Industrial Engineering articles from April 1993

Industrial Engineering archives from April 1993

Reengineering the human/machine partnership. (Column)
April 1, 1993... Achieving quality in manufacturing processes is an important part of the job description of everyone concerned with a manufacturing operation. The greatest savings can come when a quality system can immediately inform appropriate personnel when...

Will the last ethical individuals please step forward? (ethical issues in engineering) (Column)
April 1, 1993... Ethics continues to be a crisis in our American culture in the 1990s. Seemingly endless streams of stories about scandal, corruption and misuse of power cross the headlines and TV screens. From police pocketing drug money, to state legislators...

Utility uses CMMs for preventative maintenance. (Cogeneration Management Co.'s use of computerized maintenance management systems) (Applications: Maintenance)
April 1, 1993... It is no secret that the Boston area has some of the best medical facilities in the world. Since their work is life critical, it is also no surprise that they are highly dependant on utility companies like Cogeneration Management Co. (CMC),...

Automated time and attendance system cuts medical center costs. (Osteopathic Medical Center of Texas's use of the Kronos Hospital Timekeeper Central Multi-User system) (Applications: Time-and-Attendance)
April 1, 1993... Healthier institutions committed to improved productivity and quality are achieving significant results by automating their payroll data collection. Payroll can absorb as much as 60 percent of a healthcare institution's budget, so efficiencies...

Putting the lock on medical device costs. (Basic Industries' team-based approach to the manufacture of medical devices) (Applications: Cell Manufacturing)
April 1, 1993... To tame runaway manufacturing costs, confine them to a cell; a manufacturing cell. Specifically, use a team-based approach for the manufacture of medical devices to provide higher quality at lower costs with improved delivery. All the medical...

New process may eliminate hazards of burning sulfur fuels. (Allied-Signal's SOXAL process is being tested at Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.'s Dunkirk, NY, steam station) (Applications: Environmental Issues)
April 1, 1993... Allied-Signal recently began pilot-scale testing of a new technology to help coal-fired power plants reduce 99 percent of the sulfur dioxide-rich ([SO.sub.2]) smoke-stack emissions that cause acid rain as well as 90 percent of nitrogen oxide...

Strategies for improving America's healthcare system. (Cover Story)
April 1, 1993... America's healthcare system is the most expensive in the world. It already consumes 14 percent of everything the nation produces, and will devour 20 percent of our GNP by the year 2000 if current trends continue. Yet, despite high and rapidly...

Application of economic control charts by a nursing modeling team. (Henry Ford Hospital of Michigan's use of total quality management) (Cover Story)
April 1, 1993... The agfregate planning problem is a question that most engineers are asked to solve. The solution is expected to specifically define the "right" allocation of capital, manpower and supplies to meet a customer's demand for the product or...

Maturing of management engineering in today's hospitals. (Cover Story)
April 1, 1993... If you asked about the IE's role in a hospital several years ago, you might have heard a description that conjured up scorcer or magicians. "The engineer observes the radiology department, goes off and works on some formulas, does some...

Simulation programming for healthcare administration.
April 1, 1993... In healthcare, unlike manufacturing or industrial services, the problem of designing simulation software is multiplied greatly due to the diversity and number of services that are used by the medical staff in order to aid their ability to...

Resource management ensures healthy operations at Spohn Hospital. (Company Profile)
April 1, 1993... If it were not for the recession, healthcare would have been the most talked about issue of the 1992 presidential election. In fact, the recent recession probably magnified the problem: receiving healthcare is not cheap and not everyone can...

Automatic assembly systems in Japan and related industrial engineering problems.
April 1, 1993... The necessity of automatic assembly systems centered around assembly robots has recently increased in the Japanese industry, and such assembly robots have found their way into the assembly shop. At the same time, a variety of industrial...

Adapting to a changing system procedure. (Managerial Accounting)
April 1, 1993... Today's businesses operate in a fastpace, ever-changing, dynamic environment. Competitive conditions become tougher, putting the pressure on companies to improve performance of their operations, and/or to get involved in endless prices wars....

Scientific management and Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis. (Profiles from the Past)
April 1, 1993... The association between scientific management and former Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis is not well known today, and their influences on each other are not widely recognized. Those of us practicing industrial engineering are aware of...

A different view of management accounting in business and education.
April 1, 1993... Industries, in both the service and manufacturing sectors, are undergoing massive restructuring brought about by global competition, innovative application of technology to products and processes, and a stronger emphasis on cost management....