BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Industrial Engineering
- an applied science discipline concerned with the prediction, planning, evaluation, and improvement of company effectiveness. The purpose of industrial engineering is to maximize efficiency, quality, and production through the best use of personnel, materials, facilities, and equipment.
Additional Resources
- Manufacturing Engineering Manager
- The Manufacturing Engineering Manager job description template includes the following job summary: Responsible for effectively planning, directing, and coordinating all activities of Maintenance, Tooling, and Industrial Engineering departments with all other departments and functions. Reports to the Manufacturing Manager and supervises the Maintenance, Tooling, and Industrial Engineering Functions. Additional information...
- Tools & templates 2007-09-09
- Making Your Industrial Experiments Successful – Some Useful Tips to Industrial Engineers
- An industrial experiment is generally performed to increase the knowledge of a particular process. The success of any industrial experiment depends on a number of key factors such as statistical skills, engineering skills, planning skills, communication skills, teamwork skills and so on. The various steps involves good understanding of the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Industrial Engineer - B Job Description
- The Industrial Engineer - B job description template includes the following job summary: To design and develop major engineering projects and plant production systems, coordinating efforts of engineering team and providing technical direction to lower-level engineers and technicians. Additional information available includes essential job functions, additional responsibilities, and education and...
- Tools & templates 2007-09-09
- Industrial Engineer?C
- The Industrial Engineer?C job description template includes the following job summary: To design, develop, and install components of engineering projects that will result in cost-effective methods of manufacturing and fair and equitable manufacturing operating standards. To participate in supervising technicians and report to a more senior engineer who coordinates major...
- Tools & templates 2007-09-09
- Value Engineering
- This paper is about Value engineering Concept and definition and differentiation between Quantity Surveying and Value Engineering. Value Engineering is an organized approach to providing the necessary functions at the lowest cost. Value Engineering is an organized approach to the identification and elimination of unnecessary cost.
- White papers
- Reengineering….
- Re-engineering is the organizational change strategy wherein major modifications are effected in organizational systems and processes. Re-engineering helps in enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of the organizational systems. The entities benefiting from re-engineering are the company, customers, and employees. Information Technology plays an important role in the re-engineering strategy. The...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- GlobalSpec Marketing Trends Survey
- During February 2006, GlobalSpec conducted a survey of marketing professionals and corporate managers in the industrial and manufacturing sector. The survey specifically addressed the marketing objectives, trends and expenditures within the engineering, technical and industrial communities. According to survey results, 35% of respondents will spend upwards of 50% of their...
- White papers 2006-04-06
- Sample Engineering Resume - 1
- This template is useful for those who have academics in engineering and are looking for an employment in engineering field.
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- An Optimal Marketing And Engineering Design Model For Product Development Using Analytical Target Cascading
- Marketing and engineering design decisions are typically treated as separate tasks both in the academic literature and in industrial practice, and their interdisciplinary interactions are not well-defined. In this paper, Analytical Target Cascading ATC, a hierarchical optimization methodology, is used to frame a formal optimization model that links marketing and...
- White papers 2004-09-06
- Sample Industrial Engineer Resume - 2
- This template is useful for those who are looking for an engineering position, this template includes experiences, career profile etc.
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- A Model For Project-Based Education In Manufacturing System Design And Its Application On Testing Research Results
- In this paper, a method for project-based education in engineering design methodology, focused on manufacturing system development, is presented and validated. The method is suited for manufacturing system development projects in collaboration between student groups and industrial partners. This method can also be used as a framework for conducting the...
- White papers 2004-05-18
- System Engineering Management
- Project management involves systematic efforts and activities undertaken to take a project to fruition. An engineering organization is a project organization engaged in executing engineering projects. Resource allocation and delegation are crucial factors in the success of engineering projects. The paper discusses various issues involved with engineering organizations and discusses...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- The Assessment of Research Quality in Engineering Disciplines
- Engineering research involves the acquisition of new knowledge and its application in creating novel artifacts - devices, structures, procedures and processes. Engineering depends on technology transfer and hence the evaluation of the quality of academic engineering research requires, inter alia, consideration of the interface between original thought and its application....
- White papers 2005-01-11
- PLM: Improving Top Line Performance of Industrial Equipment Manufacturers
- This CIMdata white paper focuses on how industrial equipment manufacturers - a varied group of suppliers to the energy, process, chemical/petrochemical, and the architecture, construction, and engineering AEC industries (please consider adding OEM - original equipment manufacturers) - can improve top line performance by adopting a product lifecycle management PLM...
- White papers 2003-03-01
- Industrial Use Guide: Industrial Panel Selection Guide
- This paper suggests various methods for Industrial wood selection. Plywood has been widely used in industrial applications since its introduction in 1905. For decades industrial users have fabricated barricades, bins, crates, containers, shelves and countless other manufactured items out of plywood. And as new engineered wood products such as oriented...
- White papers 2002-01-17
- Impacts Of Globalization And Offshoring On Engineering Employment In The Personal Computing Industry
- Globalization has changed the nature, organization, and location of engineering work in the personal computing industry. As a consequence, lower skill and lower paid engineering jobs that might have been created in the U.S. are instead being created overseas, while higher skill and higher paid jobs remain in the U.S....
- White papers 2006-12-06
- PDM Requirements for Large Scale Engineering
- The purpose of this paper is to discuss the typical requirements of a LSE in configuring and implementing their PDM system. An attempt has also been made to discuss the possible solutions for the challenges discussed. The remainder of this paper discusses about typical engineering requirements and the possible solutions...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Model-Based Configuration Support For Product Derivation In Software Product Families
- Software Product Families can be used for software mass customization. One major problem within family-based software engineering is the lack of methodological support for application engineering. The large number of decisions and dependencies between these decisions make the task complex and error-prone. Impacts of decisions are not known or overseen...
- White papers 2005-03-21
- PDM-A Must Use Technology, for Better Future
- Product Data Management PDM is a software system that manages product data and the product development process involving that data. PDM should maximize the time-to-market benefits of concurrent engineering while maintaining control of data. PDM is one of the fastest growing technologies in the engineering-manufacturing market, with some form of...
- White papers 2003-04-28
- Director Of Engineering
- The Director of Engineering job description template includes the following job summary: To plan and direct the accomplishment of product engineering objectives. To provide technical guidance and ensure sound engineering procedures and effective use of facilities. Additional information available includes essential job functions, additional responsibilities, and education and experience requirements.
- Tools & templates 2007-09-09
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