Industrial Engineering; developing the most effective way for an organization to use people, machines, materials, and information to manufacture a product, process, or to provide a service. Industrial Engineering's goals are to increase productivity through the management of people, methods of business, process development and technology.
In looking at the Industrial Engineering function, it is important to understand the need for such capabilities. With the reduction in production units and the existence of excess capacity already an issue, manufactures are required to churn out different models, on different platforms, on the same assembly line. The impact to the manufacturing facility can be enormous, not only from a model complexity point of view, but also from the Material Flow, or "inside the plant" logistics planning point of view.
The Material Flow plan for a multi-model facility can be complicated by several different factors. First, similarities between vehicles are usually reduced to common fasteners and like materials. Most of the other vehicle components are unique to each of the models and will need to be handled separately inside the plant. This uniqueness will require that the delivery, storage and movement of the material inside the plant be carefully orchestrated so as to eliminate the risk of down time due to material outages and the efficient use of indirect manpower to accomplish the material handling function.
The Virtual Engineer's
Industrial Engineering segment has been designed to provide a total turnkey Industrial Engineering/Material Flow solution for increasingly complex manufacturing. The system has the capabilities to perform dynamic commodity simulation for entire commodity lines as well as static analysis for the entire operation, all model lines included, to ensure that material flow bottle necks are identified and addressed before mass production begins. Dock activity, storage analysis, material equipment allocation, pull system simulation, and direct and in-direct labor are all included.
The Industrial Engineering function provides total turnkey industrial engineering/material flow solutions for today's complex manufacturing along with these additional benefits:
Reduction in Time Required to Bring New
Products to Market
