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If your job requires improving quality, performance and design — all functions of an industrial engineer — this seminar will help you build a foundation for improvement. Learn from an experienced practitioner as you are introduced to the concepts and principles of industrial engineering. Your new knowledge will help you achieve better quality, service and productivity in your organization. This online course is the equivalent of three days of classroom training. After completing the course materials, you will have the option to take IIE's Fundamentals of IE skills exam online. The exam is included as part of the course fee. Participants who pass the exam receive IIE’s Fundamental of IE Skills Certificate.
Overview
Plan to enjoy this seminar that enables you to create process improvement and performance enhancement for your company. Learn how to streamline organizations, facilities, plans, tools, processes, methods and work environments for optimal effectiveness. Discover the responsibilities and practices of an industrial engineer and develop the talents necessary to strengthen overall performance. Whether you work in manufacturing, service or government, this course shows you how to use industrial engineering techniques as competitive tools to improve your organization.
Topic Highlights
- Control mechanisms and strategies
- Cost of profitability
- Designing, improving and controlling production services and systems
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- Machines and capital processes
- Management principles and systems integration
- Manpower: People in the process
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What You Will Learn
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Create an improvement strategy and documentation
- Create an organizational vision, strategic objectives and a long-range plan
- Make use of process improvement techniques
- Recognize opportunities for implementing lean principles
Course Content
- Introduction to industrial engineering
- Background and definitions
- IE philosophy
- Statistical measures
- Systems concepts
- Models and modeling
- Approaches to process improvements
- Products vs. processes
- Man-machine systems
- Work systems
- Facilities layout
- Material handling
- Scheduling
- Approaches to product improvements
- Modern view of quality
- Reliability
- Quality, reliability and warranties
- Six Sigma and lean concepts
- Quantitative methods for decision making
- Operations research and industrial engineering
- Forecasting methods
- Inventory models
- Queuing models
- Mathematical programming
- Engineering economic decisions
- The IE profession
- Industrial engineering curriculum
- Functional areas of IE
- Institute of Industrial Engineers
This course is of value for professionals who want to improve their performance and their company's performance, including:
- Team leaders
- Project managers
- Operations managers
- Service managers
- Productivity managers
- New industrial engineers
- Quality professionals
- Business owners
Online Details
The Online On-Demand course is divided into sevenunits. Each unit will include from 30 minutes to two hours of recorded material (audio and video).
- Unit 1 (Introduction) and Unit 2 (People and project success) Part I
- Unit 2 (People and project success) Part II
- Unit 3 (Project management)
- Unit 4 (Process management) Part I
- Unit 4 (Process management) Part II
- Unit 4 (Process management) Part III
- Unit 5 (Performance management)
- Unit 6 (Improvement)
- Unit 7 (Pursuit of excellence)
Requirements
- Users of On Demand Seminars must have an established Internet connection.
- Access to content is only available for six (6) months. Access will expire six (6) months from the date of purchase.
On Demand Viewing Tips
How to Access
After you have registered for the course you will be e-mailed a receipt for your purchase. At the bottom of that receipt will be the link to the login page. Alternatively, you can reach the login page from the IIE website at www.iienet.org. Choose the Training menu and then select "My Online On-Demand courses" from the drop down menu. Login with your user name and password you setup during the registration process and you will see a list of the online courses you have purchased with their expiration dates. Click the "Select" link next to the course you wish to view. You will then be taken to a page with links to the Units. Simply click the "Launch" button next to the Unit you wish to view.