IIE Blogs

Improving process attention and discipline in the workplace can improve process adherence and product quality. In the end, that is the battle IEs fight every day.

Lean Six Sigma strives for minimal waste and maximum efficiency. Lean Six Sigma certifications can be divided into white belt, yellow belt, green belt, black belt, master black belt and champion.

There is often confusion as to whether Six Sigma is considered a form of classical problem solving or if one methodology has evolved from the other.

There is an old adage: "The customer is always right." But are they? This adage requires both caveats and analysis.

When a field has no known value or has lost its information through data transfer and data translation, the need may arise to fill in a dummy value. 

If we dare to think employers not only could but should manage employees' life and health, how could information technology used to accomplish this?

What if we set aside the privacy concerns and ethical risks of an employer assuming ownership of people by seeking to manage the details of their body (and, by default, lifestyle that affects the body)? Then, if we dare to think employers not only could but should manage employees' life and health, how could information technology used to accomplish this?

When a scientific paper is published in an obscure language, word of the discoveries or technologies is hindered by lack of communication and dispersal of ideas.

For all of the bally-hoo of computers and software applications being created to take over all the mundane tasks, there are still things that only humans can do – and skilled ones at that.

The democratization of industrial engineering concepts has served to raise awareness of the profession and its expertise.