Sunday, April 8, 2012

Industrial Engineering Techniques

Industrial Engineering Techniques is an on-site 40-hour program, normally presented in five consecutive days, which provides new engineers, supervisors, non-IEs, and other technical and non-technical personnel a grounding in classical Industrial Engineering methods and procedures.
The program relies heavily on interactive demonstrations, teamwork, video, and class exercises. This program has been presented many times for automobile manufacturers and OEM suppliers, and uses numerous video examples of real plant scenes in fabrication and assembly operations. The overall program consists of several "modules" that may added or deleted to produce a custom program of 24 to 40 hour duration if desired.
1.0  Introduction to Industrial Engineering and Methods Analysis
     1.1  Definition of Industrial Engineering
     1.2  Relationship of Method to Time
     1.3  IE History; Taylor and Gilbreth

2.0  Methods Analysis and Work Measurement
     2.1  Manufacturing Systems and Concepts
     2.2  Methods Analysis and the Methods Engineering Approach
     2.3  Work Measurement

3.0  Manufacturing Systems Analysis
     3.1  Methods of Organizing Information
     3.2  Symbol systems
     3.3  The Fabrication Chart
     3.4  The Precedence Chart
     3.5  The Flow Chart
     3.6  The Process Chart
     3.7  The Flow-Process Chart

4.0  The Analysis of Manual Methods
     4.1  Components of job study; task, element, act, motion,
     4.2  Purposes of  job analyses
     4.3  Effects on method
     4.4  Variation in Output within Fixed Limits
     4.5  The Acts
     4.6  Review of analysis form and sample Act Breakdown
     4.7  Progressive improvement

5.0  Methods Summary Charting
     5.1  Definition and purpose of methods summary charting
     5.2  Types of charts; man/man, man/machine
     5.3  Review of methods summary chart
     5.4  Video exercises

6.0  Ineffective Worker Movement Analysis
     6.1  Definition
     6.2  Causes of Ineffective Worker Movements
     6.3  Video examples
     6.4  Six steps of analysis
     6.5  Analysis form--Ineffective Worker Movement
     6.6  Team exercises

7.0  Motion Economy and Workplace Layout
     7.1  Improving the motion path; barriers
     7.2  Workplace layout principles
     7.3  Motion Economy Check List; discussion of 20 Principles

8.0  Ergonomics (Human Factors)
     8.1  Definition
     8.2  Scope and history
     8.3  Anthropometry
     8.4  Discussion of body dimensions
     8.5  Workplace design dimensions
     8.6  NIOSH guidelines for manual lifting
     8.7  Hand tool design

9.0  Work Measurement
     9.1  Overview of work measurement concepts
     9.2  The Standard Hour Concept
     9.3  Time study
          9.3.1  Stopwatches
          9.3.2  Procedure
          9.3.3  Work description
          9.3.4  Elemental breakdown
          9.3.5  Types of method description
          9.3.6  Keywords, breakpoints
          9.3.7  Irregular elements, foreign elements
          9.3.8  Number of cycles to study
     9.4  Evaluating operator performance
          9.4.1  Definition
          9.4.2  Characteristics of normal performance
          9.4.3  Performance descriptors; skill, effort, pace, etc.
          9.4.4  Benchmarks
          9.4.5  Performance rating systems
          9.4.6  Selection of an average operator
     9.5  Recording the data
           9.5.1  Snapback vs. continuous study
     9.6  Time study exercises

10.0 Work Sampling
     10.1 Introductory Video
     10.2 Work Sampling Procedure
          10.2.1 Statistical principles, randomness
          10.2.2 Demonstration
          10.2.3 Determination of sample size; alignment chart
          10.2.4 Design of study elements
          10.2.5 Taking the study; instantaneous observation
          10.2.6 Tracking progress of the study
     10.3 Work Measurement Sampling
     10.4 Use of an electronic random reminder; time management

11.0 Line Balancing
     11.1 Discussion--Use of powered lines
     11.2 Factors influencing product assembly; design, equipment, precedence
     11.3 Build methods; process or product orientation, fixed position
     11.4 Line types; straight, circular, indexing or continuous
     11.5 Requirements for the line balancing process
     11.6 Line balancing procedure
     11.7 Line balance-powered line operations
     11.8 Line balance class problem (team exercise)

12.0 Summary and Critique

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