Innovation and Intellectual Property Creation by Industrial Engineering Departments and Industrial Engineers

  

2025 - A to Z Industrial Engineering - Blogging Theme - Industrial Engineering Benefits the Society and Organizations

Industrial Engineering - Systems/Processes/Methods Improvement Using Engineering solutions creatively.

Industrial Engineering - Prime focus - Productivity Improvement.

Productivity improvement gives National Prosperity and Organization Prosperity.

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/national-productivity-council-gandhinagar_cartoonseriesabr10-productivity-economicgrowth-activity-7301162658278379520-eyyl

A to Z of Industrial Engineering - Blogging Challenge April 2025 - Proposed Posts

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2025/02/a-to-z-of-industrial-engineering.html

Existing Collection of Articles

A to Z of Industrial Engineering - Principles, Methods, Techniques, Tools and Applications

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-to-z-of-industrial-engineering.html

Innovation and Intellectual Property Creation by  Industrial Engineering Departments and Industrial Engineers

Industrial engineering improves products, facilities and processes. Innovations are improvements using novel engineering concepts, theories, patents and prototypes, and designs and their creative application to the work at hand. Industrial engineers can come out with patentable ideas and prototypes.

For instance, industrial engineers have to improve hand tools used by operators as part of motion study, method study, and processe study. They may develop new hand tools. Many new hand tools like torque wrenches were developed over time. Industrial can develop them as a part of their process improvement or study activities and patent them.

This direction of activity is not highlighted in the IE programs even though motion study is an important subject in IE. So in a proposal for a module of subjects for human effort IE,  the subject "Design of Hand Tools and Machine-Man Interfaces" is separately mentioned. Such a subject will direct the attention of IE graduates on their task of designing, developing and improving hand tools as part of IE practice.

Human Effort Industrial Engineering - Module to be in IE curriculum 

Subjects

Introduction to Human Effort Industrial Engineering

Productivity  Science of Human Effort and Motion Study & Industrial Engineering

Design of Hand Tools and Machine-Man Interfaces

Work Measurement of Operators  and Predetermined Motion Time Systems - Work System Design Based on PMTS

Ergonomics (Human Comfort and Health)  and Safety Engineering

Selections from Behavioral Sciences and Organizational Behavior Relevant to IE Work.

Job Evaluation and Wage Incentives

Theme - "Industrial Engineering Benefits the Society and Organizations". Do You Agree?

Eighth Post - Human Effort  Industrial Engineering - An Important Focus Area of Industrial Engineering - Subjects to be in IE Curriculum Module

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2025/04/human-effort-industrial-engineering.html

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