IIE Solutions articles from January 1998

IIE Solutions archives from January 1998

IE and NFL spell success for coaching legend. (industrial engineering concepts used by Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry)
January 1, 1998... When you think of professional football, the first thing that comes to mind probably is not quality control. But if you're former Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry, and you're using your IE background, a concept such as quality control might be...

Manufacturing: more material handling than processing.
January 1, 1998... When someone mentions manufacturing, many people think of automobile assembly lines, steel mills, aircraft plants, or high-tech electronics operations. These manufacturing images typically evoke processes such as machining, painting, and...

Looking at material handling within the big picture.
January 1, 1998... I admit it - I'm impressed with big material handling systems. Why? Perhaps because big automation appeals to the kid in all of us who likes to play with Tinker Toys and Lego bricks. And material handling systems get some pretty good press. If...

Don't discount history in real-world projects.(Point-Counterpoint: Simulation Input Data)
January 1, 1998... Several years ago, one of the authors and a colleague were pondering the dearth of use of named statistical distributions in simulation modeling. They estimated that in 85 percent of the projects in which they had been involved, they had used...

Watching what you write. (technical writing for engineers)
January 1, 1998... Just as most business people can no longer compete without a certain amount of computer literacy, engineers are increasingly forced to spend as much time writing about their work as doing it. Want to sell your ideas to top management? Fund new...

Points to consider in selecting facilities planning software. (includes buyers' guide)
January 1, 1998... Facilities planning software can assist industrial engineers in many ways. For example, it can format or structure a planning project, speed data gathering and processing, and help place areas or features into a layout. It can also help decide...

In the beginning, there were 12. (history of Institute of Industrial Engineers)
January 1, 1998... In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, lie Solutions presents the first in a series of histories, reflections, and projections about IIE. More than a half-century after industrial engineering emerged as...

AGV system keeps profits flowing for dentrifice producer. (automated guiding vehicles at )
January 1, 1998... CHALLENGE: Reduce wasted product and production time resulting from pipeline purging at dentrifice producer. STRATEGY: Switch to "pipeless processing" system by using pot-toting automated guided vehicles (AGVs) to replace miles of piping that...