Saturday, March 30, 2019

Seven Engineering Wonders of 21st Century



Gore-Tex, the breathable waterproof fabric common in hiking gear and outerwear;

Hawk-Eye, a computer system capable of tracking the motion of a ball, frequently relied on for close calls in sports including football, cricket and tennis;

iPhone, the pioneering smartphone;

YouTube, the ubiquitous video hosting platform;

Dolby Atmos, a powerful sound system;

3D printing of bone implants, a revolutionary healthcare technology; and

Clean water, facilitated by a range of engineering innovations.

https://www.governmenteuropa.eu/engineering-career-misconceptions/92729/


Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Industrial Engineering Conferences




2019 The 2nd International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Intelligent Manufacturing

(CIEIM 2019)

August 14-16, 2019 | Shanghai, China

http://www.cieim.org/




25th IJCIEOM - International Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management
Novi Sad, Serbia, July 15-17, 2019

http://www.icieom.org/topics.asp

Sunday, March 24, 2019

American Manufacturing Summit 2019



MARCH 26–27, 2019
AMERICAN MANUFACTURING SUMMIT 2019
THE WESTIN LOMBARD YORKTOWN CENTER • CHICAGO, IL

https://manusummit.com/

KEY THEMES
MANUFACTURING PROFITABILITY
Responding to rising costs through manufacturing innovation
Benefits of an optimized workforce
Product lifecycle, manufacturing cost and the supply chain
Driving down headcount, waste and inefficiencies


COLLABORATIVE BUSINESS MODELS
Understanding subcontractor selection
Ranking system to guide subcontractor selection
Selecting subcontractors to support business goals
Obtaining continuous improvement from the supply base through supplier evaluation

MANUFACTURING INNOVATION
How can manufacturing divisions become better innovators?
Enhancing innovation through disruptive technologies
Nurturing new talent to push traditional boundaries
Examining how innovative manufacturers are already getting ahead

PLANT FLOOR OPTIMIZATION
Reducing the cost of manufacturing error and backlog
Developing a flexible and adaptable lean system
Advanced technologies and trends driving efficient productivity
Taking a data-centric approach to planning, design, supply, manufacturing and customer support

Manufacturing Links
Related Links

Twitter Hashtag  #mfgus19

AUGMENTED REALITY IN MANUFACTURING
interview, manufacturing, Q&A, March 22, 2019
https://generisgp.com/2019/03/22/augmented-reality-in-manufacturing/

Saturday, March 23, 2019

March - Industrial Engineering Knowledge Revision Plan with Links






___________

Henry Fayol

The Engineering Manager who provided the modern description of Industrial Management.
Planning - Organizing - Commanding - Coordinating - Control



















Picture Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Fayol

___________

March 1st week  (1 March  to 5 March)


Analyzing Competitors
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/analyzing-competitors.html
Strategy of Market Leader
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/strategy-of-market-leader.html



Marketing Strategies for Challenger Firms 
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/marketing-strategies-for-challenger.html
Competitive Strategies for Followers and Nichers
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/competitive-strategies-for-followers.html



Managing Product Lines and Brands
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/managing-product-lines-and-brands.html
Marketing Strategy for New Industry Products
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/marketing-strategy-for-new-industry.html




Marketing Management for Service Firms
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/marketing-management-for-service-firms.html
Pricing Strategy and Tactics 
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/pricing-strategy-and-tactics.html


Marketing Channel Management – Important Issues
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/marketing-channel-management-important.html
Managing Wholesaling and Retailing Network
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/managing-wholesaling-and-retailing.html



March 2nd week ( 8 to 12)




Marketing Communication: Channels and Promotion Tools
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/marketing-communication-channels-and.html
Advertising
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/advertising.html



Sales Promotion 
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/sales-promotion.html
Marketing Public Relations
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/marketing-public-relations.html


Sales Process and Sales Training
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/sales-process-and-sales-training.html
Direct Marketing
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/direct-marketing.html




Online Marketing
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/online-marketing.html
Marketing and New Product Development
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/marketing-and-new-product-development.html



International and Global Marketing
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/international-and-global-marketing.html
Sales Force Management
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/sales-force-management.html


March 3 week  (15 to 19)


Developing Enterprisewide or Company Wide Marketing Orientation
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/developing-enterprisewide-or-company.html
Management of Marketing Department and Function
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/management-of-marketing-department-and.html

Operations Management  Revision Starts (16 March)


Introduction to the Field of Operations Management
https://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/business-education-is-incomplete.html
Operations Strategy and Competitiveness - Review Notes
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/for-company-to-be-considered-world.html

Optimizing the Use of Resources with Linear Programming
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/linear-programming-or-lp-is-one-of-most.html
Learning Curves - Review Notes
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/learning-curves-review-notes.html

Operations Project Management
Product Design - Review Notes


Process Analysis - Operations Management
Manufacturing Process Selection and Design



20th March - Birthday of Man of Productivity - Low Prices and High Incomes

Frederick Winslow Taylor - A Pioneer Industrial Engineer
Date of Birth: 20th March, 1856
Contribution of Taylor to Industrial Engineering
Shop Management
Scientific Management


March 4 Week  (22 to 26 )


Facility Layout - Review Notes
Product Design and Process Selection—Services


Total Quality Management: and Six Sigma
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/total-quality-management-focus-on-six.html
Process Capability and Statistical Quality Control
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/process-capability-and-statistical.html
Operations Consulting and Reengineering
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/operations-consulting-and-reengineering.html



24 March - Birthday - Martin Shubik - Economics Professor - Yale University


Supply-Chain Strategy - Review Notes
https://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/supply-chain-strategy-review-notes.html
Strategic Capacity Management
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/strategic-capacity-management.html


Just-in-Time and Lean Systems - Review Notes
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/just-in-time-and-lean-systems-review.html
Forecasting - Operations Management Review Notes
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/forecasting-operations-management.html


Aggregate Sales and Operations Planning - Review Notes
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/aggregate-sales-and-operations-planning.html
Inventory Control - Review Notes for Chase et al.
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/inventory-control-review-notes-for.html



29 March
Subject Update: Principles of Management

30 March
Subject Update: Marketing Management

To April - Management Knowledge Revision


Industrial Engineers support Engineers and Managers in Efficiency Improvement of Products, Processes and Systems




One Year MBA Knowledge Revision Plan

January  - February  - March  - April  - May   -   June

July  - August     - September  - October  - November  - December


March - Birthdays - Management Scholars


1
2
3 - Lyndall Urwick (1891)
4
5 - Edgar Schein (1928),  Stuart Anspach Umpleby (1944)
6 - Raymond Gilmartin (1941
7
8 - Warren Bennis (1925), Nirmalya Kumar (1960)
9
10 - Kenneth R. French (1954)
11
12
13
14 - T.V. Rao (1946)
15 - Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1943)
16 - Ferdinando Pennarola (1963)
17
18 - Water A. Shewart (1891)
19
20 -  Frederick Taylor (1856), Kim B. Clark (1949),  Marshall Goldsmith (1949)
21
22
23
24 - Martin Shubik (1926)
25 - David Meerman Scott (1961)
26 - Larry Page (1973)  http://www.biography.com/people/larry-page-12103347
27
28
29 - Sam Walton (1918)
30 - Arthur White (1924),   Dr. Arno Antlitz (1970)


31

Updated  23 March 2019, 16 March 2019,  3 March 2017,  25 March 2016










Friday, March 22, 2019

Fuzzy Productivity Measurement in Manufacturing Systems



Fuzzy Productivity Measurement in Manufacturing Systems

Cengiz Kahraman, editor of the book is a coauthor. He published number of articles on multiobjective optimization in various topics. He is an industrial engineering professor in Turkey. His mail id is in the book. I have to write a mail to him.

About him
http://www.khas.edu.tr/en/cv/1202

His Cv
http://p2.khas.edu.tr/cv_program/cv_eng/1202.pdf

Chapter 17 in

Production Engineering and Management under Fuzziness

Cengiz Kahraman, Mesut Yavuz
Springer Science & Business Media, 19-May-2010 - Business & Economics - 605 pages

Production engineering and management involve a series of planning and control activities in a production system. A production system can be as small as a shop with only one machine or as big as a global operation including many manufacturing plants, distribution centers, and retail locations in multiple continents. The product of a production system can also vary in complexity based on the material used, technology employed, etc. Every product, whether a pencil or an airplane, is produced in a system which depends on good management to be successful. Production management has been at the center of industrial engineering and management science disciplines since the industrial revolution. The tools and techniques of production management have been so successful that they have been adopted to various service industries, as well. The book is intended to be a valuable resource to undergraduate and graduate students interested in the applications of production management under fuzziness. The chapters represent all areas of production management and are organized to reflect the natural order of production management tasks. In all chapters, special attention is given to applicability and wherever possible, numerical examples are presented. While the reader is expected to have a fairly good understanding of the fuzzy logic, the book provides the necessary notation and preliminary knowledge needed in each chapter.

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=65FTeciGePMC

KUBERNETES - Developer Productivity Enhancer


Industrial Engineering effort that effort to increase programmer productivity and developer productivity is going for many years. Various tools are being developed to increase prograamer and developer productivity. Kubernetes is one such innovation.

Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
https://kubernetes.io/

KUBERNETES ENGINE
Reliable, efficient, and secured way to run Kubernetes clusters
https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/


DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY AND KUBERNETES PART 2 W/ SLOAN AHRENS AND BLAKE JOHNSTON
Sloan is back to chat with Alan and Blake about developer productivity, tools, and a whole lot more Kubernetes.
https://friday.hirelofty.com/podcast/episode/fad_ep20_tc-developer-productivity-and-kubernetes-part-2-w-sloan-ahrens-and-blake-johnston/

Istio & Kubernetes: Developer Productivity and freedom to deliver your OKRs
February 14, 2019
http://diego-pacheco.blogspot.com/2019/02/istio-kubernetes-developer-productivity.html


What is DevOps?
Today, Software delivery cycle is getting shorter and shorter, while on the other hand application size has been getting bigger and bigger.

DevOps tools automate tasks and manage configurations at a different stage of configuration delivery.

About Container
Containers make it easier to host and manage life-cycle of web applications inside the portable environment. It packages up application code other dependencies into building blocks to deliver consistency, efficiency, and productivity.

What is Kubernetes?
Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration platform, enabling multiple numbers of containers to work together in harmony, reducing operational burden.

Why Developers Should Embrace Productivity Engineering
It’s come time to face the facts: we’re living in a post-DevOps engineer world.
By Andrew Holway - Otter Networks Founder - 2nd November 2018
https://otter.ly/productivity-engineering/

Kubernetes in DevOps Space: Everything You Need To Know
SPEC INDIA
Oct 12, 2018
https://medium.com/devopslinks/kubernetes-in-devops-space-everything-you-need-to-know-6ac3c94f12df

Container Orchestration bring IT operations and developers closer together, making it hassle-free for the team to collaborate effectively and efficiently with each other.

Opting for the Kubernetes workflow can simplify the build/test/deploy pipelines in DevOps.

In Part 1, Kubernetes is the new application operating environment, discussed Kubernetes and its place in application development. In this part, we explore application servers and their role in relation to Kubernetes.

Are App Servers Dead in the Age of Kubernetes? (Part 2)
By Ken Finnigan October 2, 2018
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/10/02/are-app-servers-dead-in-the-age-of-kubernetes-part-2/

Change your workflow
Increased developer productivity with cloud-native
July 4, 2018  Ross Kukulinski
https://jaxenter.com/productivity-cloud-native-146439.html

https://www.drinkingcaffeine.com/2017/06/29/stravas-developer-productivity-engineering/


OPE - Overall Process Effectiveness - Overall Process Efficiency



How to (Really) Improve Process Efficiency
Posted By: Lucidchart Content Team
January 08, 2019
https://www.lucidchart.com/blog/what-is-process-efficiency


Calculating basic performance indicators for the smart factory: Overall Production Effectiveness (OPE)
Alessandro Bonara December 2016
https://www.smart-smt-factory-forum.com/general/calculating-basic-performance-indicators-for-the-smart-factory-overall-production-effectiveness-ope/


2016

What is OPE?

https://www.labce.com/spg737438_key_gains_from_lean_and_six_sigma_for_improving_op.aspx

https://filene.org/assets/pdf-reports/250_Shaffie_Operational_Efficiency.pdf

https://blog.gembaacademy.com/2010/04/15/how-to-calculate-process-cycle-efficiency/

http://thinkinglean.com/img/files/020203m.pdf

http://www.comlineag.de/en/services/consulting/business-consulting/ope-overall-process-efficiency/

http://www.ijera.com/papers/Vol4_issue10/Part%20-%203/C410031214.pdf

http://qcin.org/nbqp/DLShah-Award/pdf/04A-Jubilant%20(35-42).pdf




Updated on 23 March 2019, 3 April 2016

Sunday, March 17, 2019

Developments in Mechanical Engineering of Immediate Relevance to Industrial Engineering


Advances in Mechanical Engineering
0.848 Impact Factor
Table of Contents
Volume 11 Issue 3, March 2019
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ade/current



Multi-objective optimization design of spur gear based on NSGA-II and decision making
Qizhi YaoFirst Published March 13, 2019 Research Article 
Advances in Mechanical Engineering
Volume 11 Issue 3, March 2019
https://doi.org/10.1177/1687814018824936
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1687814018824936

Open access article:
Due to most of power transmission systems requiring light weight, efficient, and low-cost elements, Tamboli et al. (11) optimized a heavy-duty gear reducer with helical gear pair based on the minimum volume. Rao (12) used teaching learning based optimization (TLBO) and elitist teaching learning based optimization (ETLBO) algorithms to optimize a spur gear train for weight reduction under the contains of bending strength, surface durability, torsional strength, and center distance.

11. Tamboli, K, Patel, S, George, PM. Optimal design of a heavy duty helical gear pair using particle swarm optimization technique. Proc Tech 2014; 14: 513–519.

12. Rao, RV . Design optimization of a spur gear train using TLBO and ETLBO algorithms. In: Rao, RV (ed.) Teaching learning based optimization algorithm: and its engineering applications. Cham: Springer, 2016, pp.91–101.

Wei and Lin14 performed a multi-objective optimization design for a helical gear using finite element method and Taguchi method.

14. Wei, F, Lin, H. Multi-objective optimization of process parameters for the helical gear precision forging by using Taguchi method. J Mech Sci Technol 2011; 25: 1519–1526.

Huang et al.18 worked on the optimization of three-stage spur gear reduction units in order to minimize volume and maximize surface fatigue life.

Huang, HZ, Tian, ZG, Zuo, MJ. Multiobjective optimization of three-stage spur gear reduction units using interactive physical programming. J Mech Sci Technol 2005; 19: 1080–1086.


The effects of robot welding and manual welding on the low- and high-cycle fatigue lives of SM50A carbon steel weld zones
Changwan Han, Changhwan Yang, Hanjong Kim, ...
First Published March 13, 2019 Research Article
Advances in Mechanical Engineering
Volume 11 Issue 3, March 2019
https://doi.org/10.1177/1687814019828266
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1687814019828266

Open access

The major advantage of RW is the productivity enhancement of uniform quality products, because robots can always guarantee the same operating conditions for welding.

Conclusion
The  robot welding (RW)  and manual welding (MW) effects on the fatigue of SM50A carbon steel weld zones were analyzed in this study. The RW weld zone showed better fatigue life at 800 MPa, but slightly poorer fatigue life than the MW at 227 MPa. However, no significant difference in the overall S-N curves between the MW and RW except these two stress levels may suggest that the RW method is more desirable due to its advantage in maintaining consistency of welding process parameters than the MW. Further systematic studies to derive the correlations between welding parameters (welding currents, voltages, and speeds) and weld zone microstructures, as well as their effects on the fatigue strength of weld zones, can contribute to the design of the optimized welding process parameters in the RW method.







Saturday, March 16, 2019

Industrial Engineering - One More Explanation - Narayana Rao


16 March 2019

Industrial Engineering - One more explanation - Narayana Rao

Engineering for Time, Cost, Productivity, Materials utilization, Equipment Utilization, Zero defects, Manpower comfort, Energy Utilization, Information Utlization (Resource Utilization in Engineering Processes and Products). #industrialengineering #productivity

Taylor - Narayana Rao Principles of Industrial Engineering
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/06/taylor-narayana-rao-principles-of.html
Proceedings of the 2017 Industrial and Systems Engineering Conference
IISE, Pittsburgh, USA

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


The activity in basic engineering is driven by developments in underlying engineering sciences like mechanics etc. The activity in industrial engineering is driven by responses to industry relevant data like cost of production, defects, resource use etc. Industrial engineers visualize and create engineering changes to make products less costly and to make processes more faster and comfortable to employees.

The first industrial engineering article.


F.W. Taylor - Productivity Engineering of Belting - 1893 - Notes on Belting

Thursday, March 14, 2019

3D Printing Softwares






Best 3D Printing Software Tools in 2019 (All Are Free)
https://all3dp.com/1/best-free-3d-printing-software-3d-printer-program/


An Overview Of The Best 3D Printing Software Tools
https://3dprinting.com/software/


3D Printing Simulation, Part 1: Where Are We Now?
Phillip Keane  September 10, 2018
https://www.engineering.com/DesignSoftware/DesignSoftwareArticles/ArticleID/17591/3D-Printing-Simulation-Part-1-Where-Are-We-Now.aspx


Simulations in 3D Printing
Written by Benjamin Vaissier
https://www.3dhubs.com/knowledge-base/simulations-3d-printing


The Rise of Design Software for 3D Printing
By Kenneth Wong
 April 1, 2018








Sunday, March 3, 2019

What is Industrial Engineering? C.E. Knoeppel 1920



An address delivered before Chicago Chapter of The Society of Industrial Engineers



The basis of industry has been and is Engineering Knowledge, but engineering knowledge has thought too much in terms of 2 plus 2 equals 4. It has given too much attention to matter—not enough to man. It has given too little attention to matching human variables against physical constants.

Engineering knowledge has built a wonderful structure in the shape of industry as we see it today but quicksand has been discovered and engineering knowledge must strengthen the structure, or, if necessary, rebuild it.

The next field for the Industrial Engineer is therefore that of industrial design, and on the shoulders of those representing engineering knowledge rests an enormous responsibility as builders of a new structure, which rising out of the ruins of the old will give the human the attention he deserves. Engineering knowledge must do this if our Twentieth Century civilization is not to be declared a sham; if we are to replace selfishness with service, and unhappiness with contentment. The Industrial Engineer of the future will there fore be an Industrial Architect.

We must take into consideration also that modern industry is a complex mechanism; that knowledge is so comprehensive and so vast as to make impossible for management to secure results unaided and unassisted. Therefore, the Industrial Engineer must step in as the staff organization of management to investigate, to devise, to formulate, to work up standard practice, to give counsel, and to assist management in the work of co-ordinating the money of capital and the work of labor. The Industrial Engineer of the future will .therefore be an Executive to Executives.

No attainment is ever greater or more efficient than the organization which makes it possible.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435017176272;view=1up;seq=16