONE, with 71 degrees of freedom, audio-based interaction, and up to eight hours of battery life, is designed to handle complex, repetitive, and high-precision tasks.

https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/german-humanoid-robot-factory-work

consistency is every bit as important as skill and experience

https://www.advancedmanufacturing.org/manufacturing-engineering/lessons-from-the-shop-floor/article_c1dac310-ad27-40ab-a931-424c7d7ccc28.html


iDesignGPT enhances conceptual design via large language model agentic workflows
Songkai Liu, Yanqing Shen, Yilun Zhang, Zhangli Hou, Xin Wang, Jianxi Luo & Zhinan Zhang 
Nature Communications , Article number:  (2026) 
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68672-1


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Productivity Management. Module of Industrial Engineering Online Course Notes
 #ProductivityManagement
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/12/productivity-management-course-lessons.html

Focus Areas of Industrial Engineering - Brief Explanation #Industrialengineering 

Functions and Focus Areas of Industrial Engineering - pdf - journal article

Facilities Industrial Engineering - Concept and Explanation

Product Industrial Engineering
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/09/product-design-industrial-engineering.html

Process Industrial Engineering 
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-function-of-methods-efficiency.html

Human Effort Industrial Engineering - Study Materials - Notes #Industrialengineering 
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2019/07/human-effort-engineering-study.html

Productivity Management  

Important links of the day.

https://www.arcweb.com/blog/aveva-introduces-ai-capabilities-across-unified-engineering-solution

https://metrology.news/from-data-to-insight-how-ai-is-transforming-manufacturing-software/

https://interestingengineering.com/energy/rondo-covestro-launch-100-mwh-battery

https://www.engineering.com/omron-dx100-edge-device-connects-plcs-and-factory-data/

https://news.mit.edu/2026/atmoszero-electrifies-boilers-to-decarbonize-industry-0121

Engineering Efficiency: Top multi-axis CNC welding machine manufacturer Meets Modern Industrial Standards

Industry data shows that facilities adopting multi-axis CNC welding systems report up to 30% higher throughput and significantly reduced defect rates compared to traditional welding methods.

 “Companies that integrate multi-axis CNC machines are no longer just automating—they are standardizing precision and reproducibility in ways manual welding cannot consistently achieve.”


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A comparison of technology acceptance of a wearable exoskeleton in the construction and manufacturing industries

Matthew Reese et al.

International Journal of Human Factors and Ergonomics, Vol. 12, No. 3.


 In the construction and manufacturing industries, there is risk of critical injuries due to the nature of typical job tasks. As an intervention, wearable technologies such as wearable exoskeletons are beginning to be deployed in these industries to enhance safety and productivity.  This study is geared towards the front-line workforce's attitude and perceptions towards using these devices to assist with their job efforts. A questionnaire survey was used, and a survey panel recruited participants for this study. Results showed that physical comfort and mobility are the most critical factors of wearable exoskeleton adoption among participants. Participants were in favour of adopting these devices to assist them with their job tasks.
https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJHFE.2025.151135?journalCode=ijhfe

Important links of the day.


From Inspection to Action: Laser Projection as a New Paradigm in Surface Rework Automation at BMW – Metrology and Quality News - Online Magazine

Airbus to test China-made humanoid robots in aviation production


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Expected Values and Risk of Project Revenues and Costs.
Lesson 330 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/expected-values-and-risk-of-project.html

Innospace demos proprietary AM low-overhanging strategy.
South Korean company uses approach to 3D print a closed dome vessel with zero internal supports.
Innospace, an aerospace and defense manufacturing and engineering company based in South Korea, has underlined its status as a world leader in hybrid rocket technology by successfully demonstrating its proprietary low-overhang strategy for 3D printing by producing a spherical vessel with zero internal supports.

The dome was manufactured from Ti-6Al-4V Grade 23, a titanium alloy containing aluminium and vanadium. It was engineered using Oqton’s 3DXpert – an all-in-one industrial additive manufacturing software solution that covers the design, preparation, build, and inspection stages of 3D printed parts.


Have You Studied Dr. Deming’s Teachings?
Dr. Deming’s teachings shaped my career.
By Lou Ann Lathrop
January 18, 2026

Remember Deming amplifies or modifies Taylor's ideas. He does not negate them.

18. 
Equivalent Annual-Worth Comparisons of Industrial Engineering Projects.
Lesson 329 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

Navigating AI: Help for Small and Midsize Manufacturers
A Conversation with Cozette Robinson, CEO, CYR Consulting LLC
Amy Bryson Jan 16, 2026

These wins demonstrate that scalable transformation doesn’t require a massive overhaul; it begins with one high-impact use case.

The most effective is to start with a specific business problem rather than a technological trend. A focused 90-day pilot allows teams to test feasibility, validate ROI and build confidence before scaling. Measuring success using business metrics—cycle time, accuracy, cost savings—keeps teams grounded in outcomes. 

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Industrial Engineering is Cost Reduction based on productivity improvement and economic analysis. 
Rate-of-Return Calculations of Industrial Engineering Projects. Industrial Engineering Economic Analysis.
Lesson 328 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/11/rate-of-return-calculations.html

https://alltogether.swe.org/2026/01/taila-moore-mckelvy-industrial-engineer/

https://itbrief.co.uk/story/aveva-adds-ai-assistants-to-boost-industrial-engineering

https://www.designnews.com/artificial-intelligence/industrial-engineers-face-steep-learning-curve-as-agentic-ai-adoption-proves-more-complex-than-expected

https://michauto.org/navigating-stormy-seas-how-suppliers-survive-in-times-of-economic-uncertainty/


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Present-Worth Comparisons of Industrial Engineering Projects. Industrial Engineering Economic Analysis.
Lesson 327 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/11/present-worth-comparisons.html
Industrial Engineering Software Company Retrocausal Appoints Steve Rodda as CEO to Accelerate Company’s Enterprise Expansion
PRESS RELEASE GlobeNewswire
 Jan. 15, 2026

Retrocausal applies proprietary computer vision models and AI to manual and semi-automated manufacturing processes, generating real-time understanding of how work is performed on the factory floor. The platform supports frontline execution as well as industrial engineering workflows such as process optimization, continuous improvement, and ergonomics, without disrupting existing systems or production.

The Technology Illusion Revisited: Expert Perspectives on the Myth of Digital Transformation
Patrick Naef
BoD – Books on Demand, Jan 12, 2026 - Business & Economics - 182 pages

In a rapidly shifting landscape of business technology, established CIOs must continually reaffirm their relevance by demonstrating an extraordinary capacity for innovation and adaptation. In my view, the only way for existing CIOs to survive in their roles is to radically reinvent themselves. Unfortunately, much of the existing literature on digital transformation is naïve, misguided, or simply wrong, with far too many self-proclaimed "experts" attempting to make a name for themselves by claiming to know how to successfully drive digital transformation. In a field populated by questionable experts touting dubious success stories, Patrick Naef has carefully selected contributors who have either implemented genuine digital transformations or produced important academic research on the subject. Each of the chapters in the book offers a unique perspective informed by real-world engagement with the realities of possibilities of digital technology. By bringing together these disparate voices, the editor hopes to further clarify the transformative potential of digital technology, equipping the CIOs of today with the knowledge and insight necessary to thrive in the world of tomorrow.
https://books.google.co.in/books?hl=en&lr=lang_en&id=XPOtEQAAQBAJ

Robustness analysis of Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning flowshops in the presence of rush orders
Lucas Alves,Maha Benali &Pierre Baptiste'Journal of Industrial and Production Engineering 
Journal of Industrial and Production Engineering 
2026

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Training for Professionals: Analysis of Profiles, Projects and Academic  Performance 
José Carlos Flores-Molina, Mónica A. Puertas and Edgar Yalta 
Proceedings of the 10th North American International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Orlando, Florida, USA, June 17-19, 2025 

Principles and Applications of Prompt Engineering for Industrial Systems
Chapter in Prompt Engineering and the Transformation of Petroleum Refining



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Industrial Engineering is Cost Reduction based on productivity improvement and economic analysis. 
Industrial Engineering Projects - Formulation and Economic Feasibility Analysis.
Lesson 326 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2022/02/industrial-engineering-projects.html

Industrial process analytics: Multiscale approaches for integrating process knowledge and data induction for improving industrial processes and products
Marco S. ReisORCID Icon
Pages 1-17 | Published online: 12 Jan 2026
Quality Engineering 
Volume 38, 2026 - Issue 1: Special Issue on 9th Stu Hunter Research Conference

Discussion of “Industrial process analytics: Multiscale approaches for integrating process knowledge and data induction for improving industrial processes and products”
Antonio Lepore

Some  more links

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21681015.2025.2495949

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21681015.2025.2498661

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21681015.2023.2263009?src=

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21681015.2023.2216701?src=

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21681015.2014.1000399?src=

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21681015.2016.1172124?src=


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Industrial Engineering is based on productivity improvement and economic analysis. 
Required Rate of Return for Investment or Expenditure Proposal.
Lesson 325 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/11/required-rate-of-return-for-investment.html

Re-engineering Engineering in the Age of AI - Synopsis

January 12, 2026

2025 was a year that redefined Synopsys and our role in product engineering. The completion of the acquisition of simulation and analysis leader Ansys in July transformed Synopsys overnight from the leader in EDA to the leader in engineering solutions – from silicon to systems. - CEO, Synopsis

https://investor.synopsys.com/news/news-details/2026/Sassine-Ghazi-2026-Letter-to-Stakeholders-Re-engineering-Engineering-in-the-Age-of-AI/default.aspx

Wayne State University and Kyndryl announce collaboration to advance AI-driven manufacturing and workforce innovation in Detroit
January 13, 2026

IntelliMake research hub and pilot-scale factory will be setup.
Through this collaboration, Kyndryl and Wayne State will co-develop and demonstrate intelligent and agentic AI manufacturing technologies on campus; host joint workshops on AI, cybersecurity and digital twins; and create demonstration pods at the IntelliMake lab.

“As the U.S. reshapes domestic manufacturing, we must make systems smarter and address workforce gaps,IntelliMake responds to both with AI-driven autonomy and hands-on learning. Our partnership with Kyndryl supports that shared vision.” - Dr. Ratna Babu Chinnam, professor and chair of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

https://research.wayne.edu/news/wayne-state-university-and-kyndryl-announce-collaboration-to-advance-ai-driven-manufacturing-and-workforce-innovation-in-detroit-67900


Are industrial engineers interested waste water related processes?
Innovative use of synthetic biodegradable polymers for sustainable dye removal from wastewater.
In order to solve a major environmental concern, this analysis highlights the potential of synthetic biodegradable polymers for wastewater color removal.
First published: 08 January 2026
https://aiche.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ep.70313

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Cash Flow Estimation for Expenditure Proposals by Engineers and Industrial Engineers.
Lesson 324 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/cash-flow-estimation-for-expenditure.html

Human Digital Twins for Agriculture 5.0: a systematic literature review and taxonomy
Smart Agricultural Technology

Available online 10 January 2026, 101791
In Press, Journal Pre-proof


Systematic Approach of Lean Implementation Using Multi-level Value Stream Mapping: A Case Study

Chapter
First Online: 02 January 2026
pp 187–209
Recent Advances in Industrial and Systems Engineering  Chapter
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes on Multidisciplinary Industrial Engineering ((LNMUINEN))

Value stream mapping (VSM) is a lean manufacturing (LM) technique used to examine the flow of materials and information for a particular product family.

 The purpose of this research suggests a new approach of preferred multi-level VSM mapping.

Using this idea, the study was conducted to determine the areas in which work in process, lead time, setup time, and cycle time need to be improved by implementing Kaizen on the current state map. The results obtained from the study are as follows: The production lead time is reduced from 1131 to 1028 min, VA time was reduced from 323 to 308 min, and the NVA time was reduced from 671 to 582 min.

 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-96-8323-9_12

Speeding up wine aging vs. implementation costs
Avi Herbon and Simone Zanoni 
Computers & Industrial Engineering
Available online 10 January 2026, 111808
In Press, Journal Pre-proof

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Time Value of Money 
Lesson 323 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/11/time-value-of-money.html



A Comparative Study of Deterministic and Stochastic Programming Approaches to Optimise Marketing Campaigns; 
C. Bisset; M.F. Alberts
School of Industrial Engineering, North-West University, South Africa
South African Journal of Industrial Engineering
S. Afr. J. Ind. Eng. vol.36 n.3 Pretoria Dec. 2025
https://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?pid=S2224-78902025000400012&script=sci_arttext&tlng=en


A multi-type product design knowledge recommendation method for product conceptual design process
Pengchao Wang. Jianjie Chu, Suihuai Yu, Bingkun Yuan.Xinyu Liu
Computers & Industrial Engineering
Available online 9 January 2026, 111812

Studies have shown that designers spend approximately 70 % of their time collecting and organizing existing design data and knowledge, which significantly constrains design efficiency (Luh et al., 1999).

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360835226000136

https://www.morningstar.com/news/business-wire/20260108972272/peak-technology-unveils-apex-a-product-development-realization-platform-designed-to-provide-deep-tech-oems-with-rapid-prototyping-new-product-introduction-and-high-volume-manufacturing-solutions

https://www.engineering.com/neural-concept-launches-ai-design-copilot-for-engineers/




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Engineering Economy or Engineering Economics: Economic Decision Making by Engineers
Lesson 322 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/11/engineering-economy-or-engineering.html



10.

January 2026 Issue -  MODERN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING Newsletter - Improvement Management of Performance Areas - Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and Productivity.
Narayana Rao KVSS, Professor (Retired), NITIE - Now IIM Mumbai - Offering FREE IE ONLINE Course Notes.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/january-2026-issue-improvement-management-performance-kvss-dfb2c/

Lesson 321 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.
Industrial Engineering Economics - Important Component of Industrial Engineering
#IndustrialEngineering #Productivity #CostReduction  #IEEconomicAnalysis

Article
Open access
Published: 10 January 2026
Explainable mechanism for production process anomalies based on digital twin
Weiwei Qian, Litong Zhang, Yu Guo, Sai Geng, Mingjie Jiang, Yuhan Zheng, Shengbo Wang & Shaohua Huang 
Nature Communications , Article number:  (2026)




Important News Links




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Lesson 315 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.
Waste Measurement and Reporting Using MES - Manufacturing Execution System

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Tennessee Tech launches graduate program for industrial, systems engineers in 2026

Jan 8, 2026 

The College of Engineering at Tennessee Tech University will launch a new Master of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering to meet growing workforce demand across the state’s manufacturing, logistics, healthcare and technology sectors.

The 18 month program will be offered on campus and online beginning in August 2026.  The MS-ISE program is a 32-credit-hour program culminating in either a thesis or project. Visit www.tntech.edu/engineering for more information. 

Lesson 314 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.
The Seven Value Stream Mapping Tools - Peter Hines and Nick Rich - Brief Explanation

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Industry is shifting toward elements where AI powers products, factories, buildings, grids and transportation. 

  • Industrial AI is no longer a feature; it’s a force that will reshape the next century.
  • Siemens unveils technologies to accelerate the industrial AI revolution at CES 2026
  • Siemens and NVIDIA expand their partnership to build the Industrial AI Operating System, reinventing the entire end-to-end industrial value chain through AI – from design and engineering to manufacturing, production, operations, and into supply chains.
  • Siemens launches Digital Twin Composer software, available on Siemens Xcelerator Marketplace mid-2026, to power the industrial metaverse at scale
  • PepsiCo using Siemens Digital Twin Composer to simulate upgrades to its facilities in the U.S. with plans to scale globally
  • Siemens unveils nine industrial copilots to bring intelligence across the industrial value chain
  • Siemens highlights new technologies for accelerating drug discovery, autonomous driving and shop floor efficiency
  • Siemens brings industrial AI to Meta Ray-Ban AI Glasses

https://press.siemens.com/global/en/pressrelease/siemens-unveils-technologies-accelerate-industrial-ai-revolution-ces-2026


Siemens and Nvidia Partner to Build an Industrial AI Operating System

The expanded partnership between Siemens and Nvidia aims to combine AI infrastructure, simulation libraries, and industrial expertise to create AI-driven manufacturing and semiconductor design.

The companies aim to build the world’s first fully AI-driven, adaptive manufacturing sites globally, starting in 2026 with the Siemens Electronics Factory in Erlangen, Germany, as the first blueprint.

https://www.designnews.com/automation/siemens-and-nvidia-partner-to-build-an-industrial-ai-operating-system


CES Las Vegas (Consumer Electronics Show) 2026
6 January 2026
This year’s key trends include:
Artificial intelligence embedded at the edge
Robotics and automation for real-world operations
Software-defined vehicles and smart mobility
Sustainable, low-carbon industrial technologies
Among the many announcements, four innovations stood out for their immediate relevance to industrial stakeholders.
Industrial engineers have to note and follow.

Lesson 313 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.
Value Stream Mapping (VSM - MIFD) to Measure Inventory Accumulation in Time 

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Lesson 312 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.
Equipment Related Losses identified in TPM.
16 Losses given by Yamashina in Manufacturing Cost Reduction Deployment.
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/04/manufacturing-system-losses-idenfied-in.html


Balancing speed and precision in industrial automation.
A challenge of interest to industrial engineers in the area of robot development.
January 5, 2026
https://www.frontier-enterprise.com/balancing-speed-and-precision-in-industrial-automation/

New Telemetric Measurement System with Wireless Signal Transmission for Process Monitoring from Kistler
Jess Clarke November 26, 2025
https://www.plastikmedia.co.uk/new-telemetric-measurement-system/

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Structural components with mechanical integrity with refined visual appeal

The demand for structural components that combine mechanical integrity with refined visual appeal continues to grow. In this context, Coboggi has emerged as a prominent technical manufacturer specializing in the integration of high-precision CNC machining, laser processing, and advanced aluminum alloy surface-finishing solutions.

While standard surface treatment often focuses primarily on corrosion resistance, Coboggi’s approach treats the metal surface as a critical interface for user experience and brand expression. The company’s custom aluminum anodizing processes encompass advanced techniques such as High-Gloss Polishing, Diamond Cutting, and a specialized "Sandblast Textured + Bright Matte" finish tailored for specific tactile characteristics.
https://tech.einnews.com/amp/pr_news/880257228/coboggi-elevates-industrial-esthetics-through-advanced-aluminum-alloy-surface-engineering

Shanghai Trustech Technology Development Co. Ltd has unveiled several technical refinements designed to increase structural stability of polymer film production. At the core of this development lies the High-Precision Flat Sheet Membrane Casting Machine For Consistent Film Quality(https://www.xtrustech.com/flat-sheet-membrane-casting-system.html) - an automated system designed to maintain sub-micron accuracy during phase inversion process.
https://www.openpr.com/news/4335284/high-precision-flat-sheet-membrane-casting-machine


Lesson 311 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.
Seven Wastes - Taiichi Ohno List -  Toyota Production System Focused Waste Elimination
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/01/chapter-seven-wastes-model-2013-edition.html

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Jan 3, 2026

IMSE, UTA Develops Soft Robotic Exoskeleton
UTA Engineering Team led by Mahmudur Rahman, assistant professor of industrial, manufacturing, and systems engineering develops Soft Robotic Exoskeleton to Reduce Workplace Injuries.

A study found the air-powered wearable reduced muscle activity by as much as 22% during lifting tasks, pointing to a potential way to ease strain in industrial settings.
Unlike rigid exoskeletons, PASE relies on a single-piece pneumatic actuator made of silicone and mounted on a carbon-fiber onyx base plate, with a soft neoprene outer layer. The system is powered by compressed air—equipment already common in many manufacturing facilities.
The study, “Design, Development, and Evaluation of a Pneumatically Actuated Soft Wearable Robotic Elbow Exoskeleton for Reducing Muscle Activity and Perceived Workload,” was published in the Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering.

 Schneider Electric's "Innovation Win Program"

Through exploration and iteration from 2020 to the present, the program has gradually completed the process of scaling up and result transformation from 0 to 1 and then from 1 to N. It has advanced from the initial conceptual design to the verified PoC implementation and the exploration of multi - scenario reuse. Focusing on the two major fields of energy management and intelligent manufacturing, Schneider Electric has attracted more than 1300 small and medium - sized enterprises to participate in the past few years and promoted the incubation of more than 40 joint innovation projects.

From the safety and efficiency of energy systems to the intelligence and reliability of industrial systems, these cases represent many achievements of technological integration and innovation. The project implementations cover multiple industries such as power grids, buildings, chemical engineering, metallurgy, municipalities, and water.

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Jan 2, 2026
3D Printing
Design for additive manufacturing perspectives
 AI versus expertise in the DfAM discussion panel at Formnext 2025.
https://www.engineering.com/design-for-additive-manufacturing-perspectives/

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Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs): Redefining Operational Resilience Across Industries
Priya Singh
Senior Research Director at Next Move Strategy Consulting
January 2, 2026
AMRs are advanced successors to traditional AGVs, equipped with sensors, cameras, LiDAR, and AI-based navigation systems.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/autonomous-mobile-robots-amrs-redefining-operational-resilience-z8grc/



Robert Little  
Chief of Robotics Strategy | MSME
My Top Five Predictions for Robotics, Automation, and Manufacturing in 2026
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/robert-little-707791a_manufacturing-robotics-activity-7412485273651105792-DwSc


2025 News and Information - Industrial Engineering

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December 2025

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The Year in Review: 2025's Manufacturing Trends

https://www.advancedmanufacturing.org/workforce-development/the-year-in-review-2025s-manufacturing-trends/article_39ee1702-c2ac-4fea-bcf2-fb800dee6d5d.html

By the numbers: 2025 manufacturing trends
Reflect on the year through key data points about tariffs, domestic investments, M&A, the manufacturing workforce, federal policy, AI and more.
https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/by-the-numbers-2025-manufacturing-trends/808583/


3D Printing Predictions for 2026: Scaling AM Through Software
December 30, 2025
With more AM-specific software, more affordable options, more unique settings, and more automated workflow tools, software is set to let additive do more with less. With the same dollars invested in machines, we will be able to make more and make better parts.

https://3dprint.com/322975/3d-printing-news-briefs-12-31-2025/


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AI-Driven Robotic Assembly System Builds Objects Based on Verbal Input

December 29, 2025


CAMBRIDGE, MA—Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed an AI-driven robotic assembly system lets users design and build simple, multicomponent objects by describing them with words.
https://www.assemblymag.com/articles/99731-ai-driven-robotic-assembly-system-builds-objects-based-on-verbal-input


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LinkedIn Post

Asm Nishat
IE Executive at KDS Group | Data-Driven Manufacturing | Lean, Innovation & Operational Excellence

We are excited to share a recent Method Improvement I’ve implemented to streamline our workflow.

​I have designed and developed a custom storage box specifically for organizing labels, panels, and small components. The goal was to create something that isn't just a container, but a flexible system.

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The story of how PTC and Hexagon came together with Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center to 3D print a new scapula for a 16-year-old girl.

https://www.engineering.com/when-design-for-additive-manufacturing-is-literally-life-changing/

Next-generation humanoid robot developed for extreme environments

KAIST develops an AI-enabled bipedal robot capable of running, climbing steps and executing tasks in industrial environments and lunar simulations.

By José López on December 24, 2025

https://inspenet.com/en/noticias/humanoid-robot-for-extreme-environments/

Mobile Robots Deployment increasing in Warehouses - Supply Chains
Michael Murphy, Senior Technical Director and Chief Systems Engineer, Stretch, Boston Dynamics Dec 23, 2025


Dec 24, 2025


24.12.2025

AI in Vietnam

https://en.nhandan.vn/optimising-mechanical-design-and-manufacturing-through-ai-applications-post157018.html

23.12.2025

Humanoid robots, AI and nuclear fusion: 16 industry predictions for 2026


  1. ‘The rise of humanoid robots’
  2. ‘Supercomputing will uncover fusion improvements’
  3. ‘Autonomy can unlock strained copper capacity’
  4. ‘Practical applications of digital twins’
  5. Autonomous aircraft will be a top development priority’
  6. ‘Repowering will enable onshore wind expansion’
  7. ‘AI will spot healthcare failure patterns’
  8. ‘Design automation gains momentum’
  9. ‘Carmakers face significant challenges’
  10. ‘A pivot toward AI-driven maintenance’
  11. ‘Measurable ventilation in housing’
  12. ‘A big year for the energy transition’
  13. ‘AI shells for protective security layers’
  14. ‘Advances in precast concrete’
  15. ‘Raised expectations around battery data’
  16. ‘AI-driven design will reduce environmental impact’

https://www.imeche.org/news/news-article/humanoid-robots-ai-and-nuclear-fusion-16-industry-predictions-for-2026

Quicktron Robotics Launches QuickMix Suite of Integrated Goods-Handling Technologies for the USA

18 December, 2025

DALLAS, Texas, Nov. 11, 2025 – Quicktron Robotics announced that it will launch the QuickMix suite, its newest generation of intralogistics innovations, in the USA. QuickMix is a full suite of integrated goods-handling technologies including G2P systems, QuickBin+, QuickBin Ultra, QuickCube and Mixed Picking Workstations. The company’s QuickMix hybrid solution combines tote-to-person, shelf-to-person, pallet-to-person, high density storage and flexible transport into a single robot control system platform. Designed for multi-robot collaboration, QuickMix enables operations to adapt to complex and rapidly changing needs. 


17.12.2025

Advocacy in the  Year 2025
Productivity Management Team - Cost Management Team
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2025/12/productivity-management-team-cost.html

16.12.2025

World Journal of Engineering and Technology > Vol.14 No.1, February 2026
Safety Implications of Automated Guided Vehicles in the Modern Workplace: Increased or Decreased Potential Hazards?
https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=147962


In an agile defense factory of the future, one might see 3D printers, machining centers, robotic welding arms, and other forms of advanced automated manufacturing all operating in concert. The key is integration: By digitally coordinating these processes, a design can be split into modules made by whichever method is most efficient for that piece.
Hybrid Manufacturing: The Case for Agile Factories
John Borrego
December 15, 2025

Daniel Ludois - Transformation of electric motors.

Patents by Inventor Daniel C. Ludois

The future of automotive additive manufacturing – Part 1
Insights from the Stratasys Media Day at Rivian’s Engineering Center in Plymouth, MI.
Dec 12, 2025
3D Printing

Case Study
Robotic Palletizing Stacks Up to Productivity and Profitability
To overcome labor issues and increase productivity, today’s manufacturers incorporate innovative modular robotic palletizing cells.
By Rich Parkhurst
Palletizing is difficult, dangerous work that sometimes takes workers many feet up into the air to stack products off the production line or service and maintain palletizing equipment. The work is challenging, physically taxing, and often takes place in complex environments. Like many jobs in the manufacturing and production sectors, palletizing positions are difficult to fill, despite the essential nature of the role: If the product doesn’t get off the end of the line, the line stops.

To overcome labor issues and increase productivity, today’s manufacturers incorporate innovative modular robotic palletizing cells. These cells use pre-engineered and custom-designed modules configured and assembled to application specifications.


13.12.2025

A new approach to carbon capture could slash costs
Chemical engineers have found a simple way to make capturing carbon emissions from industrial plants more energy-efficient.
Anne Trafton | MIT News
Publication Date:December 11, 2025
https://news.mit.edu/2025/new-approach-carbon-capture-could-slash-costs-1211

Vine-inspired robotic gripper gently lifts heavy and fragile objects
The new design could be adapted to assist the elderly, sort warehouse products, or unload heavy cargo.
Watch Video
Jennifer Chu | MIT News
Publication Date:December 10, 2025
https://news.mit.edu/2025/vine-inspired-robotic-gripper-gently-lifts-heavy-and-fragile-objects-1210


News Release 11-Dec-2025
Dr. Bilal Akin wins 2026 O'Donnell Award in Engineering for transformative work in EV energy systems and industrial automation
Grant and Award Announcement
Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science & Technology
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1109372


Improve Manufacturing Performance With Closed-loop Processes.

White paper.

Manufacturers are managing greater volumes of data, growing product complexity and increasing pressure to deliver reliably. This white paper explains how closed-loop manufacturing connects digital information with real production activities, helping teams work with clearer visibility, better coordination and more predictable outcomes.

What You’ll Learn
  • Why today’s manufacturing environment requires closer coordination between design, planning and production.
  • How closed-loop manufacturing aligns as-designed, as-planned and as-built data for more consistent results.
  • How the digital twin and digital thread support clearer insights and better decisions.
  • The role of Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) in linking PLM, automation and shop-floor systems.
  • Why unified data and real-time feedback help identify issues earlier and improve overall process reliability.
https://www.engineering.com/resources/improve-manufacturing-performance-with-closed-loop-processes/


4.12.2025

3D Printed Chip Packages - UT Austin Team

Engineers at The University of Texas at Austin along with an academic and industry all-star team  aims to revolutionize the production of semiconductor chips with a new 3D printing method. The new approach, which the researchers are calling Holographic Metasurface Nano-Lithography (HMNL), aims for faster, more efficient and environmentally friendly production of advanced electronics.

https://news.utexas.edu/2025/12/03/3d-printed-chip-packages-could-supercharge-semiconductor-manufacturing/


2,12,2025

Manufacturing’s Future Is High Tech

Modern manufacturing blends AI, automation, and sustainability to create meaningful careers and economic resilience.

https://news.gatech.edu/news/2025/12/02/manufacturings-future-high-tech

Today, the industry is evolving into something far more dynamic: a hub for innovation, sustainability, and purpose-driven careers. Experts say this transformation is reshaping not only what manufacturing looks like but why it matters.

Pinar Keskinocak, H. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart School Chair in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, agrees: “Showcasing innovations like AI-driven automation, 3D printing, and smart factories is key to changing perceptions.”  

This evolution demands new skills. The labor force must navigate environments where operational technology and information technology converge. 

To position the industry as an innovation hub, leaders must embrace technologies that enhance efficiency and quality while fostering collaboration across schools, businesses, and government. -  Thomas Kurfess, executive director of the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute.

Manufacturing will remain a cornerstone of economic strength, but its true value will lie in its ability to innovate, adapt, and deliver purpose-driven careers. 


Useful information for my talk.

Topic: Managing Cost: A Measure of Excellence in the Manufacturing Value Chain

Global Summit Theme: Driving Manufacturing Excellence through Digitalization, Innovation & People Empowerment

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/fruisce_manufacturingexcellence-digitaltransformation-activity-7398653756432678912-mZPl



1.12.2025


November 2025


November is the month of thanks giving

SEASONS GREETINGS.


Thanks Giving Message.


Thank You for the Support and Help in taking the online articles to more and more persons.


INTRODUCTION TO MODERN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING. Version 3.0. 

Very Popular Free Download EBook. 11,640+ Downloads/Views so far.
https://academia.edu/103626052/INTRODUCTION_TO_MODERN_INDUSTRIAL_ENGINEERING_Version_3_0

2000+ downloads in the calendar year 2025. The E-Book is read by IE enthusiasts from every country in the world. I am very happy.

Principles of Industrial Engineering. IISE Conference Presentation Video. 10500+ views.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU8CdWfZZdU

LinkedIn Newsletter - Modern Industrial Engineering - 2800+ subscribers

November Issue on Supply Chain Industrial Engineering 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/supply-chain-industrial-engineering-november-2025-issue-kvss-5qjjc/

November - IEKC Industrial Engineering Online Course Lessons

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2025/10/november-iekc-industrial-engineering.html

All - Lessons - https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2024/12/modern-industrial-engineering-book-of.html

30.11.2025

The Solid-State Battery Revolution - Toyota and VW leading the way.



Rutgers-led research leads to autonomous smart systems that enable resilient 3D printing in space, war zones and disaster areas.

https://www.technology.org/2025/11/29/engineers-develop-autonomous-artificial-intelligence-that-transforms-resilience-and-discovery-in-manufacturing/


Many companies remain trapped in outdated work models and processes. Work is still structured according to rigid job roles rather than as a fluid system of tasks that can be both tackled and optimized across human and machine capabilities.

Instead of focusing on how technology can be applied to existing jobs and processes to eliminate human work, leaders must deconstruct existing and emerging processes/operations to understand which elements can be substituted, augmented, or transformed with the new technology. Once they redeploy those elements  to the optimal solutions, they will be on their way to reconstructing an entirely new way of working.

Want AI-Driven Productivity? Redesign Work

To capitalize on the promises of artificial intelligence, leaders need to deconstruct jobs and processes, redeploy work, and reconstruct new ways of operating.
Ravin Jesuthasan 
May 01, 2025
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/want-ai-driven-productivity-redesign-work/




21.11.2025

A Method of Assessing the Effectiveness of the Use of Available Resources When Implementing Production Processes.
Operator effectiveness index proposed.
by Joanna Kochańska  and Anna Burduk
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(13), 7764;    https://doi.org/10.3390/app13137764


10 STEPS TO DEVELOP ROBUST PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES
Planning Phase
Step 1: Problem recognition, formulation and organization of the team

Step 2: Selection of quality characteristic and measurement system

Step 3: Selection of design or process parameters that may influence quality control

Step 4: Classification of design or process parameters into control, noise and signal factors

Step 5: Determination of the number of levels for design or process parameters

Step 6: Determination of the interactions to be studied

Step 7: Choice of appropriate orthogonal arrays and assignment of design or process parameters and their interactions

Conducting Phase
Step 8: Conducting the experiment and recording the results

Analysis Phase
Step 9: Analyzing the experimental data and interpreting the results

Implementation Phase
Step 10: Conduct a follow-up experiment to verify results and implement solutions

10 Steps to Optimal Production
May 19, 2003


20.11.2025

https://www.waps.info/publications/


18.11. 2025



What is Your Industrial Engineering Mindset? As an IE manager or senior IE what mindset are your trying to develop in your IEs and your colleagues in your organization?

Question Based on Managing the IE (Industrial Engineering) Mindset - A Research Paper on Toyota Practice - A paper published in 2011.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/01/managing-ie-industrial-engineering.html



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SQDC - What did Taylor say?

Decide what is to be done? Do it with least cost.

SQD - What is to be done. Decide first.  Effectiveness First.

C - Cost - Do it with least cost. Efficiency Next.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/narayana-rao-kvss-b608007_ai-manufacturing-industry40-activity-7396013232328462337-AU-v

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American Way to Lean Doom. 

Disown their pioneer thinker F.W. Taylor and Embrace some Japanese nouns and verbs. 

What Japanese said. We followed American Industrial Engineering For Increasing Productivity and Reducing Costs Rationally.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7396705627919675393/


11.11.2025

How Engineering Innovations Can Cut Operational Costs by 30%
 Asamaka Industries Ltd
 09/29/2025
https://www.automate.org/news/how-engineering-innovations-can-cut-operational-costs-by-30

Engineering innovations are to be done by industrial engineers - especially productivity oriented engineering innovations.


ITAC - WHITE PAPER
The Future of Industrial Engineering Services in Billion-Dollar Manufacturing
Written by John Whitty, PE | March 11, 2025
https://itac.us.com/the-future-of-industrial-engineering-services-in-billion-dollar-manufacturing/

Important of point in the paper is: provide training to operators on using augmented reality for learning and using it on the job.

Happy to see a prominent company advertising software for industrial engineering. IEs have to support such initiatives and get full software module for IE in CIM packages.

There is need for cost reduction in logistics processes and industrial engineers have to offer their services under the area logistics industrial engineering.



May 22, 2025
How Does AI Reduce Costs? Discover AI Cost Efficiency Strategies
Author: Artur Haponik
CEO & Co-Founder


American Journal Of Industrial And Production Engineering
https://australiansciencejournals.com/production/issue/archive/2


Seco Digital Axial Boring Heads
Reversible display helps speed set-ups and reduce time-consuming and inaccurate adjustments that can result in scrapped parts.
Jan. 7, 2025

SECO TOOLS’ Axiabore™ and Axiabore Plus™ digital axial boring heads eliminate tedious, inaccurate boring head adjustments that can lead to scrapped parts. Its wide digital display helps for quick, efficient adjustment and set-up. The digital axial boring heads use a reversible digital display so operators of any level can make adjustments without mistakes.
https://www.americanmachinist.com/new-products/product/55253523/digital-axial-boring-heads-seco-tools

10.11.2025

In 5S Work Place Arrangement, Shine means inspect. Interesting interpretation.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/narayana-rao-kvss-b608007_leanjourney-5s-continuousimprovement-activity-7393697516342566912--Hu_


9.11.2025

The McKinsey Podcast

Which tech trends are rising to the top of the business agenda?

September 12, 2025 

https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/tech-and-ai/our-insights/which-tech-trends-are-rising-to-the-top-of-the-business-agenda  

McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2025

July 22, 2025

Report - Fifth edition

https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/tech-and-ai/our-insights/the-top-trends-in-tech

Spray Impact in High Pressure Die Casting

In HPDC, die spray plays a much bigger role than most people think. It directly affects temperature balance, cycle time, and casting quality. In this session, learn how spray patterns and timing influence metal flow, cooling rate, and defect formation.

In this video, you’ll learn:

The correct method to evaluate spray impact on die surface

How improper spray causes cold shuts, porosity, and soldering

Best practices to optimize die spray and improve consistency

Watch here: https://youtu.be/8lXhdoLHb3A?si=qs3B5T8gcvgMc9Nw

Explore more free HPDC videos, training PDFs, and advanced professional courses at:

https://www.hpdcpathshala.com

Published 10/20/2025

Seco Tools Face Milling System Provides Flexible Finishing Performance

The .38 Finishing Face Mill / SNFX1204 system features three cutter variants — fixed pocket, hybrid and adjustable — each tailored to different levels of control and performance.

https://www.productionmachining.com/products/seco-tools-face-milling-system-provides-flexible-finishing-performance-2


Unlocking Value from Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing

WEF White paper Published: 12 December 2022.

https://www.weforum.org/publications/unlocking-value-from-artificial-intelligence-in-manufacturing/

Unlocking the Value Potential of AI Manufacturing.

Boston Consulting Group. - PDF - June 2025.
Where is the value at stake in an AI transformation? What will be the role of virtual AI and physical AI? • What enablers need to be put in place? 
https://media-publications.bcg.com/BCG-Executive-Perspectives-Unlocking-the-Value-of-AI-in-Manufacturing-EP17-30June2025.pdf


Unlocking value from machines: business models and the industrial internet of things

2017 - Ehret, M. and Wirtz, J. 

https://web2-bschool.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/media_rp/publications/mL1X61514863898.pdf

Work-Related Limb Disorders - Musculoskeletal Disorders - Topic in Human Effort Industrial Engineering

Lesson 218 of Industrial Engineering FREE ONLINE Course. 
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2021/11/work-related-limb-disorders.html

Productivity Management Topic

Unlocking value in manufacturing by taking continuous improvement to the next level 

by Ralf W. Seifert, Vasilis Karamalegos
Published December 9, 2024 

8.11.2025

Liked the statement. "Remove what is unnecessary (in the workplace) to allow what matters to shine (and become visible)"

This is minimize unnecessary search.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7392925596638474240/

Human Comfort Industrial Engineering - Human Effort Industrial Engineering

Lesson 217 of Industrial Engineering FREE ONLINE Course. 
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2024/11/human-comfort-industrial-engineering.html


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.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2025/07/effective-industrial-engineering-some.html

https://www.linkedin.com/in/narayana-rao-kvss-b608007/



Malini Nambiar: How AI is changing industrial engineering I S02EP02 I Schneider Electric


Schneider Electric


What if AI could address the most persistent challenges in the industry? In this episode of AI at Scale podcast Malini Nambiar, Digital Customer Innovation Director for AI Applications at Schneider Electric, tells the story of how customer insights helped develop a GenAI assistant that solves some of the most pressing pain points of industrial companies: talent gap, long learning curves,  legacy programming languages and time-consuming code customization.

 

The solution: Industrial Copilot for PLC. Built on Schneider Electric’s trusted PLC libraries, it helps developers generate robust, working code—fast.

 

In this episode, you will learn: 


-How Industrial Copilot accelerates PLC code generation using Generative AI. 

-Why multilayer guardrails ensure safety and compliance in automation workflows. 

-How Copilot helps bridge the talent gap in the industry and boosts engineering productivity. 

-What the future holds with agentic AI and autonomous system orchestration. 




Industrial Engineering - Methods Improvement Using Engineering solutions creatively.

Industrial Engineering - Prime focus - Productivity Improvement.

Productivity improvement gives National Prosperity and Organization Prosperity.



Source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/national-productivity-council-gandhinagar_cartoonseriesabr10-productivity-economicgrowth-activity-7301162658278379520-eyyl


5.10.2025

Posting  at Austin, Texas, USA.

Taylor - Narayana Rao Principles of Industrial Engineering - Extended List - Productivity Improvement - Performance Improvement


A to Z of Industrial Engineering - Blogging Challenge April 2025 Posts

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2025/02/a-to-z-of-industrial-engineering.html


Existing Collection of Articles

A to Z of Industrial Engineering - Principles, Methods, Techniques, Tools and Applications

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-to-z-of-industrial-engineering.html


New

Modern Industrial Engineering - Summary Explanation.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/modern-industrial-engineering-summary-explanation-april-kvss-8hiyc


Very happy to receive this message on LinkedIn

19.9.2025

Thanks, Narayana Rao.

I enjoy reading your articles

I think you are doing excellent job promoting what IEs are and how we contribute to society.

Sal Yusoof on LinkedIn


Started a Newsletter. Please Subscribe. - 2200+ so far.

Modern Industrial Engineering - LinkedIn Newsletter - February 2025 Issue.

Industrial Engineering is Productivity Oriented Engineering and Management. It Promotes Industry Expansion.

Objective: "Let us Industrial Engineer a Better World together with Creative Ideas, Engineering and Management."

Coverage: Industrial Engineering - Innovations, News, Research and Success Stories.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/industrial-engineering-innovations-news-research-success-kvss-9ewlc/




Industrial Engineers have their primary objective: Increase Pleasure and Prosperity of All Associated with their Organization - Customers, Employees, Suppliers, and Shareholders. 

Best wishes to all Industrial Engineers and Readers.

"Engineers make things, industrial engineers make them better."

"Engineers do Engineering and make available things and services.  Industrial engineers do better/productive engineering and make things and services better and abundant."

If  you're always finding a better, more efficient, more sensible way to do things, you're already on the right track to become an industrial engineer. 


https://mie.njit.edu/whystudy/why-study-ims.php   


Refresh and Update Industrial Engineering Knowledge.

Read Lessons of  Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course

Industrial Engineering for Society Prosperity. 

Effective industrial engineering in companies and firms in the society will give more useful and valuable goods and services from the same resources. It will increase society prosperity. Industrial engineers contribute to consumers, company employees, company shareholders and society at large through their services. They must feel good and proud to provide their services in their organizations with dedication to their profession and organization.

Download 

INTRODUCTION TO MODERN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING. Version 3.0 

Very Popular Free Download EBook. 10,000+ Downloads/Views so far.  0.5% rank in all books.

https://academia.edu/103626052/INTRODUCTION_TO_MODERN_INDUSTRIAL_ENGINEERING_Version_3_0

Foundation for Industrial Engineering.

Principles of Industrial Engineering - Taylor, Gilbreth, Emerson, Mogensen, Barnes, Maynard. Ohno-Shingo (Toyota TPS)- IISE Conference Presentation Video.  

10100+ views.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU8CdWfZZdU


New Offering for 2025

Modern Industrial Engineering - A Book of Online Readings. 

PDF File. FREE Download. 

100 Reads in the first week. Good Welcome by IE Learners and Practitioners.

Now on Academia-Edu Platform.

https://www.academia.edu/126612353/Modern_Industrial_Engineering_A_Book_of_Online_Readings


"Let us industrial engineer a better world together."

"Let us productivity engineer a better world together."

The India Advantage: Your Gateway to Innovation & Growth - Tata Technologies.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/india-advantage-your-gateway-innovation-growth-tata-technologies-vpqvc/

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14 Feb

Efficiency, precision, and a breakthrough you don’t want to miss


Sandvik Coromant

February 14, 2025

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/efficiency-precision-breakthrough-you-dont-want-miss-sfaqf/

12.2.2025


Are enough resources being provided for Productivity Improvement Projects?

Resourcing for IE Department and Productivity Improvement Projects.

Lesson  358 of  Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course -  Productivity Management Module. 

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2022/03/resourcing-for-ie-department-and.html


Global strategy consulting firm Strategy& has teamed up with the World Governments Summit to launch the Productivity Potential Index (PPI).  It offers countries a groundbreaking new way to manage their strategic planning around productivity and sustainable growth.

Productivity has long been the engine of modern economies, influencing global competitiveness, quality of life, and long-term prosperity. The new index is based on  future opportunities,” - Dima Sayess, partner at Strategy& and one of the conceptors of the Index.

https://www.consultancy-me.com/news/10214/strategys-potential-productivity-index-redefines-how-national-productivity-is-measured

https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/gdp-per-hour-worked.html

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/cons-products/garments-/-textiles/cci-to-identify-districts-in-each-state-for-cotton-productivity-trials-textiles-minister/articleshow/118121950.cms?from=mdr

https://www.epw.in/journal/2025/6/special-articles/growth-divergence-between-indian-states.html

The Role of AI in Shaping Productivity.
Daniel Rock is an assistant professor of operations, information and decisions at the Wharton School. He and his colleagues have looked at how AI can impact something like productivity.


Young-Jun Son

James J. Solberg Head and Ransburg Professor at PurdueJames J. Solberg Head and Ransburg Professor at Purdue

21.1.2025


Purdue University Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering is once again ranked #1 for our online MS degree program.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7287478082108567552/


17.1.25

Industrial Engineering is based on productivity improvement and economic analysis. Rate-of-Return Calculations of Industrial Engineering Projects. Industrial Engineering Economic Analysis.

Lesson 328 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/11/rate-of-return-calculations.html

16.1.2025

Present-Worth Comparisons of Industrial Engineering Projects. Industrial Engineering Economic Analysis.

Lesson 327 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/11/present-worth-comparisons.html

15.1.2025

Industrial Engineering is based on productivity improvement and economic analysis. 

Industrial Engineering Projects - Formulation and Economic Feasibility Analysis.

Lesson 326 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2022/02/industrial-engineering-projects.html

14.1.2025

Industrial Engineering is based on productivity improvement and economic analysis. Required Rate of Return for Investment or Expenditure Proposal.

Lesson 325 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/11/required-rate-of-return-for-investment.html

9.1.2025

Waste Measurement and Reporting Using MES - Manufacturing Execution System

Lesson 315 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2021/12/waste-measurement-and-reporting-using.html

8.1.2025

Productivity Measurement - Waste Measurement

The Seven Value Stream Mapping Tools - Peter Hines and Nick Rich - Brief Explanation

Lesson 314 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/01/seven-value-stream-mapping-tools-peter.html


Important Point.


To understand value stream and improve it, we have to use multiple charts and diagrams.

Action Item


Develop multiple charts for the value streams of your organization.

7.1.2025

Value Stream Mapping (VSM - MIFD) to Measure Inventory Accumulation and Barriers to Flow. Why not single piece flow?

Lesson 313 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/10/value-stream-mapping-origins.html


6.1.2025

Losses identified in TPM.

16 Losses given by Yamashina in Manufacturing Cost Reduction Deployment.

Lesson 312 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/04/manufacturing-system-losses-idenfied-in.html


5.1.2025

Seven Wastes - Taiichi Ohno List -  Toyota Production System Focused Waste Elimination

Lesson 311 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/01/chapter-seven-wastes-model-2013-edition.html


4.1.2025

Total Factor Productivity & Total Productivity Measurement

Lesson 307 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2022/01/total-factor-productivity-total.html


3.1.2025

Productivity Measurement.

Lesson 306 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/02/productivity-measurement.html

Industrial Engineering - Cost of Production and Service Units has to down. Productivity of Resources has to go up.  You need to measure both.

Time Study - Work Measurement Lessons (Lessons 291-299)

Engineering tasks are to be divided into elementary operations or elements, and the time to complete them has to be understood through various elements contributing to it. Through that understanding the time to do an element has to be reduced. These elements have to be classified into standard elements that are present in multiple tasks. 

Time study has to be done at the start of the process improvement study. At intermediate points in the study. At the end of the study. Then after some training and practice in the new method, it has to be done to fix the output expected from the new process as standard.

Taylor's Time Study: Taylor wanted time study to generate standard data for specified elements of work of machines and men. This standard data can be at national or universal level, industry level or company level. Taylor and Gilbreth recommended study of the best person to understand the best way of doing a work element currently. They spent time to further improve the way of doing based on productivity science developed them on the work element. For them the output  of time study has to be the best way of doing a work element and the minimum time in which it can be done. Taylor insisted from the beginning that the speed specified for operations has to be the speed that can be done comfortably, safely and healthily for the entire career span of the operators. What is that speed? Industrial engineering discipline later on developed a standard for that speed as 3 miles per hour. But is it scientifically validated? It may be necessary to provide solid logic and empirical foundation for this standard. Do people feel  happy and comfortable to walk 24 miles per day in 8 hours? This standard has corresponding specification in various work elements. In which work element, people are happy and comfortable to do as per the standard? It is an important question to be answered by IE discipline.

Time Study - Work Measurement Lessons (Starting  from 25.12.2024) 

2.1.2025

Predetermined Motion Time Systems (PMTS)

Lesson 299 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/04/predetermined-motion-time-systems-pmts.html


Predetermined Motion Time System (PMTS) - Introduction  

A predetermined motion time system (PMTS) consists of a set of time data for basic human motions and a systematic procedure which analyses and subdivides any manual operation of human task into motions, body movements, or other elements of human performance, and assigns to each the appropriate time value. Each system of time data was originally developed from extensive studies of all aspects of human performance through measurement, evaluation, and validation procedures.  

Industrial engineers have to learn these methods to visualize human effort on their own without observing the operators. Then observation follows and understanding increases.



Optimization of Labour Productivity Using MOST Technique

https://www.pomsmeetings.org/confpapers/059/059-0058.pdf

1.1.2025

What is Industrial and Systems Engineering?

IISE Definition of Industrial Engineering

Industrial and systems engineering (ISE) is concerned with the design, improvement and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, information, equipment and energy. It draws upon specialized knowledge and skill in the mathematical, physical, and social sciences together with the principles and methods of engineering analysis and design, to specify, predict, and evaluate the results to be obtained from such systems.


Focus on these portions of the definition

Industrial and systems engineering (ISE) is concerned with the design, improvement and installation of integrated systems  - to specify, predict, and evaluate the results to be obtained from such systems.

Specify the required results from the systems.

Predict the expected results from the designs of the systems

Evaluate the results after installation and improve them.

Result Areas

As per definition, any result area can become the activity of IE.

Cost and productivity are the two result areas which were first taken up by IE. Quality awareness and resolve not to deteriorate quality was part of IE right from beginning. But as quality engineering and management made its progress, IE adopted quality as a result area. Later flexibility appeared. Now sustainability came into prominence.


Elements of Human Effort/Work: Therbligs by Gilbreth
Lesson 298 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

Important Point

Therbligs are foundation for productivity science of human effort. Every industrial engineer has to know these basic motions of humans and subject that further developed out of it. PMTS systems are developed based on therbligs.

31.12.2024 

Work Sampling for Work Measurement

Lesson 297 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2019/10/work-sampling-introduction.html

Work sampling reduced work in work measurement studies of certain types of work. It is application of statistics to work measurement area in industrial engineering.



30.12.2024

Effort Rating or Pace Rating in Stop Watch Time Study

Lesson 296 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/04/effort-rating-or-pace-rating-in-stop.html

Interesting Issue

Effort Rating or Pace Rating Standard in Stop Watch Time Study. 3 miles per hour. Do you agree.
Doubt - Is 3 Miles per Hour Work Pace Standard Validated?


 Is Walking a Full Marathon in Eight Hours and  Fifteen minutes  the Work Standard as per Work Measurement

Can a worker can walk a full marathon every day comfortably. How many walk a full marathon even once in a year? Is this 3 mph standard validated scientifically by work measurement engineers?


29.12.2024

Work Measurement - Nadler's Description

Lesson 295 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/04/work-measurement-nadlers-description.html



28.12.2024

Time Study and Work Measurement - ILO Work Study Book Explanation

Lesson 294 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2019/08/work-measurement-ilo-work-study-book.html

Important Point to Note

Method study reveals shortcomings of design, material, equipment, its accessories, cutting tools and method of manufacture, and, as such, affects mainly technical decisions.  Work measurement is more likely to show up short comings on the part of management  and the motions,  movements and idle time  of the workers.

On the basis of work measurement, the elimination of ineffective time due to management shortcomings must precede any attack on the ineffective time within the control of the workers.

Action Item

Production study of  a batch of part can study the technical aspects of the process, managerial aspects of the the process and operator related aspects of the process. Work measurement will be important activity in this production study. Try it.




27.12.2024

Time Study and Work Measurement - Definitions.

Lesson 293 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/04/time-study.html


Work Measurement for Recording Times in Process Charts is ignored in current work measurement theory. 

Operation Process Chart - Recording and Analyzing It

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2021/12/operation-process-chart-recording-and.html



26.12.2024

F.W. Taylor - Explanation of Time Study - 1912

Lesson 292 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2019/09/fw-taylor-explanation-of-time-study-1912.html

Important Point to Note.

The constructive work of time study.

The analysis of a piece of work into its elements almost always reveals the fact that many of the conditions surrounding and accompanying the work are defective; for instance, that improper tools are used, that the machines used in connection with it need perfecting, that the sanitary conditions are bad, etc. And knowledge so obtained leads frequently to constructive work of a high order, to the standardization of tools and conditions, to the invention of superior methods (processes) and machines.

Action Item.

Machines used  need perfecting,

Constructive work of a high order - Standardization of tools and conditions, Invention of superior methods (processes) and machines.

As Industrial engineers, do improve machines and tools.

25.12.2024

Time Study - 1903 Explanation by F.W. Taylor - Process Time Reduction Study

Lesson 291 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/08/time-study-by-fw-taylor.html

Interesting point.

It is also desirable that, as soon as practicable after taking a few complete sets of time observations, the operator should be given the opportunity of working up one or two sets at least by summing up the unit times and allowing the proper per cent of rest, etc., and putting them into practical use, either by comparing his results with the actual time of a job which is known to be done in fast time, or by setting a time which a workman is to live up to.

The actual practical trial of the time student's work is most useful, both in teaching him the necessity of carefully noting the minutest details, and on the other hand convincing him of the practicability of
the whole method, and in encouraging him in future work.

Action Item.

If you are not using above suggestion try using it. 


24.12.2024

Cost Engineering

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2021/12/cost-engineering-bibliography.html

Brief

What is Cost Engineering?

“Cost” is the collective term for resources such as: money and time. These resources are limited and should be utilized as efficient as possible. Cost engineering focuses on; “managing cost throughout the life cycle of any enterprise, (e.g. project or program).”

A cost engineer applies his engineering skills and experience to forecast the cost of the design and the project plan during the development of a project.  He also predicts the cost during the  progress of a project by spotting deviations from the plan early on. To analyze a deviation in the original design, it is vital to understand what other parameters will be affected and how this impacts the rest of the design and planning. 

Action Item. Industrial engineers have to understand techniques used on cost engineering.


23.12.2024

Industrial Engineering Accompanied by Cost Estimating

Lesson 284 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2019/11/industrial-engineering-accompanied-by.html

Reducing the machine hours and labour hours based on engineering modifications is the focus of industrial engineering. It has to result in reduced cost of units produced. Hence every industrial engineering project or study begins with a time study, cost study (estimation), and productivity study. When an industrial engineering project is completed, its benefits are indicated by once again doing a time study, cost study and productivity study. As an intermediate stage, estimates of time, cost and productivity are made by industrial engineers.

Action Item. Do you have an established cost estimation process in IE department? If not, develop the process


22.12.2024

Cost Measurement in Manufacturing Execution System (MES)

Lesson 283 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2021/12/cost-measurement-in-manufacturing.html


21.12.2024

282

Machine Cost and Work Measurement - Time and Cost Estimates for Metal Forming Processes

Lesson 282 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2019/11/machine-cost-and-work-measurement-time.html

Brief

Estimation of forging cost discussed.

Action Item

Do cost estimates or standard cost calculation for all parts and assemblies. Remember the final goal of industrial engineering is cost reduction that benefits consumers, employees and shareholders/owners. 

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Better Equipment - More Productivity (Output)


The  cartoon depicts two fishermen, one with a simple stick and string catching small fish, and the other using advanced fishing equipment to catch large fish. Captioned "Better Equipment," this image humorously illustrates the concept of using better equipment as a tool for higher productivity. By employing standardized (improved), effective tools and techniques, individuals or teams can achieve significantly better results with the same effort.

Source: 

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7275714036510400512/

My comments in the above discussion

Standardization:  - Improve - Promote the new way in all instances of use - improve again. Standardization has to be promoted as a cycle.


Better Equipment - Industrial Engineers have to contribute to development of better equipment - Contribution can be from concept to detail design and fabrication and operation. It can be up to any depth and detail as appropriate and feasible.



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20.12.2024

Cost Behavior Analysis and Relevant Costs Concept

Lesson 281 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/cost-behavior-analysis-and-relevant.html

Cost Estimation Procedures


1. Industrial Engineering Method
2. Conference Method
(W. Wichelll, Realistic cost Estimating for Manufacturing, 2nd ed., Society for Manufacturing Engineers, Dearborn, Michigan, 1989)
3. Account Analysis Method
4. Quantitative Analysis Method
a. High-Low Method
b. Regression Analysis

What is  Industrial Engineering Method of Cost Estimation? Industrial engineers have to notice it.

ENGINEERING COST ANALYSIS

COURSE OBJECTIVE:

Teach the utilization of financial and cost techniques to do cost analysis for decision-making, pricing and control of operations.

https://web.njit.edu/~wolf/intro.htm

Full article

THE LANGUAGE OF COST

Establishing common ground for business management and engineering

By Thomas R. Cutler

https://www.iise.org/details.aspx?id=21620


International Journal of Industrial Engineering, 18(5), 232-243, 2011.ISSN 1943-670X© INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERINGOPTIMAL COSTESTIMATION FOR IMPROVEMENT OF PRODUCT DESIGNHongchul Lee1 and Jaemyung Lee

https://journals.sfu.ca/ijietap/index.php/ijie/article/view/285/209

Action Item

Prepare cost relation sheet for each process under your responsibility. Develop activity volume based relations and complexity based cost driver relations.


19.12.2024

Kaizen Costing, KAIZENshiro and Kaizen Cost Management

Lesson 280 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

https://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2012/01/kaizen-costing-and-kaizen-cost.html

Brief

Japanese implemented  cost reduction philosophy in a systematic manner. They planned reductions in the standard costs of an item every year. So the production and sales team have to plan their department and activity cost to achieve reduction in standard cost. The idea was extended by them to monthly costs. They said we cannot achieve cost reduction in one day in a year. So having a standard cost for an year and then asking for reduction in it next year is not the right approach for cost reduction. They came with a reducing cost target for every month. Such a reducing cost target for every month demands some effort on cost reduction by departments every month. Hence cost reduction is on the monthly agenda of every department in the company. Kaizen costing is providing the monthly cost target information and accounting for actuals during the month.

Action Item: Prepare the cost statements for the last two months and compare costs for evidence of cost reduction. Plan for the cost reduction during next month.


18.12.2024
Standard Costing and Cost Reduction
Lesson 279 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

17.12.2024
Cost Center Reports and Analysis
Lesson 278 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

16.12.2024
Process Costing - Review Notes
Lesson 277 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

15.12.2024

Job Costing - Review Notes
Lesson 276 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.


Part Process Chart Costing Sheet - Industrial Engineering Cost Measurement Sheet

14..12.2024

Elements of Cost - Cost Accounting Record/Book Keeping
Lesson 275 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

13.12.2024

Basics of Accounting for Industrial Engineers

Lesson 273 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2022/01/basics-of-accounting-for-industrial.html


274

Cost Accounting - Introduction

Lesson 274 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2012/01/cost-accounting-introduction.html


12.12.2024

271. Industrial Engineering Measurements - Online Course Module - Introduction and Index

Lesson 271 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2021/05/industrial-engineering-measurements.html

Industrial Engineering is cost reduction of product and service units based on productivity improvement of all resources used in production.

An IE does something more than engineering in the engineering area. It is the understanding of the cost of inputs into the engineering products and productivity of the resources and process elements. An IE does not spend time on creating new engineering products and processes. He spends time on understanding and improving cost elements and productivity elements of existing products and processes. It means IE develops productivity science and cost science related to engineering elements. The engineering done by IE is productivity engineering of engineering elements, based on the discoveries in productivity science. This productivity engineering could be done by the industrial engineer himself or he can get the engineering project approved to be executed by the concerned engineers internally or by the consultants and external engineering design firms.  He measures cost and productivity (time) of engineering elements and combines them in creating better cost effective and productive solutions to existing products and processes. Thus the final effect of industrial engineers' efforts  is on final products and processes and systems. But many times it is the combination of improvements at the elements level, and their proper integration that gives the result at the system level. Industrial engineering department of a company has to make significant contribution of the order of 2 to 5% reduction in the engineering systems cost of the organization year after year based on adopting new engineering developments, industrial engineering discoveries and inventions, creative thinking and the learning effect of all employees of the organization.

IE Measurements - Cost - Time - Productivity - Waste - Inventory

lessons are there for each cost element or head in the module.


Cost Measurement - Essential Activity of Industrial Engineering

Lesson 272 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/04/cost-measurement-essential-activity-of.html

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Very Happy. Thank You YouTube Community.10000+ views. Principles of Industrial Engineering. IISE Conference Presentation Video. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU8CdWfZZdU

Thank You LinkedIn Community.10000+ views. Principles of Industrial Engineering. IISE Conference Presentation Video. 


New. Popular E-Book on IE,

Introduction to Modern Industrial Engineering.  #FREE #Download.

In 1% on Academia.edu. 11,700+ Downloads so far.

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Principles of Industrial Engineering - Taylor, Gilbreth, Emerson, Mogensen, Barnes, Maynard. Ohno-Shingo (Toyota TPS)- IISE Conference Presentation Video - 9950+ views.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU8CdWfZZdU

https://kamerai.ai/top-4-trends-impacting-the-practice-of-industrial-engineering/

https://operationscouncil.org/the-role-of-industrial-engineering-in-operations/

https://operationscouncil.org/2023-coo-of-the-year-awards-winners-announced/


Industrial Engineering - Increases Resource Efficiency. Increases Output of Goods and Services. Increases Income to Employees. Increases Profits and Dividends to Entrepreneurs.

#IndustrialEngineering   for   #SocietyProsperity  through #Productivity  #Improvement satisfying all constraints and limits. 

Modern Industrial Engineering and Lean in Low Volume - High Mix Production - Shahrukh Irani, Narayana Rao and Others
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2021/09/lean-in-low-volume-high-mix-production.html

6.12.2024

Industrial Engineering - Machine Effort IE, Human Effort IE.

I want industrial engineers to notice the definition.  Work System: Definition

"A work system is a system in which human participants and/or machines perform work using information, technology, and other resources to produce products and/or services for internal or external customers." (IISE Work Systems Division)

Design of Work Systems, Machine Methods, Operator Methods, and Work Measurement - Ralph Barnes

Related person


Industrial systems and processes exist in agriculture, manufacturing - mining - construction, and service businesses. Do you agree?

Industrial Engineers  have to be pioneers in New Technology Adoption. Do you agree?
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/05/new-technology-understanding-analysis.html


Industrial Engineering is Cost Reduction through Productivity Improvement.
Productivity Improvement Using  Productivity Science - Productivity Engineering - Productivity Management. Do you agree?


13.11.2024

Good video

Introduction to Industrial Engineering


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Generative Use Cases - Productivity is also included.

https://aws.amazon.com/generative-ai/use-cases/?trk=624e2d4f-f23a-43c7-a69d-10d3def7aa04&sc_channel=sm


Improving Operation Process Chart

Industrial engineers have to first improve operation process chart. 

In it they have to improve material transformation fist and then its quality assurance activity. Only after economical quality output is assured through the material transformation process, they have to examine storage requirement, transport requirement and planning activity for the production. Improvement of operation process chart has to be the primary activity of industrial engineers.


Process Improvement - Productivity Analysis and Productivity Engineering.

Industrial engineer analyzes each process into its ultimate, simple elements, and compares each of these simplest steps or processes with an ideal or perfect condition and modifies the element appropriately. - F.W. Taylor - Hugo Diemer.

Prof. Hugo Diemer  - Taylor's Industrial Engineering

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/05/prof-hugo-diemer-taylors-industrial.html


Productivity Benchmarking -  Industry  4.0 Technologies

Applied Industrial Engineering. Industry 4.0 Technologies. List of Industry 4.0 Light Houses -  Productivity and Cost Benefits Realized - WEF - McKinsey - Have You Benchmarked with the Best in Industry 4.0 Implementation?

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2024/01/list-of-industry-40-light-houses-wef.html







AUG 1, 2024
Additive manufacturing is impacting the automotive industry, from large players to custom shops
Automotive insights from RAPID/TCT 2024.
At this year’s industrial additive manufacturing event in Los Angeles, automotive applications were strongly represented by equipment manufacturers, material suppliers and software vendors.
Specialty autos that were formally contracted out for completion, such as Roush and Shelby Mustangs, may move in-house as additive manufacturing technology and capability for short runs, without added costs. 


Seminar Video - Higher Education in Industrial Engineering and Management - IE3


Politecnico di Bari

Streamed live on 2 Feb 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IihGXZtIITY




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Industrial engineering departments and industrial engineers have to develop 


How to implement Jidoka in Lean Manufacturing ? Autonomation

Knowledge Factory-Lean Six Sigma
"Jidoka, also known as automation with a human touch, comes from the Japanese word for 'autonomation'. It's about creating a system where machines, not humans, identify and resolve errors."

Low-cost, easy-to-produce prosthesis

The aim of the ARM2u team is to start marketing a prosthesis that helps people with this disability at a much lower cost than that of similar existing models. This prototype is easy to produce at a low cost, since it is made of PLA plastic using 3D printing techniques.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230516/Biomedical-engineering-students-create-low-cost-robotic-arm-as-an-alternative-to-conventional-prostheses.aspx



UWM engineering students create solution that saves company $840,000 per year

Posted on May 17, 2023

https://www.wisconsin.edu/all-in-wisconsin/story/uwm-engineering-students-create-solution-that-saves-company-840000-per-year/


Manufacturing Plants Trends

https://intelligence.eiirtrend.com/web/index.php?entityid=3009


https://www.industryweek.com/technology-and-iiot/whitepaper/21264128/autonomous-operations-embark-on-the-transitional-path-toward-a-more-autonomous-industry


https://storydesign.industryweek.com/yokogawa-industrial-automation-autonomy



Improve Operational Efficiency

https://www.identecsolutions.com/news/how-to-improve-operational-performance


New Writing Project

Industrial Engineering: Productivity Improvement of Systems and Processes - Book by Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2023/04/industrial-engineering-productivity.html

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



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Improving Operation Process Chart

Industrial engineers have to first improve operation process chart. 

n it they have to improve material transformation fist and then its quality assurance activity. Only after economical quality output is assured through the material transformation process, they have to examine storage requirement, transport requirement and planning activity for the production. Improvement of operation process chart has to be the primary activity of industrial engineers.



Process Improvement - Productivity Analysis and Productivity Engineering.

Industrial engineer analyzes each process into its ultimate, simple elements, and compares each of these simplest steps or processes with an ideal or perfect condition and modifies the element appropriately. - F.W. Taylor - Hugo Diemer.

Prof. Hugo Diemer  - Taylor's Industrial Engineering

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/05/prof-hugo-diemer-taylors-industrial.html








Lesson 162 of  Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course.


Lesson 161 of  Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course.




Lesson 158 of  Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course.

Analysis of Flow -  Delays in the Processes - Part of Flow Process Chart Analysis
Lesson 156 of  Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course.

Analyze the Current Method of Process/Operation to Find Improvement Opportunities. - Machine Tool Setup Time and Cost Analysis.  - Lesson 93 of Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course.

Industrial engineering and management, problems and policies, ...
About this Item
Barnes, Ralph Mosser, 1908-
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Fundamentals of Lean Manufacturing
by Don T Phillips (Author), Berna E Tokgoz .
Read the first chapter in Amazon site.

New Concepts, Methods and Techniques in Industrial Engineering.
Facilities Industrial Engineering - Product Industrial Engineering - Process Industrial Engineering -
Human Effort Industrial Engineering





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


Process Improvement using engineering knowledge to reduce cost through increasing productivity of machines and men by reducing machine time and man time is the main activity of industrial engineering.

Many other disciplines help industrial engineers to achieve their objectives. But the main discipline that is the foundation for IE is engineering of products and processes.


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http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/11/scope-and-limitations-of-methods.html

METHOD STUDY.
The principles of Methods Efficiency Engineering are fundamental, and they can be applied to any class of work. It makes no difference if a plant is manufacturing toys, tools, trains, or tractors ; the principles apply equally to all. - H.B. Maynard.
They are applicable to job shops as well as mass production shops. There are also applicable to all engineering branches.
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/11/scope-and-limitations-of-methods.html



STANDARDIZED CONDITIONS PRINCIPLE OF EFFICIENCY - Harrington Emerson
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/10/chapter-11-ninth-principle-standardized.html

STANDARDIZED OPERATIONS PRINCIPLE OF EFFICIENCY - Harrington Emerson
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/10/chapter-12-tenth-principle-standardized.html




Productivity Incentives - Principle of Industrial Engineering
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/06/productivity-incentives-principle-of.html



381.
EFFICIENCY REWARD PRINCIPLE OF EFFICIENCY by Harrington Emerson

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/10/chapter-14-twelfth-principle-efficiency.html
321.
Learning Curve - Experience Curve - Bibliography
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/06/learning-curve-experience-curve.html





373.
News - Information for Industrial Engineering Analysis of Delays in Processes - Lean Inventory Design in Processes

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/07/news-information-for-analysis-of-delays.html

Flow Manufacturing and Product Families.

Product families help you to create flow manufacturing cells. Flow manufacturing has many benefits compared to job shop or job queue manufacturing shops. Jobs have inherent delays in material flow.
News - Information for Industrial Engineering Analysis of Delays in Processes - Lean Inventory Design in Processes

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/07/news-information-for-analysis-of-delays.html

Lean Thinkers have to use Industrial Engineering Tools - especially process charts. [VSM] analysis is at a high level, without many details. To uncover every instance of every type of muda requires a detailed analysis using a portfolio of tools drawn from industrial engineering ... The most important of these are process mapping (to identify and categorize each step together with the time, distance and effort involved)... Womack and Jones, 1996.
Lean Management - Introduction - Evolution.
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2014/02/lean-management.html

New Lean Principles for an Industry 4.0 World
#IndustrialEngineering  #Productivity  #CostReduction   #Lean
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2022/08/new-lean-principles-for-industry-40.html

Systems Engineering - Designing entire value stream; that is, every step required to deliver value to your customer – instead of your product in isolation – is the defining characteristic of LPPD. - Jim Morgan, Lean Enterprise Institute.
New Lean Principles for an Industry 4.0 World.
#IndustrialEngineering  #Productivity  #CostReduction   #Lean
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2022/08/new-lean-principles-for-industry-40.html

Lean thinkers reiterate what F.W. Taylor said earlier.
Robert Martichenko and Kevin von Grabe  say:
"Make decisions that will meet customer expectations at the lowest possible total cost."
Compare Taylor's management definition with the above explanation of lean management. They both mean the same.

Management is  knowing exactly what you want men to do, and then seeing that they do it in the best and cheapest way. - F.W. Taylor in Shop Management.
Lean Management - Introduction - Evolution.
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2014/02/lean-management.html

How to Lead Lean Systems?
John Shook - Former Toyota Manager. 
YouTube Videos on #Lean Systems and Practices
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/08/youtube-videos-on-lean-systems-and.html



Lean is subset of IE with increased focus on flow and special focus on pull.
Lean is a Subset and Sub-brand of Industrial Engineering.
#IndustrialEngineering  #Productivity  #CostReduction   #Lean
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2021/06/lean-is-sub-brand-of-industrial.html







339.

Industrial Engineering - Hand Tools, Cutting Tools and Machine Accessories for Productivity
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2018/04/industrial-engineering-hand-tools.html









343.
Information Systems Industrial Engineering - Information Systems Engineering
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/07/information-systems-industrial.html


346.
Business Process Improvement - Industrial Engineering Through Information Technology - Bibliography
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/06/business-process-improvement.html






































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Process Improvement Industrial Engineering

Operations in the Process - Material Processing - Inspection - Material Movement - Storage - Production Planning and Control


Material Processing Improvement

For each manufacturing process, industrial engineers have to identify the process parameters that have an effect on productivity and do experiments to find the relation between the parameter and productivity. The increased understanding of these relations leads to productivity engineering and more productivity.
Electrochemical Machining - Productivity Science - Engineering

Production Industrial Engineering - Scope.
Basic Production Processes and Technologies and Industrial Engineering.
Developing basic production processes and technologies in the direction of increasing productivity is the responsibility of industrial engineering discipline.

Inspection

For inspection operation also, equipment, gauges and persons are used. Productivity improvement has to be attempted based on the engineering knowledge of IEs.

Material Handling, Transport and Material Movement

Motorized Equipment, Man operated trolleys, implements like shoves  and persons are used. Productivity improvement has to be attempted based on the engineering knowledge of IEs.

Storage and Warehousing

Receiving, breaking the bulk or separating items, counting, moving to shelves and placing in shelves are to be done. Similarly, there are activities when material is to be issued. Full automation of warehousing is possible now. Productivity improvement has to be attempted based on the engineering knowledge of IEs.

Production Planning and Control

If it is not proper, wrong batch quantities and safety stocks are employed. Lots of delays take place. Material lies idle and resources become idle.

Hence productivity science is needed in each step of the process of manufacture of a part or a complete product.






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

Productivity Improvement in Machine Shop - F.W. Taylor

Engineering in Industrial Engineering -  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.



Process Improvement - Process Industrial Engineering - Methods and Techniques

PROCESS IMPROVEMENT STUDY
Question the choice of the machine for the operation in each process improvement study.
Do the replacement analysis in each facilities improvement study.
Production Equipment Productivity Analysis. 












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.


SME 2021 Geoffrey Boothroyd Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineers

14 Geoffrey Boothroyd Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineers, age 35 or younger, are being recognized for their exceptional contributions and accomplishments in the manufacturing industry. 

Each year, the award is named in honor of a specific individual who has made lifelong contributions to manufacturing and SME. The 2021 award namesake is University of Massachusetts Professor Geoffrey Boothroyd, PhD, FSME, and founder of Boothroyd Dewhurst Inc. Boothroyd and his colleagues began research on what would become the basis for the design for manufacture and assembly (DFMA) methodology, "which has dramatically reduced costs, improved product quality and enhanced the competitiveness of major U.S. manufacturers."


Lilian Gilbreth - Cal Graduate - Cal's First Industrial Engineer
https://ieor.berkeley.edu/cals-first-industrial-engineer/

Industrial Engineering @ Oakland ISE - Prof Robert Van Til

J. Jack Watson : Engineering Hall of Fame - 2001

Graduation Year: 1950
BSIA 1950 - MIME

Jack Watson graduated with a BS in Industrial Administration in 1950, then worked as an industrial engineer and supervisor with The Boeing Company in Seattle for nine years, and three years at Thiokol Chemical in Brigham City, Utah. He then spent 25 years in executive management at Wilton Corporation in Shiller Park, Illinois; Walworth Company in Braintree, Massachusetts; Medalist Industries in Oshkosh, Wisconsin; Pressed Steel Tank in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Grove Valve and Regulator in Oakland, California. In 1987, Watson co-founded and served as Chairman and CEO of NEWFLO Corporation in Austin, Texas. NEWFLO acquired nine subsidiary companies during the next nine years and sales grew from $34 million in 1988 to $232 million in 1996. The company was sold to Portland, Oregon's Precision Castparts in 1996.
https://engineering.oregonstate.edu/j-jack-watson-2001-engineering-hall-fame

Jack Watson - Biography - Book - Page 156 Boeing job starts
Page 177: 300 person industrial engineering department at Boeing (1950-1959)
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=HtZizrKbb-AC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false


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 https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/03/value-creation-model-for-industrial.html

Industrial Engineering in Top Global Manufacturing Companies - Top 100
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/03/industrial-engineering-in-top-global.html

Understand skills and knowledge required for IE Jobs in Top 100 Global Manufacturing Companies
Industrial Engineering Jobs - Top Global Manufacturing Companies - 2020
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/03/industrial-engineering-jobs-top-global.html



Industrial Engineering - Core Task


The core task in Industrial Engineering (IE) is continuous engineering change in product and processes to increase productivity. Other activities are additions to this core. If it is not done, engineering term has no meaning and IE has no competitive advantage.

"Industrial Engineering is System Efficiency Engineering and Human Effort Engineering. It is an engineering discipline that deals with the system efficiency."

The core design teams are first concerned with effectiveness and then with satisfactory efficiency. Industrial engineers evaluate and increase efficiency over the life cycle of the product and process based on intensive search of existing knowledge, creative application, efficiency related measurements and analysis, new technology developments, experience, and involving every body in operations as well as design in efficiency improvement. Improvements done by IEs are fed back into core design for the future products and processes.

Principles of Industrial Engineering With Supporting Articles https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2019/11/principles-of-industrial-engineering.html


The earlier Blog URL:  http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/02/industrial-engineering-bulletin-board.html

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Industrial Engineering Knol Books by Narayana Rao


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Industrial Engineering Knowledge Revision - One Year Plan

January - February - March - April - May - June

July - August - September - October - November - December


The Purpose, Philosophy, Principles and Methods of Industrial Engineering
Masters in Industrial Engineering Program Orientation Address 2016
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Knowledge Base for Process Productivity Improvement - News - Information for




2022

40 continuous improvement tools
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6970934647950098432 

New Concepts, Methods and Techniques in Industrial Engineering.
Facilities Industrial Engineering - Product Industrial Engineering - Process Industrial Engineering -
Human Effort Industrial Engineering

IEs have to learn: Action-based modeling: What’s behind what’s happening?

Mario Ventresca, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Industrial Engineering,
College of Engineering, Purdue University

5.7.2022
Happy. 250 lessons got minimum 50 views in a year.
Industrial Engineering FREE ONLINE Course. 

The Next 50 Years of Industrial Management and Engineering

hakan butuner
2015, Proceedings of International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Dubai, United Arab Emirates


Trends and Proposals for European Industrial Engineering

June 2021
Conference: IEM Teaching and Research at the Crossroads of Innovation, Digitalisation and Sustainability. Proceedings of the 14th EPIEM Conference 2021. Editors Assoc. Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Bernd Markus ZUNK Univ.-Ass. Amila OMAZIC, BSc MScAt: Graz University of Technology (virtual conference)Volume: ISBN (e-book) 978-3-85125-827-1
Authors:
Jabier Retegi, Mondragon Unibertsitatea
Juan Ignacio Igartua-Lopez, Mondragon Unibertsitatea

The Efficiency Magazine - 1911 to 1916
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000057303

Efficient Manufacturing - Web Magazine

Creative machine fixturing ability enables Parkn to produce large batches of parts very quickly if needed. They can also set up the fixtures to run separate parts on the other side, if smaller batches are required.

Machine fixture design is a balancing act to see how many parts you can fit into the machine at once without disturbing the tool path or exceeding the limitations of your machine tool.

Managing to Learn: Using the A3 Management Process to Solve Problems, Gain Agreement, Mentor and Lead

John Shook
Lean Enterprise Institute, 2008 - Business & Economics - 138 pages

"The process by which a company identifies, frames, acts and reviews progress on problems, projects and proposals can be found in the structure of the A3 process ... follow the story of a manager ... and his report ... which will reveal how the A3 can be used as a management process to create a standard method for innovating, planning, problem-solving, and building structures for a broader and deeper form of thinking - a practical and repeatable approach to organizational learning"--Publisher's description.

Gemba Keiei by Taiichi Ohno, Chapter 33: The Difference Between Production Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering
By Jon Miller

Industrial Engineering 4.0 - 2022







Using process mining to improve productivity in make-to-stock manufacturing
Rafael Lorenz et. al., International Journal of Production Research, Volume 59, 2021 - Issue 16.

How is 3D Animation impacting the new age of Engineering Animation?
The new world is all about technology. Every industry across the globe is manifesting to switch to new technological methods that can catalyze their business productivity and functionality.





2021


2020


Artificial Intelligence Replacing the Human Effort by 4 times.
when people don’t know about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots they are four times more effective at selling products than inexperienced workers
ByElets News Network,  September 24, 2019
https://cio.eletsonline.com/news/artificial-intelligence-replacing-the-human-effort-by-4-times/63313/

ISO 9241-11:2018(en)
Ergonomics of human-system interaction — Part 11: Usability: Definitions and concepts
https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:9241:-11:ed-2:v1:en

Modern engineering: why do organizations transform?

JANUARY 15, 2020

Antonio De La Prieta

MANAGING DIRECTOR AT THE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CENTER IN SPAIN

Lead of custom software engineering, digital, and Salesforce practices at the Advanced Technology Center in Spain.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonio-de-la-prieta-antoli/

Jorge Hidalgo

SENIOR TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECT AT THE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CENTER IN SPAIN

Global Java practice co-lead, and custom software engineering, architecture & DevOps lead at the Advanced Technology Center in Spain.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/deors/

https://www.accenture.com/us-en/blogs/software-engineering-blog/prieta-hidalgo-modern-engineering


Productivity Improvement Service of Sandvik Coromant
https://www.sandvik.coromant.com/en-gb/services/manufacturing/pages/pip.aspx

Stanford researchers demonstrate major advance in dynamic charging
May 19, 2020

Stanford engineers report that they have taken a big step toward a practical system for dynamic charging, which would allow EVs to recharge while hurtling down the highway.

Stanford Professor Shanhui Fan has been working on dynamic charging for some time. In 2017, Fan and graduate student Sid Assawaworrarit built a working prototype. Now they  demonstrated a system that could be scaled up to enable highway dynamic charging, and that could see a practical application in the nearer term, wirelessly recharging robots as they move around warehouses and factory floors. This is a significant research step toward a practical and efficient system for wirelessly recharging automobiles and robots, even when they are moving at high speeds.
https://chargedevs.com/newswire/stanford-researchers-demonstrate-major-advance-in-dynamic-charging/


S-in motion provides smart steel solutions for EVs
Posted May 7, 2020

ArcelorMittal introduced its first S-in motion study for ICE vehicles ten years back. The company has now released a new set of S-in motion solutions for EVs. The S-in motion online car configurator shows how advanced high-strength steels (AHSS) and smart solutions can be deployed to meet the weight, safety, cost and sustainability performance targets of EV producers.
https://chargedevs.com/newswire/s-in-motion-provides-smart-steel-solutions-for-evs/


Manufacturing Education
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=pqNPDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

November 2017

November - Industrial Engineering Knowledge Revision Plan
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2015/01/november-industrial-engineering.html

Empowerment and Productivity
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/11/empowerment-and-productivity.html


Engineering Materials for Cost Reduction
Posted by Michael Pfeifer, Ph.D., P.E.
One approach to cost reduction is to re-engineer products to use less expensive materials or reduced quantities of higher priced materials.  This approach can have a significant impact on a product’s costs, since the materials used in a product account for a large part of its total cost.
https://www.imetllc.com/engineering-materials-for-cost-reduction/

Interesting work in Industrial Engineering being done by

https://www.linkedin.com/in/spmishra16/




Industrial Engineers - Share at least one productivity idea of yours every year


Contribute Brainstorming Bits for Productivity Improvement.

I suggest that all industrial engineering participating in productivity improvement contribute at least one productivity initiative of theirs every year through a blog post, social media entry or email in a group. The blog post can be in their own blog, on a blog of their company or it can be submitted to blogs of their institute or professional associations. The social media posts can be on their profile, a page, or in a community. That way the community will have multiple examples of productivity improvement in the entire global economy and some of these examples act as brainstorming particles that excite others to think and implement productivity measures in their organizations. By sharing only one idea every year, every industrial engineer engaging in productivity improvement can energize the entire profession.

I am very happy that Mr. Keven McManus, a regular author in Industrial Engineer magazine supported the idea in FaceBook Community of IISE.


NIFT should focus on Industrial Engineering http://news.apparelresources.com/events-news/nift-should-focus-on-industrial-engineering/

Low Cost Materials and Processes - Information Board - 2014 - Database for Industrial Engineering and Value Engineering

Branding for Industrial Engineering


Industrial Engineering Strategy

Industrial Engineering of Technical Processes

  Manufacturing Systems Industrial Engineering
  Material Handling Systems Industrial Engineering
Quality and Inspection Systems Industrial Engineering
Storage and Warehouse  Systems Industrial Engineering
Supply Chain Systems Industrial Engineering
Logistics Systems Industrial Engineering
  Information Systems Industrial Engineering
Lean Manufacturing Systems Industrial Engineering
    Maintenance System Industrial Engineering

Industrial Engineering of Business Processes

Marketing and Selling Processes  Industrial Engineering
Purchase Processes  Industrial Engineering
Accounting Processes  Industrial Engineering
Customer Service Processes  Industrial Engineering
Human Resource Recruitment  Process Industrial Engineering

Continued in 

Productivity and Industrial Engineering News - Bulletin Board - February 2014


November 2014
Industrial Engineering Strategy - Decisions to be taken by top management
Toyota Production Industrial Engineering updated by adding all chapters of the book


July - Industrial Engineering Knowledge Revision Plan
Industrial Engineering Knowledge Revision Plan - Started on 17 June 2014


February 2014

Shigeo Shingo - The Japanese Industrial Engineer - Contribution to Industrial Engineering  Updated on 18.2.2014

3 Feb 2014
IntelliJ IDEA 13 Wins Jolt Productivity Award for Coding Tools 2014!
Dr. Dobb’s Journal named IntelliJ IDEA 13 the winner of the Jolt Productivity Award for Coding Tools 2014, an annual award given to the best IDEs and coding tools.
http://www.drdobbs.com/joltawards/jolt-awards-coding-tools/240165725?pgno=6

https://www.drdobbs.com/

January 2014


31.1.2014

Vacuum drying - increased moulding productivity - Plastics Processing

“Vacuum drying is six times faster than with desiccant systems, which not only makes possible much shorter cold startups but also reduces the risk of material degradation, since resin is exposed to elevated temperature for 80% less time,” said Mr. Smith. “This remarkable drying speed is attributable to a far more efficient method for extracting moisture from resin pellets — so much more efficient that vacuum dryers reduce energy consumption by up to 60% in comparison with desiccant dryers.”
http://www.eppm.com/machinery/vacuum-dryer-claims-increased-moulding-productivity/


Solutions to Drive Warehouse Productivity
In this webcast, Eric Hepburn, Vice President of Distribution Center Management for Penske Logistics, shares proven techniques on how to devise a labor management strategy that can make a huge impact on your distribution operations.
http://www.dcvelocity.com/videocasts/?videocast_id=53

30.1.2014


Three reasons why blogging helps research productivity
http://www.scilogs.com/expiscor/three-reasons-why-blogging-helps-research-productivity/


Efficient cooling system improves productivity in plastic moulding


As cooling time is the biggest factor in plastic moulding cycle and one of the deciding factors for the quality requirements, better control upon the same will improve the productivity to a great extent.
Analysis of cooling performance at regular intervals is always advisable to maintain and/or improve the cooling efficiency.
The pump/s, pipe diameter and cooling tower are selected accordingly and the design is optimised. Design can be optimised for new plants and for modification of existing plant.
http://www.business-standard.com/content/b2b-chemicals/efficient-cooling-system-improves-productivity-in-plastic-moulding-114012900974_1.html



Wave Walker Boosts Productivity
WaveWalker can considerably boost productivity in tasks such as drilling and pipeline and cable-laying.
http://www.marinelink.com/news/productivity-walker363586.aspx

Bangladesh boosts garment productivity with SewEasy System for industrial engineering
The SewEasy SMV estimation system, established on PMTS technology serves factories since 1996, and is based on MTM.
http://www.ft.lk/2014/01/30/bangladesh-boosts-garment-productivity-with-seweasy-system-for-industrial-engineering/


Remarkable increase in productivity with the new SEHO SelectLine
SEHO Systems GmbH, a worldwide leading manufacturer of automated soldering systems and customer-specific solutions, will present the new SEHO SelectLine selective soldering system
http://www.globalsmt.net/smt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21145&Itemid=413


H.C. Starck's Newton facility awarded Industry Week's 2013 Best Plants
The global supplier of technology metals was able to reduce waste, optimize productivity, streamline processes, improve efficiencies, and reduce cost.
http://www.thefabricator.com/news/shopmanagement/h-c-starck-s-newton-facility-awarded-i-industry-week-i-s-2013-best-plants



29.1.2014

Productivity and Online Learning


The Need for Greater Productivity through Online Learning, Part 1
http://wcetblog.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/greater-productivity-part-1/
The Need for Greater Productivity through Online Learning, Part 2
http://wcetblog.wordpress.com/2014/01/23/greater-productivity-part-2/
The Need for Greater Productivity through Online Learning, Further Thoughts
http://wcetblog.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/the-need-for-greater-productivity-through-online-learning-further-thoughts/


Productivity Commission of New Zealand suggests 25 recommendations that it believed would boost the productivity of the services sector
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/9663187/Productivity-Commission-suggests-overhaul


Tap behavioural economics for productivity boost
Businesses must select leaders and managers who can engage their employees
http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/premium/editorial-opinion/opinion/tap-behavioural-economics-productivity-boost-20140129

Preparing For Productivity: The Rise Of The Maintenance Planner
http://www.facilitiesnet.com/maintenanceoperations/article/Preparing-for-Productivity-The-Rise-of-the-Maintenance-Planner--14695#

Guide to assessing productivity in your organisation - Productivity South Africa
Download the Guide to assessing productivity in your organisation - (139KB)


The Domino N600i
The only digital colour label press that combines
the productivity of flexo with the flexibility of digital printing
http://www.domino-printing.com/N600i/N600i-Colour-Digital-Label-Press.html

Resource Productivity of Japanese Manufacturing Subsidiaries in the Philippines: A Comparative Case Study.
Source: DLSU Business & Economics Review . Jul2011, Vol. 21 Issue 1, p15-28. 14p. 5 Charts.
Author(s): Cortez, Michael Angelo A.
(EBSCO Host)

Industrial Productivity
What determines how much a worker can produce in different periods and in different countries? The answer is found in the study of a sensitive ratio between the cost of labor and the cost of machinery
By Seymour Melman
Scientific American Volume 193, Issue 1


3M™ High Productivity Pad 7300, 20 in, 5/case
http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/Facilities-Care-Cleaning-NA/commercial-cleaning/cleaning-supplies/~/3M-High-Productivity-Pad-7300-20-in-5-case?N=4294929802+6702276&Nr=AND(hrcy_id%3AGSMS2G8GX9gs_F2TPJQMRJ6_N2RL3FHWVK_GPD0K8BC31gv)&rt=d


Value Engineering of Ventilator

Productivity and IE in Stock and Commodity Exchange Trading


Integrated production planning and control: A multi-objective optimization model
Cheng Wang, Xiao-Bing Liu
Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management
Vol 6, No 4 (2013)
http://www.jiem.org/index.php/jiem/article/view/771


A Novel Optimization Method on Logistics Operation for Warehouse & Port Enterprises Based on Game Theory
Junyang Li, Xiaomin Zhu, Runtong Zhang
Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management
Vol 6, No 4 (2013)
http://www.jiem.org/index.php/jiem/article/view/597



2014 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Applications(ICIEA 2014)

Papers on the following topics will be presented in oral and poster sessions:
· Decision Analysis and Methods
· E-Business and E-Commerce
· Engineering Economy and Cost Analysis
· Engineering Education and Training
· Global Manufacturing and Management
· Healthcare Systems and Management
· Human Factors
· Information Processing and Engineering
· Intelligent Systems
· Manufacturing Systems
· Operations Research
· Production Planning and Control
· Project Management
· Quality Control and Management
· Reliability and Maintenance Engineering
· Safety, Security and Risk Management
· Service Innovation and Management
· Supply Chain Management
· Systems Modeling and Simulation
· Technology and Knowledge Management

Conference papers will be selected to be published in Journal of Industrial and Intelligent Information (JIII, ISSN: 2301-3745, 10.12720/jiii, www.jiii.org).


28.1.2014


Rokla Rockwheel cutting unit increases productivity in abrasive material mining
http://www.im-mining.com/2014/01/28/rokla-rockwheel-cutting-unit-increases-productivity-in-abrasive-material/

Productivity From Packaging Line Solutions
Rennco is a manufacturer of semi-automatic and fully automatic vertical bagging machines and medical device heat sealing systems
http://goarticles.com/article/Productivity-From-Packaging-Line-Solutions/8349528/

Low-cost and more versatile robots to increase productivity
Rise of the machines: Robots on the factory floor
Vanguard Plastics in Southington, Conn., has put a robot named Baxter($25,000) in its plant to work side by side with some of the 22 people on its floor.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101362018

New Inserts Boost Productivity in a Wide Range of Tough Turning Applications
Walter's new geometries bring production efficiencies for turning high temperature alloys, titanium machining and tough roughing jobs.
http://www.fabricatingandmetalworking.com/2014/01/new-inserts-boost-productivity-in-a-wide-range-of-tough-turning-applications/

Drum Debarker — Continuous Wood Feeding And Other Productivity-Boosting Mechanisms
http://chasseurs-orages.org/drum-debarker-continuous-wood-feeding-and-other-productivity-boosting-mechanisms/

Reduce press downtime between jobs in stamping machines
http://www.thefabricator.com/article/stamping/cutting-time-between-coils

How We Increased Productivity on the Shop Floor
By PAUL DOWNS
Paul Downs founded Paul Downs Cabinetmakers in 1986. It is based outside Philadelphia.
http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/how-we-increased-productivity-on-the-shop-floor/?partner=rss&emc=rss

Tips for Maximizing Productivity and Decreasing Costs in Welding Job Shops
http://www.millerwelds.com/resources/articles/tips-for-maximizing-productivity-and-decreasing-costs-in-job-shops

Analysis of buffered assembly line productivity
Ryspek Usubamatov, Abd Alsalam Alsalameh, Rosmaini Ahmad, Abdul Rahman Riza, (2014) "Analysis of buffered assembly line productivity", Assembly Automation, Vol. 34 Iss: 1, pp.34 - 40
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=17104126&show=abstract


Comprehensive, quantitative bioprocess productivity monitoring using fluorescence EEM spectroscopy and chemometrics.
Analyst, 2014, Accepted Manuscript
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/an/c4an00007b#!divAbstract

InfoPrint Productivity Tracker
Insights to help drive out cost
https://www.infoprint.com/internet/ipww.nsf/vwWebPublished/swip_infoprint-productivity-tracker_en


Converged infrastructure boosts Oracle DBA productivity
Converged infrastructure boosts DBA productivity, according to a new Wikibon report. Wikibon’s research examined Oracle database administrators (DBAs) in particular and found that highly converged infrastructure lowered costs and raised productivity between 40 and 50 percent.
http://siliconangle.com/blog/2014/01/27/converged-infrastructure-boosts-oracle-dba-productivity/



27.1.2014

$1 billion Soros backed fund for Supply Chain Efficiency Improvement Projects

Niedermaier, CEO of New York-based Tau Investment Management has teamed up with investor Alexander Soros— the son of billionaire financier George Soros to raise $1 billion  to revamp the vast number of firms that form supply chains for various products. He said firms participating in supply chains are full of inefficiencies and outdated equipment that can be upgraded for a nice profit. His Tau Investments has chosen as its first target textile and apparel manufacturing in emerging markets, a $1 trillion industry.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101359907

Management and Productivity
http://www.economist.com/news/business/21594223-it-no-longer-just-plausible-theory-good-management-boosts-productivity-measuring

Decreasing workplace transparency can increase productivity.

Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ethan S. Bernstein shows that decreasing the observation of employees can increase their productivity.  His paper "Transparency Paradox: A Role for Privacy in Organizational Learning and Operational Control"  won the 2013 Best Published Paper Award from both the Academy of Management's Organization and Management Theory Division and Organizational Behavior Division.
http://forbesindia.com/article/harvard/hiding-from-managers-can-increase-your-productivity/36859/1

Tivoli Storage Productivity Center - IBM
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center simplifies the following data and storage management processes:
Storage administration options where you can choose from an advanced GUI or VMware plug-in. It also includes Cognos® Business Intelligence and pre-designed reports.
Storage and device management to give you fast deployment with agent-less device management – while intelligent presets improve provisioning consistency and control.
Integrated performance management features end-to-end views, including devices, SAN fabrics and storage systems. The server-centric view of storage infrastructure enables fast troubleshooting.
Data replication management that enables you to have remote mirror, snapshot and copy management and supports Windows, Linux, UNIX and System z data.
http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/tivostorprodcent/


Increasing  the productivity of sales force.by simplifying the Insurance form filling process

Tata AIA Life Insurance Company Ltd today said it has implemented a host of new processes that will make life insurance simpler and increase the productivity of its sales force.
Tata AIA Life is one of the first insurance companies in India to fully switch over to a ‘Standard Proposal Form’ for all products consequently offering convenience in making completion of applications faster and easier for the customers. This also makes the agent sales kit lighter since different proposal forms for different products would not be required any further.
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/tata-aia-life-aims-to-enhance-productivity/article5620363.ece

Productivity in Germany

Highest 111.June 2012
102.3 in November 2013
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/germany/productivity

Impact of Temperature and Climate Variability on Milk Productivity of Bovines
Mitigation Measures - India
http://www.ndri.res.in/PanApps/chapters/2.pdf

22 Productivity Principles From Proverbs

http://www.churchleaders.com/worship/worship-articles/172409-eric-mckiddie-productivity-principles-from-proverbs.html?p=1

Improving field service productivity with tablet pcs
http://www.motioncomputing.com/downloads/Marketing_Brochures/industries/industry_fieldservice_web.pdf



Modern Compass Improves Oilfield Productivity, Cuts Costs

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) comments that multiple reservoirs of oil and gas can be now be accessed from a single platform by drilling vertically and then horizontally, but drill operators need to know which way their drill bits are going to maxi­mize production and avoid collisions with other wells. One way to accomplish this important task is to install a magnetometer—a sort of modern-day compass—in a drill-string instrument package that follows the drill bit.
http://www.bpnews.com/index.php/in-the-news/97-modern-compass-improves-oilfield-productivity-cuts-costs


ATC 900 the most productive tire changer solution on the market

The dual-disc bead breaker, center clamp system and automatic demounting tool make the ATC 900 the most productive tire changer solution on the market. Leverless demounting and powered wheel lift reduce technician fatigue and opportunity for injury. Dual disc bead breakers and servo positioned and electronically synchronized so the technician can efficiently maintain a safe and ergonomic bay position.
http://www.johnbean.ca/tc-atc-900.asp

December 2013

Industrial Engineering of Warehouses - Efficiency Improvement of warehouses
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/12/warehouse-industrial-engineering.html


The New role of Industrial Engineering  by Jan Kosturiak and Robert Debnar (Article in 2008)
Practices in USA, Europe and Japan Compared and Changing Directions Identified.

The American school of Industrial Engineering combines statistical methods in quality, mathematics and optimisation methods of operation research, simulation and  the methods for work analysis and facilities layout planning. The base of the methods of the Japanese school of Industrial Engineering is the Toyota Production System oriented on waste elimination in the entire value stream. But also Japanese universities and companies incorporated simulation, mathematics and operation research programmes into the traditional Industrial Engineering methods. In an  issue of Harvard Business review, Toyota´s President Katsuaki Watanabe emphasizes the importance of combining continuous improvement (Kaizen) with radical innovations (Kakushin).

 The traditional focus of Industrial Engineering is on process analysis and improvement.  and also the human aspects related to flexibility, productivity and creativity.

 Information technology is being increasingly integrated into IE courses and alongside the basic subjects that deal with hard facts, there are more and more classes looking at issues of teamwork, people motivation, communication skills, emotional intelligence and ethics.




USA

Europe

Japan

Focus of Industrial Engineering

Systems Optimisation, Statistical Process Control, Simulation, Bottleneck Management, Project Management  - USA

Complex process optimisation, CIM, CAD/CAM, Flexible Automation, Systems Engineering, Digital Factory - Europe

Waste Elimination, Simplification, Visualisation, Low Cost Automation,  Common Sense, Lean, TPS, Kaizen - Japan

Typical Role of the Industrial Engineer

Systems Integrator, Optimiser, Process Improvement and re-engineering - USA

Production Process Optimisation, - Europe

Lean Manager, Teacher, Trainer, - Japan

Who are the Industrial Engineers?

Industrial Engineering Department, Operation Management - USA

Department of Work and Process Organisation, Production Planning Department _ Europe

Hancho – Supervisor on Shop Floor, Every Employee from CEO to the Worker on the Line has some IE Skills - Japan


Leading  associations and organizations

Institute of Industrial Engineers, Maynard´s, Lean Institute, MIT, Purdue University, Goldratt Institute - USA

REFA, MTM, Fraunhofer - Europe

Toyota, Nissan, Omron, JMA, JUSE - Japan

Some IE  Leaders

Babbage Towne, Hasley, Gantt, Taylor, Gillbreth, Ford, Deming, Shewhart, Pritsker, White, Malcom

Fayol, Mitrofanov, Altschuller, Schulmpeter, T.Baťa, J.Baťa, Warnecke

Toyota, Suzaki, Imai, Takeda, Shingo, Ishikawa, Taguchi, Ohno, Monden





Focus on the “empolyee´s muscles” (performance – physical intelligence) and brains (kaizen – mental intelligence) shifting to  Focus on the employee´s heart (self motivation, emotional intelligence)  and soul (moral and ethics – soul intelligence)

Management philosophy
Trade Off Thinking - High Quality OR Low Cost, Affordable OR Customized to Breakthrough Thinking, High Quality AND Low Cost, Affordable AND Customized

Improvement Concepts
Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, TOC shifting to Systematic Innovation, Lean Product Development

Management principles
Management by objectives, process and project management shifting to  Management by opportunities, company as a  living organism


Mass customisation,  individualisation, global competition, fast overcoming of traditional rules and standards mean that many change processes are running in companies world wide under the slogan “give your customer what he wants – but faster than your competitors”.

There are three fundamental concepts in industrial engineering focused on customer value:

1. Lean Management

2. Theory of Constraints based Total Productivity Management

3. Six Sigma

Over the last decade, many companies have tried to copy Toyota‘s principles. They are applying methods for waste elimination from production and business processes, they compare benchmark indicators like value added index or working hours per product. But the essence of Toyota’s excellence is not yet captured . Toyota has been developing this system consistently for over 50 years. Toyota has developed a system of knowledge which creates reusable knowledge, maintains it, and leverages its use in the future. Nobody from Toyota employees wrote a handbook of the Toyota Production System, this is the business of other management gurus. The values and principles of the Toyota Production System are developed in the minds and daily jobs of all the employees. All the knowledge gained throughout the design or production process, what works and what doesn’t work, could be captured and consistently applied for all future projects. Toyota doesn´t call its system “lean”, but it is lean, Toyota doesn´t speak about knowledge management, but it does it!

The lean concept originated in Toyota is oriented on waste identification and elimination from the whole process chain (Value Stream Management). In other words – lean focus is the maximisation of added value in all the production, logistical, administrative and development processes. TOC (Theory of Constraints) is based on the identification and elimination of the system´s constraints with the goal ongoing throughput improvement. The throughput is defined as the rate at which the organisation generates money through sales. In other words, throughput is the added value in the process chain per time unit. The Six Sigma philosophy identifies and eliminates variation from the value stream so that defects approach zero and quality delights the customer. Six Sigma, Lean and TOC continuously improve knowledge in pursuit of perfection and involve and empower the employees.

Many companies are oriented on low cost strategies. But some cost attack programmes or the transfering of production facilities to low cost countries showed that it is not the right and strategic solution. In recent years, many West European and US manufacturing firms have moved their production plants to the low cost countries. Over time, they recognised that they had lost some competitive advantages because some departments were physically separated (e.g. product design and development, production engineering, production, logistics) and the communication and co-operation between them was limited. Also many cultural differences reduced the effects of the low cost location. Not even the massive implementation of lean management, Six Sigma or other world class concepts can sometimes bring any radical improvement. Company success is not only in the optimisation of current processes (doing right things right).


 What is the new role of industrial engineering in coming years?

1. The industrial engineer will still focus on value stream improvement, but not only in manufacturing. Administrative, product development, customer service and logistical processes offer huge improvement potential.

2. The integration of traditional concepts for process improvement like Lean, Six Sigma and TOC. These concepts for waste elimination, reduction of process variation and throughput increase will be combined with concepts for customer value creation.

3. Today, the typical job position of industrial engineers is in the production and logistics departments. In the future, the industrial engineers will penetrate into the departments for product and process development and innovation management, where the higher opportunities to reduce costs, eliminate waste and improve quality rather than production are.

4. Industrial engineers have to increase their orientation on the people. Not only in the traditional sense – ergonomics, but also in the areas of emotional intelligence, co-operation, knowledge management, coaching, training, leadership, communication, etc. The companies should be able to solve the following important questions regarding knowledge management: How to share, communicate and develop the best corporate practices in the organisation? How to transfer knowledge between employees on the projects and actions in the company? How to increase and measure knowledge? How to change knowledge into innovation as fast as possible?

5. The design and development of teamwork in the entire company – this is the crucial competence of industrial engineers for the future. They need to work in  the creative teams of strong individuals, focused on innovation ability.  The other important task is to work in  multi-cultural teams in the global production networks.

6. Work analysis and measurement is the traditional competence of industrial engineers. New opportunities for this discipline are in logistics, distribution, office, and product and process development.

7. Industrial engineers will penetrate from production departments to other company areas. There are many new application fields for traditional IE methods – e.g. 5S in information systems, simulation and value stream management of supply chain networks, simplification and streamlining of management processes – waste in meetings, reporting, etc.


The most used methods and concepts of industrial eingineering in the industrial companies are  – Value Stream Industrial Engineering  (not only in production processes, but also in office, logistical chains and product development processes),  – Work Analysis and Measurement (in European companies more traditional methods are used MTM or UAS, American companies use MOST more often),  – Computer simulation (in Europe EM Plant or Witness, in US companies more often, Arena, Automod, etc.),  – TPM based waste elimination - Total Productivity Management based on TOC  – Quality in process – SPC, poka yoke, andon, jidoka, stop line  – 5S and Quick Changeover  – Different Systematic Problems Solving Approaches – Kaizen (individual improvement ideas, workshops, quick win activities, Improvement Projects with DMAIC methodology  – Planning of U shaped  Lines with one piece flow and Low Cost Intelligent Automation (LCIA) concepts  – Team work, visual management, management by objectives  – Pull systems in production and logistics (internal and external milk run concepts)  – Traditional IE problem solving methods – FMEA, QFD, Project Management, A3 reports, etc. -
http://www.ai-online.com/Adv/Previous/show_issue.php?id=2244#sthash.JUZRM87e.dpuf


Industrial Engineering Bulletin Board - Archive 1

Industrial engineering directs the efficient conduct of manufacturing, construction, transportation, or even commercial enterprises of any undertaking, indeed in which human labor is directed to accomplishing any kind of work . Industrial engineering has drawn upon mechanical engineering, upon economics, sociology, psychology, philosophy, accountancy, to fuse from these older sciences a distinct body of science of its own . It is the inclusion of the economic and the human elements especially that differentiates industrial engineering from the older established branches of the profession (Going, 1911)

IEs have to remember economists and their contribution to improving engineering economics.


Emmy Aware Winning Video on Industrial Engineering from University of Buffalo.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpPDoLX_9K4

Article on the video on IIE website
http://www.iienet2.org/details.aspx?id=24404
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