Industrial Engineering articles from December 1993

Industrial Engineering archives from December 1993

Jobs Rated Almanac ranks IE as top engineering discipline. (industrial engineering)
December 1, 1993... Industrial engineering has been ranked ahead of all other degreed engineering disciplines and 18th out of 250 occupations as reported in the newest edition of. Jobs Rated Almanac, a resource directory published in 1992 by Pharos Books. The Jobs...

Organization change and individual behavior. (The Human Side) (Column)
December 1, 1993... Organization change is not a panacea for all your business ailments. Doing a poor job at implementing change can be worse than no change at all. It can do serious harm to your operation. Still, many companies are trying to change because of the...

OSRAM Sylvania's time-based continuous improvement approach to BPR. (Business Process Reengineering)
December 1, 1993... The standard-issue time cards used at an OSRAM SYLVANIA manufacturing plant in Pennsylvania were fine, except they did not quite match the plant's time clock, which imprinted over the space designed for the employee's social security number. To...

Logistics, transportation and distribution: engineering service and profits.
December 1, 1993... In these competitive times, there is great pressure to improve customer service, and at the same time to find cost savings wherever possible. Companies that focus on improvements in logistics, transportation, and distribution (LT&D) often find...

IE techniques improve productivity at service companies. (industrial engineering)
December 1, 1993... American President Companies (APC), a containerized transportation company, routinely uses techniques commonly associated with industrial engineering to help improve productivity and gain a competitive advantage in the global marketplace. And...

Examination of 10-year trends in logistics information systems.
December 1, 1993... Logistics has been identified as having the potential to become the next governing element of corporate strategy to create value for customers, generate cost savings, enforce discipline on marketing and extend production flexibility. Logistics...

Integrated supply chain management: what's wrong with this picture? (Logistics)
December 1, 1993... Much has been written in the past few years about "integrated logistics," "the total cost concept" and "supply chain management." However, very few companies claim to have fully implemented these concepts, and even fewer claim to have sustained...

Designing a surface mount technology line with simulation.
December 1, 1993... This article describes the use of simulation in planning, design and implementation of a new surface mount technology (SMT) production line. The application took place in a company where a high mix of electronic products at low volumes are...