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Changing The Production Planning Paradigm
Published in Alin Posteucă, Speed-Based Target Profit, 2020
Productivity (effectiveness × efficiency) is the means of achieving SBTP goals. For this, a special role is played by industrial engineering (IE) – engineering to improve productivity. Meeting the annual and especially multiannual targets of ROI is the visible face of SBTP. This is achieved by increasing the volumes of products requested by customers (in the case of external profit; less or not at all on the price increase) and by reducing unnecessary costs or CLW (in the case of internal profit; excluding the reduction of the quality level of products and services).
Why Industrial Engineering?
Published in Adedeji B. Badiru, The Story of Industrial Engineering, 2018
The premise of this text is to incite interest in industrial engineering through applicable narratives of how the tools and techniques of the discipline apply to a broad spectrum of applications in business, industry, and engineering. Industrial engineering is the profession dedicated to making systems function better together with less waste, better quality, and fewer resources to serve the needs of society more efficiently and more effectively.
Tools to help teachers and designers complete individual tasks when co-designing industrial engineering games – Application to the design of an innovation management game
Published in European Journal of Engineering Education, 2023
Yiming MA, Flore Vallet, Bernard Yannou, François Cluzel
Industrial engineering (IE) is the branch of engineering concerned with designing, improving, and installing integrated systems (IISE 2022). IE methodologies study the principles, practises and procedures that facilitate the above-mentioned activities. As Ma (2021) discussed, SGs can serve as valuable tools for introducing IE methodologies as they guarantee intrinsic motivation and provide situated learning. In addition, it is very natural to use SGs for teaching IE methodologies, because IE methodologies involve people following a typical process in a given set of conditions to achieve collective performances. It is therefore conceivable that a SG in IE is easily scriptable. And it is true that SGs have been applied in many situations involving IE methodologies. As early as the 1980s, Prof. Louis Bucciarelli from the MIT created a Delta Design game (Figure 1), which helps undergraduate learners cultivate communication skills during collaborative design (Bucciarelli 1999). EKIT’EKO, created by Alvarez et al. (2014), is a simulation-strategy game (Figure 1) where players are asked to develop new innovative products in a sustainable way.
Statistical engineering: Synergies with established engineering disciplines
Published in Quality Engineering, 2022
According to the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE), industrial and systems engineering is ‘concerned with the design, improvement, and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, information, equipment and energy.’ (IISE 2021) As such, industrial and systems engineering is broader than solving industry (manufacturing) problems. In fact, in the last few decades, industrial and systems engineering has significantly expanded beyond manufacturing to service industries, including healthcare. As with all engineering disciplines, industrial engineering requires fundamental knowledge of math and science, including calculus, chemistry, physics, and engineering sciences. For mastery of the field, the Industrial & Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (https://www.iise.org/details.aspx?id=43631) includes fourteen additional areas:Work design and measurementOperations research and analysisEngineering economicsFacilities engineering and energy managementQuality and reliabilityErgonomics and human factorsOperations engineering and managementSupply chain managementEngineering managementSafetyInformation engineeringDesign and manufacturing engineeringProduct design and developmentSystem design and engineering