Industrial Engineering articles from November 1991

Industrial Engineering archives from November 1991

Developing professional enhancement plans in today's economy. (Around the Institute)
November 1, 1991... In the tight-money business environment of today, ensuring continued growth of the professional expertise of you and your fellow engineers is difficult. It is often too expensive to hire new talent, and commonly only limited funds are...

The art of delegating is hard to define. (Competitive Edge) (Column)
November 1, 1991... Is your engineering management growth limited because you cannot get everything done? Do you work more than five and a half days a week? Do you work 60 or more hours a week? Is your work never done, and the backlog growing? Are you the only...

The right linkages mean better distribution decisions. (Managing Distribution Operations)
November 1, 1991... Scores of discrete operations are needed to move a product from source to shelf; and logically, it is the distribution function that assumes responsibility for most of them. But how quickly, accurately and cost-effectively those same...

Today and tomorrow: speaking the language of the factory. (computer-integrated manufacturing)
November 1, 1991... "I have a business card with CIM on it," says H. Lee Hales, a partner with Coopers & Lybrand. "But I'm reluctant to show it sometimes because those of us who have been championing CIM as a vision of how manufacturing should be have been...

The components of a successful CIM implementation. (computer-integrated manufacturing)
November 1, 1991... In today's world market of global competition, it is imperative that companies consider all the available tools and take advantage of new technology to help them stay competitive. Automation is one of the competitive tools that is available....

Switzerland establishes CIM centers to study technology. (International Computer-Integrated Manufacturing)
November 1, 1991... Throughout the 1980s, the government of Switzerland realized that the country was falling behind other industrialized nations in the research, development and implementation of advanced manufacturing technologies, particularly in the field of...

Functional goals are often in conflict with each other. (theory of constraints)
November 1, 1991... Managers in all areas of operation in large and small manufacturing companies agree that it is no longer acceptable to think and operate in strict functional terms. Most are eager to grasp the concepts of computer-integrated manufacturing...

Dowty Aerospace introduces concurrent engineering. (Applications)
November 1, 1991... Dowty Aerospace introduces Concurrent Engineering A little over a year ago, Dowty Aerospace depended on drawing boards to fuel a linear development process. Today, the Los Angeles-based supplier of aircraft hydraulic actuation systems is...

Manufacturing system helps Teradata manage phenomenal growth. (Dun & Bradstreet's AMAPS/Q computer-aided manufacturing system)
November 1, 1991... Manufacturing System Helps Teradata Manage Phenomenal Growth Teradata Corp. has the kind of major business concern that would turn most manufacturers green with envy. It would be misleading, perhaps, to call it a problem, though there are...

Watervliet Arsenal hits its CAPP targets. (US Army Arsenal uses CimTelligence Corp.'s IntelliCapp computer-aided process planning system)
November 1, 1991... Watervliet Arsenal Hits its CAPP Targets Using IntelliCapp, a computer-aided process planning (CAPP) system developed and marketed by CimTelligence Corp., Lexington, Mass., the U.S. Army Arsenal at Watervliet, N.Y., can now create and...

Reduced manufacturing costs precipitate growth. (GageTalker Corp.'s use of Micro-MRP Inc.'s MicroMAXMRP computer-integrated manufacturing software)
November 1, 1991... Reduced Manufacturing Costs Precipitate Growth Inefficiencies associated with planning, scheduling, purchasing and tracking plague small manufacturing organizations that rely on outdated manual and single user systems. In the past,...

Using MRP system to implement JIT in continuous improvement effort. (Manufacturing Resource Planning, Just In Time)
November 1, 1991... As manufacturing philosophy has evolved over the last 10 years, Just In Time (JIT) has been recognized as the next step for Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II) practitioners. Much has been written to compare and contrast JIT and MRP II....

The backside of TQM: how waste indicates haste. (Total Quality Management) (TQM and the Environment)
November 1, 1991... During the rise of Japanese quality consciousness in productivity that has been going on for the last several decades, there has also been a grass-roots increase in concern over a different type of quality on this side of the Pacific....

Developing a curriculum for IE graduates of today and tomorrow. (industrial engineering) (Educational Directions)
November 1, 1991... There is a lot of talk today about the direction of industrial engineering. Is the profession taking the right path? Are today's IE graduates meeting the needs of industry? At a meeting in October 1990, members of the Council on...

New roles for manufacturing in concurrent engineering.
November 1, 1991... There are many similar terms to concurrent engineering, including integrated engineering, simultaneous engineering, integrated product development and value engineering. Regardless of which term a design team chooses to use, all can be...