Industrial Engineering articles from August 1990

Industrial Engineering archives from August 1990

IIE San Francisco conference concentrates on competitiveness in a transnational environment. (IIE International Industrial Engineering Conference)(special report)
August 1, 1990... IIE San Francisco Conference Concentrates On Competitiveness In A Transnational Environment The recent 1990 IIE International Industrial Engineering Conference proved to be one of the most successful in recent years. This year's...

Start with the people. (guidelines for improving factory management)(JIT/MRP II) (column)
August 1, 1990... Start With The People In most factories there is an imaginary basket next to the time clock. As each worker passes by to punch in at the beginning of the day, they are expected to remove their brain and place it in this basket. At the end of...

Material flow is money flow. (Material Handling) (column)
August 1, 1990... Material Flow Is Money Flow The flow of materials through the business system is the physical manifestation of the flow of money through the enterprise. All of the costs of materials, labor, overhead, and marketing must be accounted for as a...

Are you a good decision maker? (Competitive Edge) (column)
August 1, 1990... Are You A Good Decision Maker? In engineering there is little tolerance for bad decisions. With limited resources, just one bad decision may have a devastating effect. Reduce the impact of a bad decision by reviewing the results you are...

Productivity implementation management must start with commitment from the top. (health care industry)
August 1, 1990... Productivity Implementation Management Must Start With Commitment From The Top There must be senior management commitment, there must be middle management commitment, there must be line commitment and there must be staff commitment....

Moscow diary: star is rising for industrial engineering and industrial engineers. (potential for industrial engineers in Russia, part 1 of 2)(includes related article on excerpts from President Mikhail Gorbachev's report to the 27th Congress of Communist Party of the Soviet Union)
August 1, 1990... Moscow Diary: Star Is Rising For Industrial Engineering And Industrial Engineers (This is the first in a two-article series about the potential for industrial engineers in Russia.) As a member of a delegation of industrial and economic...

'Hands-off' manufacturing transcends limits of CIM. (computer integrated manufacturing)
August 1, 1990... `Hands-Off' Manufacturing Transcends Limits of CIM Tom Waldoch of the 3M Company recently pointed out ("From CIM to IMS Spelled Success at 3M," Industrial Engineering, February, 1990) that the imperatives of today's competitive environment...

Printer incorporates Deming - reduces errors, increases productivity. (Edwards Deming's Quality Process Commitment program)(Publishers Press)
August 1, 1990... Printer Incorporates Deming -- Reduces Errors, Increases Productivity Only in the past two or three years have an increasing number of printing, separating, and publishing companies began to apply successfully the principles of a QPC program....

Your key to success in the competitive marketplace? Unlocking employee potential. (effective personnel management strategies)
August 1, 1990... Your Key To Success In The Competitive Marketplace? Unlocking Employee Potential Inspite of the technical sophistication of their manufacturing facilities and training programs, most American manufacturers have been finding it increasingly...

Opportunity assessment and planning process works for EG&G's group problem solving. (EG&G Idaho Inc., Idaho National Engineering Laboratory)
August 1, 1990... Opportunity Assessment And Planning Process Works For EG&G's Group Problem Solving Problem-solving groups allow the industrial engineer to bring together diverse knowledge and encourage cooperation between different departments of an...

Expert systems join the Navy: artificial intelligence is applied to procurement.
August 1, 1990... Expert Systems Join The Navy: Artificial Intelligence Is Applied To Procurement Artificial intelligence expert system's applications are becoming a very exciting area in the field of management engineering. Expert systems are used today in...

Hughes Aircraft designs automated storeroom system through simulation application. (Hughes Aircraft Company Radar Systems Group)
August 1, 1990... Hughes Aircraft Designs Automated Storeroom System Through Simulation Application Hughes Aircraft Company, Radar Systems Group of El Segundo, California, manufactures airborne radar systems for the F14, F15, and F18 military aircraft. A...

Models of random machine downtimes for simulation. (manufacturing systems) (column)
August 1, 1990... Models Of Random Machine Downtimes For Simulation The most important source or randomness for many manufacturing systems is that associated with machine breakdowns or unscheduled downtime results from such events as actual machine failures,...

Horizontal carousels improve Apple's European distribution. (Applications)
August 1, 1990... Horizontal carousels improve Apple's European distribution Apple Computer Company recently faced a problem with coordinating inventory, production and market demand in a diverse international marketplace. It turned to Richards-Wilcox for a...