2026 A to Z Blogging April Challenge - Theme Reveal Post
The theme is Industrial Engineering - A to Z 2026.
Will have articles in the discipline of industrial engineering on selected topics.
What is industrial engineering? It is an engineering disciplines that focuses on increasing productivity of resources used in engineering systems and processes. To elaborate it further we can identify product IE, facilities IE, Process IE that involves machine effort IE and human effort IE. Productivity increase will result in lower costs and more goods and services for the society with the same inputs. Productivity science, Productivity engineering and Productivity management are important tasks of industrial engineers.
I am consolidating my industrial engineering A to Z posts of various years and also posts in the blog in a big compilation.
The above consolidation will be released as an E-book.
My earlier Ebook of blog posts was a big success.
Most popular IE publication on Academia.Edu platform. 11,950+ Downloads/Views in one location. 14,000+ Downloads/Views from 3 locations.INTRODUCTION TO MODERN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING. EBook. FREE Download.A Collection of Blog Posts on Industrial Engineering. Introduction to Modern Industrial Engineering: History, Principles, Functions and Focus Areas.
Important dates for 2026:March 9 - 14 Theme RevealMarch 23 - April 4 Sign-upMay 4 - 9 ReflectionsMay 11 - Road Trip opens------------------
If you are a blogger join the challenge.
You can reveal your theme.
Master List https://tinyurl.com/mu5vjy48
#AtoZChallenge Topics for 2026
Applied IE - Agentic AI
Behavioral Aspects in IE
C.B. Going 1911 - Text Book - Principles of Industrial Engineering - Cost Reduction and Cost Management by Industrial Engineers
Decision Making in IE
Effectiveness of IE
Flow Analysis and Improvement IE
Goals of IE
Health Aspects of IE
Innovations by IEs
Job Shop IE - Shahrukh Irani
Knowledge Management for IE
L.D. Miles - Value Engineering - Product Industrial Engineering - Low Cost Products and Processes for IE
Management Module for IE
New Technologies Adoption by IE in Processes Under Their Productivity Management
Operations Management and IE
Production and Industrial Engineering - A Popular Branch of Engineering
Quality Related Interventions by IEs
Respect for People and Personal Relations - Assertion by F.W. Taylor
Society Prosperity - Industrial Engineering Effectiveness
Total Industrial Engineering
Understanding Processes
Value Addition by IEs
What is New in IE in 2025-2026?
X-Platform - Industrial Engineers' Participation
YouTube - Industrial Engineering Videos by Narayana Rao
Zeal for Industrial Engineering - Productivity - Cost Reduction
Topics for 2026 - Brief Introduction
Applied IE - Agentic AI
Applied IE is explained as IE in New Technologies - IE with Technologies.
As each new technology appears, applied IE of that technology begins.
The Emerging Agentic Enterprise: How Leaders Must Navigate a New Age of AIFindings from the MIT SMR-BCG Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy Global Executive Study and Research ProjectNovember 18, 2025
Agentic AI offers possibilities not only to improve cost efficiency but also to expand revenue, accelerate innovation, compress learning curves, and restructure organizations. Without a strategic approach that aligns these objectives, organizations risk limiting returns on their investments.
Industrial engineers have to understand and incorporate AI agents into processes.
Behavioral Aspects in IE
IEs use behavioral science discoveries and behavioral management approaches in their discipline.
C.B. Going 1911 - Text Book - Principles of Industrial Engineering - Cost Reduction and Cost Management by Industrial Engineers
Cost reduction is final goal of industrial engineering. Cost reduction in all organizations of the society will give more GDP from the resources. Hence there is economic prosperity in the society.
Decision Making in IE
In IE number of decisions are to be made.
Effectiveness of IE
IE has to be effective in an organization to provide expected cost reduction.
Flow Analysis and Improvement IE
Flow is an important aspect in processes and systems.
Goals of IE
Cost reduction is the ultimate goalsCost reduction happens through productivity improvement of each resource and total factor productivity or total resource productivity.Incomes of employees have to go up.Employees have to be comfortable, healthy and happy.
Health Aspects of IE
IE has to evaluate the occupation health aspects of its process changes to increase productivity
Innovations by IEs
Industrial engineers have to create useful process changes through inventions and innovations.
Magazine Spring 2026 IssueTurn Customer Complaints Into Innovation Blueprints
Job Shop IE - Shahrukh Irani
Job shop IE is the focus of a book by Shahrukh Irani.
Knowledge Management for IE
Industrial engineering is based on knowledge of engineering and IEs have to update the engineering knowledge of Industrial engineering department as well as others in the organization on a daily basis,
L.D. Miles - Value Engineering - Product Industrial Engineering - Low Cost Products and Processes for IE
Searching the environment of low cost materials, low parts and products and low cost processes is also a daily activity for IED.
Management Module for IE
IE as a function and as a department needs to be managed. IE studies and projects are to be managed. Hence IEs need management inputs in their educational programs.
Mikell Groover in his Book - Work Systems and the Methods, Measurement, and Management of Work specially includes management of work in the title.
He gave the following chapters under management of work in third edition of the book.
Ch.27 Work organizationCh. 28 Worker Motivation and Social Organization of WorkCh. 29 Job Evaluation and Performance AppraisalCh. 30 Compensation Systems
New Technologies Adoption by IEs in Processes Under Their Productivity Management
New technologies useful for productivity improvement for the processes under their jurisdiction or ownership have to be identified by IEs. They have to learn the basics of the new technology and arrnage for pilot study in their own facility or technology supplier's facility.
Operations Management and IE
Industrial engineering plays a major role in studies of facilities, layouts and processes used in operations management.
Production and Industrial Engineering - A Popular Branch of Engineering
This is a popular specialization in many institutions.
Quality Related Interventions by IEs
Reducing defects is a task for industrial engineering. They also try to reduce cost of inspection activities.
Respect for People and Personal Relations - Assertion by F.W. Taylor
This aspect of Taylor's writing was ignored and an opinion was created that Taylor did not consider the dignity of human factor and their physical and psychological well-being.
DO YOU BELIEVE THAT F.W. TAYLOR SAID IT IN 1912?
"Almost all of the best suggestions for improvements come from intelligent workmen who are cooperating in the kindliest way with the management toaccomplish the joint result of producing a big surplus which can be divided between the two sides equitably."
The quotation is from Testimony of Taylor before an investigation committee in 1912.
Society Prosperity - Industrial Engineering Effectiveness
Industrial engineering helps the economies to produce more out of the resources used. When IE is done effectively in many organizations, society will have more economic prosperity.
Total Industrial Engineering
Circulating Industrial Engineering Newsletters to all the employees in the company can develop total industrial engineering, industrial engineering furthered by the participation of all employees.
Access Essays on F.W. Taylor's Writing - Belt Drive Design, Productivity System and Section, Shop Management, Productivity Science of Machining, and Scientific Management
Celebrate the birthday of F.W. Taylor in your Industrial Engineering Department and Company. Share what you are implementing in your company from Taylor's Ideas.
Birthday of F.W. Taylor 20th March. Modern Industrial Engineering March 2026 Issue - Taylor Month of IE - Contribution of F.W. Taylor to Industrial Engineering and Productivity Management - Implemented and Neglected
Understanding Processes
Industrial engineers have to understand processes given to them for productivity improvement in their organization.
Mikell Groover - Book - Work Systems and the Methods, Measurement, and Management of Work How to Create / Develop the Chart or Diagram? - Mikell Groover.
Analyst has to become intimately familiar with the process and develop a graphic to represent it.
Steps.
Analyst observes and records information about the process
One-on-one interviews with those familiar with the process
A graphic model of the process is developed based on these interviews
Group meetings with personnel familiar with process
The analyst records the discussion of the meeting.
A graphic model of the process is developed based on the group meetings
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2019/12/understanding-process-plans-by.html
Value Addition by IEs
What is the value to be added by IEs?
What is New in IE in 2025-2026?
There is a bulletin board to record some new developments in engineering and industrial engineering.
X-Platform - Industrial Engineers' Participation
Is IE a popular topic on X-Platform?
YouTube - Industrial Engineering Videos by Narayana Rao and Others.
YouTube - the video sharing platform has many videos related to industrial engineering.
Principles of Industrial Engineering - Taylor - Narayana Rao - IISE 2017 Pittsburgh Conference Paper
Engineering in Industrial Engineering - Product/Process Industrial Engineering
Zeal for Industrial Engineering - Productivity - Cost Reduction
Industrial engineers must have the zeal to contribute to the engineering professions as well as society through industrial engineering - the discipline that focuses on cost reduction through productivity increasing engineering changes and innovations.
Important to recognize.April 4 - Birthday of Charles Buxton Going (1863) - Principles of Industrial Engineering - Book in 1911April - C.B. Going Month of Industrial Engineering and Productivity Management
You can see the list of theme reveal posts in
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/118xvT_WrAQSgldNN5vpV4Z6-X41s4xENCeuzMoMyUAo/edit?usp=sharing
Blogs visited in 2026
https://jlennidorner.blogspot.com/2026/03/theme-reveal-atozchallenge-blog-hop-2026.html
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-to-z-theme-reveal-small-town-legends.html
https://jannghi.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-to-z-blogging-2026-theme-reveal.html
https://n8ltg.blogspot.com/2026/03/atozchallenge-theme-reveal.html - Interesting theme - "stuff in my life that I'm grateful for." Let me see what I can add as a comment on each post.
https://karenjonesgowen.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-theme-for-a-to-z-challenge.html - living as an American Expat in (mostly) Mexico.https://ballau.blogspot.com/2026/03/blogging-from-to-z-april-2026-theme.html - Photos - Travels to Islands
https://earlieryears.blogspot.com/2026/03/april-to-z-challenge-theme-reveal.html - Living in Kashmir: A Year of People, Places and Memories.
https://thethreegerbers.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-z-blogging-challenge-2026-theme-reveal.html 198 0s world
https://repeatsamb.blogspot.com/2026/03/blogging-from-to-z-2026-theme-reveal.html Fluevogs - What are Fluevogs? Fun shoes designed by John Fluevog in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
https://waffle-with-wendy.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-z-blogging-challenge-2026-theme-reveal.html grandmother
https://getlostinlit.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-z-challenge-theme-reveal.html A-Z Bookish Topics/Discussions.
https://tao-talk.com/2026/03/09/a-to-z-2026-aka-a2z-theme-reveal/ These goddesses
Ud. 9.3.2026Pub. 8.3.2026
The theme is Industrial Engineering - A to Z 2026.
Will have articles in the discipline of industrial engineering on selected topics.
What is industrial engineering? It is an engineering disciplines that focuses on increasing productivity of resources used in engineering systems and processes. To elaborate it further we can identify product IE, facilities IE, Process IE that involves machine effort IE and human effort IE. Productivity increase will result in lower costs and more goods and services for the society with the same inputs. Productivity science, Productivity engineering and Productivity management are important tasks of industrial engineers.
I am consolidating my industrial engineering A to Z posts of various years and also posts in the blog in a big compilation.
The above consolidation will be released as an E-book.
My earlier Ebook of blog posts was a big success.
Most popular IE publication on Academia.Edu platform. 11,950+ Downloads/Views in one location. 14,000+ Downloads/Views from 3 locations.
INTRODUCTION TO MODERN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING. EBook. FREE Download.
A Collection of Blog Posts on Industrial Engineering. Introduction to Modern Industrial Engineering: History, Principles, Functions and Focus Areas.
Important dates for 2026:
March 9 - 14 Theme Reveal
March 23 - April 4 Sign-up
May 4 - 9 Reflections
May 11 - Road Trip opens
------------------
If you are a blogger join the challenge.
You can reveal your theme.
Master List https://tinyurl.com/mu5vjy48
#AtoZChallenge Topics for 2026
Applied IE - Agentic AI
Behavioral Aspects in IE
C.B. Going 1911 - Text Book - Principles of Industrial Engineering - Cost Reduction and Cost Management by Industrial Engineers
Decision Making in IE
Effectiveness of IE
Flow Analysis and Improvement IE
Goals of IE
Health Aspects of IE
Innovations by IEs
Job Shop IE - Shahrukh Irani
Knowledge Management for IE
L.D. Miles - Value Engineering - Product Industrial Engineering - Low Cost Products and Processes for IE
Management Module for IE
New Technologies Adoption by IE in Processes Under Their Productivity Management
Operations Management and IE
Production and Industrial Engineering - A Popular Branch of Engineering
Quality Related Interventions by IEs
Respect for People and Personal Relations - Assertion by F.W. Taylor
Society Prosperity - Industrial Engineering Effectiveness
Total Industrial Engineering
Understanding Processes
Value Addition by IEs
What is New in IE in 2025-2026?
X-Platform - Industrial Engineers' Participation
YouTube - Industrial Engineering Videos by Narayana Rao
Zeal for Industrial Engineering - Productivity - Cost Reduction
Topics for 2026 - Brief Introduction
Applied IE - Agentic AI
Applied IE is explained as IE in New Technologies - IE with Technologies.
As each new technology appears, applied IE of that technology begins.
The Emerging Agentic Enterprise: How Leaders Must Navigate a New Age of AI
Findings from the MIT SMR-BCG Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy Global Executive Study and Research Project
November 18, 2025
Agentic AI offers possibilities not only to improve cost efficiency but also to expand revenue, accelerate innovation, compress learning curves, and restructure organizations. Without a strategic approach that aligns these objectives, organizations risk limiting returns on their investments.
Industrial engineers have to understand and incorporate AI agents into processes.
Behavioral Aspects in IE
IEs use behavioral science discoveries and behavioral management approaches in their discipline.
C.B. Going 1911 - Text Book - Principles of Industrial Engineering - Cost Reduction and Cost Management by Industrial Engineers
Cost reduction is final goal of industrial engineering. Cost reduction in all organizations of the society will give more GDP from the resources. Hence there is economic prosperity in the society.
Decision Making in IE
In IE number of decisions are to be made.
Effectiveness of IE
IE has to be effective in an organization to provide expected cost reduction.
Flow Analysis and Improvement IE
Flow is an important aspect in processes and systems.
Goals of IE
Cost reduction is the ultimate goals
Cost reduction happens through productivity improvement of each resource and total factor productivity or total resource productivity.
Incomes of employees have to go up.
Employees have to be comfortable, healthy and happy.
Health Aspects of IE
IE has to evaluate the occupation health aspects of its process changes to increase productivity
Innovations by IEs
Industrial engineers have to create useful process changes through inventions and innovations.
Magazine Spring 2026 Issue
Turn Customer Complaints Into Innovation Blueprints
Job Shop IE - Shahrukh Irani
Job shop IE is the focus of a book by Shahrukh Irani.
Knowledge Management for IE
Industrial engineering is based on knowledge of engineering and IEs have to update the engineering knowledge of Industrial engineering department as well as others in the organization on a daily basis,
L.D. Miles - Value Engineering - Product Industrial Engineering - Low Cost Products and Processes for IE
Searching the environment of low cost materials, low parts and products and low cost processes is also a daily activity for IED.
Management Module for IE
IE as a function and as a department needs to be managed. IE studies and projects are to be managed. Hence IEs need management inputs in their educational programs.
Mikell Groover in his Book - Work Systems and the Methods, Measurement, and Management of Work specially includes management of work in the title.
He gave the following chapters under management of work in third edition of the book.
Ch.27 Work organization
Ch. 28 Worker Motivation and Social Organization of Work
Ch. 29 Job Evaluation and Performance Appraisal
Ch. 30 Compensation Systems
New Technologies Adoption by IEs in Processes Under Their Productivity Management
New technologies useful for productivity improvement for the processes under their jurisdiction or ownership have to be identified by IEs. They have to learn the basics of the new technology and arrnage for pilot study in their own facility or technology supplier's facility.
Operations Management and IE
Industrial engineering plays a major role in studies of facilities, layouts and processes used in operations management.
Production and Industrial Engineering - A Popular Branch of Engineering
This is a popular specialization in many institutions.
Quality Related Interventions by IEs
Reducing defects is a task for industrial engineering. They also try to reduce cost of inspection activities.
Respect for People and Personal Relations - Assertion by F.W. Taylor
This aspect of Taylor's writing was ignored and an opinion was created that Taylor did not consider the dignity of human factor and their physical and psychological well-being.
DO YOU BELIEVE THAT F.W. TAYLOR SAID IT IN 1912?
"Almost all of the best suggestions for improvements come from intelligent workmen who are cooperating in the kindliest way with the management to
accomplish the joint result of producing a big surplus which can be divided between the two sides equitably."
The quotation is from Testimony of Taylor before an investigation committee in 1912.
Society Prosperity - Industrial Engineering Effectiveness
Industrial engineering helps the economies to produce more out of the resources used. When IE is done effectively in many organizations, society will have more economic prosperity.
Total Industrial Engineering
Circulating Industrial Engineering Newsletters to all the employees in the company can develop total industrial engineering, industrial engineering furthered by the participation of all employees.
Access Essays on F.W. Taylor's Writing - Belt Drive Design, Productivity System and Section, Shop Management, Productivity Science of Machining, and Scientific Management
Celebrate the birthday of F.W. Taylor in your Industrial Engineering Department and Company. Share what you are implementing in your company from Taylor's Ideas.
Birthday of F.W. Taylor 20th March. Modern Industrial Engineering March 2026 Issue - Taylor Month of IE - Contribution of F.W. Taylor to Industrial Engineering and Productivity Management - Implemented and Neglected
Understanding Processes
Industrial engineers have to understand processes given to them for productivity improvement in their organization.
Mikell Groover - Book - Work Systems and the Methods, Measurement, and Management of Work
How to Create / Develop the Chart or Diagram? - Mikell Groover.
Analyst has to become intimately familiar with the process and develop a graphic to represent it.
Steps.
Analyst observes and records information about the process
One-on-one interviews with those familiar with the process
A graphic model of the process is developed based on these interviews
Group meetings with personnel familiar with process
The analyst records the discussion of the meeting.
A graphic model of the process is developed based on the group meetings
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2019/12/understanding-process-plans-by.html
Value Addition by IEs
What is the value to be added by IEs?
What is New in IE in 2025-2026?
There is a bulletin board to record some new developments in engineering and industrial engineering.
X-Platform - Industrial Engineers' Participation
Is IE a popular topic on X-Platform?
YouTube - Industrial Engineering Videos by Narayana Rao and Others.
YouTube - the video sharing platform has many videos related to industrial engineering.
Principles of Industrial Engineering - Taylor - Narayana Rao - IISE 2017 Pittsburgh Conference Paper
Engineering in Industrial Engineering - Product/Process Industrial Engineering
Zeal for Industrial Engineering - Productivity - Cost Reduction
Industrial engineers must have the zeal to contribute to the engineering professions as well as society through industrial engineering - the discipline that focuses on cost reduction through productivity increasing engineering changes and innovations.
Important to recognize.
April 4 - Birthday of Charles Buxton Going (1863) - Principles of Industrial Engineering - Book in 1911
April - C.B. Going Month of Industrial Engineering and Productivity Management
You can see the list of theme reveal posts in
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/118xvT_WrAQSgldNN5vpV4Z6-X41s4xENCeuzMoMyUAo/edit?usp=sharing
Blogs visited in 2026
https://jlennidorner.blogspot.com/2026/03/theme-reveal-atozchallenge-blog-hop-2026.html
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-to-z-theme-reveal-small-town-legends.html
https://jannghi.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-to-z-blogging-2026-theme-reveal.html
https://n8ltg.blogspot.com/2026/03/atozchallenge-theme-reveal.html - Interesting theme - "stuff in my life that I'm grateful for." Let me see what I can add as a comment on each post.
https://karenjonesgowen.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-theme-for-a-to-z-challenge.html - living as an American Expat in (mostly) Mexico.
https://ballau.blogspot.com/2026/03/blogging-from-to-z-april-2026-theme.html - Photos - Travels to Islands
https://earlieryears.blogspot.com/2026/03/april-to-z-challenge-theme-reveal.html - Living in Kashmir: A Year of People, Places and Memories.
https://thethreegerbers.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-z-blogging-challenge-2026-theme-reveal.html 198 0s world
https://repeatsamb.blogspot.com/2026/03/blogging-from-to-z-2026-theme-reveal.html Fluevogs - What are Fluevogs? Fun shoes designed by John Fluevog in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
https://waffle-with-wendy.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-z-blogging-challenge-2026-theme-reveal.html grandmother
https://getlostinlit.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-z-challenge-theme-reveal.html A-Z Bookish Topics/Discussions.
https://tao-talk.com/2026/03/09/a-to-z-2026-aka-a2z-theme-reveal/ These goddesses
Ud. 9.3.2026
Pub. 8.3.2026
It's great that the ebook was a success. Good luck with the next one!
ReplyDeleteRonel visiting for Theme Reveal for A to Z Blogging Challenge 2026
Thank you for the visit. I am also visiting the blogs of the challenge one by one.
DeleteI will try to visit your blog during A2Z. Good idea on publishing an e-book from it. Lisa @ https://tao-talk.com
ReplyDeleteThank you. I like your theme. Goddesses. I shall also add some content in comments.
DeleteIndustrial engineering is such a broad and interesting field, and an A–Z format seems like a great way to highlight different aspects of it. Wishing you the best with the series and the upcoming e-book compilation!
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure I'm smart enough for your posts. I have a son who is a mechanical engineer. He would love this theme.
ReplyDeletePlease inform him. Mechanical engineers are introduced to this subject. My advocacy is that it is taught in every branch of engineering. Cost of production has to be brought down in products of every engineering branch. Focus of IE is cost reduction and thereby price reduction.
DeleteLooks like you have a solid plan.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to the challenge this year.
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” —Jimmy Dean
J (he/him 👨🏽 or 🧑🏽 they/them) @JLenniDorner ~ Speculative Fiction & Reference Author and Co-host of the April Blogging #AtoZChallenge international blog hop
Thank you. Doing may be challenging. I have to make a beginning for each day in April and may be complete the post in May. From next I need still more advanced planning.
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