Industrial Management articles from September 1994

Industrial Management archives from September 1994

Simulation: not just for engineers. (microcomputer simulation)
September 1, 1994... Microcomputer simulation has become one of the most innovative approaches to process analysis in industry. Today, a wide variety of packages are available that can easily model and animate complex system-level industrial processes. While IEs have...

Employees get satisfaction, but only when properly motivated.
September 1, 1994... How can you keep employees dedicated and productive when you cannot give traditional rewards, such as promotions and raises, as often as in the past? What can you do to retain valuable people when you are asking them to do more with fewer...

How do safety, ergonomics and quality management interface?
September 1, 1994... Safety can be defined as that state for which the risks are judged to be acceptable. Ergonomics is defined as the art and science of designing work to fit the worker. Quality management includes the entirety of the processes that achieve customer...

Research priorities in marginal companies.
September 1, 1994... Perhaps the most meaningful and obvious definition of a marginal firm is one that is not making money. This is not totally accurate, because a small, high-technology start-up may not make money for quite some time, but may possess a bright and...

Creating successful selection strategies for simulation software.
September 1, 1994... Spreadsheet software played a big role in creating the multi-billion dollar microcomputer marketplace by allowing financial managers the ability to create accurate models of their finances. The spreadsheet models defined the interrelationships...

Project management and TQM: why aren't project managers coming on board?
September 1, 1994... With its own collection of venerable gurus and enlightened sayings, total quality management (TQM) spread throughout the U.S. and the rest of the industrial world as the latest miracle cure for every management illness. TQM methods are in use or...

TQM and the market structure. (total quality management)
September 1, 1994... Total quality management (TQM) is characterized as innovation, a systematic method for continuous improvement -- a breakthrough philosophy. But can TQM apply to any kind of market and product, and to what degree? In other words, should we always...

Technology transfer in a culturally diverse workforce. (part II)
September 1, 1994... In the book Megatrends 2000, the author states, "Countries throughout the world are making progress in the integration of human resources and technology. Asia's Pacific Rim has demonstrated for all to see that a poor country can develop, even...

The voluntary standard that is now mandatory. (ISO 9000)
September 1, 1994... Current literature provides a chronological evolution of quality management. It begins with Taylor (1911) and includes contributions by Deming (1968), Taguchi (1976-77), Crosby (1979), Juran (1982), and Ishikawa (1984). A common principle...

Expert systems: application to inventory control and production management.
September 1, 1994... Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an emerging information technology being applied to enhance manufacturing operations. AI encompasses several areas of research: * Searching for solutions; * Learning; * Logic; * Uncertainty; ...

Using group technology in JIT firms: comparing small and large manufacturers.
September 1, 1994... Just-in-time (JIT) and group technology (GT) have both received considerable attention in literature of the past decade. As domestic manufacturers strive to compete with foreign competition, especially the Japanese, JIT and GT present two...