Industrial Engineering articles from January 1993

Industrial Engineering archives from January 1993

Winning the quality race with prevention, deployment and evaluation. (quality deployment model for QC)
January 1, 1993... Quality through defect identification and inspection is expensive because it requires extensive resources to implement. The approach used to achieve continuous quality improvement strategies thus must be prevention based, as it is more cost...

Improving business using simulation analysis techniques.
January 1, 1993... Once a tool just for manufacturing, process simulation software is now available for service industries. This is fortunate timing, as "Service America" seeks to bolster lagging productivity and redesign its basic operations. In the past,...

Strengthening manufacturing education with inputs from industry.
January 1, 1993... Schools of engineering and technology must develop a strong connection with the manufacturing industry. Graduates must be prepared to face the tough problems of manufacturing. The recent graduates and the companies that hire them are prime...

Establishing and maintaining a successful safety and health program.
January 1, 1993... The priority in establishing a successful safety and health program is to assign safety responsibility to each level of management and supervision. Each level in an organization must have the overall responsibility and authority to make the...

Quality leadership at Baxter Healthcare Corporation. (company's interpretation of total quality management) (Cover Story)
January 1, 1993... During the past 15 years, total quality management (TQM) has been implemented throughout American industry. This activity has been prevalent in the manufacturing sectors of the American economy. The main objective has been to guide the...

Continuous improvement and the IE: defining a new role. (Industrial engineer) (Tutorial)
January 1, 1993... In industry after industry, company after company, the tidal wave of continuous improvement activity is challenging the way business has always been done. Even the most conservative and "old style" companies are being pressured into trying...

Purpose-driven product and process design.
January 1, 1993... How does your company go about designing new products and processes? If your company is like most, you typically keep track of all the problems you discover in your existing products and processes and you identify any advantages your...

Taking necessary steps to motivate quality programs.
January 1, 1993... A recent editor's note in Industrial Engineering magazine referenced two recent articles in other periodicals outlining the failure of many quality programs attempted by American industry. This fact should be alarming to corporate America and...

Training today's managers to effectively use TQM.
January 1, 1993... Today more than ever, gut level, intuitive, decision making may lead managers to wrong conclusions. That style may have been suitable for earlier times when managing a business was far less complex and when the line separating profit from loss...

Filko restructures packaging operation to free warehouse space. (Filko Automotive Products)
January 1, 1993... Filko Restructures Packaging Operation To Free Warehouse Space Filko Automotive Products is raising internal business efficiency to a fine art. With the help of a print/apply labeling system called Datapply, this Chicagobased manufacturer...

Motorola's ASIC division reduces defects and improves quality. (application specific integrated circuits)
January 1, 1993... Whoever said "change isn't good" does not know Bob Watkins, division statistical process control coordinator for the Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) division of Motorola. Watkins was charged with making something already good...

Military contractor converts to more civilian production. (Israel Aircraft Industries)
January 1, 1993... U.S. government spending for military equipmentis being slashed. Programs are being canceled or scaled back, in a depressing period for U.S. military contractors and their employees. Virtually every contractor faces the loss of some business....

How Northern Trust improved its competitive positions with the three Rs. (employee training programs)
January 1, 1993... To remain competitive in today's global marketplace, American workers must be flexible, learn new tasks and take on more responsibility for their company' s success. However national studies indicate that the nation's schools have not...

Methods to help reengineer your company for improved agility.
January 1, 1993... Drive down the time it takes to develop and deliver new products, dramatically reduce inventory and manufacturing time, slash the cost of quality and win back market share. Get ideas off the drawing board and into the market place faster. Move...

Quality through equality: using TQM to hire and retain workers with disabilities. (total quality management)
January 1, 1993... Two national trends are changing he face of American industry today. They are: a decision to reach for total quality in order to achieve global market share, and a commitment to civil rights for people with disabilities. As organizations move...