Industrial Engineering articles from March 1994

Industrial Engineering archives from March 1994

A seasoned IE revisits the principles of good handling practice. (philosophies of industrial engineering) (Material Handling)
March 1, 1994... Our predecessors bestowed upon this generation principles of good handling practice that take on a different meaning in an information age. Concepts that seemed like an excellent scientific solution at the time, in retrospect, frequently leave...

Virtual reengineering. (reengineering explained)
March 1, 1994... Eveywhere I go these days, I see or hear about virtual reality, a phrase"that is frequently used to describe systems that attempt to replace much or all of the user's experience of the physical world with synthesized three-dimensional material...

Planarization removal rate increased by 25 percent using DOE. (Ultramax Corp.'s Ultramax designs of experiments software) (Applications)
March 1, 1994... A semiconductor chemical-mechanical planarizer (CMP) is essentially a rotating abrasive table drenched with a chemical slurry. Semiconductor wafers -- thin silicon disks of four to eight inches in diameter -- arrive at the machine in a rack or...

Cycle-time reduction: a minute saved is a minute earned. (Motorola Inc.'s Applications Consulting Team)(Applications)
March 1, 1994... Customer satisfaction is essential to companies wanting to remain competitive in today's business environment. The fastpaced lifestyle of most Americans demands companies to deliver products and services without delay. No longer is it...

Business partnership breaks down production obstacles. (Sikorsky Aircraft uses Andersen Consulting's Procurement/D and MAC-PAC/D integrated procurement software) (Applications)
March 1, 1994... Building business partnerships, not only with its customers, but also with industry. consultants, has been long in the making at Sikorsky Aircraft. When the division first realized in 1987 that it needed to tackle production obstacles that...

X marks the spot for quality tracking system. (Heidtman Steel installs Hewlett Packard's X terminals)
March 1, 1994... Heidtman Steel, the largest privately owned steel service center in the U.S., as part of its corporate and industry-wide commitment to improving quality, has developed a quality tracking system now being implemented in all of its plants. ...

Benchmarking is more than organized tourism. (implementing benchmarks)
March 1, 1994... The two major duties of an industrial engineer in a business are designing/implementing efficient new production centers and improving the performance of existing centers. The engineer does this by creating the best combinations of...

Performance measurement takes center stage at Johnson Space Center.
March 1, 1994... A wise man once said that making tough decisions is like cleaning out your closets -- once you do, there is room for newer things. For the past two and one-half years, the management at the Johnson Space Center's (JSC) Facility Operations &...

Manual materials handling: stop guessing and design.
March 1, 1994... Back injuries extract a heavy toll on virtually all industry and service-sector employers, comprising nearly a third of all workers compensation costs, exceeding by far every other type of compensable injury. The average cost per case of a back...

Applying common sense to balancing component placement machines.
March 1, 1994... It is always important to keep in mind the big picture in solving any problem. Failure to stop at each step along the way and ask, "Does this make sense for our problem and objectives?" could result in the project's failure. During a...

Carrier Transicold teams up with University of Tennessee to implement CLPS. (Carrier Lean Production Systems)
March 1, 1994... Even as it seemed to most that Carrier Transicold (CTD) was on the fight road -- with a proud past and present of market leadership -- some of its managers and engineers knew that the company would have to cast off tradition and learn new ways,...

The new reign of quality. (quality management)
March 1, 1994... If you want to know how important quality is to a manager, just take a look at his or her daily schedule. Nothing so accurately reflects managers' priorities as how they spend their time. Managers that typically spend 90 percent of their time...