Industrial Engineering articles from February 1994

Industrial Engineering archives from February 1994

Dramatic results possible when reengineering entire company.
February 1, 1994... Manufacturers that implement organization-wide changes to achieve competitive advantages are more likely to describe the outcome as "a dramatic improvement" than are those that reorganize only a portion of their company, according to a report...

Quality expert W. Edwards Deming dies at 93. (Obituary)
February 1, 1994... On December 20, 1993, quality's foremost preacher, W. Edwards Deming, died at the age of 93, leaving behind an endless list of honors and achievements and a congregation of followers that continues to grow. Credited with the miraculous...

Total employee involvement - why are you waiting?
February 1, 1994... The bookshelves have been stuffed recently with opinions extolling the benefits of employee involvement and continuous improvement. Everyone from CEO to professor to machine operator seems to agree that businesses have to elicit and use...

Technology transfer: a new era a new field for the IE. (industrial engineer)
February 1, 1994... If one looks around, from the Capital to the movie studios in Hollywood, Washington D.C. to Jurassic Park, a new topic seems to be evolving and revolving around both the American industrial society and the federal government. The new or...

Meeting business goals through data collection.
February 1, 1994... Data collection is coming of age in an era when companies require instant access to information on every aspect of their operations. As the needs for information become more complex, more and more companies are making information gathering an...

New technology challenges traditional RTU/PLC use. (remote terminal units, programmable logic controllers)
February 1, 1994... Rapidly changing technology in remote monitoring and industrial control could soon turn the RTU and PLC markets on their respective ears. Given the capabilities of new advanced technology, the differences between traditional Remote Terminal...

Successful automation begins with basic engineering.
February 1, 1994... During the past l0 to 20 years, many companies have turned to automation as the avenue for increasing productivity. Companies have invested thousands or even millions of dollars for new equipment software and training to provide organizations...

Work sampling: as a win/win management tool.
February 1, 1994... Work measurement has often been viewed as an adversarial process. Management attempts to measure labor costs; employees, fearing a speedup, actively interfere with the measurements. It doesn't have to be that way. It is possible to design a...

Reengineering complements BellSouth's major business strategies. (BellSouth Telecommunications Inc.)
February 1, 1994... In 1991, Adam-based BellSouth lost approximately $1.3 billion in net revenue to competitors -- nearly the same amount as the company's net income. Competitors are not waiting for BellSouth to wake up. Once content to nibble the edges,...

Mentorship: a stepping stone to simulation success. (using simulation in systems analysis)
February 1, 1994... By the year 2000, simulation will replace spreadsheets as the analytical tool of choice for systems analysis. The simulation software in the market today has become significantly easy to learn to the point that most engineers and analysts can...

Agile manufacturing initiatives at Concurrent Technologies Corp.
February 1, 1994... Agile manufacturing is a new concept rapidly gathering momentum among defense and commercial industries. Economic pressure, global competition, quality consciousness and high demand for system reliability continue to challenge traditional...

Design of experiments: neglected key to competitive R&D. (research and development)
February 1, 1994... Design of experiments is a discipline that applies statistics to the experimental process. It enables researchers to systematically vary a number of independent (input) variables in order to evaluate their effect on dependent (output)...