Monday, December 23, 2013

Knol Magazine of Industrial Engineering - December 2013


_________________

Toyota Style Industrial Engineering - American Industrial Engineering - Difference

Toyota Style Industrial Engineering has focus on efficiency and waste elimination from manufacturing processes. They use all techniques advocated by pioneers to achieve their objective with some significant improvements.

Shigeo Shingo is a production - industrial engineer.


http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/12/toyota-style-industrial-engineering.html

__________________

The Toyota Production System’s fundamental nature at selected South African organisations

 – A learning perspective

FD Nortje, DR Snaddon
http://sajie.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/648

_________________

Toyota Production System is 80% Industrial Engineering


Shigeo Shingo said Toyota Production System is 80% waste elimination, 15% production management and 5% kanban system.

_______________

How to generate ideas for low cost engineering alternatives in Industrial Engineering?


Search intensively for low cost alternatives by:

Studying handbooks

Perusing trade literature

Contacting people who might have pertinent information

Focusing intense creativity sharply on the task to be accomplished

Refining the results obtained by the above methods

Unless this search for low cost alternative is effectively and penetratingly done, the real low cost solutions will not be identified by industrial engineers.

Handbooks only contain information on materials and processes and their uses. They will not contain cost information.

Cost information can be obtained by a combination of the following sources

The cost department and cost ledger, The financial accounting department and ledger
Cost analyses
Catalogues
Suppliers of products and materials
Special cost studies
___________________

Success of Frugally Engineered Zoho - CRM Software


2008 It started selling the software at $12 per corporate user.
2013 Now it has 8 million users with revenue close to $500 million. The leader in the CRM industry is Salesforce.com with $2.5 billion.

No comments:

Post a Comment