Sunday, April 8, 2012

Industrial Engineering Day - 7 July - Birth Day of Frank Gilbreth

Knol  Day  of Industrial  Engineering



Knol  Day  of Industrial  Engineering is expected to bring students, faculty and professionals of industrial engineering to knol platform.

Birth Day of Frank Gilbreth 7th July is being celebrated as the Knol Day of Industrial Engineering for the year 2010. Next year it will be birthday of F.W. Taylor (DOB: 20th March 1865)

Frank Gilbreth's birth day was 7th July 1868 ( http://answers.encyclopedia.com/question/frank-b-gilbreth-born-163426.html    )

Students of NITIE are posting number of articles which are summaries of various articles published in Industrial Engineer magazine

Index of articles written by IE students of NITIE, Mumbai, India on the occasion of Knol Day of Industrial Engineering

Industrial Engineer Magazine Article Summaries by 2010 IE Students NITIE, Mumbai, India

All visitors are requested to write comments on various issues related to industrial engineering in comments blocks.

Industrial Engineering - Introduction

Industrial engineering is explained as human effort engineering and system efficiency engineering by Narayana Rao.

The activities carried out in system efficiency engineering can be categorized as:

Methods efficiency engineering
Product design efficiency engineering
Inspection methods efficiency engineering
Materials handling efficiency engineering
Warehouse efficiency engineering

The emphasis on the term "efficiency" is very important. This term separates managers from industrial engineers and also functional engineers from industrial engineers. But industrial engineers improve efficiency of all systems, systems in factories, offices as well as management systems. Resource use efficiency in any system is the focus of industrial engineering discipline.

There are many knols (articles are called knols) on industrial engineering. Two of the collections are

1. Introduction to Industrial Engineering - Course at NITIE
2. Industrial Engineering - Knols of Narayana Rao K V S S
Some More Knols on Industrial Engineering

Flow Process Chart
Calculating the Standard Time for Manufacturing Tasks

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