IE Job Description Steve Snelling Industrial Engineer/Process Engineer Boeing Commercial Airplanes stephen.r.snelling@boeing.com In General What Most Industrial Engineers Do • Depending on the type of industry, they may do some or all of the traditional Industrial Engineering activities: – – – – Facility Planning & Layout Inventory Control & Inventory Management Production Control & Shop Floor Control Standard Data Development & Time Studies • Some do Consulting work • Some do Research in a lab environment • Some teach at Engineering schools 2 Some Types Of IE Projects • • • • • • • • Process improvement Problem resolution Elimination of rework Cost analysis Equipment justification Facility layout Stand alone benchmarking Systems integration 3 Types of Industries IEs May Work In • • • • • • • • • Aluminum & Steel Materials Testing Ceramics Electronics Assembly Aerospace & Airplanes Plastics & forming Shipbuilding Entertainment Military • • • • • • • • • Medical Services Forestry & Logging Mining Banking State & Federal Government Transportation Oil & Gas Insurance Consulting 4 Main Areas IEs Work In at The Boeing Co. • • • MANAGE PROJECTS – Project Management – Project Scheduling – Risk Management PROCESS IMPROVEMENT – Lean Manufacturing – Engineering Economic Analysis – Process Modeling – Root Cause Analysis – Statistical Methods – Six Sigma – Time Studies – Work Sampling SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYSIS – Supply Chain Alignment – Material Logistic – Inventory Control – Supplier Support – Make/Buy Mfg Process • OPERATIONS IMPROVEMENT – – – – • INTEGRATED SYSTEMS – – – – – • Ergonomics & Human Factors Operating Plans Recovery Planning Capacity Planning Value Stream Analysis Facilities Layout Production System Design Manufacturing Process Design Systems Thinking DIRECT SUPPORT TO PRODUCTION – Production Scheduling – Theory of Constraints – Budgets & Forecasts – Crew Empowerment – Defect Analysis – Benchmarking Analysis 5 Industrial Engineering Functional Work Areas Product Engineering Finance - Team Facilitation - Product Development Production Control Project Management Quality - Resource Planning - Risk Analysis - Project Scheduling - SPC/SQC - Make/Buy Analysis - DOE - Comparison of Alternatives - Supplier Quality - Cost Estimating - Queuing Theory - Six Sigma Facilities Transportation Factory Operations - Job Scheduling - Expedite procedures - Layout Design - Process Flow Analysis IE Methods Tooling - Workstation Design - Ergonomics - Methods Engineering -Tool Fab process - Tool Offload procedures - Tool Repair process - Tool Room procedures Training - Course Facilitation - Logistics Planning - Material Handling - Production Simulation - Theory of Constraints - Systems Integration - OSHA Regulations - Safety Management - Linear Programming - Lean Manufacturing Inventory - Inventory Management - Supplier Selection - Material Requirements Planning - Supply Chain Management 6