Continuous Improvement - Employee Participation Principle of Industrial Engineering

Three Major Channels of Process Improvement.

1. Process Redesign by Process Planning Team.

2. Process Improvement Study by Industrial Engineering Team.

3. Continuous #Improvement by Involving Shop Floor Employees and All Employees.

TAYLOR - NARAYANA RAO PRINCIPLES OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

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15-Continuous Improvement - Employee Participation

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Industrial engineering is continuous (incremental studies) improvement in the engineering system through periodic studies (Time study, motion study, method study - Process improvement study, Layout improvement study etc.). In addition encourage Continuous Improvement through Employee Participation. Employee participation recommended by Taylor. Gilbreth explicitly made it as part of process chart procedure. Alan Mogensen made it a special workshop for supervisors and operators. He also advocated providing training to them in process chart analysis procedure. Continuous improvement was practiced in a best possible way by Toyota Motors. Now companies world over are trying to implement the best practice of Toyota in the continuous improvement alternative along with the other two alternatives.

Principles of Industrial Engineering - Presentation 

by Dr. K.V.S.S. Narayana Rao in the 2017Annual Conference of IISE (Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering) at Pittsburgh, USA on 23 May 2017

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Principles of Industrial Engineering - Narayana Rao - Detailed List

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1. Productivity science

2. Productivity engineering

3. Industrial Engineering is applicable to all branches of engineering

4. Principles of (machine) utilization economy to be developed for all resources used in engineering systems.

5. Industrial engineering optimization

6. Industrial engineering economics

7. Implementation team membership and leadership

8. Human effort engineering for increasing productivity

9. Principles of motion economy to be used in all IE studies in the area of human effort engineering

10. Operator comfort and health are to be taken care of.

11. Work measurement

12. Selection of operators

13. Training of operators, supervisors and engineers

14. Productivity training and education to all

15. Employee involvement in continuous improvement of processes and products for productivity improvement.

16. Productivity incentives

17. Hearty cooperation

18. Productivity Management

19. System level focus for productivity

20. Productivity measurement

21. Cost measurement

The full paper on the principles by Prof. K.V.S.S. Narayana Rao is now available for downloading from IISE 2017 Annual Conference Proceedings in Proquest Journal Base.

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2012 Presentation - Employee involvement advocated by F.W. Taylor and Frank Gilbreth.

Presentation done by Dr. K.V.S.S. Narayana Rao, Professor, National Institute of Industrial Engineering, NITIE, Mumbai, India, in 5th EuroMed Business Academy Annual Conference on 4 October 2012. Industrial Engineering is a Management Subject. It must be there in all MBA Programs. Founders of Industrial Engineering advocated harmony between management and operators and recommended employee involvement. The behavioral management authors misrepresented and stated that IE does not involve employees in development of standard methods. IEs have to involve all employees in efficiency improvement of the organization.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ3Hj7NsnaQ

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17. CASE STUDY: PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT THROUGH EMPLOYEE PARTICIPATION

(Maynard's IE Handbook, 5th Edition)

17.1. BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS OF THE INITIAL SITUATION

Elektrotryck AB produces printed circuit boards for the electronics industry. The headquarters and one production unit are located in Ekerö (just west of Stockholm, Sweden), and a second production unit is located in Timrå (approximately 350 kilometers north of Stockholm).

What is continuous improvement?

May 6, 2019

Continuous improvement is an ongoing effort to improve all elements of an organization—processes, tools, products, services, etc.

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/the-organization-blog/how-continuous-improvement-can-build-a-competitive-edge

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