Industrial Engineering articles from June 1993

Industrial Engineering archives from June 1993

Helping seniors is a full-time job for young entrepreneur. (Comfort House)(Company Profile) (Company Profile)
June 1, 1993... When Jeffrey Gornstein graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1990 with a management/industrial engineering degree, he seemed set on a traditional industrial engineering career. He accepted a management engineering job with the Port...

Forklift application surveys improve productivity. (Material Handling)
June 1, 1993... In most facilities, material handling demands change over time as production and distribution systems are added or modified. However, if the abilities of the plant's forklifts do not keep pace with the changing workload, inefficiency and...

Discovering methods to reduce workplace stress. (Management)
June 1, 1993... Our research indicates that a moderate level of stress within the work environment is appropriate and often fosters productivity. The traumatic and drastic restructuring and reorganization of American industry in the 1980s, combined with...

Conversion: an industrial engineering challenge. (conversion of aerospace and defense industries to peacetime purposes)(Aerospace and Defense)
June 1, 1993... Industrial engineers working in the defense industry are positioned to play a pivotal role in the process of converting military manufacturing processes to alternative uses. IEs should view the current transition as a professional...

Implementing an integrated system to manage design and manufacturing. (ELDEC Corp.)
June 1, 1993... ELDEC Corp., a Lynnwood, Wash., manufacturer of custom electronic systems and subsystems for the aerospace market, is implementing an integrated system for the management of all design and manufacturing information. The original projects in...

Investment in new production capacity under uncertain market conditions.
June 1, 1993... Frequent lack of success in the implementation of new strategies in companies in answer to the deep and fast changes that are taking place in the environment has its roots many times in mental models (the deeply held assumptions that influence...

Advanced technology and its impact on facility planning.
June 1, 1993... Business issues pose new challenges as we face a global economy in the new world order and the intense competition in a lagging domestic marketplace. This combination of conditions mandates our need to face change, not only as a challenging...

I.E. income update: new salary survey results.
June 1, 1993... The total average (mean) compensation for industrial engineers responding to the survey is $55,208 (up 13.3 percent in the four years since the previous survey in this series). Who is the nighest paid lie member? The lowest paid?...

Project management: emerging as a requisite for success.
June 1, 1993... Increasing competition, both at home and overseas, conspired with the global economic downturn in the early '90s to squeeze all sectors of the U.S. economy. While the short-term impact of the heightened fiscal crunch was detrimental to the...

Enterprise-wide project management.
June 1, 1993... Enterprise- wide project management is the application of project management techniques and practices across the full scope of the enterprise. The enterprise may be a large corporation, a government institution, a small business unit or any...

Employees draw their own road map for cultural change.
June 1, 1993... Since the end of 1990, representatives of businesses such as Ford, 3M and Honeywell have traveled to Albany to investigate the GE Business Information Center (GEBIC), the company front door for business customers looking for personalized...

Software tools for supporting planning.
June 1, 1993... Most enterprises are currently faced with much potential change. Whether they are industrial, commercial, governmental, or academic, enterprises are reconsidering their markets, or constituencies, and their offerings. Further, they are coming...

Process flow modeling and analysis: a practitioner's approach.
June 1, 1993... Much work performed by engineers and analysts in manufacturing, distribution and service organizations involves process flow analysis and design. In designing anew process or modifying an existing one, designers want an efficient flow of...

An expert system approach to administer acceptance control. (Statistical Quality Control)
June 1, 1993... An enormous gap exists between the reality of the Statistical Quality Control (SQC) field and the knowledge within academic circles. Numerous methods of acceptance sampling inspection, a two-point inspection plan, rectifying inspection plan,...

Beyond quality you can see and feel.
June 1, 1993... If you consider your corporate relationship to quality, keep in mind that there are different types of quality. Specified quality is measured against a written specification furnished by the customer or your corporation. This is the most common...