Double Loop Optimization - Creative Industrial Engineering - Mathematical and Statistical Optimization

Double Loop Optimization - Don't depend on Mathematicians and Statisticians alone to optimize your systems.

At every review of systems to improve productivity, industrial engineers have to first do creative engineering redesign and then do mathematical and statistical optimization.

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In the 1970s, Harvard professor, Chris Argyris recognized the Double Loop Learning  phenomena in many fields of management. Professor Argyris describes as "Single Loop Learning" the optimization done with the existing set of  constraints identified in the existing method or system.

To achieve breakthrough improvements in any field, Professor Argyris argues that you need what he calls Double Loop Learning. In "Double Loop Learning" you need to  challenge the constraints and assumptions inherent in the existing method, system or  thinking.

Industrial engineers procedure is inherently double look optimization First improve engineering of the system. Then do mathematical and statistical optimization.


Updated on 25 August 2019, 21 July 2018