There’s an old business axiom that if you want to find a business idea, truly listen to the complaints of others because the solution to that problem probably has a market. And something similar can be said about continuous improvement projects, though there are additional… Read More
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IE and BI – the Intersection of Industrial Engineering and Business Intelligence
A classic Peter Drucker quote is “What gets measured, get managed.” A quote attributed to W. Edwards Deming is “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” Big Data attempts to collect as much information as possible in the hope that the data can be used… Read More
Quality Assurance vs Quality Control vs Testing
While the terms quality assurance and quality control are often used interchangeably, there are differences between the two disciplines. Likewise, quality control and testing are sometimes used interchangeably, though the terms are not exactly the same thing. The Definitions Quality assurance is a process… Read More
How the IoT Could Affect Industrial Engineering
The Internet of Things is moving from the realm of theory to real world application. This is in some ways the extension of facility monitoring systems that many IEs have worked with to the broader world, while it extends the network to everything else in… Read More
