Industrial Engineering Simplified Course

Test your current knowledge with a pre-test, relax, and record your score; at course end, retake the test to gauge how much you approved.

Learn what the job description omits: how to talk with operators and management, train lean tools, and sell data-driven ideas while managing change and mastering Excel.

Master basic manufacturing terminology, including PPE, WIPP, FG, manpower, vendors, suppliers, SKU, and lead time, plus concepts like Gemba, OEE, shutdowns, and KPI.

Learn core industrial engineering terminology, including cycle time, time study, value added versus non value added, the eight wastes, kaizen, line balancing, and value stream map.

Discover Kaizen as a company-wide philosophy of continuous improvement driven by leadership, teamwork, and standardized work, guided by seven rules for turning problems into opportunities.

Identify the eight wastes—transportation, inventory, motion, waiting, overproduction, over processing, defects, talent—and apply everyday examples to spot and reduce waste in processes.

Explore the three visual managements—five s, visual control, and visual display—and learn how sorting, shining, standardizing, and sustaining keep work areas organized, reduce mistakes, and support continuous improvement.

Learn cycle time and elemental cycle time, convert timelines between minutes, seconds, and hours, analyze track time, and apply tac time to meet production demand.

Define value stream maps and explain how VSM visually maps the flow of material and information to reveal lead times, wait times, and inventory levels, enabling waste reduction across industries.

Explore value stream map concepts and icons, from customer and supplier placements to scheduler roles, data tables, and flow arrows, including inventory, lead time, cycle time, and transportation.

Explore value stream mapping by analyzing information flow, material flow, and inventory, distinguishing production lead time (non value added) from cycle time (value added) across suppliers, scheduling, and shipping.

Learn to create a value stream map for a footwear supply chain, tracing Nike orders through Chinese production to shipping, focusing on cycle time, changeover, uptime, and inventory.