Industrial Engineering and Management

Contents: Section I: Introduction to Industrial Engineering. 1. Introduction. Section II: Productivity and Work Study. 2. Productivity. 3. Work study. 4. Human factor and work study. Section III: Method Study. 5. Method study. 6. Movement at workplace. 7. Methods and movements at the workplace. 8. Evaluate, define, install, maintain. 9. Method study in the office. Section IV: Work Measurement. 10. Time study. 11. Time study: selecting and timing the job. 12. Time study: rating. 13. Time study: from study to standard time. 14. Predetermined time standards. 15. The use of time standards. Section V: Entrepreneurial Development. 16. Entrepreneur and entrepreneurship. 17. Qualities and functions of entrepreneurs, role of entrepreneur in economic growth. 18. Competing theories of entrepreneurship.19. Government policy towards small scale industries' structure. Section VI: Inspection and Statistical Quality Control. 20. Defining quality. 21. Total quality management. 22. The role of inspection. 23. Statistical quality control. Section VII: Production Planning and Control. 24. Production, planning and control. Section VIII: Location Selection and Plant Layout. 25. Plant location. 26. Location decision and layout. Section IX: Job Evaluation and Wages. 27. Introduction to job evaluation. 28. Job evaluation method. 29. Wages. Section X: Industrial Legislation. 30. Industrial legislation. Section XI: Value Analysis. 31. What is value analysis? 32. How to use value analysis? Section XII: Leadership. 33. Leadership. Section XIII: Operation Research. 34. Linear programming. 35. Project management. Section XIV: Industrial Safety. 36. Introduction to safety engineering. 37. Occupational safety. Section XV: Engineering Economics. 38. Introduction. 39. Replacement and maintenance analysis. 40. Inventory control. Review questions. Index. Industrial engineering deals with the optimization of different processes, systems or organizations. It involves the use of different physical, mathematical and social principles together with the methods of engineering design to optimize the results obtained from the different complex processes or systems. The scope of industrial engineering management is as vast as to include a wide array of sub-specialties such as operations research, manufacturing engineering, production engineering, management science, etc. This book explains the different aspects related to the principles of optimizing the complex systems and processes of an organization.…