Knowledge Management: A Basic Ingredient for Productivity - Asian Productivity Organization.
The management of ideas and knowledge is crucial for innovation as well as productivity. Knowledge is perceived as a key factor of production. Knowledge management (KM) is a discipline focused on ways that organizations create and use knowledge. Implementation of KM initiatives is to enhance individual, team, and organizational capability in delivering the services and achieving the missions in a better way.
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Knowledge Management - Acquiring, Organizing and Distributing Knowledge for Profitable Use.
Industrial engineering is knowledge intensive task. Industrial engineers have to work over wide range of activities and they have to be better than the engineers who designed the original systems and processes to suggest a redesign. Industrial engineers have to be rapid learners of engineering knowledge in the specific area they are focusing at the moment for analysis. Hence knowledge management is very important.
Industrial engineers are to be supported by a good library having many engineering books. In addition they need to collect catalogues and trade literature. Industrial engineers have to suggest redesigns and implement them as early as possible in practice. So they need to know all technologies, raw materials, machines, tools and parts commercially available in the market. So they need to collect and keep the trade literature. No doubt, the digital databases of engineering materials and parts would make the knowledge acquisition more quick and economical.
Within the company and profession, industrial engineers have to set up knowledge management systems to help them to share their knowledge and access the knowledge developed by others.
The knowledge gathered in the IE department has to be organized in process wise files. Then whenever, the complete process is taken up for improvement study, all the knowledge gathered up to that date can be profitably utilized in the improvement exercise.
IE departments can consider collecting news likely to be useful in improving their processes. IE associations can also make arrangements of collecting and publishing engineering news in their websites.
I tried to some extent to collect engineering news.
2023 Machine Shop Engineering, Technology & Industrial Engineering - Productivity Improvement & Cost Reduction News
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2021 Machine Shop Engineering & Technology - Productivity Improvement & Cost Reduction News and Case Studies #Productivity #Machining #IndustrialEngineering
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Industrial engineers have to accumulate a database of Low Cost Materials, Parts, Processes and Suppliers.
Low Cost Materials, Parts, Processes and Suppliers for Industrial Engineering.
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A to Z of Industrial Engineering - Principles, Methods, Techniques, Tools and Applications
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Ud. 31.5.2023
Pub 13.4.2023
Digital databases have revolutionised how we work - not just for engineers but for less knowledge intensive professions also, they are a total godsend. All the best for the A-Z.
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