IIE is doing its part to cultivate the growth of industrial engineering around the world. As industrial engineering professionals, we must ensure that our efforts in the education and practice of the field are innovative and globally attractive.
Dec. 1 is the deadline for submitting nominations for IIE awards. If you have not nominated the outstanding professionals and students you know for these prestigious awards and honors, now is the time. Some chapter, region, division and society awards have different deadlines. You'll find these deadlines in the individual award descriptions.
Simulation can be a valuable tool for improving processes throughout the health care arena, yet it is not used as commonly or as well in that arena as one might expect. Successful implementations suggest that practitioners from managerial and clinical backgrounds can validate simulation even further.
Look inside your doctor’s medical bag and you just might find “telemedicine reports” rather than thermometers these days. With the push to go paperless in order to eliminate waste, many clinics and hospitals have adopted health information technology models over the past decade. However, another reason has fueled the medical community’s demand for the conversion: patient access to care.
Software is often seen as a quick fix for any process problem. Bottlenecks in the supply chain? Buy MRP software. Process out of control? Buy process-monitoring software. Unfortunately, software can also be the problem.
Is that hand tool your line worker is about to pick up really ergonomic? Research suggests that a large number of musculoskeletal disorders can be attributed to use of poorly designed or misused hand tools.
What it's like being an industrial engineer for Disney.