Saturday, March 28, 2026

Important and Top Contributors to Industrial Engineering.

This year I want to promote birthdays of important contributors to industrial engineering for celebration by IE departments in all organizations.


Important contributors to industrial engineering.


Ralph Barnes - Motion and Time Study -  17 October

Tim Cook - Apple - Application of IE in Supply Chains - Supply Chain Industrial Engineering - November 1, 1960

Harrington Emerson - Productivity Management - Efficiency Management - August 2, 1853


Gilbreth - Motion Study, Process Charts - July 7

Goldratt - Importance to Constraints in Production Planning and Process Improvement   -   March 31, 1947

Prof. Mikell P. Groover - Manufacturing Technology, Robotics, Work Systems, September 8, 1939.


Harold Bright (H.B.) Maynard - Operation Analysis, Handbook of IE, MTM, Most  - Maynard - 18 October.

L.D. Miles -  Value Analysis and Engineering, April 21.

Nakajima - Importance of Equipment Improvement and Maintenance for Productivity (Will be covered in December newsletter)


Taiichi Ohno - Importance of IE for Production Systems and Cost Reduction - TPS with Great Importance given to IE,  February 29, 1912

Shigeo Shingo - Process Improvement Methodology, SMED, Poka Yoke   January 8, 1909

F.W. Taylor - Productivity Science, Productivity Engineering, Productivity Management  March 20, 1856

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Special Issues of Modern Industrial Engineering LinkedIn News Letter

Ralph Barnes - Motion and Time Study -  17 October

Tim Cook - Apple - Application of IE in Supply Chains - Supply Chain Industrial Engineering - November 1, 1960

Harrington Emerson - Productivity Management - Efficiency Management - August 2, 1853


Gilbreth - Motion Study, Process Charts - July 7

Goldratt - Importance to Constraints in Production Planning and Process Improvement   -   March 31, 1947

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/march-2026-issue-taylor-month-ie-contribution-fw-industrial-kvss-71nlc/

Prof. Mikell P. Groover - Manufacturing Technology, Robotics, Work Systems, September 8, 1939.


Harold Bright (H.B.) Maynard - Operation Analysis, Handbook of IE, MTM, Most  - Maynard - 18 October.

L.D. Miles -  Value Analysis and Engineering, April 21.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/april-2026-product-industrial-engineering-ld-miles-value-kvss-5zrfc/

Nakajima - Importance of Equipment Improvement and Maintenance for Productivity (Will be covered in December newsletter)


Taiichi Ohno - Importance of IE for Production Systems and Cost Reduction - TPS with Great Importance given to IE,  February 29, 1912

Shigeo Shingo - Process Improvement Methodology, SMED, Poka Yoke   January 8, 1909

F.W. Taylor - Productivity Science, Productivity Engineering, Productivity Management  March 20, 1856

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/march-2026-issue-taylor-month-ie-contribution-fw-industrial-kvss-71nlc/





Ralph Barnes - Motion and Time Study

Tim Cook - Apple - Application of IE in Supply Chains - Supply Chain Industrial Engineering

R.M. Currie - Work Study


Harrington Emerson - Productivity Management - Efficiency Management

Gilbreth - Motion Study, Process Charts

Goldratt - Importance to Constraints in Production Planning and Process Improvement


Prof. Mikell P. Groover - Manufacturing Technology, Robotics, Work Systems

Harold Bright (H.B.) Maynard - Operation Analysis, Handbook of IE, MTM, Most

Nakajima - Importance of Equipment Improvement and Maintenance for Productivity


Taiichi Ohno - Importance of IE for Production Systems and Cost Reduction - TPS with Great Importance given to IE,

Shigeo Shingo - Process Improvement Methodology, SMED, Poka Yoke

F.W. Taylor - Productivity Science, Productivity Engineering, Productivity Management


This year I want to promote birthdays of important contributors to industrial engineering for celebration by IE departments in all organizations.



Celebrate the birthday of F.W. Taylor in your Industrial Engineering Department and Company. Birthday of Taylor on 20 March. Share what you are implementing in your company from Taylor's Ideas.

March 2026 Taylor Month of IE - Contribution of F.W. Taylor to Industrial Engineering and Productivity Management.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/march-2026-issue-taylor-month-ie-contribution-fw-industrial-kvss-71nlc

#IndustrialEngineering #Productivity #CostReduction  #Products  #Processes #Facilities


F.W. Taylor said in his testimony that scientific management was not a one man theory and development. Number of executives and thinkers contributed to its development.

Contributors to Industrial Engineering - Birthdays


January 8 - Shigeo Shingo (1909)


February 28 - Carl Barth (1860)

29 - Taiichi Ohno (1912)

March 20  -  Frederick Taylor (1856)


April 4 - Charles Buxton Going (1863)  - Principles of Industrial Engineering - Book in 1911

May 20 - Henry Gantt (1861)

May 24 - Lilian Gilbreth (1878),

June 11 - Kiichiro Toyoda (1894)

June 18 Philip Crosby (1926)

July 7 - Frank Gilbreth (1868)

July 13 - Henry Hallowell Farquhar (1884)

July 29 - Henri Fayol (1841)  - Fayol recognized the contribution of F.W Taylor in his paper on Management


August 24 - Henry R. Towne (1844)


September 12 - Eiji Toyoda (1913)


October 14 - W. Edwards Deming (1900)  - Quality Management  http://mtrrp.blogspot.in/2014/05/total-quality-management-approach.html

October 17 -  Ralph M Barnes (1900)

18 -  H.B. Maynard
26 - Charles E. Bedaux (1886)
29 - Captain Henry Metcalfe (1847) - Cost of Manufacture

November 1 Tim Cook (1960)
7 - Chester Barnard (1886), 
8 - George Dantzig

December 8 - Eli Whitney (1765)
22 - Arthur G. Bedeian (1946)
24 - J.M. Juran (1904)


Ud. 28.3.2026

Pub. 9.3.2026


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