Ubiquity of Industrial Engineering Principle of Industrial Engineering
Illustration: Google's Engineering Productivity Department - Evolution of the Department through Automation of Testing. Emergence of Software Engineering Productivity Engineer & Specialist.
Industrial engineering is applicable to all engineering tasks in the organization.
Engineering product design - Production - Engineering stores - Operation of engineering equipment and goods - Maintenance - Retirement - Replacement - Recycling
Productivity Engineering - Principle of Industrial Engineering
Industrial engineering is concerned with redesign of engineering systems with a view to improve their productivity. Industrial engineers analyze productivity of each resource used in engineering systems and redesign as necessary to improve productivity.
It has to be ensured that the increase in productivity due to the use of low-cost materials, processes and increasing speed of machines and men, should not lead to any decrease in quality of the output.
Similarly, operators should not feel any discomfort, not have any health problems or safety issues in the redesigned more productive processes.
Developments in Productivity science provide more and more directions for productivity engineering over the period.
Productivity engineering is engineering or engineering changes to machines, facilities, products and processes to increase productivity.
Interesting Statement.
"Creating a better workstations, work-aids, making things better and easier in order by upgrading it in such way which will be cheaper and more effective. To enhance the working efficiency through method industrial engineering, to make workplace a better place in order to make works quicker by introducing workplace Engineering."
Mamatha Kg
Senior Industrial Engineer executive
Print Point, Yuno Group · Full-timePrint Point & Yuno Group ·
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Productivity Engineering Explained
Productivity Engineering: Redesigning engineering and engineering related products and processes using engineering and engineering related knowledge relevant to improving the productivity.
Productivity science provides input to carry out productivity engineering. It means productivity science provides the opportunity to invent and patent new product features and process components that will improve productivity. Inventions are not always preceded by science. Many times inventors came out with engineering devices even when there is no science supporting it. Air conditioning is one example where invention came first and then science was developed that helped in designing air conditioners to fit various needs.
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Productivity Engineering is designing and redesigning engineering elements or complete engineering systems to improve the productivity of the system and reduce its cost or the unit cost of its output.
Productivity Science is the collection of laws that indicate, facilitate and promote Productivity Engineering. Productivity Management is managerial activities that promote Productivity Science and Productivity Engineering
Making improvements to machines and other facilities in use is productivity engineering. Apart from it , productivity engineering has two main areas product industrial engineering and process industrial engineering. Process industrial engineering has two important components process machine effort industrial engineering and process human effort engineering. In addition there are facility level industrial engineering and enterprise level industrial engineering. Equipment decisions for the whole facility and layout of all the facilities are facility level decisions to which IE may be applied. Enterprise level policy and strategy decisions can be there and they may form part of productivity management. Information systems can be enterprise level and IE may be applied in those decisions. It is because overall enterprise productivity may be affected by the information system and IEs have to evaluate it.
Principles of Productivity Engineering - Mundel - Nadler
Methods Redesign for Efficiency/Productivity - Material, Product Design, Material Transformation Steps, Machine Effort, Human Effort - Marvin Mundel, Gerald Nadler
Nadler credits Mundel for the following steps to be followed in methods redesign.
Product Industrial Engineering
1. Change the material being used or contemplated to help meet the goal for the operation being studied.
2. Change the present or contemplated design of product to help meet the goal for the operation being studied.
2. Change the present or contemplated design of product to help meet the goal for the operation being studied.
Process Industrial Engineering
3. Change the present or contemplated sequence of modification work on the material or product to help meet the goal of for operation being studied.
4. Change the equipment used or contemplated for the operation to help meet the goal for the operation being studied.
Human Effort Industrial Engineering
5. Change the method or hand pattern used or contemplated for the operation to help the goal for operation being studied.
(Source: Gerald Nadler, Motion and Time Study, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1955, p.193. Nadler in turn gives credit to Marvin E. Mundel, Motion and Time Study Principles and Practice, Prentice-Hall, New York, 1950, pp. 23-26.)
Some Areas of Productivity Engineering
Productivity Engineering - Identifying low cost materials and redesigning parts.
Productivity Engineering - Identifying special processes and process/operation redesign.
Productivity Engineering - Work holding devices
Productivity Engineering - Machine tool cutting tools
Productivity Engineering - Hand tools redesign and Combination Tool Design
Productivity Engineering - Safety aids that promote productivity
Productivity Engineering - Low cost automation
Productivity Engineering - Energy conservation engineering
Productivity Engineering - Information systems redesign
Productivity Software Engineering
Redesigning products or processes by including software solutions, or developing software solutions to improve productivity in any activity or process
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.in/2017/09/productivity-software-engineering.html
Productivity VR Engineering: Redesigning products and processes using VR to improve productivity.
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.in/2017/09/productivity-vr-engineering.html
Productivity Automation Engineering
Redesigning products or processes by incorporating automation to improve productivity.
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/09/productivity-automation-engineering.html
Productivity IoT Engineering
Using IoT technology and systems to improve productivity of engineering and engineering related products and processes.
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/09/productivity-iot-engineering.html
Developer Productivity Engineering
How to improve your developer experience and key software development processes.
Developer Productivity Engineering is a discipline of using data and acceleration techniques to improve essential software development processes for greater automation, fast feedback cycles, and reliable feedback.
Litho Productivity Engineering Manager
Intel Job ID: JR0191028
Job Category: Engineering Management
Primary Location: Phoenix, AZ US
Other Locations: US, Oregon, Hillsboro
Job Type: Experienced Hire
Job Description
Job Description:
FSM's Equipment Productivity Group is hiring a technical Engineering Manager to focus on lithography technologies. With Intel's ambitious IDM2.0 manufacturing goals, the focus on equipment performance and productivity has never been more critical to the future success of the company. The Lithography Equipment Productivity Engineering Manager will focus on the following objectives to drive area performance to new heights helping achieve best in world module productivity in our current FSM and future foundry factories:
Partner with TD, supply chain, and suppliers to establish best output targets for future nodes
Partner with TD modules to hit MOR on 'day 1' of transfer
Drive strategy to opportunistically insert leading-edge tooling on older technologies
Drive the sharing of process and equipment productivity BKMs across Intel's technology nodes
Work with suppliers to implement 'Rest of World' equipment solutions that will help Intel
Drive cross MSO strategy for Intel foundry tool selection and maximize node fungibility
Work with supply chain to increase and enforce productivity focus inside purchase specs
Develop enabling equipment support systems (APC, machine learning, predictive analytics)
Develop business process to push past MOR commitments to avoid capital spending
https://jobs.intel.com/ShowJob/Id/3141386/Litho-Productivity-Engineering-Manager
In this module, productivity engineering activity is presented through projects done in various companies to increase productivity.
Operation Information Sheet
In the operations sheet we collected the following information. We need to use them in productivity engineering. Areas or items to be redesigned are identified in productivity analysis of operations.
Information to be collected about the following items/elements (Case of Machining Operations).
1. Purpose of operation.
There is a change in shape of the part or there is a change in its properties of an operation. This needs to be identified in analysis of the complete operation.
2. Whether process analysis related to the operation was completed: Yes/No.
2. Whether process analysis related to the operation was completed: Yes/No.
Normally an systematic analysis it will be done. The team doing operation analysis needs to know the logic followed in process analysis.
Productivity Measurements of the Operation
Time taken for machining cuts (Machine Work Measurement - Estimation)
Time taken by the operator (Operator Work Measurement)
Total cycle time
Output of the component per machine hour
Cost of operation per hour (Cost Measurement)
Cost per piece (Cost Measurement)
Consumable materials used in the operation and consumption per piece.
Energy consumed per hour by process and cost per piece.
The above information is required and minimizing times and materials consumption is the objective of productivity improvement exercise or study.
3. Design - Part drawing available (Yes/No)
3. Design - Part drawing available (Yes/No)
Material needs analysis. Its share and properties as input. There can be an alternative that requires more processing at the earlier workstation.
Operation Drawing/Operation Instruction Sheet Available: Yes/No
6. Production Machine/Equipment, - Analysis Note
6. Production Machine/Equipment, - Analysis Note
Is there an alternative machine within the shop that is a better choice. Is there an alternative in vendor's shops that can be a better alternative. Is there a new machine that is a better alternative?
Can the machine be replaced by a like by like machine for more benefit? Industrial engineers must have patience for identifying alternative machines and data collection and analysis.
They have to seek alternatives from all persons concerned with the process. They have to maintain the operation related information on alternatives in a database which can be referrer to by other associates.
7. Fixture - Analysis Note
7. Fixture - Analysis Note
Setup time reduction and cost reduction benefit the company by reducing inventory, It needs to be analysed in every process study and operation study.
b. Material handling. Loading and unloading of work pieces - Analysis Note
b. Material handling. Loading and unloading of work pieces - Analysis Note
Inspection gauges being used by operator for self inspection needs analysis.
13. Working conditions. (Human Effort Industrial Engineering)
13. Working conditions. (Human Effort Industrial Engineering)
Effect of illumination, temperagture, stress mats etc, need to be analysed.
14. Operator method. (Human Effort Industrial Engineering)
14. Operator method. (Human Effort Industrial Engineering)
Motion sutdy. Within the motion study tools used by the operators and various machine knobs and levers require analysis. Lever used in jigs and fixtures also need analysis.
15. Common possibilities for job improvement.
15. Common possibilities for job improvement.
a. Coupling with other machines - Multiple machines for man. (Human Effort Industrial Engineering)
b1. Gravity delivery chutes. - Analysis Note
b2. Drop delivery. - Analysis Note
b1. Gravity delivery chutes. - Analysis Note
b2. Drop delivery. - Analysis Note
c. Ejectors, quick-acting clamps, etc. in jigs & fixtures Analysis Note
d. Correct chair for operator. (Human Effort Industrial Engineering)
e. Foot-operated mechanisms. (Human Effort Industrial Engineering)
f. Two-handed operation. (Human Effort Industrial Engineering)
g. Tools and parts within normal working area. (Human Effort Industrial Engineering)
16. Operation Defects Analysis
d. Correct chair for operator. (Human Effort Industrial Engineering)
e. Foot-operated mechanisms. (Human Effort Industrial Engineering)
f. Two-handed operation. (Human Effort Industrial Engineering)
g. Tools and parts within normal working area. (Human Effort Industrial Engineering)
16. Operation Defects Analysis
17. Operation Batch Quantity Analysis (Production Planning Analysis)
There are many engineering aspects which need analysis by industrial engineers in process/operation study/analysis.
Process Productivity Engineering - Course Lessons
Process productivity engineering is done through process charts at the highest level. They capture processing, inspection, material handling, delays and long-term control storage. In each of these operations there is machine effort, human effort, materials input, energy input and information input. For each of the operation more information is needed than that is entered in a process chart. For each operation, operation analysis sheets and additional documents are required to do complete analysis of all inputs that go into the operation.
Production/Material Transformation Process/Operations Improvement
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Inspection Process/Operations Improvement
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Transport - Material Handling Process/Operations Improvement
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Storage - Warehousing Process/Operations Improvement
146
Analysis and Elimination of Delays
156
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Supply Chain Industrial Engineering
Productivity Engineering - Case Studies
10. Process Industrial Engineering - Illustration: Process Industrial Engineering Using Robo Cylinder
13. Process Industrial Engineering - Illustration: Gear Machining Productivity
14. Process Industrial Engineering - Illustration: Cryogenic Machining Adoption - Productivity Improvement at Lockheed Martin
15. Process Industrial Engineering - Illustration - Investment in Sliding-Head Lathe with Chipbreaking Feature
16. Process Industrial Engineering - Illustration - Process Improvement via Toolholder Change
18. Dynamic Control of Circulatory Pumps for Heating Systems Saves 20% of Energy Cost
19. Process Industrial Engineering - Illustration - Additive Manufacturing of Fixtures - Productivity Benefits
20. Process Industrial Engineering - Illustration -Alternative Lubricants and Productivity - Case Study
25. Case Study - Method Study - Welding Fixture Redesign - Productivity Improvement 2002
31. Productivity Improvement Using Alternative Boring Heads
33. Operation Analysis and Improvement: Application of Tribos Toolholder for Productivity
34. Operation Improvement: Rego-Fix ER Collets for Tools - Productivity Improvement Case
35. Operation Improvement: Productivity Improvement Through Tool and Toolholder Change - Corogrip
36. Collet for Corochuck 930 with Mechanical Locking - Productivity Improvement Use Case
38. Prime Turning (TM) - New Turning Process with High Productivity
39. Sandvik PrimeTurning™ Increases Productivity - Case Studies
40. Productivity Improvement Using Through-Tool High Pressure Coolant
41. 3D Printing Multiple Numbers as a Vertical Stack - Significant Productivity Improvement
42. Seco Jetstream Tooling - Benefit - Case Study
55. Milling - Machining Elements for Productivity Analysis
61. Seco Tools Double Turbo Square Shoulder Mills and Inserts
62. Assembly Kit Cart Cum Work-Bench - IBM Innovation in Work Stations
63. Higher Speed and Feed with Lower Depth of Cut for Higher Productivity - Ingersoll Case
64. High Speed Machining Using Makino MC1516 at Raytheon
78. Vector Kinematics Spray Cleaning Technology
79. Redesigned HaaS TRT210 Tilting Rotary Table - Useful for Mid-Size Mills
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Productivity with an automated packaging solution.
Client is the world's largest tool manufacturing company, renowned for its engineered fastening systems.
We installed a highly automated small part packaging machine from Bonotto. This machine facilitated the automated packaging of small parts, streamlining the packing process.
Productivity Engineering is a field that focuses on improving efficiency and effectiveness in various industries through the utilization of technology, processes, and strategies. By analyzing current workflows and identifying areas for improvement, productivity engineers aim to streamline operations and maximize output.
Updated on 8.9.2025, 13.10.2024, 6.9.2024, 8.7.2024, 10.3.2022, 30 Dce 2021, 24 Nov 2021, 8 Sep 2021, 6 Sep 2021, 24 July 2021
Pub. 19 September 2017
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