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.
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
Modern Industrial Engineering - Summary Explanation.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/modern-industrial-engineering-summary-explanation-april-kvss-8hiyc
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Labor Productivity Improvement Industrial Engineering
Labor productivity has major economic implications. When a society produces more goods - food, clothing, medicine, and transportation, from the efforts of the same labor force or population, people will be better off on average and standard of living improves. Hence labor productivity improvement is a strategic initiatives at all levels of economic activity in all countries.
Adam Smith, in a chapter called the "Division of Labor", described the 18 separate assembly steps in making a single metal pin. He estimated that a single person, working alone, could make 20 pins in a day. But, 10 people on an assembly line could make 48,000 pins in a single day - an output of 4,800 pins per worker per day. That's quite an improvement in labor productivity due to division of labor. This is an example of nontechnical labor productivity improvement.
An Oregon, Portland inventor Henry Phillips in 1936 patented a new type of screw head that was specifically designed to allow assembly line autoworkers to more quickly and easily seat the screwdriver into the screw. By 1940, the Phillips head screw was the standard in the automotive industry. This screw saved many hours of labor and improved labor productivity. This is an example of labor productivity improvement due to technical invention.
2025
How to Measure — and Improve — Labor Productivity
July 25, 2022 • 7 min read
Wharton’s Christian Terwiesch breaks down several key methods to maximize worker productivity in a tight labor market.
Professor Christian Terwiesch, Chair of Wharton’s operations, information and decisions department and co-director of Penn’s Mack Institute for Innovation Management.
2024
This research seeks to examine the correlation between labor productivity and green economic development in three distinct regions—Asia, Europe, and South America—over three decades, from 1990 to 2020. An essential aspect of this research is the incorporation of worker productivity, green economic development, and resource efficiency into a unified theoretical framework. This research addresses the gaps in the current literature by developing a cohesive framework that promotes a comprehensive knowledge of these essential processes.
Research article
Enhancing labor productivity as a key strategy for fostering green economic growth and resource efficiency
Xie Yu, Azer Dilanchiev, Sidra Bibi
Heliyon, Volume 10, Issue 3, 15 February 2024, e24640
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844024006716
An approach to boosting US labor productivity
McKinsey Global Institute
May 25, 2023 | Interview
https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/an-approach-to-boosting-us-labor-productivity
What we have to do is use the right technology tools to actually change business processes in a way that improves productivity. - Beth Cobert
The above responsibility is with industrial engineers.
2020
https://www.unleashedsoftware.com/blog/how-to-increase-labor-productivity-13-practical-tips/
2012
Towards improving construction labor productivity and projects’ performance
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110016812000142
2010
Takashi GOSO, Atsushi OCHI and Shunji
KUSAYANAGI, 2010, Productivity Assessment and
Improvement by using Information Technology,
Journal of construction management research,
66(1):317-328. (Journal Articles)
http://management.kochi-tech.ac.jp/ssms_papers/sms11-9178_79d73e7e0b6586f31d7495f855820be3.pdf
2007
Reasons for the Improvement of Labor Productivity in Tea
Plantations after Privatization with Special Reference to the
Estate Laborers in the Ratnapura District
http://www.sab.ac.lk/Acade-Activity/vol_7/paper%203.pdf
1947
A wage payment plan for the Gordon Pew Fisheries Company
Harry C. Rice Jr.
http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/67124/28165705.pdf?sequence=1
Earlier article
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/09/manpower-productivity-improvement.html
interesting facts about the phillips head screw, i didn't know.
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