1st Edition
Integration of Methods Improvement and Measurement into Industrial Engineering Functions
This book emphasizes the need to ask critical questions before implementing tools and their integration into the many applications in which industrial engineers work. This use of critical thinking will minimize the likelihood of mistakes that can result in the wasting of finite resources and the possible loss of life.
Included in this book are examples, both successful and unsuccessful, for each of the functions on which industrial engineers focus. These examples include the critical questions that were asked that resulted in success and those questions that were not asked that resulted in failure.
Integration of Methods Improvement and Measurement into Industrial Engineering Functions is applicable to students, new graduates, and practitioners in the areas of industrial engineering, human factors, materials processing, quality control, asset management, production control, and supply chain management, as well as those concerned with safety issues.
Chapter 1 Methods Improvement
Chapter 2 Measurement
Chapter 3 Integrating Methods Improvements for the Establishment of New Direct Labor Standards or Existing Direct Labor Standards
Chapter 4 Integrating Measurement into the Establishment of New Direct Labor Standards or Revision of Existing Direct Labor Standards
Chapter 5 Integrating Methods Improvement for a Possible Revision of an Existing or the Installation of a New Incentive System
Chapter 6 Installing Measurement in a Recently Installed or Existing Individual Incentive System
Chapter 7 Integrating Methods Improvement in the Revision of an Existing Group or Installation of a New Existing Group Incentive System
Chapter 8 Integrating Measurement in the Revision of an Existing Group Incentive System or Installation of a New Existing Group Incentive System
Chapter 9 Integrating Methods Improvements in a New or Existing Manufacturing Process Change
Chapter 10 Integrating Measurement into Changing an Existing or Developing a New Manufacturing Process Change
Chapter 11 Integrating Methods Improvement in the Selection of a New Vendor or the Decision to Change an Existing Vendor
Chapter 12 Integrating Measurement in the Change of a Vendor
Chapter 13 Integrating Methods Improvement into Existing or Establishment of a New Safety Program
Chapter 14 Integrating Measurement into a New or Existing Safety Program
Chapter 15 Integrating Methods Improvement in the Revision of an Existing or the Installation of a New Material Handling Process Change or Packaging Change
Chapter 16 Integrating Measurement in Installing a New Material Handling System or Packaging Method or the Revision of an Existing Material Handling System or Packaging Method
Biography
Gerald J. Watson has worked for over thirty years in manufacturing as a manufacturing engineer/manager and safety team leader in various industries with different companies both as a full time employee and as a consultant. During that period, he gained valuable insight into the attitudes and the factors that motivates a majority of employees regardless of industry, company and position or job title with the company.
Jesse Derouin has worked for over ten years accumulating valuable industry experience. Jesse has had the benefit of having worked in several capacities gaining an understanding of how to successfully combine people, equipment, and processes to create favorable outcomes. As an adult returning student, he set about achieving an undergraduate degree in engineering, where he met Dr. Watson. He is now a graduate student studying for his advanced engineering degree in sustainable system design.
