Industrial Engineering articles from January 1992

Industrial Engineering archives from January 1992

The warehouse of the future is still a warehouse. (Managing Distribution) (Column)
January 1, 1992... With a ton of high-tech help, today's manufacturers are making more top-quality products faster than ever before. They are tightening quality specs and streamlining production with CIM technologies, increasing visibility of raw materials and...

The 1990 Baldridge winners look backward and forward. (Wallace Company Inc., Cadillac Motor Car Division, IBM Rochester and Federal Express)
January 1, 1992... New would disagree that the Malcolm Baldrige Award has become the most prestigious honor be stowed upon a U.S. company. Federal Express, one of the Baldrige winners for 1990, said it was like winning the "World Series of Business." If the...

How to get the best information with minimal effort. (modeling glass behavior) (Technical)
January 1, 1992... Color is one of the principal elements that characterizes glass products and is an important quality factor. It is very important that a beer container, for example, does not allow the passage of high-energy ultraviolet light. The UV radiation...

Quality forecasting drives quality inventory at GE Silicones.
January 1, 1992... Quality forecasting? Everyone knows that forecasts are always wrong. Variation is inherent in this process. After a few years of running an unsuccessful forecasting system and after two years of a successful one, GE Silicones has learned that...

More than just listening to the customer. (Norand Corp.'s system for monitoring customer feedback)
January 1, 1992... When customers talked, Norand Corp. listened. But the company found that this is not enough. Understanding customers requires more than simply listening when they talk. To develop a more comprehensive, reliable and consistent understanding,...

A manager's guide to statistical methods.
January 1, 1992... In a highly competitive market," notes Jay Paradis, President of based distributor of construction and mining equipment, "fact-based management is not only desirable, it is essential. Our markets are too competitive. We can't afford to guess...

Air Force Work Information Management System creates an organizational impact. (minicomputer-based systems for facilities management )
January 1, 1992... Air Force base-level civil engineering is responsible for facility maintenance of 133 installations world wide. These facilities have over 10,700,000 acres of land with 475,000 buildings, 12,600 miles of roads, and 245 million square yards of...