The core profession....INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING is concerned with continuous improvement of engineering and related aspects in engineering systems to increase productivity. It is system efficiency engineering and human effort engineering - Narayana Rao. Taylor - Narayana Rao Principles of Industrial Engineering (Posted on Linkedin on 6 May 2021. Well appreciated)
Industrial Engineering - Core Task
The core task in Industrial Engineering (IE) is continuous engineering change in product and processes to increase productivity. Other activities are additions to this core. If it is not done, engineering term has no meaning and IE has no competitive advantage.
"Industrial Engineering is System Efficiency Engineering and Human Effort Engineering. It is an engineering discipline that deals with the system efficiency."
The core design teams are first concerned with effectiveness and then with satisfactory efficiency. Businesses will not market a product based on a process, unless the minimum profit goals are satisfied. Industrial engineers evaluate and increase efficiency over the life cycle of the product and process based on intensive search of existing knowledge, creative application, efficiency related measurements and analysis, new technology developments, experience, and involving every body in operations as well as design in efficiency improvement. Improvements done by IEs are fed back into core design for the future products and processes.
Principles of Industrial Engineering With Supporting Articles https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2019/11/principles-of-industrial-engineering.html
Updated 8 May 2021
First posted on 21 Feb 2020
What is really continuous improvement?!
ReplyDeleteI would say there is a first time design of a process or system. Subsequent changes with expectation of improvement fall under continuous improvement. Ideas for improvement can come from CEO to the lowest level helper. They are sporadic. Certain engineering specialty areas like industrial engineering are engaged in periodic studies to improve the processes and system. You can think of quality improvement studies, maintenance improvement studies etc. that do projects at periodic intervals to improve things. Improvement is now a major area of manufacturing and operations strategy.
1st Edition
ReplyDeleteWork Design
A Systematic Approach
By Adedeji B. Badiru, Sharon C. Bommer
Copyright Year 2017
https://www.routledge.com/Work-Design-A-Systematic-Approach/Badiru-Bommer/p/book/9781498755733
Work Design A Systematic Approach
ReplyDeleteA Systematic Approach
ByAdedeji B. Badiru, Sharon C. Bommer
Edition1st Edition
First Published 2017
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781315152875/work-design-systematic-approach-adedeji-badiru-sharon-bommer