Industrial engineers have used statistical techniques to monitor processes and improve quality for years. Virtually every industrial engineering student is exposed to techniques such as statistical process control and design of experiments. In the three papers summarized below, which all appear in the December issue of IIE Transactions (Vol. 34, No. 12), we highlight improved techniques for usi...

In a product development process, it is crucial to understand and evaluate multiple and synergic aspects of systems such as performance, cost, reliability and safety. In order to improve the foundations for decision-making, this thesis presents methods that are intended to increase the engineering knowledge in the early design phases. In complex products, different systems from a multitude of e...

Monica E. Cardella is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education and an Affiliate of the Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University. She is the Director of the MEDLEE (Mathematics and Engineering Design Learning Environments and Experiences) Research Group. She has a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Puget Sound and an MS and PhD in Industrial Enginee...

Due to the success of first edition Special Issue “Industrial Chemistry Reactions: Kinetics, Mass Transfer and Industrial Reactor Design” in terms both quantity quality published papers, we thought it would be prudent announce a second [...]

This study presents an introduction to mass customization in the product life cycle—the goal of mass customization, mass customization configurations, and new customer integration techniques, modular design techniques, flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs), and supply chain management methods. The study reviews three selected books and twenty-one selected papers—early papers that describe the g...

In this paper, we introduce and analyse a Computer-Aided Industrial Design (CAID) process. For each step performed in the shape modelling process, durations, involved entities, concerned parameters and constraints, initial and final states of the shapes were recorded. The modelling session consisted of three main phases and lasted 2710 seconds. The results show that transformation tools are mor...