How do you manage an IE Industrial Engineering team?

Hello, I understand your mood and current situation very well, I also had the same experience and troubles when I just graduated, and I also had hesitation. But after many years of study and experience, I have learned a lot, and on the whole, it is nothing more than these points:

1.Do a solid job of basic skills. IE is a highly systematic discipline that requires a good understanding of all aspects of the field and the functional interface of various departments. Doing more, big or small, will be of great benefit to your future work.

2.Good communicator. Don't always complain, you must really understand the difficulties and problems faced by other departments, often empathize, be able to find out the shortcomings, but also know how to solve these shortcomings, and often can prioritize the problems of the people, is the one who can really solve the problem.

In the process of communication, you can also understand the strengths of others, and get good advice and understanding from others, which can often make the work twice the result with half the effort!

3.A big systematic improvement is not something that can be achieved overnight, nor is it something that can be done by one person, valuing the strength of the team and having the support of the leader is an essential prerequisite.

4.To be an IE means to face problems and difficulties. I have been working as an IE for many years, and I have always faced challenges in all aspects.

Some of them come from the outside world and some come from the self. But what matters is self-adjustment. There's a quote that makes a lot of sense:

If you know to go to **, the world will make way for you (that's what it means)."

5.The cases studied in college are enough to use, you don't need other cases, you are an expert, believe in yourself, use your mind to analyze problems, and analyze problems with the methods you have learned, you are the strongest. Without such self-confidence, you will not be able to convince others.

Every company's culture and traditions and background are different, and they can only be used for reference, but they cannot be replicated. Only by taking root in reality and finding the point of convergence for reform can we continue to push forward.

6.Radical thoughts and rhetoric will not help. Find your own goals, work hard to achieve them, and combine ideals and reality well.

I wish you success! IE is a discipline that understands the intersection of technology management and management technology, find an IE professional industrial engineering textbook, read it in detail, there are methods and cases on it. To put it simply, IE is about identifying waste in the system and suggesting improvements. The waste here includes the famous seven wastes, and also includes the institutional aspects of the organization.

You can also learn some of the content of lean production and the content of the quality system. These are all things that IE should master.

I am 06 graduated from the industrial engineering IE, now in a state-owned enterprise is very depressed, I feel that I want to do equipment and part of the process, but no one has brought, a year, I learned 2D auto-CAD, the factory does not care, as if thinking that college students will do anything, but people who know IE know that graduates will not know anything, so to speak.

The atmosphere in the factory is also very uncomfortable, no matter what they do, they all seem to be enemies, and I think it will be difficult to do it in the future.

I want to learn spoken English well now, but I don't know how to do it when I go out.

Because I can't do anything after 2 years of graduation, and the company is unwilling to accept non-graduates, I hope to get guidance, and I am very confused.

Alas... This is the case with state-owned enterprises. I'm learning IE, but our company has just started everything, and it's still difficult for new employees like me to get started. I encountered a lot of difficulties, but I had to solve them on my own.

I don't care where I go.

Be careful when going to Japanese and Korean companies.

The word of mouth is not too good.

Compared to European and American companies.

Let's just tell the truth.

Learn, understand, think about the situation for effective organization, discipline, everyone put in the right position, democracy, centralization, fairness, sincerity, sincere communication, can unite others, principled.

IE's job prospects are still good, many large companies have IE engineers, if you have this education, then you can try to find a corresponding job, of course, to do a good job also needs to have a certain mind.

The prospects are very good, and the employment is wide, especially China's manufacturing industry is not optimistic now! IE talents are more needed! Of course, no one in the north knows that many of the world's top 500 companies (except state-owned enterprises) have IE departments!

I can't find a few more popular majors than IE at present, there are currently hundreds of thousands of IE talents in the United States, but he still lacks experts in this area every year, and in a small garment factory in our coastal areas of China to recruit an IE specialist, and there are few enterprises with IE in the interior, the development of IE has not been able to vigorously, but lean production in IE is the general trend of every enterprise at present, and the development of absolute popular majors in the future. And since our school launched the IE major, the employment rate has always been 100%, not only into the electronics factory, but also in various industries such as clothing, medicine, glass, food, machinery, etc., please pay attention to IE and learn him well.

It mainly involves in-depth engineering management, which is relatively narrow in terms of employment, and there is a way out if you learn well.

If you learn well, you will be good, and if you learn poorly, it will be useless.

There is no end to improvement, at least to the extent that the company's QCD indicators reach the industry's leading level.

You don't have to worry about the changes you mentioned in the work instructions, flow charts, etc., in reality, they are not changed as often as you think, imagine that a process has just been improved this week, and you will improve it next week? Generally not, unless the last improvement was too superficial, and the actual situation is that other stations or sections have changed, after a month, you will find that the improvement is distributed in different sections or lines, forming a good situation of full participation everywhere, and employees in the same place will not feel that you are changing all day long. Xinbi is a management consultant.

1.From the title of your question, it feels like you don't seem to understand the continuous improvement of IE, because the improvement is endless...

2.Judging from your content, you are entangled in your daily work content, because you don't know the type of products of your company, but I would like to ask you about your SOP, FC, and production log (what is this role?). What is the standard?

If you're talking about too many processes, I understand them as production processes, right? Many companies have this kind of problem, but can we find commonalities in the process? Can you delete some?

Merge some? Rearrange some? Simplify it a bit?

You may know this theoretical knowledge. Because your problem now is to do the same thing repeatedly, modify SOP, etc... Of course, this is also part of the work content of IE, no way, unless your company is willing to use specialized personnel to do copywriting work.

But if you say that a lot of them are trial, then let's distinguish between trial and long-term releases.

In addition, the IE department must be a strong department in the factory, otherwise it will not be able to do the work well. Also, as an IE, you need to find data that explains what is affecting your productivity? Is it another department? Or is it your own internal problem?

The above is honestly not directly able to help you, I just think that if IE can quantify a lot of work in the factory and have calculation logic, then the facts should also help.

In general, continuous improvement requires the following steps:

1. Continuous improvement cycle: It is not enough to solve a small problem or change the specific process slightly, and then ignore it until the problem arises. As the name "continuous improvement" suggests:

Continuous improvement is necessary. Continuous improvement means analyzing the system from time to time, meticulously collecting data and studying it; Deviations are meticulously tested, and every employee of the company sees continuous improvement as part of their work. Continuous improvement should be seen as a cycle in which the teams involved need to be active continuously over a long period of time.

That is, when a problem seems to have been solved, employee involvement cannot be terminated, new improvements to be implemented, new systems to analyze, and new ideas to study. The entire continuous improvement cycle is illustrated in the following diagram.

2. Strengthen process improvement: The next step is to make the implemented changes a standard part of the system. The team should develop a simple report that explains the new rules during testing and the impact of the improvements made on the system.

The report should list the benefits of the change, including a plan for the implementation and maintenance of the new system, to determine if the new system will achieve the new level of performance. If the team's recommendations are accepted and implemented by the manager, the team needs to monitor the operation of the system as per the plan.

3. Continuous Improvement Cycle: When you are confident that the new process is strengthened and becomes a natural part of the work process, you are ready to start the next continuous improvement cycle. You should start by analyzing the system, as the last cycle of change may have changed.

Fourth, summarize experience: continuous improvement is not a single person, but a team's common goal; In terms of time, our improvement has a gradient phase, and there is a buffer zone for continuous improvement!

It depends on the situation, looks at the support of the department leaders, and it seems that you are fighting alone, without the support of the department, which is quite bad, in fact, the situation in the factory is mostly a person, and in your situation, there should be no need to continue to do it.

IE industrial engineering is actually a comprehensive major of technology and management, in order to do this job well, you must learn to endure hardships in addition to being more diligent

I also started from scratch, usually read more relevant information by myself, industrial engineering pays attention to practical experience, so go directly to the factory engineering technology department in IE technician, from the scene! Good luck and happy May Day !

Start with the technician, then start with the following:

1.Familiar with the process flow (easy to row and pull, design tooling fixture improvement) 2Learn about the seven major techniques of IE (know to start with ** to improve).

3.Familiar with office software (making work instructions).

4.Product** (Settle accounts for the boss to see).

5.A good attitude should have a wide range of contact. (Because IE has to understand everything, but you don't need to be good at everything!) ）

Starting from work research, production management, logistics analysis, and human factors engineering, this is the strength of Tsinghua IE.

The next level is value engineering, system optimization, resource integration, and so on.

IE's field of study.

Human Factors Engineering: The integrated application of sensory, perceptual, intellectual, and psychomotor knowledge in the engineering design of facilities to improve the level of operation and the quality of workers' work.

Manufacturing Systems Engineering: Requirements analysis and manufacturing methods for the design, process and integrated systems that encompass equipment, control, service, management and new technologies such as computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD CAM), automatic control, robotics, and computer control.

Operations Research: The study and development of numerical representations of physical and operational systems using principles and methods such as statistics, stochastic processes, mathematical modeling, computer science, and optimization.

Production Management: Methods and theories for analyzing, designing, installing, and maintaining a production or management system that encompasses the production and distribution of goods and services. Its task is to plan, schedule, configure, and control the production process and make efficient use of capital, manpower, and resources.

Warehouse management (inventory control): statistical management (statistical software SPC, etc.).

Simulation: Simulation with software (ARENA, etc.).

Manufacturing Design: Design with Pro E, SolidWorks, CAD, CATIA, etc.