NNATIONAL
INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
Technology Impact On Future Of
Industrial
Engineering
SUBMITTED BY
B.SANKARA
RAO
Roll no 87
PGDIE42
ABSTRACT:
This paper discuss some of the emerging issues and
potential impacts on the industrial engineer of the future
KEYWORDS:
Technology, industrial engineer, computer, education
THE TECHNOLAGY CHALLENGE:
Tremendous advances in computing information and
technology are imparted to the work only .Thus industrial engineer must design
men material machine capital so on in the world that is drastically different
from what we see today.
Some of the key issues are organizational
restructuring has enabled in improving the communication brought about by
advancing the technology ,client server model are changing
Daily, visualization tools including virtual reality
will allow industrial engineer to see the systems they never seen before
With this paper we can conclude that industrial
engineering will change in 10 -20 years drastically
WHAT DO
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER DO:
Industrial engineers design improve and install
integrated system of men machine
information and equipment
Key things among all these are improvement and integration.
In order to do these things
We have to measure.
Industrial engineers are involved in
manufacturing , health care ,food
Logistics
, it and insurance
also.
In these sectors new developments are to be brought by
using computer technology
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES:
New collaborative tools are beginning to be used
,but only by few .primary among these is group ware .While rather straight
forward and evolutionary development and consider the effect on industrial
engineers .Imperative will the use of information and assurance that the needs
are met.
The internet will provide remote access to and easy
provision of , information .Increasingly
Intranet provides information traditionally through
other means.
JAVA, bringing the interactivity to the web, will
open the vista for application and java applets provided as tools that can
easily developed.
There will dramatic increase in the use of electronic
data interchange (EDI) .As the Industrial engineer looks for ways to improve
supplier-vendor relationships and increased communication. We will find EDI as
dispensable tool.
Teleconferencing will reduce travel and
communication through visual contact , compressed video tools are used for sky rocket.
TECHNICAL
AND INFORMATION COMPUTING :
Increasing computer power is available for things
other than new types of communication
Technical computing will prosper , allowing
industrial engineers to solve problems
that have been difficult .high performance workstations “super computers
on desktop”.
In addition to computational techniques lead to
useful scientific techniques .Other engineering disciplines realized the values
of these tools and identifying the trends and patterns in the data that
couldn’t seen otherwise
NO
TIME/SPACE BARRIERS:
Through the cellular communication ,wireless
computing and group ware video conferencing
And telepresence
,virtual setting is possible. Benefits abound .reduced facility cost
,reduced travel expenses ,less expenses and more flexible time for employees
,ability to handle special needs
and drawing skills from people around the world .
IMPACT
ON INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS :
These technologies are fun to discuss ,but the bottom line is the
impact on industrial engineers. It is evident how they may effect our working
lives and we have experienced Much of this change already there are some which
are non value adding to the work ,observing them and removing them by using
tools is an main responsibility of an industrial engineers. let us consider few
of issues that are relevant.
PRODUCTS
/SERVICES ISSUES:
Virtual products are customer oriented ,requiring
continues focus on quality. Organizations must become learning, flexible and
highly adaptive with high responsiveness to customer .Product life cycles will
continue to shrink.
INFRASTRUCTURE
ISSUES:
Organizations go “virtual” there will large3 demand
for the industrial engineers in designing the systems.
MANAGEMENT
ISSUES:
Planning to hiring the employees is very important,
we seen the employees hired by the consultants who left the organizations
without doing any work, what type of job
classification is required ? what about quality control? The labour force for
the future are recruited in the just in time basis.
Personnel selection and placement is much more challenging
.employees feel much more isolated, performance measurement and evaluation is
very difficult. Traditional tools are not useful in the future environment. Culture is
critical, the organization cannot succeed without trust in Partnership
TRAINING
AND SKILLS ISSUE:
The new environment will requires working in teams. The working place
is flatter and team centered .Industrial
engineers have more pressure to became “general” because the environment
changing rapidly requiring different skills .one thing is certain industrial
requires the computer and information technologies .
ARE
WE READY:
We have to ready
to face the challenges as industrial engineers ,
Are we ready?
Do we have the tools?
Industrial engineering as a profession is in danger of losing it’s identity. Other professions are encroaching on our
traditional areas .we must prepared to
face the challenges that lie ahead. Are we ready?
SOURCE:
Knimbus online library; industrial engineering
journals
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