Industrial Engineering is Engineering Plus Productivity - Industrial Engineering Philosophy

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING PHILOSOPHY

I would like to state the philosophy of industrial engineering as engineering systems can be redesigned or improved and installed periodically for productivity increase or improvement. The primary drivers of productivity improvement are developments in basic engineering disciplines and developments in industrial engineering (developments in productivity science, productivity engineering and productivity management). The additional drivers are developments in related disciplines, for example, economics, mathematics, statistics, optimization techniques, ergonomics, psychology and sociology etc. - Narayana Rao, 1 April 2021.

Industrial Engineering - History

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/10/industrial-engineering-history.html

How many Industrial Engineers can a Company Employ for Cost Reduction?

For $100 million cost, there can be one MS IE and 6 BSIEs.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/03/value-creation-model-for-industrial.html

Industrial Engineering is Engineering Plus Productivity Philosophy - Science - Engineering - Management


Product Industrial Engineering = Product Design Engineering + Product Productivity Philosophy - Science - Engineering - Management


Process Industrial Engineering = Process Design Engineering + Process Productivity Philosophy - Science - Engineering - Management


Facilities Industrial Engineering = Facilities Design Engineering + Facilities Productivity Philosophy - Science - Engineering - Management

Human Effort Industrial Engineering = Mechanic Arts + Human Effort  Productivity Philosophy - Science - Engineering - Management

Productivity Philosophy - Science - Engineering - Management in engineering formally started as important activities in the first annual convention of ASME.  May be we can look for call for productivity and cost reduction of engineered products in some earlier engineering writings also. But the ASME presidential lecture (1880) is a formal call for the engineering community and it was answered with a solutions provided by various members of  the ASME in subsequent years.

The concern for management and productivity issues  occupied the attention of the first ASME  president. Thus ASME's attention to the topic is there right from its founding . In fact, R.H. Thurston  the first ASME president, in his inaugural address (1880), included productivity improvement  and  economy among the objects of the society in his inaugural address. 

"We are now called upon to do our part in the work so well begun by our predecessors, and so splendidly carried on by our older colleagues during the past generation. We have for our work the cheapening and improvement of all textile fabrics, the perfecting of metallurgical processes, the introduction of the electric light, the increase of facilities for rapid and cheap transportation, the invention of new and more efficient forms of steam and gas engines, of means for relieving woman from drudgery, and for shortening the hours of labor for hard-working men, the increase in the productive power of all mechanical devices, aiding in the great task of recording and disseminating useful knowledge; and ours is the duty to discover facts and to deduce laws bearing upon every application of mechanical science and art in field, workshop, school, or household."  - Thuston. R. H. Thurston. President's inaugural address. Transactions ASME, 1, 1880, pp. 14-29.

Industrial engineering department was advocated by F.W. Taylor as a department that improves engineering elements based on experiments and science that was motivated by shop operations experience to increase productivity and reduce costs. He termed the department as "elementary rate fixing department."

The productivity concept as developed by Taylor, Gilbreth, and Miles has multiple dimensions and attributes.  Important of them are quality and human comfort, safety and health.

Industrial engineering Principles, Methods Tools and Techniques
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/03/industrial-engineering-principles.html

A to Z of Industrial Engineering - Principles, Methods, Techniques, Tools and Applications
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-to-z-of-industrial-engineering.html

Industrial Engineering 4.0 - IE in the Era of Industry 4.0 - Blog Book
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/12/industrial-engineering-40-ie-in-era-of.html


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