Industrial Engineering and its Relevance

Dr.Eshwaraiah Punna Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering GITAM University, Hyderabad

The goal of Science and Engineering is to build better Mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build mice

Plan of Presentation

Top Ten Clarifications on

Industrial Engineering

Methods and Techniques

of Industrial Engineering

Role of Industrial
Engineer On Industrial Safety

Recent Advances in
Industrial Engineering

Introduction

Electrical Engineering to engineer an electrical product or system. Computer Engineering to engineer a computer or a system of networked computers

Industrial Engineering?
To engineer an industry??

What is Industrial Engineering? Industrial Engineering is concerned with the design of production systems. The Industrial Engineer analyzes and specifies integrated components of people, machines, and facilities to create efficient and effective systems that produce goods and services beneficial to mankind.

People

Machines

Facilities

What is a Production System? Anywhere there is a "value-added" enterprise, there is a production process. The IE focuses on "how" a product is made or "how" a service is rendered.

The goal of Industrial Engineering is improving the "how." .

What is meant by improving?

Generally, the criteria for judging improvement are productivity and quality.

Productivity means getting more from the resources being expended, namely being efficient.

Quality judges the value or effectiveness of the output.

Integrated Approach

Integrated Approach

Why emphasize the system?

Industrial Engineering focuses on systems design.

Production processes are composed of many interacting parts, all of whom work together. Experience has taught that changes to one portion may not result in improvements to the whole. Thus Industrial Engineers generally work with tools that emphasize systems analysis and design.

Are Industrial Engineers directly concerned with manufacturing? All IE's take at least one manufacturing course, which deals with manufacturing processes, and other courses closely associated with manufacturing. Every IE is therefore knowledgeable about metal working machinery and processes. Further, related courses address manufacturing as a system. The manufacturing industry has and remains a manifest concern of Industrial Engineering.

What Makes Industrial Engineering different from other engineering disciplines?

Fundamentally, Industrial Engineering has no basic physical science like mechanics, chemistry, or electricity. Also because a major component in any production system is people. Industrial Engineering has a person portion. the human aspect is called ergonomics/human factors. A more subtle difference between Industrial Engineering than other engineering disciplines is the concentration on discrete mathematics. IE's deal with systems that are measured discretely, rather than metrics which are continuous. The industrial engineering courses employ mathematical models as a central device for understanding their systems.

What are the basic sciences for Industrial Engineering?

System characterization thus employ Mathematical, Statistical, and Computer models and methods Industrial Engineering tools such as Optimization, Stochastic processes, and Simulation. the IE tools to understand traditional production elements as economic analysis, Production planning, Facilities design, Materials handling, Manufacturing systems and processes, Job analysis, and so forth.

Why is statistics important in Industrial Engineering?

All IE's take at least one course in probability and one course in statistics.

Industrial Engineering specialty courses that follow these include quality control, simulation, and stochastic processes.
Further the traditional courses in production planning, economic risk assessment, and facilities planning employ statistical models for understanding these systems.

Some of the other engineering disciplines take some probability and statistics, but none have integrated these topics more into their study of systems.

How does computing influence Industrial Engineering?

Probably no other aspect of technology has greater potential impact on Industrial Engineering than computing. Like all other engineers, IE's take computer programming. Specific Industrial Engineering specialty courses like real-time control and simulation expanding the role of computer science principles within Industrial Engineering.

Both computer science and Industrial Engineering share a common interest in discrete mathematical structures.

What are the specialties of Industrial Engineering?

Industrial Engineering at the undergraduate level is generally seen as a composition of four areas.

Operations Research (OR) includes a. Optimization, b. Decision analysis, c. Stochastic processes, d. and Simulation.
Production generally includes such aspects as economic analysis, production planning and control, quality control, facilities design, and other aspects of world-class manufacturing. Third is Manufacturing processes and systems. Finally Ergonomics deals with the human equation.

Methods and Techniques of Industrial Engineering

Human Effort Engineering - Techniques

1. Principles of Motion Economy 2. Motion Study 3. Workstation Design 4. Application of Ergonomics and Biomechanics 5. Fatigue Studies 6. Productivity/Safety/Comfort Device Design 7. Standardization of Operator Methods 8. Operator training 9. Incentive Systems 10. Job Evaluation 11. Learning effect capture 12. Work Measurement - Time Study, Predetermined Motion Time System (PMTS)

Relevance of Human Factor/Ergonomics on Industrial Safety

Safety Awareness - Safety Symbols and Equipment

Safety First

Efficiency Improvement Techniques of Industrial engineering

1. Method Study and Process Analysis 2. Operation Analysis 3. Lean Six Sigma 4. Value engineering 5. Statistical quality control , Statistical Process Control, Process Improvement using Statistical data 6. Statistical inventory control and ABC Classification Based Inventory Sytems 7. Six sigma 8. Operations research 9. Variety reduction 10. Standardization 11. Waste reduction or elimination 12. Activity based management 13. Business process improvement 14. Engineering economy analysis 15. Learning effect capture and continuous improvement (Kaizen, Quality circles and suggestion schemes) 16. Standard costing and Kaizen Costing 17. 5S 18. Lean systems

Role of Industrial Engineer

Industrial engineers analyze and evaluate methods of production and point out ways to improve them. They decide how a company should allocate its limited tangible resources (equipment and labor) within the framework of existing physical constraints (physical plant). An industrial engineers most difficult task is communicating his observations and suggestions to company executives, many of whom are emotionally invested in their traditional way of doing business. Industrial engineers must be tactful in what they say and in how they say it. In addition to tact, being a successful industrial engineer requires charm and the willingness to stand by ones recommendations even in the face of unresponsive management.

Recent Advances in Industrial Engineering

Recent Advances in Industrial Engineering addresses manufacturing processes and methods, optimization, experimental engineering design, and reliability and quality control techniques, as well as other topics, including: Quality management systems Computer supported collaborative engineering Human factors and ergonomics Engineering management and leadership Transportation network design Stochastics modeling Queueing theory

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