Industrial Engineering articles from May 1993

Industrial Engineering archives from May 1993

Warehousing: the strategic weapon for customer service.
May 1, 1993... The customer is king. We must face this reality. The customer expects the right product, undamaged, at the right time for a reasonable cost. If we cannot do this, the customer will find someone who will. Customer service is therefore key to any...

Northern Telecom achieves improved quality by combining DOE and SPC. (statistical process control)(includes bibliography)
May 1, 1993... There has been a large amount of discussion in industrial literature regarding the use of experimental design and quality engineering techniques to achieve optimal quality in manufacturing processes. This work is characterized by highly...

In memoriam ... colleagues and profession mourn loss of long-time friend. (industrial engineer Roger P. Denney) (Obituary)
May 1, 1993... Roger P. Denney, director of engineering for the Johns Hopkins School of Engineering's Part-time Programs In Engineering and Applied Science in Montgomery County, Maryland, has died at the age of 55. Denney, who graduated from Johns...

Navigating to avoid the simulation vortex. (choosing and managing engineering simulation software)
May 1, 1993... For the past eight years, during the summer, my wife and I get together with some good friends and take a trip to Wyoming to go white water rafting. The first year we went, we enlisted the services of an experienced guide who helped us...

Total quality management: how to know when it will work? (basic management attitudes impact improved quality efforts)
May 1, 1993... W. Edwards Deming went to Japan in 1949 to assist the U.S. Army in building a telecommunications system. While there, he taught the Japanese about measuring processes. It was a simple philosophy. If the time, energy and resources are to be...

ISO-9000 certification made easier with maintenance system. (International Standards Organization, one industrial company improves maintenance code)
May 1, 1993... Management at Intalco Aluminum Co., an Alumax Co., decided in 1991 to begin the process toward ISO-9000 certification. Because of the nature of the standard itself, and the nature of quality, maintenance played a key role in the preparation for...

System analysis improves investment efficiency. (industrial engineers use simulation software packages for design)
May 1, 1993... Litton Industrial Automation designs, builds and installs material handling equipment, special purpose and flexible metal removal machines, assembly and test equipment, welding lines and also provides systems integration services for the...

Flowcharting software aids quality program. ( Medical Advances Inc. uses Clear Software Inc.'s allCLEAR charting package)
May 1, 1993... Medical Advances Inc., Milwaukee, Wis., designs and manufactures RF antennas,commonly know as "surface oils," for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems. These antennas are sold directly to physicians, radiologists and hospitals, and on an...

Symbol technologies arrives "just in time" at Collins & Aikman. (computer integrated manufacturing at textile supplier to automakers)
May 1, 1993... At Collins & Aikman, a $1.2 billion maker of specialty textiles and wallcovers, including carpeting and textiles for the automobile industry, the customer does most of the driving lately. That's because American car makers have been adopting...

Multi-national logistics system implementation at Western Digital. (computer integrated management at Western Digital Corp.)
May 1, 1993... International functionality, flexibility, ease-of-use and compatibility with the existing manufacturing software package. These were a few of the attributes that the management of Western Digital was looking for in multi-national logistics,...

Getting from "minority-owned" to "world class". (synchronous manufacturing at HS Automotive metalforming company)
May 1, 1993... It started out as a challenge that filled him with dread. Now Ed Sellers sees synchronous manufacturing as the vehicle that will transport his company from one perceived as "minority-owned" to one perceived as "world-class". Sellers is...

Simulation: how to set goals and how to get started. (computer-aided design of manufacturing systems)
May 1, 1993... Simulation is now an integral part of the majority of high-value manufacturing programs. The degree of sophistication varies greatly with the scope of the work, the equipment involved and, to some extent, the IE's own beliefs and comfort levels...

Simulation brings productivity enhancements to the Social Security Administration. (Cover Story)
May 1, 1993... Cutting the deficit and trimming the workforce are recurring themes with respect to the federal govemments. While there are differing opinions as to exactly where, how and when all the cutting and trimming should take place, one thing is...

A forum on crucial issues in simulation modeling. (Panel Discussion)
May 1, 1993... In this article five simulation practitioners discuss a number of critical issues facing a person who is trying to use simulation to design a new system or to improve the performance of an existing system. Those practitioners include John...

Twenty questions for your simulation consultant. (industrial engineering design)
May 1, 1993... In nearly twenty years of building simulation models, hiring and managing simulation consultants, I have developed some strong feelings about how simulation consulting ought to be performed. If I were a new consumer of simulation services, I...

44th International Industrial Engineering Conference highlights. (May 1993 conference preview)
May 1, 1993... The 44th International Industrial Engineering Conference will be held this year in Los Angeles, Calif., May 24-26. The conference will offer 10 information "Tracks," each including presentations (over 100) by a number of prominent IEs in both...

An ABC guide to business process reengineering.
May 1, 1993... A lot of claims are made for and about this thing called Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and as practitioners/managers of change, it is healthy for us to have more than a little cynicism about what BPR is and how it can impact the...

Managing change with configuration-value management.
May 1, 1993... As you sit reading this article there A may be a time-bomb ticking near you. The bomb was not set by an enemy or terrorist group, but by the most trusted individuals in your company. The people that keep your company together may be unknowingly...