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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Managing the IE (Industrial Engineering) Mindset - A Research Paper on Toyota Practice
Managing the IE (Industrial Engineering) Mindset
Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management Vol 4.,No.4, 2011
Monday, January 16, 2012
Medicine Capsule Manufacturing - YouTube Video
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EwaIQ-U6QQ
Tablet (Medicine) Manufacturing Process - YouTube Videos
Part 1
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A6gzBTmK08
Part 2
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtdFAQHAGzc
Friday, January 13, 2012
Lean Workstation
In a lean workstation operators pull parts and access assembly tools on an as needed JIT basis.
Lean workstations are designed for minimum wasted motions. With a lean wokstation everything must be choreographed like an orchestra.
Traditionally workstations are laid out for materuial handler's convenience and the value adding operators were not given the priority.
Increase Productivity using Online Tools
Reshared from
Digital Business . gov. au
Department of Broadband, Communication and Digital Economy, Australian Government Website
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Themes
I want to increase productivity using online tools
There is a wide range of online tools that can help you achieve efficiencies and productivity outcomes for your business or community group. With high speed broadband becoming more ubiquitous in Australia, particularly with the rollout of the National Broadband Network and with the proliferation of mobile devices, a range of practical solutions exist that allow you to conduct your business whenever and wherever you want, possibly for reduced costs. Learn about the benefits of digital productivity including the ability to:
- communicate conveniently and instantly using email and instant messaging
- communicate with clients or staff using voice over internet protocol (VOIP) and videoconferencing
- improve productivity and work-life balance through teleworking for you or your staff
- increase your customer or donor satisfaction with online support services for your customers, supporters or donors
- manage your information and resources better while improving customer service by using customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning software
- reduce up-front costs and maintenance issues by considering using software as a service
- reach new markets and allow your customers, supporters and donors to transact 24/7 to a global audience through e-commerce
Source Url: http://www.digitalbusiness.gov.au/themes/i-want-to-increase-productivity-using-online-tools
Reshared under: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/deed.en
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
Lean and Clean Production Systems - Industrial Engineering Solution
Lean and clean companies boost productivity by eliminating inefficiency, streamlining production, improving the workplace environment, and increasing wages. Lean and clean companies become supremely competitive. The environmentally proactive companies had higher return on investment, higher sales growth, and higher operating income.
Many practices of energy efficiency and clean production are compatible. Both have the same goal; systematically reducing waste. In the case of lean production the waste is wasted time, and the measures of
inefficiency are high inventories, defects, and customer complaints. In clean production, the measure of inefficiency is pollution - air pollution, water pollution, and solid waste. If a
company has successfully reduced waste and implmented lean, lean and clean management is the next step in the ongoing process of increasing profits and productivity.
inefficiency are high inventories, defects, and customer complaints. In clean production, the measure of inefficiency is pollution - air pollution, water pollution, and solid waste. If a
company has successfully reduced waste and implmented lean, lean and clean management is the next step in the ongoing process of increasing profits and productivity.
Henry Ford was obsessed with minimizing wast of resource and time, His 1926 book Today and Tomorrow, reviews his many approaches to reducing waste.
Industrial Engineering - Texas A&M
What is Industrial Engineering?
Industrial engineers deal with systems. They can design, implement or improve integrated systems comprised of people, materials, information or energy. IE's can develop a better way of doing just about anything.
Industrial engineers find creative new ways to solve tough problems. From microelectronics, telecommunications, and retail to transportation, hospitals, and government, IE's make it happen more efficiently.
Industrial engineers get jobs as production engineers, supply chain managers, operations analysts, quality engineers and information system specialists. They work for any business, company, governmental agency, or service oriented enterprise that wants improved operations and reduced costs.
Many IE's start their own companies or go into consulting.
http://ise.tamu.edu/
Graduate Course Descriptions
http://ise.tamu.edu/academic/graduate/course_description.html
More Industrial Engineering Studies on Lean Manufacturing Systems
Yash Dave and Nagendra Sohani in the paper "The Journey of Lean Manufacturing: Literature Review" published in Udyog Pragati, April-June 2011, Pp.22-34, stated that lean manufacturing term was coined by MIT researchers to describe the collection of efficiency improvements that Toyota Motors adopted. Because of its origin at Toyota Motors the same collection of improvement has also been called teh "Toyoto Production System."
Industrial engineering provided a great boost to productivity of the production systems in the early two decade of the 20th century. Management thinkers like Peter Drucker acknowledge the contribution of Taylor in developing differential wage plans, means of identifying better methods at elements level, time study to estimate task times, scientific study manual as well as machine methods etc. Industrial engineering once again made a great contribution to the manufacturing systems by coming up with SMED and the resultant lean manufacturing system.
Industrial engineers are continuing the task by doing further studies on lean manufacturing systems.
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APPLICATION OF LEAN MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES FOR THE DESIGN OF
THE AIRCRAFT ASSEMBLY LINE
by
Victoria Elena Gastelum
THE AIRCRAFT ASSEMBLY LINE
by
Victoria Elena Gastelum
Submitted to the Sloan School of Management and the Department of Mechanical Engineering in
partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degrees of
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MANAGEMENT and MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
at the MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, June 2002
http://lean.mit.edu/downloads/download-document/137-application-of-lean-manufacturing-techniques-for-the-design-of-the-aircraft-assembly-line.html
partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degrees of
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MANAGEMENT and MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
at the MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, June 2002
http://lean.mit.edu/downloads/download-document/137-application-of-lean-manufacturing-techniques-for-the-design-of-the-aircraft-assembly-line.html
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Lean Systems - MIT Theses
Mechanical Efficiency of Muscle Use
This is a topic of interest to industrial engineers.
http://sports.jrank.org/pages/9617/mechanical-efficiency.html
The above article points out that up to 40% efficiency can be achieved.
Elite sportsmen are 4 times more efficient compared to novices in net efficiency. Training has market effect on efficiency.
Effects of different pedalling techniques on muscle fatigue and mechanical efficiency during prolonged cycling
Abstract of the article
Abstract of the article
Scientific Management is 100 Years Old - Centenary of Scientific Management
"Scientific management: 100 years old; Poised for the next century" was published in SAM Advanced Management Journal / Spring Issue, 1996. Michael Freeman is the author.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6698/is_n2_v61/ai_n28673387/
According to Taylor, scientific management's birthplace is his paper "A Piece-Rate System," read by him in 1895. It being a step toward partial solution of the labor problem, Taylor fixed age of scientific management as 17 years in 1912.
But Taylor's definitive work, The Principles of Scientific Management was first published in 1911. Hence in 2011, scientific management completes its 100 years and 1910-11 is the centenary year of scientific management.
Google Full View Book
http://books.google.com/books?id=4qM7yJKC_nkC
http://books.google.com/books?id=HA69FhrjB4kC
Light Weight and Low Cost Design
Stifness limited component
Lecture slides
LIght weight solar PV systems design
LIght weight structural materials
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Crank Shaft Design Optimization
Development of Innovative Simulation and Testing Methodologies for Optimizing Crankshaft Design
Author(s): Saharash Khare - TVS Motor Company Ltd. India
Date Published: 2010-09-28
Paper presented at Small Engine Technology Conference & Exposition, September 2010, Linz, ASTRI, Session: Design and Simulation (Part 2 of 2)
Author(s): Saharash Khare - TVS Motor Company Ltd. India
Date Published: 2010-09-28
Paper presented at Small Engine Technology Conference & Exposition, September 2010, Linz, ASTRI, Session: Design and Simulation (Part 2 of 2)
Robust Design Crankshaft Optimization Robust Design Crankshaft Optimization:
A multi-disciplinary real application case
A multi-disciplinary real application case
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Human Factors - Definition
Mark S. Sanders and Ernest J. McCormick, in the book Human Factors in Engineering and Design, seventh edition (1993), provide the following definition for human factors. This definition according them is slightly modified version of the definition provided by Chapanis (1985)
'Human factors discovers and applies information about human behavior, abilities, limitations, and other characteristics to the design of tools, machines, systems, tasks, jobs, and environments for productive, safe, comfortable, and effective human use." (Page 5)
Job Design Guidelines for Manual Material Handling (Ayoub and Mital, 1989) (Sanders and McCormick, 1993, Pp. 267-68)
1. Decrease the weight of objects handled (Order supplies in smaller-quantity containers)
2. Use two or more people to move heavy or large objects.
3. Change the way of doing the activity; for example, pull or, better yet, push rathe than carry.
4. Minimize horizontal distance travelled with the load.
5. Stack materials no higher than shoulder height.
6. Keep heavy objects at knuckle height.
7. Reduce frequency of lifting.
8. Incorporate rest periods.
9. Incorporate job rotation to less strenuous jobs.
10. Design containers with handles that can be held close to the body.
Safe-lift Principles
Maintain a straight bakc, use leg muscles, keep the load as close to the body as possible, use smooth body motion, avoid jerking, and turn the feet rather than twisting the torso. (Foot note, Sanders and McCormick, 1993, p. 268).
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