What I should have taught

Operations research (OR) gives IEs the computational tools that help them implement lean tools far better than lean practitioners who manually use archaic pencil-and-paper tools. From a practical standpoint, any facility layout produced by a heuristic solution for the quadratic assignment problem wi...

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Published in:Industrial Engineer 2014-09, Vol.46 (9), p.26
Main Author: Irani, Shahrukh A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Assignment problem
Core curriculum
Employees
Employment
Engineering research
Executives
Factories
Heuristic
Industrial engineering
Manufacturing
Operations research
Process planning
Teaching
Teaching methods
Textbooks
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Summary:Operations research (OR) gives IEs the computational tools that help them implement lean tools far better than lean practitioners who manually use archaic pencil-and-paper tools. From a practical standpoint, any facility layout produced by a heuristic solution for the quadratic assignment problem will produce a process layout for that facility. Industrial engineering research must be based on industry experience. The author wrote several journal papers on computer-aided process planning without having sufficient hands-on experience with the machines he was modeling and the process plans he was generating. Industry wants solutions that work, not optimal solutions that never will work. Dig into the details of popular lean tools such as single-minute exchange of dies, pokayoke, 3P (production preparation process) and jidoka (human-friendly automation). Industry prefers the simple over the optimal. OR could benefit every manufacturing facility that remains in the US. But that necessitates industrial engineering faculty spending significant periods of time working full-time in industry to discover and solve problems.
ISSN:2471-9579