Production Technology for Industrial Engineers - Knowledge Base for Industrial Engineers

Knowledge Required for Product Industrial Engineering and Process Industrial  Engineering Application and Practice

Knowledge Required for Methods Engineering and Value Engineering Application and Practice

Industrial engineers need engineering knowledge to identify unnecessary costs and produce designs of products and processes that avoid these unnecessary costs using industrial engineering methods and tools.

Difference in the knowledge between a specialist design engineer and industrial  engineer.

A heat transfer specialist must possess accumulated knowledge in great volume pertaining to materials, heat conductivity, and practicable shapes and ideas for providing, preventing, or controlling the flow of heat.

In contrast, the special knowledge required for industrial  engineering is extremely broad. It cannot be limited to any specific field of product design or manufacturing process. Industrial engineers have to deal with and explore a multitude of technologies and product areas  to redesign the products and processes assigned so that they give optimum performance and have optimum cost.

Industrial engineers require information on materials, processes, functional products, sources of functional knowledge, approaches to function performances, practical ideas for economic function solutions. The best value alternative is the best combination of materials, processes and related ideas that combine to give a solution that secures the reliable performance of the desired  function or functions at the lowest cost.

A library of knowledge media like books, magazines, journals and information created and sent by various manufacturers, consultants and business organizations has to be maintained. In the current age computer based and web based knowledge sources also have to be maintained by the industrial  engineering departments. But a library may still be insufficient. To achieve the value alternatives, apart from having a library of appropriate knowledge, the industrial  engineer needs to develop channels for ready access to new information on materials, processes and suppliers of materials, processes and components. So a well organized references to sources of special skills needs to be maintained by industrial engineers.  Addresses of various consultants and faculty of academic institutions have to be maintained by the industrial engineering department.

In the case of various materials and processes, there must be enough knowledge available to make a preliminary evaluation of the suitability of the material, the product, the modified product, or the process to effectively accomplish the function involved, together with a reasonable amount of comparative information concerning costs.

Form of Knowledge

Handbooks, catalogues, charts, price lists, product and process descriptions, and tables etc. are forms of knowledge. L.D. Miles, the founder of value engineering recommends development of linking properties and costs also.

Reach or Depth of Knowledge

Industrial engineers are going to be less in number compared to performance engineers in any organization. Therefore industrial  engineers are asked to work on variety of products and components related to various engineering disciplines. Therefore, the knowledge required for high-grade value work is extremely broad. An industrial engineer can't be expected to have in depth knowledge in any specific field.  But he needs to have broad knowledge that helps in recognizing specific materials and technologies from the multitude that have promise to provide optimum value for the product he is appraising and consulting.

It is important for industrial engineers to revise and refresh their engineering knowledge especially in the subjects related to design and production periodically. It is important to note that other engineering subjects provide the basis for design and production of engineering components and products and also services.

Reference

1. Miles, L.D., Techniques of Value Analysis and Engineering, First Edition, McGraw Hill Book Company, New York, 1961.

2. Chapter 10 of Miles, L.D., Techniques of Value Analysis and Engineering, Second Edition, McGraw Hill Book Company, New York,

The September Month Industrial Engineering Revision Plan will have articles/essays related to production technology and product design.

Reinhard Koether and, Wolfgang Rau

Production technology for Industrial engineers 

ISBN-10: 3-446-41274-3 ISBN-13: 978-3-446-41274-3
http://www.hanser.de/978-3-446-41274-3


Foreword

Production technology influences the competitiveness of the company, because it determines the manufacturing process and therefore costs and quality of the products.  Industrial engineers are preferred at interfaces between economic and technical tasks. This includes the manufacturing Planning with the design of the manufacturing processes and the scheduling for concrete production orders. However, apart from manufacturing planners engineers and executives in purchasing or in controlling need technical knowledge and know-how about manufacturing processes and manufacturing parameters to judge costs  or to assess the technical ability of suppliers.

The book provides for  industrial engineers, an overview of the common manufacturing processes for Metalworking and in addition to the technical basics and processes also show the economic effects of the technology.

 Munich, March 1999 Reinhard Koether and Wolfgang Rau


Foreword to the 5th edition

Fertigungstechnik für Wirtschaftsingenieure
Year: 2016
Publisher: Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG
Reinhard Koether, Wolfgang Rau Production technology for Industrial engineers

Two important trends are currently determining the situation in German industry: Digitalisation- also referred to as Industry 4.0 and the increasing relevance of the resource energy. Both trends will have a greater impact on manufacturing costs in the future. At the same time, it is important to keep the quality of the products at a high level in order to secure the leading position of the manufacturing industry in world markets. Economists are preferably used at interfaces between economic and technical tasks. This also includes the production planning with the interpretation of the manufacturing processes and the scheduling for concrete manufacturing orders. However, not only production planners need manufacturing know-how. In purchasing, in project management or in the controlling of producing companies, know-how about production processes and production parameters is needed to be able to do so. To assess costs or to assess the ability of suppliers and possible risks during the procurement process.

This book was written from our lectures at the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Applied Sciences Munich. Our experience from work experience, consulting projects and projects at the University of Stuttgart as well as the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Engineering and Automation IPA are also influenced. The book aims to give business engineers an overview of the common manufacturing processes for metalworking and to show not only the technical basics and processes but also the economic implications of the technology. Our production technology for business engineers offers a compact overview of production processes and machines. In addition, the above-mentioned megatrends ply up. This is one of the reasons why the book is not only aimed at business engineers, but at all those who have to solve production-related tasks, including business administrators or engineers who want to get an overview of manufacturing processes.

For the 5th edition, the production technology for industrial engineers was fundamentally reworked. For example, we were able to modernize the chapter on forming technology. Win Odening. Because of their increasing importance in practice, the additive manufacturing process has also been given much more room in the book. We have also taken account of the growing importance of energy consumption in the industry for our future needs by creating a new chapter. For this purpose, the layout has been modernized, so that the book is now also available as an ebook.

We thank the Carl Hanser Verlag for the persistent support of the project. We also thank the co-author of the previous appointments, Prof. dr. Rau for the extensive preparatory work.  

Gauting and Stuttgart, October 2016 Reinhard Koether and Alexander Sauer
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