Industrial Engineering Vocabulary 1

What do systems engineers focus on?

• Individual machines

• How different parts of a system work together

• Writing software code

• Building bridges

What is the meaning of the word 'efficiency' in the context of industrial engineering?

• Working slowly to avoid mistakes

• Spending more time to increase quality

• Creating new machines and tools

• Doing something with minimum waste or effort

What is the meaning of the word 'Optimization' in Industrial Engineering?

• Eliminate all errors from a system

• Make something as effective as possible

• Build new systems from scratch

• Avoid making changes to existing processes

"What does "data analysis" help industrial engineers to do?

• Design new buildings

• Train new employees

• Repair broken machines

• Understand and improve systems

Continuous flow systems are designed to:

• Stop frequently for quality checks

• Produce items non-stop for high demand

• Manufacture only customized goods

• Focus on worker training

Lead time is the period between:

• Product design and approval

• Order placement and final delivery

• Worker training and hiring

• Packaging and shipping

Throughput refers to:

• The time needed for maintenance

• The number of workers

• The amount of output in a given time

• The total production cost

Engineers study the entire __________ to identify steps that can be improved.

• efficiency

• capacity

• process

• quality

In __________ production, items are made in groups rather than continuously.

• job shop

• continuous flow

• mass

• batch

Workers stand along the __________ to perform one specific task at each step.

• safety

• workflow

• operations

• assembly line