Human Effort Industrial Engineering - Machine Effort Industrial Engineering - F.W. Taylor.

 

Human  Effort Industrial Engineering - Machine Effort Industrial Engineering

F..W. Taylor in Shop Management

"In this section, one can see clearly the tasks of human effort industrial engineering and machine effort industrial engineering."

Human  Effort Industrial Engineering

An instruction card for each operation to be done by an operator must be written out stating in detail just how each operation on every piece of work is to be done and the time required to do it, the drawing number, any special tools, jigs, or appliances required, etc."

Machine Effort Industrial Engineering

Each machine tool must be standardized and a table or slide rule constructed for it showing how to run it to the best advantage.

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The Foundation by F.W. Taylor

The writer has already indicated that he thinks the first object in management is to unite high wages with a low labor cost. He believes that this object can be most easily attained by the application of the

following principles:

Human  Effort Industrial Engineering

(a) A LARGE DAILY TASK. --Each man in the establishment, high or low, should daily have a clearly defined task laid out before him. This task should not in the least degree be vague nor indefinite, but should be circumscribed carefully and completely, and should not be easy to accomplish.

Added by me

"The operations to be done by the operators as part of daily task should not be vague.

 An instruction card for each operation must be written out stating in detail just how each operation on every piece of work is to be done and the time required to do it, the drawing number, any special tools, jigs, or appliances required, etc."

The instruction card is based on the standard or the best way of doing it as determined after time study by the industrial engineer.

(b) STANDARD CONDITIONS. --Each man's task should call for a full day's work, and at the same time the workman should be given such standardized conditions and appliances as will enable him to accomplish his task with certainty.

(c) HIGH PAY FOR SUCCESS. --He should be sure of large pay when he accomplishes his task.

(d) LOSS IN CASE OF FAILURE. --When he fails he should be sure that sooner or later he will be the loser by it.


There is nothing new nor startling about any of these principles and yet it will be difficult to find a shop in which they are not daily violated over and over again. They call, however, for a greater departure from the ordinary types of organization than would at first appear.

Machine Effort Industrial Engineering

In the case, for instance, of a machine shop doing miscellaneous work, in order to assign daily to each man a carefully measured task, a special planning department is required to lay out all of the work at least one day ahead. All orders must be given to the men in detail in writing; and in order to lay out the next day's work and plan the entire progress of work through the shop, daily returns must be made by the men to the planning department in writing, showing just what has been done. Before each casting or forging arrives in the shop the exact route which it is to take from machine to machine should be laid out. An instruction card for each operation must be written out stating in detail just how each operation on every piece of work is to be done and the time required to do it, the drawing number, any special tools, jigs, or appliances required, etc. Before the four principles above referred to can be successfully applied it is also necessary in most shops to make important physical changes. All of the small details in the shop, which are usually regarded as of little importance and are left to be regulated according to the individual taste of the workman, or, at best, of the foreman, must be thoroughly and carefully standardized; such. details, for instance, as the care and tightening of the belts; the exact shape and quality of each cutting tool; the establishment of a complete tool room from which properly ground tools, as well as jigs, templates, drawings, etc., are issued under a good check system, etc.; and as a matter of importance (in fact, as the foundation of scientific management) an accurate study of unit times must be made by one or more men connected with the planning department, and each machine tool must be standardized and a table or slide rule constructed for it showing how to run it to the best advantage.

At first view the running of a planning department, together with the other innovations, would appear to involve a large amount of additional work and expense, and the most natural question would be is whether the increased efficiency of the shop more than offsets this outlay? It must be borne in mind, however, that, with the exception of the study of unit times, there is hardly a single item of work done in the planning department which is not already being done in the shop. Establishing a planning department merely concentrates the planning and much other brainwork in a few men especially fitted for their task and trained in their especial lines, instead of having it done, as heretofore, in most cases by high priced mechanics, well fitted to work at their trades, but poorly trained for work more or less clerical in its nature.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/08/importance-of-people-organization-fw.html

F.W. Taylor, Shop Management

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F.W. Taylor - Shop Management - With Appropriate Sections

Cost Measurement in Manufacturing Execution System (MES)

 

A production process can be very expensive, that is why managing industrial costs is a key activity for every manufacturing company. The sum of direct costs of materials, employees and production costs is the industrial cost of manufacturing. Sistrade® offers a solution to record all the material costs, including indirect costs to calculate cost estimation closest to real.

Real job order cost

Work in process cost

Estimated/real cost comparison

Order profitability

Automatic update of standard costs

Distribution of indirect costs by manufacturing stage

Distribution of indirect costs by cost centres

https://www.sistrade.com/en/solutions/production-management/mes/

Dynamic Costing

Many organizations face challenges in obtaining clear and accurate cost data. Our Dynamic Costing solution encompasses the key guiding principles associated with traditional activity-based costing and other operational costing approaches to more accurately zero in on the true costs of a particular product.  Leveraging advanced analytics and industry specialization, our team of professionals is able to create visibility to your costing data and more importantly map how that costing data flows onto the company’s financial statements.  

Our analytic approach is fully integrated with some of the leading MES and ERP systems, enabling visibility from the shop floor to the c-level suite.

https://www.bakertilly.com/specialties/dynamic-costing

IFAC Proceedings Volumes

Volume 35, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 175-180

IFAC Proceedings Volumes

DYNAMIC COST CONTROL METHOD IN PRODUCTION PROCESS AND ITS APPLICATION

Full article available

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1474667015384536

Design and application of dynamic cost control system based on MES

August 2003, Dongbei Daxue Xuebao/Journal of Northeastern University 24(8):719-722

Authors: W. Liu, Y.-G. Chu, T.-Y. Chai

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289479763_Design_and_application_of_dynamic_cost_control_system_based_on_MES

December 2020

Justifying Investment in Manufacturing Execution Systems

Dirk Sweigart, BSME, BSCS, MBA

https://ispe.org/pharmaceutical-engineering/november-december-2020/justifying-investment-manufacturing-execution

https://imfactory.com.pl/en/knowledge/total-manufacturing-cost-and-cost-allocation-in-a-company-part-3-the-role-of-mes-and-erp-in-cost-management/

https://www.criticalmanufacturing.com/mes-for-industry-4-0/mes-investment-and-roi/

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Pub. 29.12.2021

Industrial Engineering - Bulletin Board - Industrial Engineering Knowledge Center

Read Lessons of  Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course

Industrial Engineering for Society Prosperity. 

Effective industrial engineering in companies and firms in the society will give more useful and valuable goods and services from the same resources. It will increase society prosperity. Industrial engineers contribute to consumers, company employees, company shareholders and society at large through their services. They must feel good and proud to provide their services in their organizations with dedication to their profession and organization.

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22.12.2024

Cost Measurement in Manufacturing Execution System (MES)

Lesson 283 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2021/12/cost-measurement-in-manufacturing.html

21.12.2024

282

Machine Cost and Work Measurement - Time and Cost Estimates for Metal Forming Processes

Lesson 282 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2019/11/machine-cost-and-work-measurement-time.html

Brief

Estimation of forging cost discussed.

Action Item

Do cost estimates or standard cost calculation for all parts and assemblies. Remember the final goal of industrial engineering is cost reduction that benefits consumers, employees and shareholders/owners. 

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Better Equipment - More Productivity (Output)

The  cartoon depicts two fishermen, one with a simple stick and string catching small fish, and the other using advanced fishing equipment to catch large fish. Captioned "Better Equipment," this image humorously illustrates the concept of using better equipment as a tool for higher productivity. By employing standardized (improved), effective tools and techniques, individuals or teams can achieve significantly better results with the same effort.

Source: 

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7275714036510400512/

My comments in the above discussion

Standardization:  - Improve - Promote the new way in all instances of use - improve again. Standardization has to be promoted as a cycle.

Better Equipment - Industrial Engineers have to contribute to development of better equipment - Contribution can be from concept to detail design and fabrication and operation. It can be up to any depth and detail as appropriate and feasible.

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20.12.2024

Cost Behavior Analysis and Relevant Costs Concept

Lesson 281 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/cost-behavior-analysis-and-relevant.html

Cost Estimation Procedures

1. Industrial Engineering Method
2. Conference Method
(W. Wichelll, Realistic cost Estimating for Manufacturing, 2nd ed., Society for Manufacturing Engineers, Dearborn, Michigan, 1989)
3. Account Analysis Method
4. Quantitative Analysis Method
a. High-Low Method
b. Regression Analysis

What is  Industrial Engineering Method of Cost Estimation? Industrial engineers have to notice it.

ENGINEERING COST ANALYSIS

COURSE OBJECTIVE:

Teach the utilization of financial and cost techniques to do cost analysis for decision-making, pricing and control of operations.

https://web.njit.edu/~wolf/intro.htm

Full article

THE LANGUAGE OF COST

Establishing common ground for business management and engineering

By Thomas R. Cutler

https://www.iise.org/details.aspx?id=21620

International Journal of Industrial Engineering, 18(5), 232-243, 2011.ISSN 1943-670X© INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERINGOPTIMAL COSTESTIMATION FOR IMPROVEMENT OF PRODUCT DESIGNHongchul Lee1 and Jaemyung Lee

https://journals.sfu.ca/ijietap/index.php/ijie/article/view/285/209

Action Item

Prepare cost relation sheet for each process under your responsibility. Develop activity volume based relations and complexity based cost driver relations.

19.12.2024

Kaizen Costing, KAIZENshiro and Kaizen Cost Management

Lesson 280 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

https://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2012/01/kaizen-costing-and-kaizen-cost.html

Brief

Japanese implemented  cost reduction philosophy in a systematic manner. They planned reductions in the standard costs of an item every year. So the production and sales team have to plan their department and activity cost to achieve reduction in standard cost. The idea was extended by them to monthly costs. They said we cannot achieve cost reduction in one day in a year. So having a standard cost for an year and then asking for reduction in it next year is not the right approach for cost reduction. They came with a reducing cost target for every month. Such a reducing cost target for every month demands some effort on cost reduction by departments every month. Hence cost reduction is on the monthly agenda of every department in the company. Kaizen costing is providing the monthly cost target information and accounting for actuals during the month.

Action Item: Prepare the cost statements for the last two months and compare costs for evidence of cost reduction. Plan for the cost reduction during next month.

18.12.2024

Standard Costing and Cost Reduction

Lesson 279 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2022/01/standard-costing-and-cost-reduction.html

17.12.2024

Cost Center Reports and Analysis

Lesson 278 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2016/04/cost-center-reports-and-analysis.html

16.12.2024

Process Costing - Review Notes

Lesson 277 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/process-costing-review-notes.html

15.12.2024

Job Costing - Review Notes

Lesson 276 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2015/04/job-costing-review-notes.html

Part Process Chart Costing Sheet - Industrial Engineering Cost Measurement Sheet

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2022/12/part-process-chart-costing-sheet.html

14..12.2024

Elements of Cost - Cost Accounting Record/Book Keeping

Lesson 275 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2022/01/elements-of-cost-cost-accounting.html

13.12.2024

Basics of Accounting for Industrial Engineers

Lesson 273 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2022/01/basics-of-accounting-for-industrial.html

274

Cost Accounting - Introduction

Lesson 274 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2012/01/cost-accounting-introduction.html

12.12.2024

271. Industrial Engineering Measurements - Online Course Module - Introduction and Index

Lesson 271 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2021/05/industrial-engineering-measurements.html

Industrial Engineering is cost reduction of product and service units based on productivity improvement of all resources used in production.

An IE does something more than engineering in the engineering area. It is the understanding of the cost of inputs into the engineering products and productivity of the resources and process elements. An IE does not spend time on creating new engineering products and processes. He spends time on understanding and improving cost elements and productivity elements of existing products and processes. It means IE develops productivity science and cost science related to engineering elements. The engineering done by IE is productivity engineering of engineering elements, based on the discoveries in productivity science. This productivity engineering could be done by the industrial engineer himself or he can get the engineering project approved to be executed by the concerned engineers internally or by the consultants and external engineering design firms.  He measures cost and productivity (time) of engineering elements and combines them in creating better cost effective and productive solutions to existing products and processes. Thus the final effect of industrial engineers' efforts  is on final products and processes and systems. But many times it is the combination of improvements at the elements level, and their proper integration that gives the result at the system level. Industrial engineering department of a company has to make significant contribution of the order of 2 to 5% reduction in the engineering systems cost of the organization year after year based on adopting new engineering developments, industrial engineering discoveries and inventions, creative thinking and the learning effect of all employees of the organization.

IE Measurements - Cost - Time - Productivity - Waste - Inventory

lessons are there for each cost element or head in the module.

Cost Measurement - Essential Activity of Industrial Engineering

Lesson 272 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/04/cost-measurement-essential-activity-of.html

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8.12.2024

Very Happy. Thank You YouTube Community.10000+ views. Principles of Industrial Engineering. IISE Conference Presentation Video. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU8CdWfZZdU

Thank You LinkedIn Community.10000+ views. Principles of Industrial Engineering. IISE Conference Presentation Video. 

New. Popular E-Book on IE,

Introduction to Modern Industrial Engineering.  #FREE #Download.

In 1% on Academia.edu. 11,700+ Downloads so far.

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Principles of Industrial Engineering - Taylor, Gilbreth, Emerson, Mogensen, Barnes, Maynard. Ohno-Shingo (Toyota TPS)- IISE Conference Presentation Video - 9950+ views.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU8CdWfZZdU

https://kamerai.ai/top-4-trends-impacting-the-practice-of-industrial-engineering/

https://operationscouncil.org/the-role-of-industrial-engineering-in-operations/

https://operationscouncil.org/2023-coo-of-the-year-awards-winners-announced/

Industrial Engineering - Increases Resource Efficiency. Increases Output of Goods and Services. Increases Income to Employees. Increases Profits and Dividends to Entrepreneurs.

#IndustrialEngineering   for   #SocietyProsperity  through #Productivity  #Improvement satisfying all constraints and limits. 

Modern Industrial Engineering and Lean in Low Volume - High Mix Production - Shahrukh Irani, Narayana Rao and Others
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2021/09/lean-in-low-volume-high-mix-production.html

6.12.2024

Industrial Engineering - Machine Effort IE, Human Effort IE.

I want industrial engineers to notice the definition.  Work System: Definition

"A work system is a system in which human participants and/or machines perform work using information, technology, and other resources to produce products and/or services for internal or external customers." (IISE Work Systems Division)

Design of Work Systems, Machine Methods, Operator Methods, and Work Measurement - Ralph Barnes

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/11/design-of-work-systems-machine-methods.html

Related person

https://www.linkedin.com/in/amila-sangakkara-7a4687bb/

Industrial systems and processes exist in agriculture, manufacturing - mining - construction, and service businesses. Do you agree?

Industrial Engineers  have to be pioneers in New Technology Adoption. Do you agree?

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/05/new-technology-understanding-analysis.html

Industrial Engineering is Cost Reduction through Productivity Improvement.

Productivity Improvement Using  Productivity Science - Productivity Engineering - Productivity Management. Do you agree?

13.11.2024

Good video

Introduction to Industrial Engineering

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntbqgetLDmI

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Generative Use Cases - Productivity is also included.

https://aws.amazon.com/generative-ai/use-cases/?trk=624e2d4f-f23a-43c7-a69d-10d3def7aa04&sc_channel=sm

Improving Operation Process Chart

Industrial engineers have to first improve operation process chart. 

In it they have to improve material transformation fist and then its quality assurance activity. Only after economical quality output is assured through the material transformation process, they have to examine storage requirement, transport requirement and planning activity for the production. Improvement of operation process chart has to be the primary activity of industrial engineers.

Process Improvement - Productivity Analysis and Productivity Engineering.

Industrial engineer analyzes each process into its ultimate, simple elements, and compares each of these simplest steps or processes with an ideal or perfect condition and modifies the element appropriately. - F.W. Taylor - Hugo Diemer.

Prof. Hugo Diemer  - Taylor's Industrial Engineering

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/05/prof-hugo-diemer-taylors-industrial.html

Productivity Benchmarking -  Industry  4.0 Technologies

Applied Industrial Engineering. Industry 4.0 Technologies. List of Industry 4.0 Light Houses -  Productivity and Cost Benefits Realized - WEF - McKinsey - Have You Benchmarked with the Best in Industry 4.0 Implementation?

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2024/01/list-of-industry-40-light-houses-wef.html

AUG 1, 2024
Additive manufacturing is impacting the automotive industry, from large players to custom shops
Automotive insights from RAPID/TCT 2024.
At this year’s industrial additive manufacturing event in Los Angeles, automotive applications were strongly represented by equipment manufacturers, material suppliers and software vendors.
Specialty autos that were formally contracted out for completion, such as Roush and Shelby Mustangs, may move in-house as additive manufacturing technology and capability for short runs, without added costs. 

https://www.engineering.com/how-additive-manufacturing-is-impacting-the-automotive-industry-from-large-players-to-custom-shops/

Seminar Video - Higher Education in Industrial Engineering and Management - IE3

Politecnico di Bari

Streamed live on 2 Feb 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IihGXZtIITY

"Say Goodbye to Downtime: Revolutionize Machine Cleaning with EasyMech QC50!" Unlock the Power of Efficient Maintenance and Minimize Downtime Today.

22 August 2023

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Industrial engineering departments and industrial engineers have to develop 

How to implement Jidoka in Lean Manufacturing ? Autonomation

Knowledge Factory-Lean Six Sigma

"Jidoka, also known as automation with a human touch, comes from the Japanese word for 'autonomation'. It's about creating a system where machines, not humans, identify and resolve errors."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0UJNC43WOM

Low-cost, easy-to-produce prosthesis

The aim of the ARM2u team is to start marketing a prosthesis that helps people with this disability at a much lower cost than that of similar existing models. This prototype is easy to produce at a low cost, since it is made of PLA plastic using 3D printing techniques.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230516/Biomedical-engineering-students-create-low-cost-robotic-arm-as-an-alternative-to-conventional-prostheses.aspx

UWM engineering students create solution that saves company $840,000 per year

Posted on May 17, 2023

https://www.wisconsin.edu/all-in-wisconsin/story/uwm-engineering-students-create-solution-that-saves-company-840000-per-year/

Manufacturing Plants Trends

https://intelligence.eiirtrend.com/web/index.php?entityid=3009

https://www.industryweek.com/technology-and-iiot/whitepaper/21264128/autonomous-operations-embark-on-the-transitional-path-toward-a-more-autonomous-industry

https://storydesign.industryweek.com/yokogawa-industrial-automation-autonomy

Improve Operational Efficiency

https://www.identecsolutions.com/news/how-to-improve-operational-performance

New Writing Project

Industrial Engineering: Productivity Improvement of Systems and Processes - Book by Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2023/04/industrial-engineering-productivity.html

Remember F.W. Taylor. Birthday - 20 March 1856.

To be remembered for Productivity Improvement System, Productivity Engineering of Machine Tools, Shop Management, Scientific Management. 

Frederick Taylor's Productivity System for Rapidly Attaining The Maximum Productivity - Part 1

#IndustrialEngineering  #Productivity

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2018/07/frederick-taylors-piece-rate-system.html

Productivity Engineering of Machine Tools and Machining - F.W. Taylor - Part 1

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/05/machine-work-study-machine-tool-metal.html

F.W. Taylor - Shop Management - With Appropriate Sections.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2016/03/fw-taylor-shop-management-with.html

F.W. Taylor Scientific Management - With Appropriate Sections

#FWTaylor

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2016/03/fw-taylor-scientific-management-with.html

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Improving Operation Process Chart

Industrial engineers have to first improve operation process chart. 

n it they have to improve material transformation fist and then its quality assurance activity. Only after economical quality output is assured through the material transformation process, they have to examine storage requirement, transport requirement and planning activity for the production. Improvement of operation process chart has to be the primary activity of industrial engineers.

Process Improvement - Productivity Analysis and Productivity Engineering.

Industrial engineer analyzes each process into its ultimate, simple elements, and compares each of these simplest steps or processes with an ideal or perfect condition and modifies the element appropriately. - F.W. Taylor - Hugo Diemer.

Prof. Hugo Diemer  - Taylor's Industrial Engineering

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/05/prof-hugo-diemer-taylors-industrial.html

News - Information for Analysis of Delays in Processes

Lesson 162 of  Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course.

Learning to See: Inventories (Delays) in Processes - Value Stream Mapping

Lesson 161 of  Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course.

Quality Management and Total Quality Management ( Zero Defects - Elimination of inventory, rework and delays)

Lesson 160 of  Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course.

Zero Defect Movement and Six Sigma Method (Elimination of inventory and delays)

Lesson 158 of  Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course.

Analysis of Flow -  Delays in the Processes - Part of Flow Process Chart Analysis

Lesson 156 of  Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course.

Analyze the Current Method of Process/Operation to Find Improvement Opportunities. - Machine Tool Setup Time and Cost Analysis.  - Lesson 93 of Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course.

Industrial engineering and management, problems and policies, ...

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Barnes, Ralph Mosser, 1908-

386 page scans

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Fundamentals of Lean Manufacturing

by Don T Phillips (Author), Berna E Tokgoz .

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Read the first chapter in Amazon site.

New Concepts, Methods and Techniques in Industrial Engineering.

Facilities Industrial Engineering - Product Industrial Engineering - Process Industrial Engineering -

Human Effort Industrial Engineering

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2019/07/taylors-industrial-engineering-in-new.html

Online Free Access Handbook of Industrial Engineering includes all modules of IE Online Course Notes.

Process Improvement using engineering knowledge to reduce cost through increasing productivity of machines and men by reducing machine time and man time is the main activity of industrial engineering.

Many other disciplines help industrial engineers to achieve their objectives. But the main discipline that is the foundation for IE is engineering of products and processes.

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@JoeBiden

28.4.2023

By investing in manufacturing and building out our supply chains, we are creating good-paying jobs that you can raise a family on, lowering the costs of energy and the internet, and making sure that no community is left behind.

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Replying to @JoeBiden Ask industrial engineers to work on sectors where costs are high? #IndustrialEngineering #CostReduction.

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Design for Manufacture for Injection Molding - Important Points

Lesson 250 of IEKC Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course Notes.

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2021/12/design-for-injection-molding-important.html

DFMA - Design for Manufacture for Die Casting - Important Points

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2021/12/dfma-design-for-die-casting-important.html

DFMA - Design for Manufacture Notes on Selection of Materials and Processes

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2021/11/dfma-notes-on-selection-of-materials.html

News and Information to Facilitate Productivity Analysis of Machining Elements in Milling

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/03/milling-machining-elements-for.html

Milling - Estimation of Machining Time

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2019/11/milling-estimation-of-machining-time.html

Production Industrial Engineering - Industrial Engineering in Production Activity -  Scope

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2015/03/production-industrial-engineering.html

2018 Machine Shop Engineering & Technology - Productivity Improvement and Cost Reduction News

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/04/2018-machine-shop-cost-reduction-news.html

Alternative Lubricants and Productivity - Case Study

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/06/alternative-lubricants-and-productivity.html

The principles of Methods Efficiency Engineering are fundamental, and they can be applied to any class of work. It makes no difference if a plant is manufacturing toys, tools, trains, or tractors ; the principles apply equally to all. - H.B. Maynard.

Scope and Limitations of Process Industrial Engineering - Methods Efficiency Engineering.

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/11/scope-and-limitations-of-methods.html

METHOD STUDY.

The principles of Methods Efficiency Engineering are fundamental, and they can be applied to any class of work. It makes no difference if a plant is manufacturing toys, tools, trains, or tractors ; the principles apply equally to all. - H.B. Maynard.

They are applicable to job shops as well as mass production shops. There are also applicable to all engineering branches.

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/11/scope-and-limitations-of-methods.html

STANDARDIZED CONDITIONS PRINCIPLE OF EFFICIENCY - Harrington Emerson

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/10/chapter-11-ninth-principle-standardized.html

STANDARDIZED OPERATIONS PRINCIPLE OF EFFICIENCY - Harrington Emerson

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/10/chapter-12-tenth-principle-standardized.html

Productivity Incentives - Principle of Industrial Engineering

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/06/productivity-incentives-principle-of.html

381.

EFFICIENCY REWARD PRINCIPLE OF EFFICIENCY by Harrington Emerson

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/10/chapter-14-twelfth-principle-efficiency.html

321.

Learning Curve - Experience Curve - Bibliography

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/06/learning-curve-experience-curve.html

373.

News - Information for Industrial Engineering Analysis of Delays in Processes - Lean Inventory Design in Processes

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/07/news-information-for-analysis-of-delays.html

Flow Manufacturing and Product Families.

Product families help you to create flow manufacturing cells. Flow manufacturing has many benefits compared to job shop or job queue manufacturing shops. Jobs have inherent delays in material flow.

News - Information for Industrial Engineering Analysis of Delays in Processes - Lean Inventory Design in Processes

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/07/news-information-for-analysis-of-delays.html

Lean Thinkers have to use Industrial Engineering Tools - especially process charts. [VSM] analysis is at a high level, without many details. To uncover every instance of every type of muda requires a detailed analysis using a portfolio of tools drawn from industrial engineering ... The most important of these are process mapping (to identify and categorize each step together with the time, distance and effort involved)... Womack and Jones, 1996.

Lean Management - Introduction - Evolution.

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2014/02/lean-management.html

New Lean Principles for an Industry 4.0 World

#IndustrialEngineering  #Productivity  #CostReduction   #Lean

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2022/08/new-lean-principles-for-industry-40.html

Systems Engineering - Designing entire value stream; that is, every step required to deliver value to your customer – instead of your product in isolation – is the defining characteristic of LPPD. - Jim Morgan, Lean Enterprise Institute.

New Lean Principles for an Industry 4.0 World.

#IndustrialEngineering  #Productivity  #CostReduction   #Lean

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2022/08/new-lean-principles-for-industry-40.html

Lean thinkers reiterate what F.W. Taylor said earlier.

Robert Martichenko and Kevin von Grabe  say:

"Make decisions that will meet customer expectations at the lowest possible total cost."

Compare Taylor's management definition with the above explanation of lean management. They both mean the same.

Management is  knowing exactly what you want men to do, and then seeing that they do it in the best and cheapest way. - F.W. Taylor in Shop Management.

Lean Management - Introduction - Evolution.

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2014/02/lean-management.html

How to Lead Lean Systems?

John Shook - Former Toyota Manager. 

YouTube Videos on #Lean Systems and Practices

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/08/youtube-videos-on-lean-systems-and.html

Lean is subset of IE with increased focus on flow and special focus on pull.

Lean is a Subset and Sub-brand of Industrial Engineering.

#IndustrialEngineering  #Productivity  #CostReduction   #Lean

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2021/06/lean-is-sub-brand-of-industrial.html

339.

Industrial Engineering - Hand Tools, Cutting Tools and Machine Accessories for Productivity

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2018/04/industrial-engineering-hand-tools.html

343.

Information Systems Industrial Engineering - Information Systems Engineering

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

346.

Business Process Improvement - Industrial Engineering Through Information Technology - Bibliography

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/06/business-process-improvement.html

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Process Improvement Industrial Engineering

Operations in the Process - Material Processing - Inspection - Material Movement - Storage - Production Planning and Control

Material Processing Improvement

For each manufacturing process, industrial engineers have to identify the process parameters that have an effect on productivity and do experiments to find the relation between the parameter and productivity. The increased understanding of these relations leads to productivity engineering and more productivity.

Electrochemical Machining - Productivity Science - Engineering

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2022/04/electrochemical-machining-productivity.html

Production Industrial Engineering - Scope.

Basic Production Processes and Technologies and Industrial Engineering.

Developing basic production processes and technologies in the direction of increasing productivity is the responsibility of industrial engineering discipline.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2015/03/production-industrial-engineering.html

Inspection

For inspection operation also, equipment, gauges and persons are used. Productivity improvement has to be attempted based on the engineering knowledge of IEs.

Material Handling, Transport and Material Movement

Motorized Equipment, Man operated trolleys, implements like shoves  and persons are used. Productivity improvement has to be attempted based on the engineering knowledge of IEs.

Storage and Warehousing

Receiving, breaking the bulk or separating items, counting, moving to shelves and placing in shelves are to be done. Similarly, there are activities when material is to be issued. Full automation of warehousing is possible now. Productivity improvement has to be attempted based on the engineering knowledge of IEs.

Production Planning and Control

If it is not proper, wrong batch quantities and safety stocks are employed. Lots of delays take place. Material lies idle and resources become idle.

Hence productivity science is needed in each step of the process of manufacture of a part or a complete product.

Principles of motion economy for human effort industrial engineering. Principles of machine economy for machine effort industrial engineering.

Productivity Improvement in Machine Shop - F.W. Taylor

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/05/productivity-improvement-in-machine.html

New:  Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course

Engineering in Industrial Engineering -  Machine work study or machine effort improvement, value engineering and design for manufacturing and assembly are major engineering based IE methods. All are available as existing methods.

Process Improvement - Process Industrial Engineering - Methods and Techniques

PROCESS IMPROVEMENT STUDY

Question the choice of the machine for the operation in each process improvement study.

Do the replacement analysis in each facilities improvement study.

Production Equipment Productivity Analysis. 

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/08/production-machineequipment.html

Process Industrial Engineering - Methods and Techniques

Machine Shop Process Industrial Engineering

2021 Machine Shop Engineering & Technology - Productivity Improvement & Cost Reduction News.

News - Information for Material Handling and Transport Operation Analysis

Automated Material Handling - Transport - Bibliography

Productivity IoT Engineering

Time Study and Work Measurement - Definitions.

Time Study - 1903 Explanation by F.W. Taylor - Process Time Reduction Study

Process Human Effort Industrial Engineering Course (Module) - Lessons

Frank B. Gilbreth: Contribution to Human Effort Industrial Engineering

My advocacy now is IEs must first concentrate on improving engineering elements and then move into productivity managerial elements and non-engineering areas. Machine work study or machine effort improvement, value engineering and design for manufacturing and assembly are major engineering based IE methods. All are available as existing methods.

SME 2021 Geoffrey Boothroyd Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineers

14 Geoffrey Boothroyd Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineers, age 35 or younger, are being recognized for their exceptional contributions and accomplishments in the manufacturing industry. 

Each year, the award is named in honor of a specific individual who has made lifelong contributions to manufacturing and SME. The 2021 award namesake is University of Massachusetts Professor Geoffrey Boothroyd, PhD, FSME, and founder of Boothroyd Dewhurst Inc. Boothroyd and his colleagues began research on what would become the basis for the design for manufacture and assembly (DFMA) methodology, "which has dramatically reduced costs, improved product quality and enhanced the competitiveness of major U.S. manufacturers."

https://www.sme.org/aboutsme/awards/outstanding-young-manufacturing-engineer-award/2021-geoffrey-boothroyd-outstanding-young-manufacturing-engineers/

Lilian Gilbreth - Cal Graduate - Cal's First Industrial Engineer
https://ieor.berkeley.edu/cals-first-industrial-engineer/

Industrial Engineering @ Oakland ISE - Prof Robert Van Til

https://www.navigatecontent.com/blog/educating-work-ready-students-for-manufacturing-jobs

J. Jack Watson : Engineering Hall of Fame - 2001

Graduation Year: 1950
BSIA 1950 - MIME

Jack Watson graduated with a BS in Industrial Administration in 1950, then worked as an industrial engineer and supervisor with The Boeing Company in Seattle for nine years, and three years at Thiokol Chemical in Brigham City, Utah. He then spent 25 years in executive management at Wilton Corporation in Shiller Park, Illinois; Walworth Company in Braintree, Massachusetts; Medalist Industries in Oshkosh, Wisconsin; Pressed Steel Tank in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Grove Valve and Regulator in Oakland, California. In 1987, Watson co-founded and served as Chairman and CEO of NEWFLO Corporation in Austin, Texas. NEWFLO acquired nine subsidiary companies during the next nine years and sales grew from $34 million in 1988 to $232 million in 1996. The company was sold to Portland, Oregon's Precision Castparts in 1996.
https://engineering.oregonstate.edu/j-jack-watson-2001-engineering-hall-fame

Jack Watson - Biography - Book - Page 156 Boeing job starts
Page 177: 300 person industrial engineering department at Boeing (1950-1959)
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=HtZizrKbb-AC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false


For each 100 million dollars cost of production, there can be one MS IE and 6 BSIEs.
Value Creation Model for Industrial Engineering - Productivity Engineering https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/03/value-creation-model-for-industrial.html

Industrial Engineering in Top Global Manufacturing Companies - Top 100
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/03/industrial-engineering-in-top-global.html

Understand skills and knowledge required for IE Jobs in Top 100 Global Manufacturing Companies
Industrial Engineering Jobs - Top Global Manufacturing Companies - 2020
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/03/industrial-engineering-jobs-top-global.html

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. 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


The earlier Blog URL:  http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/02/industrial-engineering-bulletin-board.html

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Industrial Engineering Knol Books by Narayana Rao

Introduction to Industrial Engineering - Knol Book By Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.

Human Effort Engineering - Knol Book

Ergonomics - Knol Book

Work Measurement - Knol Book 

Method Study: Methods Efficiency Engineering - Knol Book

Engineering Economics - Knol Book

Statistics - Applications by Industrial Engineers - Knol Book

Operations Research - Knol Book

Improvement Management of Tasks, Processes and Systems - Knol Book

Industrial Engineering in Practice - Knol Book

Knol Handbook of Industrial Engineering (Year 2010 Version) (old link)

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Industrial Engineering Knowledge Revision - One Year Plan

January - February - March - April - May - June

July - August - September - October - November - December


The Purpose, Philosophy, Principles and Methods of Industrial Engineering
Masters in Industrial Engineering Program Orientation Address 2016
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Knowledge Base for Process Productivity Improvement - News - Information for

Value-Adding Material Processing Operation Analysis

Inspection Operation Analysis

Material Handling and Transport Operation Analysis

Analysis of Delays in Processes

Storage/Warehousing Operation Analysis

Information Provision for Manufacturing Processes

2022

40 continuous improvement tools

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6970934647950098432 

New Concepts, Methods and Techniques in Industrial Engineering.

Facilities Industrial Engineering - Product Industrial Engineering - Process Industrial Engineering -

Human Effort Industrial Engineering

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2019/07/taylors-industrial-engineering-in-new.html

IEs have to learn: Action-based modeling: What’s behind what’s happening?

Mario Ventresca, PhD

Associate Professor, School of Industrial Engineering,

College of Engineering, Purdue University

https://engineering.purdue.edu/IE/news/2022/ventresca-coe-blog

5.7.2022

Happy. 250 lessons got minimum 50 views in a year.

Industrial Engineering FREE ONLINE Course. 

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/05/industrial-engineering-online-course.html 

The Next 50 Years of Industrial Management and Engineering

hakan butuner

2015, Proceedings of International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

https://www.academia.edu/23523517/The_Next_50_Years_of_Industrial_Management_and_Engineering

Trends and Proposals for European Industrial Engineering

June 2021

Conference: IEM Teaching and Research at the Crossroads of Innovation, Digitalisation and Sustainability. Proceedings of the 14th EPIEM Conference 2021. Editors Assoc. Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Bernd Markus ZUNK Univ.-Ass. Amila OMAZIC, BSc MScAt: Graz University of Technology (virtual conference)Volume: ISBN (e-book) 978-3-85125-827-1

Authors:

Jabier Retegi, Mondragon Unibertsitatea

Juan Ignacio Igartua-Lopez, Mondragon Unibertsitatea

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352440665_Trends_and_Proposals_for_European_Industrial_Engineering

The Efficiency Magazine - 1911 to 1916

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000057303

Efficient Manufacturing - Web Magazine

https://www.industr.com/en/EM-Magazine/

Creative machine fixturing ability enables Parkn to produce large batches of parts very quickly if needed. They can also set up the fixtures to run separate parts on the other side, if smaller batches are required.

Machine fixture design is a balancing act to see how many parts you can fit into the machine at once without disturbing the tool path or exceeding the limitations of your machine tool.

https://www.competitiveproduction.com/articles/creative-fixtures-and-high-technology/

Managing to Learn: Using the A3 Management Process to Solve Problems, Gain Agreement, Mentor and Lead

John Shook

Lean Enterprise Institute, 2008 - Business & Economics - 138 pages

"The process by which a company identifies, frames, acts and reviews progress on problems, projects and proposals can be found in the structure of the A3 process ... follow the story of a manager ... and his report ... which will reveal how the A3 can be used as a management process to create a standard method for innovating, planning, problem-solving, and building structures for a broader and deeper form of thinking - a practical and repeatable approach to organizational learning"--Publisher's description.

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=0BbxadIjK6sC

Gemba Keiei by Taiichi Ohno, Chapter 33: The Difference Between Production Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering

By Jon Miller

https://blog.gembaacademy.com/2006/11/26/gemba_keiei_by_taiichi_ohno_ch_5/

Industrial Engineering 4.0 - 2022

Industrial Engineering Data Science - Process Chart Data Analytics

Design for Manufacturing and Assembly for Product Industrial Engineering: Concepts and Cases

Digital twins of CNC are increasing in companies. Know More about them

Tractors Productivity Engineering - Smart/Intelligent/Autonomous/IoT Tractors

Computer Aided Industrial Engineering (CAIE)

Using process mining to improve productivity in make-to-stock manufacturing

Rafael Lorenz et. al., International Journal of Production Research, Volume 59, 2021 - Issue 16.

Industrial Engineering through Process Mining.

How is 3D Animation impacting the new age of Engineering Animation?

The new world is all about technology. Every industry across the globe is manifesting to switch to new technological methods that can catalyze their business productivity and functionality.

https://arise3d.com/how-is-3d-animation-impacting-the-new-age-of-engineering-animation/

Traditional and Modern Industrial Engineering Principles, Methods, Techniques and Tools

2021 Machine Shop Engineering & Technology - Productivity Improvement & Cost Reduction News.

Productivity Improvement Through Smart Machines.

Productivity IoT Engineering

2021

Automation of Operations in Flow Process Chart

Automated Manufacturing - Production Operations in Manufacturing Processes

Automated Inspection - Bibliography

Automated Material Handling - Transport - Bibliography 

Automated Storage and Warehousing - Storage Operation Improvement in Engineering Processes

Automation for Preventing Temporary Delays - Lean WIP Processes - Systems

2020

Artificial Intelligence Replacing the Human Effort by 4 times.

when people don’t know about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots they are four times more effective at selling products than inexperienced workers

ByElets News Network,  September 24, 2019

https://cio.eletsonline.com/news/artificial-intelligence-replacing-the-human-effort-by-4-times/63313/

ISO 9241-11:2018(en)

Ergonomics of human-system interaction — Part 11: Usability: Definitions and concepts

https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:9241:-11:ed-2:v1:en

Modern engineering: why do organizations transform?

JANUARY 15, 2020

Antonio De La Prieta

MANAGING DIRECTOR AT THE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CENTER IN SPAIN

Lead of custom software engineering, digital, and Salesforce practices at the Advanced Technology Center in Spain.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonio-de-la-prieta-antoli/

Jorge Hidalgo

SENIOR TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECT AT THE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CENTER IN SPAIN

Global Java practice co-lead, and custom software engineering, architecture & DevOps lead at the Advanced Technology Center in Spain.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/deors/

https://www.accenture.com/us-en/blogs/software-engineering-blog/prieta-hidalgo-modern-engineering

Productivity Improvement Service of Sandvik Coromant
https://www.sandvik.coromant.com/en-gb/services/manufacturing/pages/pip.aspx

Stanford researchers demonstrate major advance in dynamic charging
May 19, 2020

Stanford engineers report that they have taken a big step toward a practical system for dynamic charging, which would allow EVs to recharge while hurtling down the highway.

Stanford Professor Shanhui Fan has been working on dynamic charging for some time. In 2017, Fan and graduate student Sid Assawaworrarit built a working prototype. Now they  demonstrated a system that could be scaled up to enable highway dynamic charging, and that could see a practical application in the nearer term, wirelessly recharging robots as they move around warehouses and factory floors. This is a significant research step toward a practical and efficient system for wirelessly recharging automobiles and robots, even when they are moving at high speeds.
https://chargedevs.com/newswire/stanford-researchers-demonstrate-major-advance-in-dynamic-charging/


S-in motion provides smart steel solutions for EVs
Posted May 7, 2020

ArcelorMittal introduced its first S-in motion study for ICE vehicles ten years back. The company has now released a new set of S-in motion solutions for EVs. The S-in motion online car configurator shows how advanced high-strength steels (AHSS) and smart solutions can be deployed to meet the weight, safety, cost and sustainability performance targets of EV producers.
https://chargedevs.com/newswire/s-in-motion-provides-smart-steel-solutions-for-evs/


Manufacturing Education
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=pqNPDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

November 2017

November - Industrial Engineering Knowledge Revision Plan
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2015/01/november-industrial-engineering.html

Empowerment and Productivity
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/11/empowerment-and-productivity.html

Engineering Materials for Cost Reduction
Posted by Michael Pfeifer, Ph.D., P.E.
One approach to cost reduction is to re-engineer products to use less expensive materials or reduced quantities of higher priced materials.  This approach can have a significant impact on a product’s costs, since the materials used in a product account for a large part of its total cost.
https://www.imetllc.com/engineering-materials-for-cost-reduction/

Interesting work in Industrial Engineering being done by

https://www.linkedin.com/in/spmishra16/

Industrial Engineers - Share at least one productivity idea of yours every year

Contribute Brainstorming Bits for Productivity Improvement.

I suggest that all industrial engineering participating in productivity improvement contribute at least one productivity initiative of theirs every year through a blog post, social media entry or email in a group. The blog post can be in their own blog, on a blog of their company or it can be submitted to blogs of their institute or professional associations. The social media posts can be on their profile, a page, or in a community. That way the community will have multiple examples of productivity improvement in the entire global economy and some of these examples act as brainstorming particles that excite others to think and implement productivity measures in their organizations. By sharing only one idea every year, every industrial engineer engaging in productivity improvement can energize the entire profession.

I am very happy that Mr. Keven McManus, a regular author in Industrial Engineer magazine supported the idea in FaceBook Community of IISE.


NIFT should focus on Industrial Engineering http://news.apparelresources.com/events-news/nift-should-focus-on-industrial-engineering/

Low Cost Materials and Processes - Information Board - 2014 - Database for Industrial Engineering and Value Engineering

Branding for Industrial Engineering

Industrial Engineering Strategy

Industrial Engineering of Technical Processes

  Manufacturing Systems Industrial Engineering
  Material Handling Systems Industrial Engineering
Quality and Inspection Systems Industrial Engineering
Storage and Warehouse  Systems Industrial Engineering
Supply Chain Systems Industrial Engineering
Logistics Systems Industrial Engineering
  Information Systems Industrial Engineering
Lean Manufacturing Systems Industrial Engineering
    Maintenance System Industrial Engineering

Industrial Engineering of Business Processes

Marketing and Selling Processes  Industrial Engineering
Purchase Processes  Industrial Engineering
Accounting Processes  Industrial Engineering
Customer Service Processes  Industrial Engineering
Human Resource Recruitment  Process Industrial Engineering

Continued in 

Productivity and Industrial Engineering News - Bulletin Board - February 2014

November 2014
Industrial Engineering Strategy - Decisions to be taken by top management
Toyota Production Industrial Engineering updated by adding all chapters of the book


July - Industrial Engineering Knowledge Revision Plan
Industrial Engineering Knowledge Revision Plan - Started on 17 June 2014


February 2014

Shigeo Shingo - The Japanese Industrial Engineer - Contribution to Industrial Engineering  Updated on 18.2.2014

3 Feb 2014
IntelliJ IDEA 13 Wins Jolt Productivity Award for Coding Tools 2014!
Dr. Dobb’s Journal named IntelliJ IDEA 13 the winner of the Jolt Productivity Award for Coding Tools 2014, an annual award given to the best IDEs and coding tools.
http://www.drdobbs.com/joltawards/jolt-awards-coding-tools/240165725?pgno=6

https://www.drdobbs.com/

January 2014

31.1.2014

Vacuum drying - increased moulding productivity - Plastics Processing

“Vacuum drying is six times faster than with desiccant systems, which not only makes possible much shorter cold startups but also reduces the risk of material degradation, since resin is exposed to elevated temperature for 80% less time,” said Mr. Smith. “This remarkable drying speed is attributable to a far more efficient method for extracting moisture from resin pellets — so much more efficient that vacuum dryers reduce energy consumption by up to 60% in comparison with desiccant dryers.”
http://www.eppm.com/machinery/vacuum-dryer-claims-increased-moulding-productivity/


Solutions to Drive Warehouse Productivity
In this webcast, Eric Hepburn, Vice President of Distribution Center Management for Penske Logistics, shares proven techniques on how to devise a labor management strategy that can make a huge impact on your distribution operations.
http://www.dcvelocity.com/videocasts/?videocast_id=53

30.1.2014


Three reasons why blogging helps research productivity
http://www.scilogs.com/expiscor/three-reasons-why-blogging-helps-research-productivity/

Efficient cooling system improves productivity in plastic moulding

As cooling time is the biggest factor in plastic moulding cycle and one of the deciding factors for the quality requirements, better control upon the same will improve the productivity to a great extent.
Analysis of cooling performance at regular intervals is always advisable to maintain and/or improve the cooling efficiency.
The pump/s, pipe diameter and cooling tower are selected accordingly and the design is optimised. Design can be optimised for new plants and for modification of existing plant.
http://www.business-standard.com/content/b2b-chemicals/efficient-cooling-system-improves-productivity-in-plastic-moulding-114012900974_1.html



Wave Walker Boosts Productivity
WaveWalker can considerably boost productivity in tasks such as drilling and pipeline and cable-laying.
http://www.marinelink.com/news/productivity-walker363586.aspx

Bangladesh boosts garment productivity with SewEasy System for industrial engineering
The SewEasy SMV estimation system, established on PMTS technology serves factories since 1996, and is based on MTM.
http://www.ft.lk/2014/01/30/bangladesh-boosts-garment-productivity-with-seweasy-system-for-industrial-engineering/


Remarkable increase in productivity with the new SEHO SelectLine
SEHO Systems GmbH, a worldwide leading manufacturer of automated soldering systems and customer-specific solutions, will present the new SEHO SelectLine selective soldering system
http://www.globalsmt.net/smt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21145&Itemid=413


H.C. Starck's Newton facility awarded Industry Week's 2013 Best Plants
The global supplier of technology metals was able to reduce waste, optimize productivity, streamline processes, improve efficiencies, and reduce cost.
http://www.thefabricator.com/news/shopmanagement/h-c-starck-s-newton-facility-awarded-i-industry-week-i-s-2013-best-plants



29.1.2014

Productivity and Online Learning

The Need for Greater Productivity through Online Learning, Part 1
http://wcetblog.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/greater-productivity-part-1/
The Need for Greater Productivity through Online Learning, Part 2
http://wcetblog.wordpress.com/2014/01/23/greater-productivity-part-2/
The Need for Greater Productivity through Online Learning, Further Thoughts
http://wcetblog.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/the-need-for-greater-productivity-through-online-learning-further-thoughts/


Productivity Commission of New Zealand suggests 25 recommendations that it believed would boost the productivity of the services sector
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/9663187/Productivity-Commission-suggests-overhaul


Tap behavioural economics for productivity boost
Businesses must select leaders and managers who can engage their employees
http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/premium/editorial-opinion/opinion/tap-behavioural-economics-productivity-boost-20140129

Preparing For Productivity: The Rise Of The Maintenance Planner
http://www.facilitiesnet.com/maintenanceoperations/article/Preparing-for-Productivity-The-Rise-of-the-Maintenance-Planner--14695#

Guide to assessing productivity in your organisation - Productivity South Africa
Download the Guide to assessing productivity in your organisation - (139KB)


The Domino N600i
The only digital colour label press that combines
the productivity of flexo with the flexibility of digital printing
http://www.domino-printing.com/N600i/N600i-Colour-Digital-Label-Press.html

Resource Productivity of Japanese Manufacturing Subsidiaries in the Philippines: A Comparative Case Study.
Source: DLSU Business & Economics Review . Jul2011, Vol. 21 Issue 1, p15-28. 14p. 5 Charts.
Author(s): Cortez, Michael Angelo A.
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Industrial Productivity
What determines how much a worker can produce in different periods and in different countries? The answer is found in the study of a sensitive ratio between the cost of labor and the cost of machinery
By Seymour Melman
Scientific American Volume 193, Issue 1


3M™ High Productivity Pad 7300, 20 in, 5/case
http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/Facilities-Care-Cleaning-NA/commercial-cleaning/cleaning-supplies/~/3M-High-Productivity-Pad-7300-20-in-5-case?N=4294929802+6702276&Nr=AND(hrcy_id%3AGSMS2G8GX9gs_F2TPJQMRJ6_N2RL3FHWVK_GPD0K8BC31gv)&rt=d


Value Engineering of Ventilator

Productivity and IE in Stock and Commodity Exchange Trading


Integrated production planning and control: A multi-objective optimization model
Cheng Wang, Xiao-Bing Liu
Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management
Vol 6, No 4 (2013)
http://www.jiem.org/index.php/jiem/article/view/771


A Novel Optimization Method on Logistics Operation for Warehouse & Port Enterprises Based on Game Theory
Junyang Li, Xiaomin Zhu, Runtong Zhang
Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management
Vol 6, No 4 (2013)
http://www.jiem.org/index.php/jiem/article/view/597



2014 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Applications(ICIEA 2014)

Papers on the following topics will be presented in oral and poster sessions:
· Decision Analysis and Methods
· E-Business and E-Commerce
· Engineering Economy and Cost Analysis
· Engineering Education and Training
· Global Manufacturing and Management
· Healthcare Systems and Management
· Human Factors
· Information Processing and Engineering
· Intelligent Systems
· Manufacturing Systems
· Operations Research
· Production Planning and Control
· Project Management
· Quality Control and Management
· Reliability and Maintenance Engineering
· Safety, Security and Risk Management
· Service Innovation and Management
· Supply Chain Management
· Systems Modeling and Simulation
· Technology and Knowledge Management

Conference papers will be selected to be published in Journal of Industrial and Intelligent Information (JIII, ISSN: 2301-3745, 10.12720/jiii, www.jiii.org).


28.1.2014


Rokla Rockwheel cutting unit increases productivity in abrasive material mining
http://www.im-mining.com/2014/01/28/rokla-rockwheel-cutting-unit-increases-productivity-in-abrasive-material/

Productivity From Packaging Line Solutions
Rennco is a manufacturer of semi-automatic and fully automatic vertical bagging machines and medical device heat sealing systems
http://goarticles.com/article/Productivity-From-Packaging-Line-Solutions/8349528/

Low-cost and more versatile robots to increase productivity
Rise of the machines: Robots on the factory floor
Vanguard Plastics in Southington, Conn., has put a robot named Baxter($25,000) in its plant to work side by side with some of the 22 people on its floor.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101362018

New Inserts Boost Productivity in a Wide Range of Tough Turning Applications
Walter's new geometries bring production efficiencies for turning high temperature alloys, titanium machining and tough roughing jobs.
http://www.fabricatingandmetalworking.com/2014/01/new-inserts-boost-productivity-in-a-wide-range-of-tough-turning-applications/

Drum Debarker — Continuous Wood Feeding And Other Productivity-Boosting Mechanisms
http://chasseurs-orages.org/drum-debarker-continuous-wood-feeding-and-other-productivity-boosting-mechanisms/

Reduce press downtime between jobs in stamping machines
http://www.thefabricator.com/article/stamping/cutting-time-between-coils

How We Increased Productivity on the Shop Floor
By PAUL DOWNS
Paul Downs founded Paul Downs Cabinetmakers in 1986. It is based outside Philadelphia.
http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/how-we-increased-productivity-on-the-shop-floor/?partner=rss&emc=rss

Tips for Maximizing Productivity and Decreasing Costs in Welding Job Shops
http://www.millerwelds.com/resources/articles/tips-for-maximizing-productivity-and-decreasing-costs-in-job-shops

Analysis of buffered assembly line productivity
Ryspek Usubamatov, Abd Alsalam Alsalameh, Rosmaini Ahmad, Abdul Rahman Riza, (2014) "Analysis of buffered assembly line productivity", Assembly Automation, Vol. 34 Iss: 1, pp.34 - 40
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=17104126&show=abstract


Comprehensive, quantitative bioprocess productivity monitoring using fluorescence EEM spectroscopy and chemometrics.
Analyst, 2014, Accepted Manuscript
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/an/c4an00007b#!divAbstract

InfoPrint Productivity Tracker
Insights to help drive out cost
https://www.infoprint.com/internet/ipww.nsf/vwWebPublished/swip_infoprint-productivity-tracker_en


Converged infrastructure boosts Oracle DBA productivity
Converged infrastructure boosts DBA productivity, according to a new Wikibon report. Wikibon’s research examined Oracle database administrators (DBAs) in particular and found that highly converged infrastructure lowered costs and raised productivity between 40 and 50 percent.
http://siliconangle.com/blog/2014/01/27/converged-infrastructure-boosts-oracle-dba-productivity/



27.1.2014

$1 billion Soros backed fund for Supply Chain Efficiency Improvement Projects

Niedermaier, CEO of New York-based Tau Investment Management has teamed up with investor Alexander Soros— the son of billionaire financier George Soros to raise $1 billion  to revamp the vast number of firms that form supply chains for various products. He said firms participating in supply chains are full of inefficiencies and outdated equipment that can be upgraded for a nice profit. His Tau Investments has chosen as its first target textile and apparel manufacturing in emerging markets, a $1 trillion industry.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101359907

Management and Productivity
http://www.economist.com/news/business/21594223-it-no-longer-just-plausible-theory-good-management-boosts-productivity-measuring

Decreasing workplace transparency can increase productivity.

Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ethan S. Bernstein shows that decreasing the observation of employees can increase their productivity.  His paper "Transparency Paradox: A Role for Privacy in Organizational Learning and Operational Control"  won the 2013 Best Published Paper Award from both the Academy of Management's Organization and Management Theory Division and Organizational Behavior Division.
http://forbesindia.com/article/harvard/hiding-from-managers-can-increase-your-productivity/36859/1

Tivoli Storage Productivity Center - IBM
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center simplifies the following data and storage management processes:
Storage administration options where you can choose from an advanced GUI or VMware plug-in. It also includes Cognos® Business Intelligence and pre-designed reports.
Storage and device management to give you fast deployment with agent-less device management – while intelligent presets improve provisioning consistency and control.
Integrated performance management features end-to-end views, including devices, SAN fabrics and storage systems. The server-centric view of storage infrastructure enables fast troubleshooting.
Data replication management that enables you to have remote mirror, snapshot and copy management and supports Windows, Linux, UNIX and System z data.
http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/tivostorprodcent/

Increasing  the productivity of sales force.by simplifying the Insurance form filling process

Tata AIA Life Insurance Company Ltd today said it has implemented a host of new processes that will make life insurance simpler and increase the productivity of its sales force.
Tata AIA Life is one of the first insurance companies in India to fully switch over to a ‘Standard Proposal Form’ for all products consequently offering convenience in making completion of applications faster and easier for the customers. This also makes the agent sales kit lighter since different proposal forms for different products would not be required any further.
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/tata-aia-life-aims-to-enhance-productivity/article5620363.ece

Productivity in Germany

Highest 111.June 2012
102.3 in November 2013
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/germany/productivity

Impact of Temperature and Climate Variability on Milk Productivity of Bovines
Mitigation Measures - India
http://www.ndri.res.in/PanApps/chapters/2.pdf

22 Productivity Principles From Proverbs

http://www.churchleaders.com/worship/worship-articles/172409-eric-mckiddie-productivity-principles-from-proverbs.html?p=1

Improving field service productivity with tablet pcs
http://www.motioncomputing.com/downloads/Marketing_Brochures/industries/industry_fieldservice_web.pdf



Modern Compass Improves Oilfield Productivity, Cuts Costs

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) comments that multiple reservoirs of oil and gas can be now be accessed from a single platform by drilling vertically and then horizontally, but drill operators need to know which way their drill bits are going to maxi­mize production and avoid collisions with other wells. One way to accomplish this important task is to install a magnetometer—a sort of modern-day compass—in a drill-string instrument package that follows the drill bit.
http://www.bpnews.com/index.php/in-the-news/97-modern-compass-improves-oilfield-productivity-cuts-costs

ATC 900 the most productive tire changer solution on the market

The dual-disc bead breaker, center clamp system and automatic demounting tool make the ATC 900 the most productive tire changer solution on the market. Leverless demounting and powered wheel lift reduce technician fatigue and opportunity for injury. Dual disc bead breakers and servo positioned and electronically synchronized so the technician can efficiently maintain a safe and ergonomic bay position.
http://www.johnbean.ca/tc-atc-900.asp

December 2013

Industrial Engineering of Warehouses - Efficiency Improvement of warehouses
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/12/warehouse-industrial-engineering.html


The New role of Industrial Engineering  by Jan Kosturiak and Robert Debnar (Article in 2008)
Practices in USA, Europe and Japan Compared and Changing Directions Identified.

The American school of Industrial Engineering combines statistical methods in quality, mathematics and optimisation methods of operation research, simulation and  the methods for work analysis and facilities layout planning. The base of the methods of the Japanese school of Industrial Engineering is the Toyota Production System oriented on waste elimination in the entire value stream. But also Japanese universities and companies incorporated simulation, mathematics and operation research programmes into the traditional Industrial Engineering methods. In an  issue of Harvard Business review, Toyota´s President Katsuaki Watanabe emphasizes the importance of combining continuous improvement (Kaizen) with radical innovations (Kakushin).

 The traditional focus of Industrial Engineering is on process analysis and improvement.  and also the human aspects related to flexibility, productivity and creativity.

 Information technology is being increasingly integrated into IE courses and alongside the basic subjects that deal with hard facts, there are more and more classes looking at issues of teamwork, people motivation, communication skills, emotional intelligence and ethics.




USA

Europe

Japan

Focus of Industrial Engineering

Systems Optimisation, Statistical Process Control, Simulation, Bottleneck Management, Project Management  - USA

Complex process optimisation, CIM, CAD/CAM, Flexible Automation, Systems Engineering, Digital Factory - Europe

Waste Elimination, Simplification, Visualisation, Low Cost Automation,  Common Sense, Lean, TPS, Kaizen - Japan

Typical Role of the Industrial Engineer

Systems Integrator, Optimiser, Process Improvement and re-engineering - USA

Production Process Optimisation, - Europe

Lean Manager, Teacher, Trainer, - Japan

Who are the Industrial Engineers?

Industrial Engineering Department, Operation Management - USA

Department of Work and Process Organisation, Production Planning Department _ Europe

Hancho – Supervisor on Shop Floor, Every Employee from CEO to the Worker on the Line has some IE Skills - Japan


Leading  associations and organizations

Institute of Industrial Engineers, Maynard´s, Lean Institute, MIT, Purdue University, Goldratt Institute - USA

REFA, MTM, Fraunhofer - Europe

Toyota, Nissan, Omron, JMA, JUSE - Japan

Some IE  Leaders

Babbage Towne, Hasley, Gantt, Taylor, Gillbreth, Ford, Deming, Shewhart, Pritsker, White, Malcom

Fayol, Mitrofanov, Altschuller, Schulmpeter, T.Baťa, J.Baťa, Warnecke

Toyota, Suzaki, Imai, Takeda, Shingo, Ishikawa, Taguchi, Ohno, Monden





Focus on the “empolyee´s muscles” (performance – physical intelligence) and brains (kaizen – mental intelligence) shifting to  Focus on the employee´s heart (self motivation, emotional intelligence)  and soul (moral and ethics – soul intelligence)

Management philosophy
Trade Off Thinking - High Quality OR Low Cost, Affordable OR Customized to Breakthrough Thinking, High Quality AND Low Cost, Affordable AND Customized

Improvement Concepts
Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, TOC shifting to Systematic Innovation, Lean Product Development

Management principles
Management by objectives, process and project management shifting to  Management by opportunities, company as a  living organism


Mass customisation,  individualisation, global competition, fast overcoming of traditional rules and standards mean that many change processes are running in companies world wide under the slogan “give your customer what he wants – but faster than your competitors”.

There are three fundamental concepts in industrial engineering focused on customer value:

1. Lean Management

2. Theory of Constraints based Total Productivity Management

3. Six Sigma

Over the last decade, many companies have tried to copy Toyota‘s principles. They are applying methods for waste elimination from production and business processes, they compare benchmark indicators like value added index or working hours per product. But the essence of Toyota’s excellence is not yet captured . Toyota has been developing this system consistently for over 50 years. Toyota has developed a system of knowledge which creates reusable knowledge, maintains it, and leverages its use in the future. Nobody from Toyota employees wrote a handbook of the Toyota Production System, this is the business of other management gurus. The values and principles of the Toyota Production System are developed in the minds and daily jobs of all the employees. All the knowledge gained throughout the design or production process, what works and what doesn’t work, could be captured and consistently applied for all future projects. Toyota doesn´t call its system “lean”, but it is lean, Toyota doesn´t speak about knowledge management, but it does it!

The lean concept originated in Toyota is oriented on waste identification and elimination from the whole process chain (Value Stream Management). In other words – lean focus is the maximisation of added value in all the production, logistical, administrative and development processes. TOC (Theory of Constraints) is based on the identification and elimination of the system´s constraints with the goal ongoing throughput improvement. The throughput is defined as the rate at which the organisation generates money through sales. In other words, throughput is the added value in the process chain per time unit. The Six Sigma philosophy identifies and eliminates variation from the value stream so that defects approach zero and quality delights the customer. Six Sigma, Lean and TOC continuously improve knowledge in pursuit of perfection and involve and empower the employees.

Many companies are oriented on low cost strategies. But some cost attack programmes or the transfering of production facilities to low cost countries showed that it is not the right and strategic solution. In recent years, many West European and US manufacturing firms have moved their production plants to the low cost countries. Over time, they recognised that they had lost some competitive advantages because some departments were physically separated (e.g. product design and development, production engineering, production, logistics) and the communication and co-operation between them was limited. Also many cultural differences reduced the effects of the low cost location. Not even the massive implementation of lean management, Six Sigma or other world class concepts can sometimes bring any radical improvement. Company success is not only in the optimisation of current processes (doing right things right).


 What is the new role of industrial engineering in coming years?

1. The industrial engineer will still focus on value stream improvement, but not only in manufacturing. Administrative, product development, customer service and logistical processes offer huge improvement potential.

2. The integration of traditional concepts for process improvement like Lean, Six Sigma and TOC. These concepts for waste elimination, reduction of process variation and throughput increase will be combined with concepts for customer value creation.

3. Today, the typical job position of industrial engineers is in the production and logistics departments. In the future, the industrial engineers will penetrate into the departments for product and process development and innovation management, where the higher opportunities to reduce costs, eliminate waste and improve quality rather than production are.

4. Industrial engineers have to increase their orientation on the people. Not only in the traditional sense – ergonomics, but also in the areas of emotional intelligence, co-operation, knowledge management, coaching, training, leadership, communication, etc. The companies should be able to solve the following important questions regarding knowledge management: How to share, communicate and develop the best corporate practices in the organisation? How to transfer knowledge between employees on the projects and actions in the company? How to increase and measure knowledge? How to change knowledge into innovation as fast as possible?

5. The design and development of teamwork in the entire company – this is the crucial competence of industrial engineers for the future. They need to work in  the creative teams of strong individuals, focused on innovation ability.  The other important task is to work in  multi-cultural teams in the global production networks.

6. Work analysis and measurement is the traditional competence of industrial engineers. New opportunities for this discipline are in logistics, distribution, office, and product and process development.

7. Industrial engineers will penetrate from production departments to other company areas. There are many new application fields for traditional IE methods – e.g. 5S in information systems, simulation and value stream management of supply chain networks, simplification and streamlining of management processes – waste in meetings, reporting, etc.


The most used methods and concepts of industrial eingineering in the industrial companies are  – Value Stream Industrial Engineering  (not only in production processes, but also in office, logistical chains and product development processes),  – Work Analysis and Measurement (in European companies more traditional methods are used MTM or UAS, American companies use MOST more often),  – Computer simulation (in Europe EM Plant or Witness, in US companies more often, Arena, Automod, etc.),  – TPM based waste elimination - Total Productivity Management based on TOC  – Quality in process – SPC, poka yoke, andon, jidoka, stop line  – 5S and Quick Changeover  – Different Systematic Problems Solving Approaches – Kaizen (individual improvement ideas, workshops, quick win activities, Improvement Projects with DMAIC methodology  – Planning of U shaped  Lines with one piece flow and Low Cost Intelligent Automation (LCIA) concepts  – Team work, visual management, management by objectives  – Pull systems in production and logistics (internal and external milk run concepts)  – Traditional IE problem solving methods – FMEA, QFD, Project Management, A3 reports, etc. -
http://www.ai-online.com/Adv/Previous/show_issue.php?id=2244#sthash.JUZRM87e.dpuf


Industrial Engineering Bulletin Board - Archive 1

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2022/06/industrial-engineering-bulletin-board.html

Industrial engineering directs the efficient conduct of manufacturing, construction, transportation, or even commercial enterprises of any undertaking, indeed in which human labor is directed to accomplishing any kind of work . Industrial engineering has drawn upon mechanical engineering, upon economics, sociology, psychology, philosophy, accountancy, to fuse from these older sciences a distinct body of science of its own . It is the inclusion of the economic and the human elements especially that differentiates industrial engineering from the older established branches of the profession (Going, 1911)

IEs have to remember economists and their contribution to improving engineering economics.


Emmy Aware Winning Video on Industrial Engineering from University of Buffalo.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpPDoLX_9K4

Article on the video on IIE website
http://www.iienet2.org/details.aspx?id=24404
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