This special edition of the chapter newsletter is an IE NEWS FLASH. It is devoted to action that advances Industrial Engineering as a profession, and supports the career Advancement of members.

Jesse Brogan, VP Baltimore Chapter, is expanding traditional efficiency engineering to address the work of management. A major step in this direction has been accomplished with the publication of several management engineering works. These works are now coming available as e-books on Amazon.com, and will be added to bookstore at IIEnet.org.

As traditional IE applications support production managers in gaining performance through working groups, this new specialty supports more-senior managers in gaining performance through organizations. Due to the success of past applications to production processes, inefficiency is far more pronounced in modern management than in operations. Further, professional efficiency support for more-senior managers is likely to be more lucrative than traditional efficiency work. Management engineering technique has substantial impact on business-level performance, and application has potential to support career advancement.

This special edition marks a major expansion to the scope of Industrial Engineering. Chapter members are encouraged to gain proficiency in this new area, and to leverage its use to gain personal and professional advantage. It is an exciting time to be an Industrial Engineer.

Jesse Brogan, a member of The Baltimore Chapter of IIE, has become a publisher of management engineering works. Five e-books should appear shortly on retail sites such as Amazon.com. These works expand the application of industrial engineering to support senior management in gaining performance through organizations.

Engineering Lessons and Applications:

The Senior Manager’s Toolbox. This general presentation of the principles of management engineering is written more for managers that engineers, but its principles are also the technical tools that expand the value of basic industrial engineering into support for higher-level management. This work opens a new level of management, and manager’s use of professional engineering support.

                    Engineering Lessons and Applications:

                    Management is value-adding; supervision is overseeing resources & processes

                    Blackbox analysis is based on converting local inputs into local outputs

                    Management modules arise from the study of value-based product responsibilities

                    Internal support is a cost of gaining performance through organizations

                    Good-management practice used internal investments to evaluate potentials

                    Management is based on both ability and local family relations

The Cure for Common Management. The subject is stress, not only for managers, but for organizations as well. Stress is what we create for ourselves and is now largely out of control. Management engineering shows, one stressor at a time, how the application of good-management of practices can bring stress back under control. One key is the manager addressing himself s a business resource. Management engineering is approached as a general benefit for assuring long-long-term organizational performance.

                    Engineering Lessons and Applications:

                    Stress is a symptom, not a problem in itself

                    Stress is managed by attitude and approach

                    IE’s already have the effective attitude and approach

                    Value comes from maintaining focus on performance

                    Engineering provides a value basis for manager decisions

OEE, Inc. The fourth book is lighter reading, a fiction work that presents a series of management engineering applications for two freelance industrial engineers. The general message is the potency of even minor changes that focus managers more effectively on gaining through their organizations. A secondary message is the value that managers can gain from professional engineering support for their management actions.

                    Engineering Lessons and Applications:

                    One modern business challenge is a failure to apply management

                    Engineering application keeps focus on product requirements

                    Efficiency comes from putting staffers in authority over performers

                    Managers are experts in management; engineers are technical support

                    Substantial opportunities can often be met by simple techniques

Mastering the People Game. This final work of the series addresses a new way to see the personnel function, and how that function to best gain performance through organizations. As part of this effort, it develops more effective use of contract labor, both for its intrinsic value, and for the impact of its potential use on more traditional employment. This opens the way for the management engineering of the labor market.

                    Engineering Lessons and Applications:

                    Engineering addressed the lack of management over the personnel function

                    Employment permits union and legislative interference with profitable business

                    Modern prejudice toward employ reduces the value workers to business

                    Engineering supports development of an alternative (contract labor)

                    Contract labor can be given the same privileges & benefits as employment

                    Having options increases the ability of the business to manage its resources