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National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai.
Diamond Jubilee Celebrations 2023 (1963-2023).
Industries are relying on Industrial Engineering techniques to improve productivity to deal with competition. Continuous improvement for higher productivity of manufacturing and operations to increase the value of a product and service is the key role of Industrial Engineer.
Some of the sharpest minds graduate from the National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE, Mumbai), as skilled professionals that improve industrial efficiency and productivity.
Summer Internship Projects(SIP) of NITIE students are mainly focused on cost reduction through waste elimination, quality management, Inventory control, warehouse productivity, Material Requirement Planning, productivity improvement through automation, Lean thinking, Logistic, Supply Chain Network, and Industry 4.0 technologies (viz. IT, Machine Learning, Artificial intelligence, Blockchain, Data Analytics, etc.) to name a few.
Benefits Provided by NITIE Students During Summer Internship Projects(SIP) - Illustrations.
Increased warehouse productivity by 15% amounting to an annual saving of $65,000.
A NITIE intern worked to automate the process of scheduling more than twenty thousand parts that are procured regularly for more than 300 variants of various commercial vehicles.
After As-Is analysis of the Inbound Logistics Network, the project recommended changing the current route for importing, shifting from LCL (Less than Container Load) to FCL (Full Container Load) for certain commodities and checking the feasibility of reusable packaging for imports, etc. with a cost savings of approx. ₹ͅ 1,00,000 per container.
The internship project recommended factory consolidation from 10 sites to 7 sites with an addition of 2 new cross-docking hubs giving a potential annual savings of 15.8 crore INR, and a payback period of three years.
An award-winning internship demonstrated the application of IE tools like Clustering, Load-Distance analysis, MILP in reducing the number of warehouses from 35 to 27 with minimization of total transportation cost by 8%; decrease in average primary & secondary transportation distance by 14% & 6% respectively with improved service level and simplified tracking and monitoring of primary and secondary supply routes using an MIS Dashboard.
Yesterday only I returned from a trip to Pittsburgh USA. I reached home by 10.30 pm on 25 May 2017. I started from Pittsburgh at 5.50 am on 24 May 2017 (US Eastern Time) and travelled to Chicago first and from there took the Delhi direct flight operated by Air India.
On 23 May 2017, I made a presentation on Principles of Industrial Engineering in the Annual Conference of Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). Industrial engineering as an academic discipline started in 1907 at Penn State University. A book with the title "Principles of Industrial Engineering" was authored by C.B. Going. But principles of industrial engineering were not declared so far in the industrial engineering literature. My deep thinking on industrial engineering that spanned the period 1994 to 2016, suddenly gave me the idea on 4 July 2016. I made my blog post on that day on the topic. I took one more year to go to the world's premier platform and make a presentation on the issue. This completes my 40 years association with NITIE (National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai, India). I joined NITIE in 1977 and started learning industrial engineering in more earnestness. We had industrial engineering as a subject in our undergraduate programme at JNTU College of Engineering, Kakinada. But more serious and focused learning started in 1977. So in forty years, I moved from learning to telling. On 23 May 2017, I was explaining about industrial engineering to consultants from Maynard group (now with Accenture) and to a group of students from Penn State. A man from India, going and explaining industrial engineering to pioneers of industrial engineering in the birth state of industrial engineering. I thought I shall write about my journey during this 40 year period. Thus begins this writing adventure.
I present below the video made by my daughter on the presentation. My daughter's friend took photographs of the slides with her mobile phone. I shall add them also later.
Principles of Industrial Engineering Presented by Professor K.V.S.S. Narayana Rao (Author of this blog) on 23 May 2017 at the Annual Conference of Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers in Pittsburgh, USA. Industrial Engineering is a management subject or discipline with Engineering as the foundation. Its primary application area is engineering systems. Its augmented application area is any system. INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING IS SYSTEM EFFICIENCY ENGINEERING AND HUMAN EFFORT ENGINEERING (Definition by Narayana Rao - Published in Udyog Pragati, Jounral of NITIE in 2006)
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Principles of Industrial Engineering
An explanation says principles are scientific theories or cause and effect relationships. They are of permanent nature until revised due to empirical studies and identification of new facts.
Methods are general approaches that use the scientific principle or principles for beneficial use. They are also of permanent nature.
Tools are contemporaneous ways of implementing methods.
Basic Principles of Industrial Engineering - Narayana Rao
1. Develop science for each element of a man - machine system's work related to efficiency and productivity.
2. Engineer methods, processes and operations to use the laws related to the work of machines, man, materials and other resources.
3. Select or assign workmen based on predefined aptitudes for various types of man - machine work.
4. Train workmen, supervisors, and engineers in the new methods.
5. Incorporate suggestions of operators, supervisors and engineers in the methods redesign on a continuous basis.
6. Plan and manage productivity at system level.
(The principles were developed on 4 June 2016 at Kakinada where I went for a holiday to celebrate my birthday and with mother, brothers and sisters and other relatives). The principles were developed by Narayana Rao based on principles of scientific management by F.W. Taylor)
Principles of Industrial Engineering
Presented during the Annual Conference of IISE 2017 at Pittsburgh on 23 May 2017
1. Productivity science
2. Productivity engineering
3. Industrial Engineering is applicable to all branches of engineering
4. Principles of machine utilization economy are to be developed for all resources used in engineering systems.
5. Industrial engineering optimization
6. Industrial engineering economics
7. Implementation team membership and leadership
8. Human effort engineering for increasing productivity
9. Principles of motion economy to be used in all IE studies in the area of human effort engineering
10. Operator comfort and health are to be taken care of.
11. Work measurement
12. Selection of operators
13. Training of operators, supervisors and engineers
14. Productivity training and education to all
15. Employee involvement in continuous improvement of processes and products for productivity improvement.
16. Productivity incentives
17. Hearty cooperation
18. Productivity Management
19. System level focus for productivity
20. Productivity measurement
21. Cost measurement
Presentation of two papers done in conference in SVNIT Surat
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2020
As a part of the Fellow Course on developments in industrial engineering, I focused on the development of value engineering (product industrial engineering) and grinding (a machining process under process industrial engineering). The focus on grinding led to me to do a detailed study of metal cutting theory and process planning. From this effort, I developed the description of machine shop process industrial engineering. The role of focus areas of industrial engineering proposed by me was highlighted.
Machine Shop Process Industrial Engineering
Productivity Science
Productivity Science of Machining - Stephenson - Agapiou
IE Measurements
Process Industrial Engineering - Process Alternatives and Economic Analysis of IE Proposed Alternatives
IEOR - Optimization in Machining Processes
IE Statistics Optimization - Six Sigma Method
Human Effort Engineering in Machine Shop
Applied Industrial Engineering in Machine Shop https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/04/machine-shop-process-industrial.html
Happy to note that Principles of Industrial Engineering Video is reaching 5000 views.
Very happy to write about Diamond Jubilee Celebrations 2023 (1963-2023) of National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai in Social Media sites this year.
Best Wishes #NITIE #IndustrialEngineering
National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai.
Diamond Jubilee Celebrations 2023 (1963-2023).
Some of the sharpest minds graduate from the National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE, Mumbai), as skilled professionals that improve industrial efficiency and productivity.
NITIE - Industrial Engineering for Continuous Improvement for Higher Productivity.
Prof. Ganapathy - IE is System Efficiency Engineering and Human Effort Engineering
R Suresh -RGF - Cost, Productivity, Quality, Specialisation - Productivity - Measurement problems of white collar productivity, He told that in his Colgate campus placement interview, he told them that his focus was cost anywhere in the company. He can make efforts to find waste and reduce cost.
Mahesh Kripalani Marico - Marvel - Value Management - Productivity in Sales and Marketing
Sukanta Padhy Tyres - Material cost reduction, VA/VE - Prof. Rastogi
Pankaj Agrwal - Lupin - Lean Methodology, TPM. Somebody question about effect on quality due to productivity. He answered that quality will not be affected and appropriate measures are taken by managers of the productivity improvement process.
Director, Dr. Karuna Jain
This is the first time that IE conclave was held in NITIE.
Updated on 19 March 2020
Published on18 October 2016
At the convocation held on 14 September 2019, graduates of NITIE were appreciated for joining the prestigious institute and completing the course and becoming eligible for receiving the diploma.
The guest of honour told achievement, extraordinary achievement is possible and every body should aim for it and it is a five step process.
1 DREAM 2. HAVE SELF BELIEF IN YOUR CAPABILITIES 3. MAKE AN ACTION PLAN WITH MILESTONES 4. MAKE EFFORT TO REACH EACH MILESTONE. EXPECT FAILURES. TURN THEM AROUND INTO SUCCESSES. 5. PRACTICE AND PREPARE
Sachin Tendulkar did not only dream when he was told by a coach that he had talent. He practiced till the last day to keep fit and keep his skill up-to-date. Even engineering, industrial engineering and management graduates have to keep their knowledge fresh and practice of that knowledge has to be done every day to perfect it to face the challenges bowled to them by the environment successfully in Tendulkar Way.
One Year Industrial Engineering Knowledge Revision Plan
