Avraham Shtub, Yuval Cohen

Introduction to Industrial Engineering

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an introduction to industrial engineering and discusses the role of the industrial engineer. Its purpose is to lay out the broad scope of areas in which industrial engineers are engaged and to help new IE students understand the professional development pathways open to them and the direction in which to specialize. The book presents the major issues dealt with by industrial engineers, focusing on basic tools that require no in-depth knowledge of mathematics, statistics, psychology or sociology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9781498706018
• ISBN-10: 1498706010
• Artikelnr.: 43917413

Autorenporträt

Professor Avraham Shtub holds the Stephen and Sharon Seiden chair in project management. He has a BSc in electrical engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (1974), an MBA from Tel Aviv University (1978), and a PhD in management science and industrial engineering from the University of Washington (1982). Professor Shtub is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI-USA). He has been a consultant to industry in the areas of project management, training by simulators, and the design of production-operation systems. Yuval Cohen is a senior faculty member at the Industrial Engineering Department of the Tel-Aviv Afeka College of Engineering. His areas of expertise are planning and operation of assembly lines, design and management of production and logistic systems, project management, supply chain management, and business decision making. Dr. Cohen served several years as a senior operations planner at FedEx Ground (USA) and received several awards for his contributions to the hub and terminal network planning. He received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh (USA), his MSc from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and BSc from Ben-Gurion University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Modeling the Organizational Structure and the Facility
Layout. Project Management. Information Systems. Supply Chain Management:
The Interface with the Customer. The Interface with Suppliers and
Subcontractors. Scheduling. Streamlining the Transformation Process:
Material Requirements Planning Systems. Enterprise Resource Planning. The
Human Factor. Introduction to Supply Chain Management. Introduction to
Service Engineering.