Industrial Engineering also got Total Tag - Total Industrial Engineering

H. Yamashina of Japan developed World Class Manufacturing approach and he included Total Industrial Engineering along with Total Quality Management, Total productive Maintenance and Cost Deployment.

According to him TQM is the brain, TPM is the muscle and TIE is the humanware.

I am trying to find out the details of the concept. So far I could only access three or four slides on the concept. Covered in a post on Knol.

Total Industrial Engineering - H. Yamashina

Knol is A Unique ICT Resource for Faculty Members

What are the unique features of Knol?

1. Wiki technology.

Wiki technology makes collaboration possible and also makes it easy. Groups of authors can come together and write articles or prepare lists.

2. Author identification

Very essential for identification of course plans and course materials by individual faculty members. Also when students post their assignments, author identify is very essential. Author identity on a popular wiki platform is a unique feature of Knol. Google's ownership makes it a popular platform. Authors join it without hesitation once they appreciate its utility.

3. Scope for diverse articles on the same topic.

Different faculty members from different institutions have to post their materials and course plans. Hence the platform must have the willingness to support many different knols/articles/essays on the platform. Another distinct feature of the knol that makes it ideal for use by faculty members.

4. Comments

Facilitates interaction among learners, subject faculty, other faculty of the same institute, other faculty of different institutes, alumni, and practitioners. Provides evaluation of learning of any institute by global a community

5. Knol Collection Facility

Provides an ability to assemble Globally best study material support for any course.

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Knol - A Unique ICT Resource for Faculty Members

Knol is Thriving

Knol, Google's article writing platform is thriving.

http://knol.google.com

Many authors are writing articles every day and many are reading. There are popular authors whose articles have page views of thousands and they are still updating their pages and writing new knols.

Knol thus proved its utility to both authors and visitors.

7th July 2010 knol-day-of-industrial-engineering

Birth Day of Frank Gilbreth 7th July is celebrated as the Knol Day of Industrial Engineering for the year 2010. Many articles on Industrial Engineering are being written for the occasion.

Students of NITIE are posting number of articles which are summaries of various articles published in Industrial Engineer magazine

Index of articles written by IE students of NITIE, Mumbai, India on the occasion of Knol Day of Industrial Engineering

Industrial Engineer Magazine Article Summaries by 2010 IE Students NITIE, Mumbai, India

All visitors are requested to write comments on various issues related to industrial engineering in comments blocks.

Knol Day of Industrial Engineering

By Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.

Million page views for knol portfolio

My knol portfolio completed million page views according to knol counter on 15.4.2010. That makes me the first English language individual knol author to cross million page views.

Knols of Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.

Good Collection of Miracles by Saints

http://mskmg.blogspot.com/2009/12/miracles-than-some-revered-persons-have.html

Not Able to Access Knol for Reading or Posting

Right from the morning 6.30 am (IST) on 21.2.2010 to till now 1.25 pm (IST - Ind. Std. Time) I am not able to access knol.

Wanted to post a new knol on productivity Improvement Principles

800,000 knol page views

Today my knol page view count will reach 800,000. The global rank is at four now.

Presently writing knols on engineering topics

Crankshaft design and machining

http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-k-v-s-s/crank-shaft-machining-for-reference-in/2utb2lsm2k7a/2319#view

http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-k-v-s-s/industrial-engineering-projects-and/2utb2lsm2k7a/2324#

Operations Research - System Efficiency Tools

Operations Research - An Efficiency Improvement Tool for Industrial Engineers

Operations research is a system efficiency improvement tool in the hands of industrial engineers. I expanded this thought into an article on google knol platform

http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-k-v-s-s/operations-research-an-efficiency/2utb2lsm2k7a/2271#

Knol Handbook of Industrial Engineering (Year 2010 Version)

A knol is developed as a handbook of industrial engineering. It is developed on the lines of an engineering management handbook assembled on ASEM website. I my self prepared 50 articles on Industrial Engineering. I am also assembling various web pages and articles that complement the articles that I prepared. Thus the handbook contains my online articles as well as online articles by others.

http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-k-v-s-s/knol-handbook-of-industrial-engineering/2utb2lsm2k7a/2263#

Sharing a Current Concern with Amitabh bachchan - Memory Problems in Old Age

"As one grows older one notices many such incidents creeping in. The need to go into another room to fetch an object required for work or for use, will indeed take you to the other room, but as you get there you discover that the reason to be there has disappeared from your mind. You may be wearing your spectacles on top of your head for easy access later on, but when the time comes to use it you look for it through hill and dale, until someone pulls it off your head and thrusts it in front of you !!"

"In the privacy of your room or home this would not be given much attention, but when it appears in public, the repercussions could be quite severe."

http://bigb.bigadda.com/?p=4392

Well there is a price becoming big and old with age.

National Youth Day of India - 12 January

It is Swami Vivekananda's Birth day.

Let us do something to improve some tangible things in the society and do something to improve intangible things - our behaviour and behavior of our community members.

Some details of the days celebrations are being collected in an article

http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-k-v-s-s/national-youth-day-of-india-12-january/2utb2lsm2k7a/2139

Happy New Year 2010

SEASONS GREETINGS - HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS 2010


http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-k-v-s-s/-/2utb2lsm2k7a/2071#view

Core Activities of Industrial Engineering

Core areas of Industrial Engineering are Human Effort Engineering and System Efficiency Engineeering.

Augmented area is systems engineering or systems design management.

Industrial engineering is a specialty engineering area. It is not a functional design discipline.

http://knol.google.com/k/industrial-engineering

Industrial Engineering - Definition

"Industrial Engineering is Human Effort Engineering and System Efficiency Engineeering. It is an engineering discipline that deals with the design of human effort and system efficiency in all occupations: agricultural, manufacturing and service. The objectives of Industrial Engineering are optimization of productivity of work-systems and occupational comfort, health, safety and income of persons involved."

Industrial Engineering
Definition, Explanation, History, and Programs
A Knol
http://knol.google.com/k/industrial-engineering#

Super Earth Discovered

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20091216/tsc-scientists-discover-earth-like-water-c2ff8aa.html

Astronomers have discovered a new Earth-like planet that is larger than our own and may be more than half covered with water, according to a study published Wednesday in the science journal Nature.

Industrial Engineering - Three Components

I grouped IE activities into three.


1. Human effort engineering

2. Systems efficiency engineering

3. Systems design, installation and improvement management.

Articles related to all three
http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/industrial-engineering-knols-of/2utb2lsm2k7a/1674#

Swine Flu - H1N1 - Treatment Facilities in Mumbai-Thane

I prepared two knols on Swine Flu in India and Mumbai/Thane

Swine Flu - Influenza A - H1N1 - Mumbai - Thane -Problem and Treatment Facilities
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http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/swine-flu-influenza-a-h1n1-mumbai-thane/2utb2lsm2k7a/1630


Swine flu India
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http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/swine-flu-influenza-a-h1n1-indian/2utb2lsm2k7a/1625#

Moving to Knol

I moved this blog theme to knol. The second post in the knol opened for this purpose is

Enjoy the effort and accept the result

http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/read-heard-viewed-thought-by-nrao/2utb2lsm2k7a/1590#Enjoy_the_Effort_and_Accept_the_Result

Friendship Day 2009 - 2 August 2009

I came to know in the night of 1 August 2009 that the next day would be Friendship day and got into action.

Created a knol on friendship day and included a set of activities that can be done on friendship day. Eight of the activities were done by me next day. Got in touch with kids in my building as well as my friends all over India and abroad. The day was spent with action and enthusiasm.

The knol that I created
Friendship Day - First Sunday of August

http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/friendship-day-first-sunday-of-august/2utb2lsm2k7a/1556