Industrial Engineering Case Studies - Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course

Online Education/Training Session on "Effective Industrial Engineering and Productivity Management."

I developed an online education/training session on "Effective Industrial Engineering and Productivity Management." I can present the session in one hour, one and half hour or two-hour long sessions. The sessions will be valuable when company industrial engineers and other engineers and managers attend as a group. Industrial engineers require active cooperation and participation of other engineers and managers in their studies and projects. Hence a common presentation and discussion on effectiveness will be very useful.

Supporting Information.

Effective Industrial Engineering - Some Thoughts by Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.

Effective industrial engineering has to satisfy management about the contribution it made to the organization year after year.

The prime contribution of IE has to be cost reduction through productivity improvement.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2025/07/effective-industrial-engineering-some.html

https://www.linkedin.com/in/narayana-rao-kvss-b608007/

Learning Industrial Engineering - Productivity Improvement through Actual Implementations in various companies in the world.

Industrial Engineering Case Studies and Information for IE Notes

Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course (Visit for Lessons & Schedule)

Modules

• Introduction to Industrial Engineering
• Contribution of Taylor, Gilbreth, Emerson, Maynard, Barnes, Shigeo Shingo
• Productivity Science
• Productivity Engineering - 
• Product Industrial Engineering, 
• Process Industrial Engineering
• IE Economic Analysis
• IEOR
• IE Statistics - Six Sigma Optimization
• Human Effort Industrial Engineering
• IE Measurements
• Productivity Management
• Applied Industrial Engineering 
• Industrial Engineering 4.0
• Industrial Engineering Case Studies 

Industrial Engineering Case Studies and Information  

Case Studies in Product Industrial Engineering - Value Engineering

Process Industrial Engineering - Material Processing Improvement - Inspection Improvement - Mechanical Handling & Transport Improvement - Warehousing & Storage Improvement - Elimination of Delays and Wastes

Automation and Mechanization to increase productivity - New Machines - Sensors - Data Analysis

Human Effort Engineering - Method (Work Station Layout Improvement) - Motion Study - Ergonomic Evaluation and Improvement

Industrial Engineering - Productivity Improvement  - Cost Reduction - LIST OF CASE STUDIES

1. Industrial engineers (IE) are employed and productivity improvement and cost reduction are practiced in many companies using IE  philosophy, principles, methods, techniques and tools.
    Apple Inc. - Industrial Engineering Activities and Jobs

2. IE Continuous Improvement - 3 Years - 50% Cost Reduction - Diplexer Line Case Study

3. BMW - Industrial Engineering Activities and Jobs

4. Coca-Cola - Cisco Systems - Industrial Engineering Activities and Jobs

5. DuPont - Industrial Engineering Activities and Jobs

6. Value Engineering - Paddy Transplanter - Case Study

7. Ford - Industrial Engineering Activities and Jobs

8. GlaxoSmithKline - GE - Industrial Engineering Activities and Jobs

9. Value Analysis and Engineering - Examples by L.D. Miles - Part 1

10. Process Industrial Engineering - Illustration: Process Industrial Engineering Using Robo Cylinder

11. Honda - Industrial Engineering Activities and Jobs

12. Milling - Estimation of Machining Time

13. Process Industrial Engineering - Illustration:  Gear Machining Productivity

14. Process Industrial Engineering - Illustration:    Cryogenic Machining Adoption - Productivity Improvement at Lockheed Martin

15. Process Industrial Engineering - Illustration - Investment in Sliding-Head Lathe with Chipbreaking Feature

16. Process Industrial Engineering - Illustration - Process Improvement via Toolholder Change

17. Tool Wear and Temperature Analysis for Process Improvement

18. Dynamic Control of Circulatory Pumps for Heating Systems Saves 20% of Energy Cost

19. Process Industrial Engineering - Illustration - Additive Manufacturing of Fixtures - Productivity Benefits

20. Process Industrial Engineering - Illustration -Alternative Lubricants and Productivity - Case Study

21. Illustration of Human Effort Productivity Improvement - Bricklaying Improvement by Gilbreth

22. Illustration of Human Effort Productivity Improvement - Pig Iron Handling by Taylor

23. Illustration of Human Effort Productivity Improvement - Bicycle Balls Inspection Example - Taylor

24. Case Study - Method Study - Cast Iron Housing Loading and Unloading 2014

25. Case Study - Method Study - Welding Fixture Redesign - Productivity Improvement 2002




26. Case Study: Method and Motion Study in a Printing Company - 2019

27. Case Study - Examining All Operations in a Process

28. Implementing Standard Work - Issues

29. New Scheduling Algorithm Substantially Improves Foundry Productivity - 2017

30. Industrial Engineering Exercise: Productivity Analysis of a Newly Introduced Machine

31. Productivity Improvement Using Alternative Boring Heads

32. Information for IE: Productivity Improvement Technology in Grinding - 2020

33. Operation Analysis and Improvement: Application of Tribos Toolholder for Productivity

34. Operation Improvement:   Rego-Fix ER Collets for Tools - Productivity Improvement Case

35. Operation Improvement: Productivity Improvement Through Tool and Toolholder Change - Corogrip

36. Collet for Corochuck 930 with Mechanical Locking - Productivity Improvement Use Case

37. Value Analysis and Engineering - Examples by L.D. Miles - Part 2

38. Prime Turning (TM) - New Turning Process with High Productivity

39. Sandvik PrimeTurning™ Increases Productivity - Case Studies

40. Productivity Improvement Using Through-Tool High Pressure Coolant

41. 3D Printing Multiple Numbers as a Vertical Stack - Significant Productivity Improvement

42. Seco Jetstream Tooling - Benefit - Case Study

44. News - Information for Value-Adding Operation Analysis

45. News - Information for Inspection Operation Analysis

46. News - Information for Material Handling and Transport Operation Analysis

47. News - Information for Analysis of Delays in Processes

48. News - Information for Storage/Warehousing Operation Analysis

49. News - Information for Information Generation & Transmission - Operation Analysis

50. News - Information for Maintenance Operation Analysis


51. Intel - Industrial Engineering Activities

52. Johnson & Johnson - Industrial Engineering Activities

53. Lockheed Martin - Industrial Engineering Activities

54. Industrial Engineering - Novartis Way and Activities

55. Milling - Machining Elements for Productivity Analysis

56. Procter & Gamble - Industrial Engineering Activities

57. Renault - Nissan - Mitsubishi - Industrial Engineering Activities

58. Saint-Gobain - Industrial Engineering Activities

59. Toyota production system is Toyota-style IE - Toyota - Industrial Engineering Activities

60. Toyota Way - Become Better and Better - Better Design and Further Industrial Engineering Changes

61. Seco Tools Double Turbo Square Shoulder Mills and Inserts

62. Assembly Kit Cart Cum Work-Bench - IBM Innovation in Work Stations

63. Higher Speed and Feed with  Lower Depth of Cut for Higher Productivity - Ingersoll Case

64. High Speed Machining Using Makino MC1516 at Raytheon

65. The Lean Transformation and Journey in Pratt and Whitney

66. The Lean Revolution in Lantech - 1992-2003 - Womack and Jones

67. Lean System in Lantech - 2004 Onwards

68. The Lean Revolution in Wiremold - 1991 - 1995

69. Xiaomi Corporation Industrial Engineering - Succeeding with cost leadership strategy in smart phone market. 

40% price difference even in 5G phone.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/04/xiaomi-corporation-industrial.html

70. Yamaha  Industrial Engineering  - Company plans cost reduction every year along with sales increase and margin increase

Information for IE - Case 70 - Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course. 

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/04/yamaha-industrial-engineering.html

71. ZF Friedrichshafen - Industrial Engineering Activities and Jobs - Value Engineering - Supply Chain Cost Reduction Strategy

Information for IE - Case 71 - Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/04/zf-friedrichshafen-industrial.html

72. Developments in Machining - Technology and Productivity - Bulletin Board

Information for IE - Case 72 - Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course. 

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2018/10/developments-in-machining-technology.html

73. Case Studies and Examples - Productivity Engineering - Process Industrial Engineering - Methods Industrial Engineering

Case 73 - Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2019/04/case-studies-and-examples-productivity.html

74. New Machine: UMC-1600-H - Haas CNC 50-taper Universal Machining Center

Case 74 of Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course. 

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/07/umc-1600-h-haas-cnc-50-taper-universal.html

75. 

76. Transformer Core Building and Assembly

77. Productivity and IE in Motorcycle and Scooter Manufacturing

78. Vector Kinematics Spray Cleaning Technology

79. Redesigned HaaS TRT210 Tilting Rotary Table - Useful for Mid-Size Mills

80. Alternatives to Reduce Part Costs as Volumes Scale up

81. Productivity through Flexible Manufacturing System - Case Study - Prince Industries

82. Productivity Benefits of Digital Twins - Stara Tractors

83. Case Study - Improving Productivity of Spinning Mill

84. Case Study: Increasing Productivity, OEE and Reducing Unit Cost of Production - Tractor Company

85. Machine vision Based Inspection Productivity Improvement on Bottling Line - IE Case Study.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2021/06/machine-vision-based-inspection.html

86. Drilling Time Reduction Using Rambo Drill

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2024/01/drilling-time-reduction-using-rambo.html

87. Inspection Systems in the Drinks Filling Plants

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2025/08/inspection-systems-in-drinks-filling.html

New Case Studies

Machining

CASE STUDY: INCREASING QUALITY ON TIME MACHINING’S PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH THE HAIMER SHRINK FIT SYSTEM

Brought To You by Haimer  May 04, 2021

https://www.mscdirect.com/betterMRO/metalworking/case-study-increasing-quality-time-machining%E2%80%99s-productivity-through-haimer-shrink-fit

LEAN MANAGEMENT

Untangled: How Lean Management Helped A Huge GE Turbine Factory at Greenville Find Its Mojo

Tomas Kellner

April 24, 2020

https://www.ge.com/news/reports/untangled-how-lean-management-helped-a-huge-ge-turbine-factory-find-its-mojo

Related video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw3CTo81g7g

Prince Industries Uses Flexible Manufacturing System to Quickly Bring Products to Market - Productivity increase 50%.

https://www.makino.com/resources/content-library/case-study/archive/prince-industries-uses-flexible-manufacturing-system-to-quickly-bring-products-to-market-/624

Factory Infrastructure for PV Manufacturing

At this year's intersolar North America show, M+W's Ankush Halbe, Technology Director Renewable Energy, presented the latest PV capacity drivers as well as successfully proven fab design concepts opportunities complying with the environmental and security requirements.

M+W Group

https://www.slideshare.net/mwgroup/factory-infrastructure-for-pv-manufacturing   (More from M+W in slideshare.

Design - Manufacturing Interface Productivity Engineering Using 3D Modeling and Virtual Simulation - Case Study

User-oriented solution in hard turning and grinding

April 7, 2022

https://www.hardinge.com/blog/anwenderorientierte-losung-im-hartdrehen-und-schleifen/

Some Case Study and Application Examples for Centrifugal Iso-Finishing Processes

https://dryfinish.wixsite.com/iso-finish/single-post/some-case-study-and-application-examples-for-centrifugal-iso-finishing-processes

Case Study - An Industrial Engineer’s Way to Implement the Lean Principles in Different High-Mix Low-Volume Manufacturing Facilities

Published on February 26, 2017

Shahrukh Irani

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/case-studies-industrial-engineers-way-implement-lean-principles/

Earlier Collections

Method Study - Case Studies

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/02/method-study-case-studies.html

Productivity Improvement Case Studies - Bibliography

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/08/productivity-improvement-case-studies.html

Applied Industrial Engineering - Industrial Engineering - Application Examples and Case Studies in Various Engineering Branches, Technologies and Industries

Industrial Engineering in Chemical Engineering

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/01/industrial-engineering-in-chemical.html

Industrial Engineering in Civil Engineering

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/01/industrial-engineerning-in-civil.html

Industrial Engineering in Computer Engineering and Information Technology

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/01/industrial-engineering-in-computer.html

Industrial Engineering in Electrical Engineering

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/01/industrial-engineering-in-electical.html

Industrial Engineering in Electronics Engineering

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/01/industrial-engineering-in-electronics.html

Industrial Engineering in Health Care

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/04/industrial-engineering-in-health-care.html

Information Systems Industrial Engineering - Information Systems Engineering

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/07/information-systems-industrial.html

Industrial Engineering in Textile Engineering

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2016/07/industrial-engineering-in-textile.html

Applied Industrial Engineering in New Technologies

IE in New Technologies - IE with New Technologies

Implementation of  Industrial Engineering Principles and Techniques in New Technologies (Engineering Processes) and Business Processes

Lesson 433

Applied Industrial Engineering in New Technologies - Process Steps and Application in Various New Technologies

Lesson 434

Additive Manufacturing Industrial Engineering - Productivity Science and Engineering

435

Industrial Engineering in Data Center Design and Processes

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/07/industrial-engineering-in-data-center.html

436

Solar Energy Industrial Engineering.

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/11/solar-energy-industrial-engineering.html

437

Biotechnology Industrial Engineering

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2022/04/biotechnology-industrial-engineering.html

438

Nanotechnology Industrial Engineering 

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/10/nano-technology-industrial-engineering.html

439

Electric Batteries and Productivity Applications. - Productivity and Industrial Engineering (IE) in Battery Manufacturing

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2014/02/productivity-and-ie-in-battery.html

441

Productivity Automation Engineering - Automation and Productivity

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/09/productivity-automation-engineering.html

Industrial Engineering 4.0

442

Industrial Engineering 4.0 - IE in the Era of Industry 4.0

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/12/industrial-engineering-40-ie-in-era-of.html

443

Industry 4.0 - A Note for Industrial Engineers for Industrial Engineering 4.0 (IE 4.0) 

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2018/01/industry-40-note-for-industrial.html

444

Augmented Reality - Exploration

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2018/07/augmented-reality-exploration.html

445

Autonomous Robots - A Note for Industrial Engineers for Industrial Engineering 4.0 (IE 4.0)

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2018/01/autonomous-robots-note-for-industrial.html

446

Data Analytics Period in Productivity Improvement - Productivity Engineering and Management

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/06/data-analytics-period-in-productivity.html

447

Cloud Computing - Engineering Economic and Financial Analysis

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2018/04/cloud-computing-engineering-economic.html

448

IoT Technology - Exploration - Industrial Engineering Point of View

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2018/06/iot-technology-exploration-industrial.html

449

Simulation and Forecasting - A Note for Industrial Engineers for Industrial Engineering 4.0 (IE 4.0)

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2018/01/simulation-and-forecasting-note-for.html

Specific Industries and Technologies

456

Productivity and IE in Tire Manufacturing - Applied Industrial Engineering

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2014/02/productivity-and-ie-in-tire.html

Industrial Engineering in Health Care

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/04/industrial-engineering-in-health-care.html

Productivity Engineering of Tractors and Agriculture - Smart/Intelligent/Autonomous/IoT Tractors

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2018/02/productivity-engineering.html

Industrial Engineering of Welding Processes

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2019/04/industrial-engineering-of-welding.html

Productivity in Hotels

New JW Marriott hotel rides on technology for productivity

25 March 2017

http://www.asiahoreca.com/news/1164711/new-jw-marriott-hotel-rides-on-technology-for-productivity

JW Marriott Resort Saves $100K with Push-to-Talk Tech

12/09/2010

https://hospitalitytech.com/jw-marriott-resort-saves-100k-push-talk-tech

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Productivity and IE in Printed Circuit Board Manufacturing

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2014/02/productivity-and-ie-in-printed-circuit.html

Die Casting Productivity - Bibliography

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2019/01/die-casting-productivity-bibliography.html

Productivity Success Story - Coca Cola

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2019/10/productivity-success-story-coca-cola.html

Productivity and IE in Motor and Generator Manufacturing

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2014/02/productivity-and-ie-in-motor-and.html

Productivity and IE in Motor Vehicle Metal Stamping

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2014/02/productivity-and-ie-in-motor-vehicle.html

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Productivity and IE in Screw, Nut, and Bolt Manufacturing

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2014/02/productivity-and-ie-in-screw-nut-and.html

Productivity and IE in Spring Manufacturing

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2014/02/productivity-and-ie-in-spring.html

Productivity and IE in Iron and Steel Forging

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2014/02/productivity-and-ie-in-iron-and-steel_20.html

Productivity and IE in Automobile Manufacturing

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2014/02/productivity-and-ie-in-automobile.html

332710 - Productivity in Machine Shops - Industrial Engineering and Lean Thinking

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2014/01/productivity-and-ie-in-machine-shops.html

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Productivity and IE in Paint, Coating, and Adhesive Manufacturing

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2014/01/productivity-and-ie-in-paint-coating.html

Productivity and IE in Motorcycle and Scooter Manufacturing

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2014/01/productivity-and-ie-in-motorcycle-and.html

Productivity and IE in Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2014/01/productivity-and-ie-in-pharmaceutical.html

Grinding - Productivity Science and Productivity Engineering - Opportunities for 2020 and Beyond

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/01/grinding-productivity-science-and.html

Productivity and IE in Dies , Jig, and Fixture Manufacturing

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2014/02/productivity-and-ie-in-dies-jig-and.html

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Productivity and IE in Apparel Manufacturing

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2014/01/productivity-and-ie-in-apparel.html

Productivity and IE in Electronic Assembly Manufacturing

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2014/02/productivity-and-ie-in-electronic.html

30 May 2022

Course End Summary - Part 1 - IEKC IE Online Course - Engineering in Industrial Engineering

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2022/05/summary-part-1-iekc-ie-online-course.html

Course End Summary - Part 2 - IEKC IE Online Course - Support from Non-Engineering Subjects

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2022/05/course-end-summary-part-2-iekc-ie.html

Updated on 20.8.2025, 24.9.2024, 10.1.2024,   16.7.2022,  8.5.2022, 30.4.2022, 11 May 2021

Pub on 19 August 2020