A wide spectrum of tools and techniques exists to manage business
cost, output, utilization, cycle time, performance. This objective
book explains strategy, benefits and application of tools, and how
they fit and reinforce each other Basic IE principles apply widely,
to support efficiency and productivity not only in manufacturing
but also in the office, lab, maintenance shop, warehouse; service
industries, military, medical services, construction. The 400 plus
pages of this book present: Seven chapters on Industrial
Engineering. Theory, practice, application; how it all fits
together, payback of 10 times and how to get it, a sample charter.
Four chapters on industrial engineering within a broader management
structure; labor, materials, overhead, risk management. Eleven
chapters on Cost Reduction; Survive, Recover, or Thrive. Basics,
management, accounting, cherry pick, beyond cherry picking, do
operating practices interfere, value added, motivation. Thirteen
chapters on Work Measurement. What, Why, and How-To. Measurement
techniques, incentives, time study, work sampling, construction
piece rates, a model plan to establish work measurement, methods
checklists, glossary, useful forms. Twenty seven chapters on Plant
layout, facility design, floor planning. Benefits, concepts, work
flow and productivity, sequence, relocation, relationships between
elements of a layout, master plan, many tools to use, glossary.
Sixteen chapters on Facility Relocation, Merger, and Consolidation.
A plant instead of or in addition to, is it time to expand? to
relocate? Justification, the relocation marketplace, incentives and
taxes, site search, confidentiality, sequence. Examples of layouts
within different building shapes. Five chapters on Capacity,
Utilization, Constraints. Determine constraints, manage them,
optimize capacity. Four chapters on Lean, or the Toyota Production
System (although the author does not claim to be an expert). Lean
Manufacturing and its predecessors, Just In Time or Just In Case,
What the real Lean experts say, push or pull supply chain. A
chapter, Made in (the name of your country here). Good reasons to
keep manufacturing near the home market. For management and for the
practitioner, IE Theory, Practice and Application presents what,
why, benefits to expect, how to manage and how to practice the
discipline; with checklists; and forms. Practical, real-life
actions, on the production floor but also from the boardroom, are
suggested to support business and production management,
productivity and capacity. IE tools do not all perform the same
function. Furthermore, none of these tools is automatically
valuable or useful; each has pros and cons as you consider
potential cost and benefit in your circumstance. Select those
actions that will bring the most benefit to your circumstances and
objectives and which can be implemented by your organization. "Most
benefit" often refers to cost but not always; targets may in your
situation include output volume now or future growth, fast reaction
time, customer service, new products, new technology, quality,
technical innovation or excellence, market share. IE tools can help
attain all of these objectives.
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