25 Glossary, What Do Industrial Engineers Do? terms
Look for 25 words or terms seen in the documents given by your professor of the engineering class or in the link about industrial engineering.
Analyze
Verb
Analysis is the process of dividing a complex topic or substance into smaller parts to gain a better understanding of it.
Example: The technology group can use the forecasts to ANALYZE and determine the impact of the new technology.
es: Analizar
Assignment scheduling
Noun
Assignment Schedule means the schedule agreed between Employment Business and Contractor for each Assignment containing the particulars of the Assignment and Services.
Example: Each person is scheduled an assignment.
es: Programación de asignaciones
Design
Noun
Design is the prior process of mental configuration, in the search for a solution in any field.
Example: Political processes: Joint venture with one of the M&S leading suppliers, Desmond & Sons, to DESIGN and source children's clothing.
es: Diseño
Group workplaces
Noun
Workplace groups are private spaces to discuss projects, manage information and securely share documents with colleagues or clients. Group members can upload, share and store unlimited files, and work live on documents .
Example: Group workplaces are governed by rules.
es: Lugares de trabajo en grupo
Individual workplaces
When someone work with own pace not depending on someone is known as individual work.you can decide what you do or not and how can you do this work and when. These all depend on your decision.No one tell how you do this you are only one for responsible for all these things.you do every thing without hesitating.
Example: Individual workplaces like offices are exhausting.
es: Lugares de trabajo individuales
Industrial engineering
Noun
Industrial engineering is an engineering profession that deals with the optimization of complex processes, systems, or organizations through the development, improvement, and implementation of integrated systems of people, wealth, knowledge, information and equipment, energy, materials, and processes.
Example: A Comparison of Heuristic Evaluation and Usability Testing: The Efficacy of a Domain-Specific Heuristic Checklist . , Department of INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
es: Ingeniería Industrial
Information systems
Noun
An information system is a set of components that interact with each other for a common purpose. In computing, information systems help to manage, collect, retrieve, process, store and distribute relevant information for the fundamental processes and the particularities of each organization.
Example: Businesses are investing decades of time and billions of dollars to struggle for achieving competitive advantage by using INFORMATION SYSTEMS.
es: sistemas de información
Infrastructure
Noun
nfrastructure is the general term for the basic physical systems of a business, region, or nation. Examples of infrastructure include transportation systems, communication networks, sewage, water, and electric systems.
Example: The UN is involved together with the World Bank to help China in this period of transition by improving agricultural INFRASTRUCTURE and service systems and enhancing protection of agricultural environment and resources.
es: Infraestructura
Inventory control
Noun and Verb
the fact or process of ensuring that appropriate amounts of stock are maintained by a business, so as to be able to meet customer demand without delay while keeping the costs associated with holding stock to a minimum.
Example: In order to improve INVENTORY CONTROL and reduce costs, EOQ indicates that class A should be small order quantity and place an order very frequently, while class C should be large order quantity with little frequency of placing orders.
es: Control de inventario
Manage manufacturing
Noun and Verb
Manufacturing managers plan, schedule, and direct an efficient layout of equipment and flow of materials.
Example: By managing manufacturing they direct an efficient distribution of equipment.
es: Gestionar la fabricación
Manufacturing systems
Noun
A manufacturing system can be defined as a combination of humans, machinery, and equipment that are bound by a common material and information flow. The materials input to a manufacturing system are raw materials and energy.
Example: Indeed the origins of agility as a business concept lie in flexible MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS (FMS).
es: Sistemas de manufactura
Material handling systems
Noun
Material handling equipment (MHE) is mechanical equipment used for the movement, storage, control, and protection of materials, goods and products throughout the process of manufacturing, distribution, consumption and disposal.
Example: The material handling system will be used in the construction company.
es: Sistemas de manipulación de materiales
Operations management
Noun
Production management is the management of the organization's productive resources. This area is in charge of planning, organizing, directing, controlling and improving the systems that produce goods and services.
Example: Service OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT , Pearson Education Limited, Essex Knowles, T. (1996).
es: Jefe de operaciones
Personnel safety.
Noun
Your personal safety is a general recognition and avoidance of possible harmful situations or persons in your surroundings
Example: All workers wear safety glasses and helmets for personal safety.
es: Seguridad del personal.
Personnel scheduling
Noun
Staffing and scheduling are human resource allocations that select and assign employees to tasks within an organization, and specify when and for how long those tasks should be performed.
Example: Personnel scheduling is essential in running the business.
es: Programación de personal
Production control
Noun
Production control is the activity of monitoring and controlling any particular production or operation. Production control is often run from a specific control room or operating room.
Example: The production control is done to guarantee the well-being of the company.
es: Control de producción
Production systems
Noun
A production system is a computer program normally used to provide some form of artificial intelligence, which consists of a set of rules about behavior.
Example: Asian consumption was transferred to Europe but not Asian PRODUCTION SYSTEMS.
es: Sistemas de producción
Quality assurance
Noun
Quality Assurance is a very broad concept, not only applicable to software development, but to the development of any activity. It basically consists of the measures to apply a process to ensure the quality of the result.
Example: The introduction of a new set of QUALITY ASSURANCE (QA) processes into a large organisation, with its own culture, methods, and team practices can be fraught with difficulty.
es: Seguro de calidad
Quality control
Noun
Quality control is the set of mechanisms, actions and tools carried out to detect the presence of errors.
Example: ISO IEC9126 ISO IEC9 126 is specially designed for software development and focus on the quality control.
es: Control de calidad
Resource allocation
Noun
Resource allocation is the distribution of productive assets in their different uses.
Example: Economists have rather consistently argued that monopoly is undesirable and accused it of being straining competition and worsening RESOURCE ALLOCATION.
es: Asignación de recursos
Resource scheduling
Noun
Resource scheduling is a process in project management that organizes your team's time so that the right person is assigned to each job.
Example: Resource scheduling also works for human resources.
es: Programación de recursos
Service processes
Noun
A customer service process is the set of operations that a company carries out with all its staff, integrating different departments to guarantee a solid and satisfactory experience for each customer.
Example: The service process must first know what you are looking for.
es: Procesos de servicio
Statistical analysis
Noun
Statistics is the branch of mathematics that studies the variability, collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data, as well as the random process that generates them following the laws of probability.
Example: In the end, they will be asked to analyze the results by implementing the relevant statistical analysis tool.
es: Análisis estadístico
System safety.
Noun
System safety is a specialty within system engineering that supports program risk management. The goal of System Safety is to optimize safety by the identification of safety related risks, eliminating or controlling them by design and/or procedures, based on acceptable system safety precedence.
Example: Bibliography Leveson, Nancy Safeware : SYSTEM SAFETY and computers Nancy G. Leveson .
es: Seguridad del sistema.
Systems planning control
Noun
Planning and control, often known as production planning and control, are management functions that seek to determine: first, what market demands are stating and second, reconcile how a company can fill those demands through planning and monitoring.
