Thursday, March 10, 2022

Productivity Engineering - Definition, Principles, Explanation and Areas


Ubiquity of Industrial Engineering Principle of  Industrial Engineering

Illustration: Google's  Engineering Productivity Department - Evolution of the Department through Automation of Testing. Emergence of Software Engineering Productivity Engineer & Specialist. 

Industrial engineering is applicable to all engineering tasks in the organization. 

Engineering product design - Production - Engineering stores - Operation of engineering equipment and goods - Maintenance - Retirement - Replacement - Recycling


Productivity Engineering - Principle of Industrial Engineering


Industrial engineering is concerned with redesign of engineering systems with a view to improve their productivity. Industrial engineers analyze productivity of each  resource used in engineering systems and redesign as necessary to improve productivity.

It has to be ensured that the increase in productivity due to the use of low-cost materials, processes and increasing speed of machines and men, should not lead to any decrease in quality of the output.

Similarly, operators should not feel any discomfort, not have any health problems or safety issues in the redesigned more productive processes.

Developments in Productivity science provide more and more directions for productivity engineering over the period.



Productivity Engineering Explained 


Productivity Engineering: Redesigning engineering and engineering related products and processes using engineering and engineering related knowledge relevant to improving the productivity.

Productivity science provides input to carry out productivity engineering. It means productivity science provides the opportunity to invent and patent new product features and process components that will improve productivity. Inventions are not always preceded by science. Many times inventors came out with engineering devices even when there is no science supporting it. Air conditioning is one example where invention came first and then science was developed that helped in designing air conditioners to fit various needs.

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Productivity Engineering is designing and redesigning  engineering elements or complete engineering systems to improve the productivity of the system and reduce its cost or the unit cost of its output.

Productivity Science is the collection of laws that indicate, facilitate and promote Productivity Engineering. Productivity Management is managerial activities that promote Productivity Science and Productivity Engineering

Productivity engineering has two main areas product industrial engineering and process industrial engineering. Process industrial engineering has two important components process machine effort industrial engineering and process human effort engineering. In addition there are facility level industrial engineering and enterprise level industrial engineering. Equipment decisions for the whole facility and layout of all the facilities are facility level decisions to which IE may be applied. Enterprise level policy and strategy decisions can be there and they may form part of productivity management. Information systems can be enterprise level and IE may be applied in those decisions. It is because overall enterprise productivity may be affected by the information system and IEs have to evaluate it.

Principles of Productivity Engineering  -  Mundel - Nadler


Methods Redesign for Efficiency/Productivity - Material, Product Design, Material Transformation Steps, Machine Effort, Human Effort - Marvin Mundel, Gerald Nadler


Nadler credits Mundel for the following steps to be followed in methods redesign.

Product Industrial Engineering


1. Change the material being used or contemplated to help meet the goal for the operation being studied.
2. Change the present or contemplated design of product to help meet the goal for the operation being studied.

Process Industrial Engineering


3. Change the present or contemplated sequence of modification work on the material or product to help meet the goal of for operation being studied.
4. Change the equipment used or contemplated  for the operation to help meet the goal for the operation being studied.

Human Effort Industrial Engineering


5. Change the method or hand pattern used or contemplated for the operation to help the goal for operation being studied.


(Source: Gerald Nadler, Motion and Time Study, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1955,   p.193. Nadler in turn gives credit to Marvin E. Mundel, Motion and Time Study Principles and Practice, Prentice-Hall, New York, 1950, pp. 23-26.)


Some Areas of Productivity Engineering 



Productivity Engineering - Work holding devices

Productivity Engineering - Machine tool cutting tools


Productivity Engineering - Safety aids that promote productivity

Productivity Engineering - Low cost automation

Productivity Engineering -  Energy conservation engineering

Productivity Engineering - Information systems redesign

Productivity Software Engineering
Redesigning products or processes by including software solutions, or developing software solutions to improve productivity in any activity or process
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.in/2017/09/productivity-software-engineering.html

Productivity VR Engineering: Redesigning products and processes using VR to improve productivity.
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.in/2017/09/productivity-vr-engineering.html

Productivity Automation Engineering
Redesigning products or processes by incorporating automation to improve productivity.
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/09/productivity-automation-engineering.html

Productivity IoT Engineering
Using IoT technology and systems to improve productivity of engineering and engineering related products and processes.
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/09/productivity-iot-engineering.html

Developer Productivity Engineering
How to improve your developer experience and key software development processes.
Developer Productivity Engineering is a discipline of using data and acceleration techniques to improve essential software development processes for greater automation, fast feedback cycles, and reliable feedback.

Litho Productivity Engineering Manager

Intel Job ID: JR0191028
Job Category: Engineering Management
Primary Location: Phoenix, AZ US
Other Locations: US, Oregon, Hillsboro
Job Type: Experienced Hire
Job Description
Job Description:
FSM's Equipment Productivity Group is hiring a technical Engineering Manager to focus on lithography technologies. With Intel's ambitious IDM2.0 manufacturing goals, the focus on equipment performance and productivity has never been more critical to the future success of the company. The Lithography Equipment Productivity Engineering Manager will focus on the following objectives to drive area performance to new heights helping achieve best in world module productivity in our current FSM and future foundry factories:

Partner with TD, supply chain, and suppliers to establish best output targets for future nodes
Partner with TD modules to hit MOR on 'day 1' of transfer
Drive strategy to opportunistically insert leading-edge tooling on older technologies
Drive the sharing of process and equipment productivity BKMs across Intel's technology nodes
Work with suppliers to implement 'Rest of World' equipment solutions that will help Intel
Drive cross MSO strategy for Intel foundry tool selection and maximize node fungibility
Work with supply chain to increase and enforce productivity focus inside purchase specs
Develop enabling equipment support systems (APC, machine learning, predictive analytics)
Develop business process to push past MOR commitments to avoid capital spending
https://jobs.intel.com/ShowJob/Id/3141386/Litho-Productivity-Engineering-Manager

In this module, productivity engineering activity is presented through projects done in various companies to increase productivity.



Process Productivity Engineering - Course Lessons

Process productivity engineering is done through process charts at the highest level. They capture processing, inspection, material handling, delays and long-term control storage. In each of these operations there is machine effort, human effort, materials input, energy input and information input. For each of the operation more information is needed than that is entered in a process chart. For each operation, operation analysis sheets and additional documents are required to do complete analysis of all inputs that go into the operation.

Production/Material Transformation Process/Operations Improvement


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Inspection Process/Operations Improvement


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Transport - Material Handling Process/Operations Improvement


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Storage - Warehousing Process/Operations Improvement


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Analysis and Elimination of Delays


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Supply Chain Industrial Engineering





Case Studies

Investigations on applying productivity engineering principles in export oriented units
Researcher: Kannan G
Guide(s): Selladurai V
Anna University
Completed Date: 01/10/2014
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/49375

Updated on 30 Dce 2021,  24 Nov 2021,  8 Sep 2021,  6 Sep 2021,  24 July 2021
Pub. 19 September 2017


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      http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2015/08/motion-study-frank-b-gilbreth-part-1.html

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