Introduction to Industrial Engineering

Compute line efficiency as 0.8 (48 over 10×6), with a 20% balance delay and smoothing index 6; car wash needs five stalls for 60 cars per hour.

Explore two diagram types: floor diagrams showing parts, materials, and equipment on a factory scale model, and string diagrams mapping movements on a time-scale model to study movement density.

Lean manufacturing is an operational system that maximizes value by reducing diverse activities in a value stream, classifies activities into production, inventory, motion, over-processing, and transportation, and uses just-in-time production.

Explore seven quality control tools, including histogram, Pareto analysis, cause-and-effect (fishbone) diagrams, defect concentration diagrams, scatter diagrams, textures, and the control chart.

Explore quality circles as voluntary worker groups to improve processes, and examine total quality management as a systematic, top-management driven, customer-focused approach with continuous improvement and poka-yoke, including Six Sigma.