Industrial Engineering

American industrial engineers

Ohno Taiichi (大野耐一, Ōno Taiichi; February 29, 1912, May 28, 1990) was a Japanese industrial engineer and businessman.

Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth (née Moller; May 24, 1878, January 2, 1972) was an American psychologist, industrial engineer, consultant, and educator who was an early pioneer in applying psychology to time-and-motion studies.

Quality management

Lean manufacturing

Quality management

Lean manufacturing

Lean manufacturing

Lean manufacturing

Lean manufacturing

Quality control tools

Quality control tools

Industrial engineering

Lean manufacturing

Industrial engineering

Lean manufacturing

Quality management

Quality management

Quality control tools

Management theory

Warehouses

Project management techniques

Engineering management

Logistics

Mass production

Logistics

Product management

Data management

William Edwards Deming (October 14, 1900, December 20, 1993) was an American business theorist, composer, economist, industrial engineer, management consultant, statistician, and writer.

A programmable logic controller (PLC) or programmable controller is an industrial computer that has been ruggedized and adapted for the control of manufacturing processes, such as assembly lines, machines, robotic devices, or any activity that requires high reliability, ease of programming, and process fault diagnosis.

3D printing, also called additive manufacturing, is the construction of a three-dimensional object from a CAD model or a digital 3D model.

They are most often used in industrial applications to transport heavy materials around a large industrial building, such as a factory or warehouse.

Therbligs are elemental motions used in the study of workplace motion economy.

Statistical process control (SPC) or statistical quality control (SQC) is the application of statistical methods to monitor and control the quality of a production process.

The Shaker broom vise is a specialized production vise that made the normally round broom flat to make it more efficient for cleaning purposes.

They are made to specifications that ensure that they are so nearly identical that they will fit into any assembly of the same type.

A pallet (also called a skid) is a flat transport structure, which supports goods in a stable fashion while being lifted by a forklift, a pallet jack, a front loader, a jacking device, or an erect crane.

Pallet jacks are the most basic form of a forklift and are intended to move palletized loads within warehouses, distribution centers, retail stores, and construction sites.

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects.

Corrugated board is manufactured on large high-precision machinery lines called corrugators.

A turnstile (also called a gateline, baffle gate, automated gate, turn gate in some regions) is a form of gate which allows one person to pass at a time.

A palletizer or palletiser is a machine which provides automatic means for stacking cases of goods or products onto a pallet.

An overhead crane, commonly called a bridge crane, is a type of crane found in industrial environments.

Developed over the 19th to 20th centuries, punched cards were widely used for data processing, the control of automated machines, and computing.

It spawned a class of machines, known as unit record equipment, and the data processing industry.

Gauge blocks are the main means of length standardization used by industry.

Forklift trucks are usually required to place the loaded pallets onto the racks for storage.

In the 2010s and 2020s, manufacturing industries began moving beyond digital product definition to extending the digital twin concept to the entire manufacturing process.

He was involved with the production of the first PLC for General Motors, the Modicon, at Bedford and Associates in 1968.

Hetrick was an industrial engineer and member of the United States Navy.

Employees servicing or maintaining machines or equipment may be exposed to serious physical harm or death if hazardous energy is not properly controlled.

In the absence of safety regulations, manufacturers prioritized productivity over worker protection, leading to devastating consequences such as amputations, respiratory illnesses, and burns.

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) plays a vital role in workplace safety, ensuring workers are protected from potential hazards.

It’s easier to talk about the modern loading dock and how the system of safely loading and unloading goods came about with Kelley’s first counterbalanced dock leveler.

Pick-to-Light directs manual picking by lighting up bins.

1923 - Forklift Manufacturer Creates The Duat Tow Tractor

For customers, it was a real game-changer back then: thanks to the reach truck, they were able to make optimal use of both the floor space and the height of the room for the storage of production goods as space was precious even back then.

In the early 1900s, Garrett Morgan invented a gas mask and later received a patent for safety goggles, a feature he had designed to be worn inside the mask itself but discovered it could be worn alone for eye protection.

A hard hat is a type of helmet predominantly used in hazardous environments such as industrial or construction sites to protect the head from injury due to falling objects (such as tools and debris), impact with other objects, and electric shock, as well as from rain.

A safety harness is a form of protective equipment designed to safeguard the user from injury or death from falling.

A steel-toe boot (also known as a safety boot, steel-capped boot, steel toecaps or safety shoe) is a durable boot or shoe that has a protective reinforcement in the toe which protects the foot from falling objects or compression.

A respirator is type of mask designed to protect the wearer from inhaling hazardous atmospheres including lead fumes, vapors, gases and particulate matter such as dusts and airborne pathogens such as viruses.

Containerization, also referred as container stuffing or container loading, is a system of intermodal freight transport using intermodal containers.