Technology Efficiency Engineering

The focus of industrial engineering on technology level cost reduction can be termed as technology efficiency engineering and be made an important activity of industrial engineering departments. - Narayana Rao

Technology Efficiency Engineering - Tools and Techniques

1. Outside Technology Monitoring
2. Technical and Engineering Economic Analysis
3. Technology Absorption and Assimilatino
4. Application of Operations Research
5. Application of Six Sigma Methodology
6. Statistical Process Control
7. Human Effort Engineering Techniques

Paper presented in an international conference.




DEVELOPMENT OF ABSORPTION CAPABILITY ATTRIBUTES FOR TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PERFORMANCE: A PILOT STUDY IN NATIONAL  AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/1700/1/development_of_absorption_capability_attributes.pdf


Technology Absorption in South Africa
2011 presenation
http://is.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pages/ISG/innovation/documents/7SMITAFosteringtechnology_PPT_V4CoorMB.pdf

Fostering Technology Absorption in Southern African Enterprises

The World Bank

World Bank Publications, 16-Sep-2011 - Technology & Engineering - 224 pages

While economic theory considers technological progress to be a key factor for sustained long-term economic growth and job creation, technology absorption is particularly an important driver for 'catch-up growth.' This study seeks to identify channels of technology transfer and absorption for Southern African enterprises, constraints to greater technology absorption, and discuss policy options open to governments and the private sector in light of relevant international experience. It has been done based on sector and enterprise case studies carried in four countries: South Africa, Mauritius, Lesotho and Namibia. This study uses a combination of econometric and in depth case study analyses to investigate the presence of specific channels of absorption and the various constraints that the firms face to effectively absorb this technology. There is evidence of learning by exporting, and spillovers from FDI underscoring the importance of trade and FDI as important channels of absorption. The study finds that four countries while open to trade and FDI face a number of constraints that inhibit them from maximizing the economic benefits from technology absorption. These constraints include a major skills mismatch, insufficient research and development and ineffective industry-research linkages. While outlining broad policy directions in four areas namely increasing skills supply, fostering learning through trade, increasing domestic spillovers from FDI and incentivizing greater firm level research and development, it lays out some priority areas for each of the four countries. We hope that the issues discussed and the dialogue initiated during the course of this study would lend itself to policy design to foster technology absorption with a view to higher growth and job creation in this highly globalized world.

http://books.google.co.in/books?id=UK6KKyOdbGcC

Industrial Development and Technology: Absorption in Indian Steel Industry
2005
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=AG-7S7QIIX8C


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Updated on 30 June 2018
First Published on 9 August 2013

IISE 2017 Annual Convention - NITIE Alumni Participation

NITIE: National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai, NITIE

The convention was held at Pittsburgh


Professor K.V.S.S. Narayana Rao,  Professor, NITIE, presented Principles of Industrial Engineering. The principles were developed for the first time in the discipline after 108 years of the birth of the discipline. Taylor's principles of scientific management and developments in the discipline for the next 108 years form the basis for the development of the principles.

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Dr. Rajiv Saxena was honored by the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers with the Outstanding Industry Practitioner of Logistic and Supply Chain Award.

https://zsupplychain.com/2017/07/06/apl-logistics39-rajiv-saxena-wins-institute-of-industrial-systems-engineers-award/

http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Process-Industies-May-2017-Newsletter.html?soid=1101700049774&aid=GMt392hL2zk

Ind. Engr. Martin Nazareth led a panel discussion in the convention

Martin Nazareth is the founder and president of OpEx Solutions, Inc. (OSI) — an organization with two divisions, Global OpEx Solutions and the CenTex OpEx Consortium, helping organizations find and define their own way to operational excellence. Since its inception, OSI has successfully assisted clients from Fortune 100 companies to startups in their pursuit of operational excellence through strategy, simplicity and execution.

Prior to OpEx Solutions, he was a senior manager for Lean and TPM deployment at Alcoa. He led program quality for all North American programs at Delphi Thermal & Interior. Before Delphi, he consulted through EDS, Tata Consulting Services, and independently. Nazareth successfully led change through four corporate- and division-wide initiatives including Lean, TPM, FMEA/PCP and error-proofing at two Fortune 100 companies.

Nazareth is a global expert in operational excellence involving the strategic application of lean manufacturing (Lean), total productive maintenance (TPM), quality, and industrial engineering (IE). He has led strategic coaching, consulting, training and execution at over 100 plants in the USA, Canada, Australia, India, Latin America and Europe. His background spans several industries, including automotive, metals and mining, oil and gas, ship building, electrical systems, information systems, and healthcare.

He has two masters’ degrees in industrial engineering and a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Six Sigma Green Belt.

Martin Nazareth served on the board of AME’s Southwest Region and is a Director of the Institute of Industrial Engineering’s (IIE) Lean Division and Industry Advisory Board. With over thirty years of professional experience, Nazareth is well recognized for his passion for excellence and strategic execution, flawless new product launches, successful implementation of initiatives and achieving bottom-line results.
http://www.opexsolutions.org/id70.html



Prof. Om Prakash Yadav presented   "Estimation of Product Lifetime Considering Gamma Degradation Process with Multi-Stress Accelerated Test Data"

Limon, Shah; Yadav, Om Prakash; Nepal, Bimal. IIE Annual Conference. Proceedings; Norcross (2017): 1387-1392.

Value Engineering - Umbrellas

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/consumer/how-much-for-an-umbrella-1.3213221

https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-umbrella/


Cheeky Chunk Umbrellas - Entrepreneur Story

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Improve - Continuous and Periodic Improvement of Productivity - Applied Industrial Engineering

Process Step of Applied Industrial Engineering - Industrial Engineering 4.0

Monitor - Explore - Analyze - Develop - Optimize - Participate - Install - Improve

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2018/05/applied-industrial-engineering-process.html

Once commercial products starts and productivity audit confirms that planned productivity is achieved, industrial engineering department starts its routine productivity management of the new technology project.

Productivity improvement effort has two major branches. Continuous and Periodic Improvement efforts. In continuous improvement task, there is a system in place to encourage and collect productivity improvement ideas of all operators, supervisors, engineers and managers. The front line people have to be empowered to do trails of their ideas, if they do not involve any special investments. If investment is involved, there has to a fund to provide the necessary funds and things. Work simplification workshops also now known as Kaizen events or Productivity Action Teams have to conducted to facilitate group learning and brain storming.

Periodic improvement is done through projects initiated by IE department as process studies or method studies to identify opportunities for productivity improvement periodically.

Install - Be An Active Member of the Project Execution and Management Team - Applied Industrial Engineering

Process Step of Applied Industrial Engineering - Industrial Engineering 4.0

Monitor - Explore - Analyze - Develop - Optimize - Participate - Install - Improve

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Industrial engineers after active participation in project report or project feasibility report have to become active members of project execution team. Especially productivity related engineering items have to be designed, procured or fabricated and installed. There is quality control activity regarding these components or consumables and practices. Industrial engineers have to involve themselves in all these tasks to make sure that expected or planned productivity is realized right from the beginning in the new plant based on new technology.

Industrial engineers have to participate in project management activity also to ensure that project is completed in planned cost.

Participate - Participate in New Technology Implementation Projects - Applied Industrial Engineering

Process Step of Applied Industrial Engineering - Industrial Engineering 4.0

Monitor - Explore - Analyze - Develop - Optimize - Participate - Install - Improve

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2018/05/applied-industrial-engineering-process.html


Industrial engineering normally will not propose new technology implementation projects on a standalone basis. Normal or routine productivity engineering projects are initiated and executed by industrial engineering departments.  New technology projects are normally the responsibility of the technology department or a specially set up team.

Industrial engineers have to participate actively in the new technology implementation team. When they are involved in technology monitoring, exploration and productivity engineering development, industrial engineers can contribute substantially to the new project report preparation and make sure that project has high productivity right from the inception.

Optimize - Optimize Productivity Engineering Ideas - Applied Industrial Engineering

Process Step of Applied Industrial Engineering - Industrial Engineering 4.0

Monitor - Explore - Analyze - Develop - Optimize - Participate - Install - Improve

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Every productivity engineering problem requires generation of engineering alternatives. Each of the engineering alternatives created using various creative problem techniques has to be optimized using mathematical and statistical methods. Decision making, which is determining the idea to be used in the recommended solution has to be based on optimized alternatives.

The selection of the recommended solution also has to consider engineering economic analysis.