Industrial Engineering articles from June 1992

Industrial Engineering archives from June 1992

Solving the challenge of global business ethics: when in Rome, do what?
June 1, 1992... The world's business ethical challenge was the subject of the Ethics of Business in a Global Economy conference held in Columbus, Ohio, March 25-27, 1992. The Council for Ethics in Economics (CEE) sponsored the conference. Leaders from 18...

Vision and value: keys to initiating organizational change.
June 1, 1992... In this series we have been examining the negative effects of traditional, bureaucratic organizations. The preceding two articles discussed the overcontrol inherent in these organizations, its effect on motivation, and how the change process...

How well can flexibility be measured? (flexible manufacturing)
June 1, 1992... How well flexibile manufacturing can be managed depends directly upon how well flexibility can be measured. The inability to accurately measure flexibility is one reason that flexible manufacturing has had such limited success. This situation...

Cellular system creativity brings pump production back to U.S. (cellular manufacturing)
June 1, 1992... Ingersoll-Rand's Standard Pump Division, Allentown, Pa., needed to find a more cost-effective way to process its family of large centrifugal pumps. Inefficiencies of traditional standalone machining and batch processing methods had forced...

Systems helps Deere & Co. weather market fluctuations.
June 1, 1992... John Deere & Co. is an international manufacturer of agricultural equipment, lawn care products and construction equipment. The Waterloo Tractor Works employs 5,000 workers at the 7.5 million-square-foot facility in Waterloo, Iowa. A total of...

Steel Heddle uses high-tech motion analysis.
June 1, 1992... U.S. textile equipment manufacturers once played a leading role on the world scene. Now, most of them have gone out of business, retrenched or turned their attentions elsewhere. But in Greenville, S.C., Steel Heddle (founded in 1898) bucks...

Airline's customer service goals aided by automated curbside luggage check-in. (Northwest Airlines Inc.)
June 1, 1992... Northwest Airlines Inc., which became America's number one on-time airline in 1991, has rolled out a new Telxon Corp., Akron, Ohio, automated curbside luggage check-in system as part of an aggressive program to lead the nation's carriers in...

Proceed one step at a time to implement automation effectively. (automation planning) (Technical)
June 1, 1992... Successful automation planning and implementation is best approached in a step-wise fashion. Whether implementing production equipment or computer systems and software, the five step approach outlined in this article can help ensure success....

Keeping it simple to reduce spoiled efficiency in the food industry. (La Victoria packing plant)
June 1, 1992... "K.I.S.S.-Keep It Simple Son! -- that is what I tell myself," grins Wes Guthrie, purchasing expediter at La Victoria Foods, City of Industry, Calif. "The simpler it is in a food plant the better efficiency you have because there is less to...

Plant automation improves product quality and efficiency.
June 1, 1992... Ravenswood Aluminum Corporation, Ravenswood, West Va., and Trimark Inc., Pittsburgh, Penn., partnered to upgrade the control system at the Ravenswood Green Carbon Anode Production facility. Ravenswood Aluminum Corp. (RAC), located...

IEs help transform industrial productivity and quality in Taiwan. (industrial engineers)
June 1, 1992... Industrial engineers are superior decision makers, and as systems integrators, they can play major roles in industrial productivity and quality improvement. We recently served as training consultants to the China Productivity Center in...

Industrial Engineering's 1992 automatic identification buyer's guide.
June 1, 1992... Automatic Data Collection: Technologies Designed For The 21st Century There are a number of technologies comprising the automatic data collection family. They all have the same purpose -- to accurately and rapidly capture data. They...