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The Story of Industrial Engineering

The Rise from Shop-Floor Management to Modern Digital Engineering

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-367-78814-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Erscheinungstermin: 31.03.2021
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Recipient of the 2020 IISE Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award

Industrial engineering is the profession dedicated to making collective systems function better with less waste, better quality, and fewer resources, to serve the needs of society more efficiently and more effectively. This book uses a story-telling approach to advocate and elaborate the fundamental principles of industrial engineering in a simple, interesting, and engaging format. It will stimulate interest in industrial engineering by exploring how the tools and techniques of the discipline can be relevant to a broad spectrum of applications in business, industry, engineering, education, government, and the military.

Features

- Covers the origin of industrial engineering

- Discusses the early pioneers and profiles the evolution of the profession

- Presents offshoot branches of industrial engineering

- Illustrates specific areas of performance measurement and human factors

- Links industrial engineering to the emergence of digital engineering

- Uses the author’s personal experience to illustrate his advocacy and interest in the profession


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780367788148
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-367-78814-8
  • Verlag: CRC Press
  • Erscheinungstermin: 31.03.2021
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2021
  • Serie: Analytics and Control
  • Produktform: Kartoniert
  • Gewicht: 252 g
  • Seiten: 194
  • Format (B x H x T): 140 x 216 x 11 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Chapter 1. Ages of Human Development and Work Planning. Chapter 2. Emergence of Organized Production. 3. Elements of Industrial Revolution. 4. Early Production Practices. 5. Invention of Mass Production Techniques. 6. Shop Floor Management Practices. 7. Emergence of Union Movements. 8. Early Human Factors. Early Practices of Ergonomics. 10. The Days of Efficiency Experts. 11.The Concept of Cheaper by the Dozen. 12. Development of Manufacturing. 13. Management Engineering. 14. Early Management Principles and Movement. 15. Emergence of Formal Industrial Engineering. 16. Diversification of Industrial Engineering. 17. Fragmentation of Industrial Engineering. 18. Offshoot Professions and Specializations. 19. Keeping the Center Holding. 20. Splinter Areas of IE. 21. Shadow Function of IE. 22. Sustaining the Profession under a Common Core. 23. References. Bibliography for Further Reading.