Industrial Engineering Knowledge Center: Principles of Industrial Engineering With Supporting Articles

Saturday, November 16, 2019

Principles of Industrial Engineering With Supporting Articles

Industrial Engineering is System Efficiency Engineering and Human Effort Engineering.

It is an engineering discipline that deals with the design of system efficiency and human effort in all occupations: agricultural, manufacturing and service. The objectives of Industrial Engineering are optimization of productivity of engineering work-systems and occupational comfort, health, safety and income of persons involved. (Narayana Rao)

Industrial engineers redesign engineering products and processes based on measurements during operations to increase productivity and cost effectiveness. Whereas engineers design products and process plans for each product as a synthesis based on customer requirements and designs, industrial engineers do fine adjustments to those designs based on the measurements taken during actual production and also factor price or resource price changes that take place in the market. Industrial engineers try to respond quickly to developments in new technology that are beneficial to the organization. Also they respond quickly to suggestions and problems of operators to improve the process. In every branch of engineering, industrial engineering has utility and industrial engineers are working. It will be ideal, if industrial engineers specialize in various branches of engineering and work in close cooperation with them to improve the products and processes on a continuing basis. Continuous engineering improvement is the function of industrial engineers.

Industrial Engineering Principles - Taylor-Narayana Rao

https://www.proquest.com/docview/1951119980

Presentation at 2017 Annual IISE Conference, Pittsburgh, USA
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1. Productivity science

Develop a science for each element of a man - machine system's work related to efficiency and productivity. The productivity science developed is the foundation for industrial engineering in productivity engineering and productivity management phases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU8CdWfZZdU

Productivity Science of Machine - Machining - F.W. Taylor
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2019/09/productivity-science-of-machine.html

Productivity Science of Human Effort - F.W. Gilbreth
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2019/09/productivity-science-of-human-effort-fw.html

2. Productivity 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.

Product Industrial Engineering
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/09/product-design-industrial-engineering.html

Process Industrial Engineering
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/02/process-industrial-engineering.html

Human Effort Industrial Engineering
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/09/human-effort-industrial-engineering.html

Product Industrial Engineering - Study Materials - Notes
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2019/07/product-industrial-engineering-study_18.html

Process Industrial Engineering - Study Materials - Notes
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2019/07/process-industrial-engineering-study.html

Human Effort Industrial Engineering - Study Materials - Notes
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2019/07/human-effort-engineering-study.html