2.
1 MACHINERY
AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
Increasing meaning of manufacture and technology for competitiveness of
enterprises causes that engineers are still and still more confronted with
complicated issues having great market, economical, social and ethical
consequences. Industrial engineering grants the appropriate professionalism
to solve these issues of enterprise practice.
The ambition of industrial engineering is to
prepare specialists who are able to search and
implement system solutions of manufacturing
and supply problems, to increase efficiency
of enterprise processes, who are able to plan
and project manufacturing processes and
systems, to provide their high productivity and
reliability and to eliminate all sorts of losses
and costs which do not create value added.
The indivisible part of the professional profile
of an industrial engineer is also his ability to
participate in creation and implementation
of related innovation activities which are
necessary to increase competitiveness
permanently.
Characteristics
Industrial engineering is a multidisciplinary
branch combining knowledge of the
engineering field and experience of
enterprise management. This branch should
use all available sources inside the company
as effectively as possible, which are e. g.
information itself, financial sources, human
work, knowledge and abilities of people
etc. Therefore, its main task is to rationalize,
optimize and improve manufacturing and
non manufacturing processes. Industrial
engineering deals systematically with
methodology aimed to project, plan,
implement and to improve processes and
implementation ability in the innovation field
with the target to provide their high efficiency
and competitiveness. Changes are applied at
practice through projects which shall eliminate
all losses and to provide the highest possible
productivity. Industrial engineering can be
also understood as searching of methods
how to perform and manage enterprise
processes in a simpler and quicker way with
bigger quality and flexibility.
There is a great number of definitions
available to characterize industrial
engineering and they more or less cover its
true meaning; however, in their consequence
they have the common base. The author´s
definition is the following one:
Industrial engineering is the comprehensive
social discipline, whose main function is to
grant knowledge and abilities necessary
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to simplify, improve, accelerate and
streamline enterprise activities. Tools and
methods of industrial engineering like
project management, quality management,
modelling and simulation, system engineering
and tools of statistics are used not only by
enterprises in many industrial branches but
also in institutions of financial services and in
other fields of non-manufacturing spheres.
Short view to the history
The essential ideas of industrial engineering
(IE) were put in practice and in the educational
process by such personalities like F. W. Taylor,
W. Shewhart and H. Ford are and it was
done already since from the first mid 19th
century. The important personality at the next
formulation of IE contents and strategy was
Japanese Shiengeo Shinga who since the
forties formulated the “IE school” which has
been studied by the whole industrial world
up to now.
The American Institute of Industrial
Engineers (AIIE) was established in 1948
and this started another IE phase. This
phase is characterized especially by
completion of classical empiric methods by
new theoretical approaches based especially
on mathematical methods, operational
research, simulation modelling, etc.
Thanks to the development of computer
hardware and software, means originated
during the second mid 20th century and
these means were determined to analyse
more extensive and more complicated
manufacturing processes and systems.
At the same time, in this time period tools
(programs) begun to be created and these
tools (programs) were based on usage
of human potential and its motivation at
solution of these tasks. This period gave the
birth of generally well known tools as CAD
(Computer Aid Design), CAM (Computer
Aid Manufacturing), CAQ (Computer Aid
Quality), PDM (Product Data Management),
CIM (Computer Integrated Manufacturing)
and many others are.
At the beginning of the 21st century all
above mentioned tools were covered by the
term “Digital Factory”. The digital factory is
being dynamically further developed within
IE, it uses knowledge management elements
at the current time as well as globalization,
digitizing and artificial intelligence elements
and as a whole, it is now designated as a
“Smart Factory” [Dvořák 2010].
During the recent ten years, industrial
engineering has passed through a great
development and it had to react very quickly
to new needs of industry and new business
systems. Companies started to establish new
organization units which were primarily aimed
at the industrial engineering fields, which
really proves the importance of this branch.
In spite of this, every industrial engineer faces
a new challenge in new dimensions of the
business system – an industrial engineer’s
role in pre manufacturing and development
phases of the product; an industrial engineer’s
role in service and non manufacturing
companies; minimization of the business
system; narrow specialization and a bigger
demanding character at details; designing
of working surroundings of people at still
growing older population; importance of
information technologies; continuous changes
in the business system and its role of the
leader and carrier of changes [Denár 2011].
Organization
of industrial engineering
in the manufacturing process
If any organization begins to deal with
building of the industrial engineering unit, at
the beginning it must assess unambiguously
the optimization extent – manufacture
versus administration versus service versus
development – moreover, connection of
industrial engineering with organization
strategy, the level and importance of the
production system building, competence of
an industrial engineer and his classification
to the organization structure. Moreover, it
must assess the improvement system and its
strategy and to put the question whether any
improvement system is available today or if
a new one has to be created. It is necessary
to take into account the level of enterprise
culture and the level of resistance against
changes and to determine what is expected
from industrial engineers.
The organization of industrial engineering
is dependent on the particular enterprises
and companies as well as on their types of
manufacture and services which they offer.
The optimum work organization of this section
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is not uniquely determined and even it should engineering the the company. Among the department or the quality department. The
be not uniquely determined. The necessary main factors it is possible to mention: author [Dlabač 2011] met also the case when
condition which should be fulfilled is the fact • IE position within the organization structure; industrial engineering was subordinated
that this section must be an independent and • contents of its work, appropriate under the logistics section, under the financial
autonomous one and in the organization responsibilities and competence; management and the audit section or even
aspect, it should not be incorporated to • the system how to evaluate work of under the administration and maintenance
the manufacturing department or in other this section. of buildings. Which solution is the correct
departments. As e. g. [Denár 2011] mentions, Reality how the industrial engineering section one? Where industrial engineering should
the industrial engineering department should is incorporated can be very miscellaneous be incorporated? May be, there is no
unambiguous and generally valid answer
available to answer these questions. Its
Production system creation
incorporation should always result from
Change projects Change the organization strategy and from the fact
implementer Project manager
El. of wastage
what the organization expects from industrial
Member
in processes of middle  Realization of optimalization projects engineering and what it wants to aim its
management across the various departments in
Member of the organization, defined by the
activity primarily at. And this is just often the
organization´s organization´s management stumbling block and one of the main carriers
top Project
 Realization of year´s savings within the
management manager
Nr.1
of later failure. In many cases, even the
Project organization
manager  Main focus on change project company’s management itself has no clear
of changes Project
manager
management, implementation of idea about activities of this department or
the production system pillars in the
Industrial
engineering
…
organization, conceptual work. about strategy of its next development. It is
manager Cost very often that comic situations can happen
center
Nr. 1 Lean and innovative enterprise
when industrial engineers can be found in the
Industrial
engineer property management department or in the
Lean development
Lean administrative

Lean production

Cost
Lean logistics

Industrial engineer
center maintenance department. How can such a
…
situation occur? It is simple – the management
 Organization incorporation under the cost center does not know “where to put an industrial
 Implementation of annual savings within the center
 Main focus on eliminating waste, optimization of processes,
engineer” and so it subordinates him under
work standartization, visualization and visual management, the organization unit which is undersized at
production system strategy implementation.
Realization culture and target concentration the current time or under a manager who is
mostly inclined to it.
Fig. 2.1.1: Possible incorporation of industrial engineering to the enterprise structure [Denár 2011] Integration of industrial engineering in
the manufacturing department or in the
be incorporated directly under the general in Czech enterprises. In the most cases, this technology department – which is the most
director of the particular company and he unit is incorporated in the manufacturing common case at the current time – need
mentions the following reasons to do it: department, it is very often organized not be naturally bad. Indisputably, there are
• Industrial engineering methods must be under the technology department or the companies which agree with this position and
used in the whole enterprise, not only technological manufacture preparation in the case, that the carrying and primary
in the manufacture.
• Independent and unprejudiced view
of processes in organizations. Rationalisation,
empirical
• Creation of the production system as techniques Value Stream,
5S, Kanban,
of industrial enterprises
a continual tool for implementation Jidoka, SMED,
TPM
of the business organization strategy.
Teams, leadership,
Industrial engineering is not such an Informatics,
motivation, new
organizational forms,
System
engineering,
unknown term in enterprises as it used software management design, TOC project
engineering operations research management,
to be sooner. Even in the Czech Republic VA, layout
optimization
there are many companies which have
incorporated industrial engineering in their Technology, Moderation,
kaizen,
Simulation, manufacturing
organization structure and due to this, they genetic and automation gainsharung
engineering
utilize efficiency brought by this section. In algorithms,
neural Robots, machines,
storehouses,
order to utilize its potential in the whole extent, networks, SW
transport systems
it is necessary to take into account a few of
factors which – in their final consequences –
Fig. 2.1.2: Integration of branches and methods in industrial engineering [Košturiak 2010]
influence considerably efficiency of industrial

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General
manager

Finance Business Technologies Production Logistics Quality Industrial HR

and marketing engineering management

Cash CZ Development Primary Planning Safety and New projects HR

management production Health at Work agenda

Controlling Export Construction Painting Disposition Ecology Manufacturing Wages

purchase processes

Purchase Marketing Tool factory Assembly Expedition Manufacturing Non-manufact. Employees

quality processes development

Cooperation Customer
service

Fig. 2.1.3: Organization structure example [Dlabač 2011]

target of the department is only to improve New trends of industrial manufacturing and development stages,
procedures in manufacture or to solve mainly engineering and its aiming considering the character of the industrial
technical issues within the given product For long time, industrial engineering has engineer. This can be done thanks to
group, it can be very profitable to a certain not been only the domain of manufacturing his valuable knowledge from the view of
extent. Then, this incorporation is a rather companies. New trends in its branch can production system projecting. He is an
logical one. However, it cannot be expected be now aimed primarily at four essential excellent opponent of the designed solution
that the substance of an industrial engineer’s zones. The first one is represented by pre and a moderator able to solve potential
work will be fulfilled – i. e. optimization and manufacturing periods and development, problems correctly.
improvement of manufacturing and non- when companies try to involve the The second sphere is represented by
manufacturing processes [Dlabač 2011]. This industrial engineer more and more in pre administration and services. For example,
incorporation limits very considerably the
field of its activity with regard to competencies
throughout the company. Then, it is almost
impossible for an industrial engineer to deal Pre-manufac- Kanban, Pull, Simulation
turing periods synchronisation,
with optimization of administration processes organization balanced flow
and digital
enterprise
e. g. in the commercial department, because Strategy Fractal Quality
it is sure that competencies of such a team enterprise processes
or such a IE section do not cover this field. If Change Team work Standartization
management
the potential should be used to the full extent of work

which is offered by industrial engineering ABC calculation Process

SMED
Target costing optimization
by its function, this department must be - rate reduction
Products and
wholly independent and autonomous and processes 5S and visual
management TPM
innovation
it must be incorporated directly under
Value flow Lean layout,
the general director in the organization BSC, Hoshin mapping production cells
structure. In such a case, the engineering
Process Operation
department chairman becomes a part management research TOC

of the top company management. Then, Strategy Jidoka,

development poka yoke, LeanSigma
he has a unique opportunity to influence management andon
efficiency throughout the whole organization Flexible
enterprise
Modern
assembly
structure. However, the condition of such an
incorporation is conviction – or better to say
goodwill to optimize not only manufacturing
Fig. 2.1.4: Methods, tools and processes of industrial engineering [Košturiak 2010]
activities.

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Wastage
Industrial engineering is based on the simple idea that if the input sources invested in business (money, human work, material, information, knowledge and abilities,...)
are used more effectively, this will support the profit creation, which is the business core. It means that the industrial engineering task is to improve processes within
the company, especially the essential processes – those ones which provide company’s “living”. The substance of process improvement is elimination of wastage,
What is the matter ? The term “wastage” can be understood as everything what the manufacturer invests in the product in various ways and what the manufacturer
spends money on, but the customer is not willing to pay for it. All negative phenomena which can be seen in industrial enterprises and in other organizations can
be named here: waiting for anything, searching of anything, prolonged or useless manufacturing operations, long transport, big stock, employees are not utilized
properly, bad care of machines and other equipment, incorrect spatial manufacturing layout, mess caused by bad rules, incorrect communication. [Ježek 2009]
Two groups of methods are used in practice to limit wastage, namely the essential one and the comprehensive one. The first group is aimed at the particular and
usually narrow group of problems in the production system and it represents the “best practice” at their solution. The benefit of these methods cannot be reach in
another way. The result of their utilization is the tangible process improvement. They are usually simple, they bring the first useful results in short time and they can
be usually assessed very well. They represent the improvement base. They shall be used as the first ones at implementation of industrial engineering.
The comprehensive (umbrella) methods behave in their part as benefit creators (they include unique approaches to the solution of the particular problem group).
Their most important feature is their ability to connect the essential methods to the units aimed usually at a greater field of issues in the industrial enterprise. Their
utilization in a “company beginner” brings many problems; on the contrary, the necessary condition is that employees of the particular company already have
some experience in the production system improvement.

Essential /
Method Main focus and contribution
Comprehensive
The essential principle is “Do not continue in manufacture of a defective product”, because correction of defective
Jidoka production is great wastage. Manufacturing machinery and processes are adapted so that if a failure occurs in
(JD) E the product quality, they prevent this failure from its repeated occurrence in the production system. The problem
core is caught in the origination place, which enables to discover its true reasons and to perform quick correction.
Just in time The main idea is to deliver products “just in time”, which limits wastage in the form of useless stock. This comprehensive
(JIT) C method includes a great scope of production system changes which are enabled by “just in time” delivery.
Kanban This is a simple self regulating logistic method which can be used very widely for management of material
(K) E flows. It increases reliability of the production system and it limits useless stock.
Kaizen C One of the permanent process improvement systems based on the everyday improvement by small steps.
MOST E Method for standardization and improvement of work. It reduces labour-intensity and limits health hazard at work.
New assembly It implements the lean (wastage free) system of assemblies with middle and high complexity. It is related
(NM) C to assembly procedures, delivery of parts, spatial layout and work standards.
Five S This is the IE essential method to reach a permanently, well-arranged and clear working place
(5S) E as well as to have disciplined and qualified people.

Poka yoke This is the process improvement method which avoids manufacture of defective products, injury of people and damage
(PY) E of a machine. It is based on prevention of failures and errors and it uses simple technical means and team work.

Project management This is the main method for management and check of complex sets of activities – projects. It increases
(PŘ) E considerably chances to reach the project targets successfully at the right time and with appropriate costs.

Industrial moderation It accelerates improvement of processes, it encourages activity of teams,

(PM) E it enables rational management of workshops and efficient negotiation.

Quick change The method limits dramatically time wastage at manufacture changes at manufacturing machines
(SMED) E and on working places. It reduces work duration at planned maintenance, assembly and preparation of orders.

Six sigma The method uses summary of own tools aided at detection and elimination of errors in processes and products.
(6σ) C The aim is to reach the extreme process reliability for the adequate price.

Standardization The universal method based on the principle to find and spread the best practice. It was developed from one
(ST) E part of the Five S method and today it participates in creation of many process improvement tools.

Lean working place This is the method how to build the area saving working place with smooth material flows
– Lean layout C and productive manufacture.
(LL)

Lean processes Summary of methods and partial tools for process improvement which are used independently
(LP) E or they are parts of higher units, e. g. permanent improvement methods.

The method is based on the principle of productivity increase in narrow system places. It provides simple tools
Limitation theory
C for process improvement and rational decision making. In its generalized form this is the extraordinarily high
(TOC) performance tool how to develop the production system within the company.

Totally productive This is the up to date maintenance system which includes activities of all employees in the company,
maintenance E which introduces the optimum conditions for machinery operation and increases the machinery utilization degree.
(TPM)

Permanent process This is the group of IE methods aimed at introduction and preservation
improvement C of the permanent process improvement system within the company.

Team This is the method how to create and develop various team types (manufacturing, process,
work C service and project teams, process improvement teams and simultaneous engineering teams)
(TP) and due to this, how to increase productivity of processes which the teams participate in.

This is the simple and straightforward method simplifying communication and information sharing
Visual management which contributes to simpler, more reliable, more economical and higher performance processes.
(VM) E It visualises information, desirable and undesirable states and in this way it improves processes
and simplifies management and check.

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new organization concepts originate in
banking, in insurance industry or in hospitals
and industrial engineering gets here the main
word at solution of such problems like e. g.
standardization of work or work measuring
in administration.
The third equally important sphere is
creation of the working place and new
requirements put on the working place which
is connected with the retiring age which is still
increasing step by step. The current working
place must be designed so that sixty year
old people and even older people can work
there.
The fourth sphere is the specialization
increase of industrial engineers related to
the more and more sophisticated production
system. Production machineries become
more multifunctional and the demanding
character is much higher, when this process
is understood and followed. The more
demanding character of the production
system will force industrial engineers to be
more specialized. It will not be possible more
that the industrial engineer can have such a
knowledge range as he has now, if he wants
really go to the process core.
Industrial engineers assert themselves
more and more in non manufacturing
organizations. In foreign countries a great
effort is devoted to the lean hospital concept
which is aimed at elimination of losses
and improvement of processes in medical
institutions. At the very beginning, the total
process starts to solve the issue how to define
the customer. Is the customer a patient or
pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers
of medical technology, insurance offices etc.?
All of us surely agree that the customer is
a patient. However, the paradox is that this
patient as the customer can influence the
fewest things. The lean hospital concept
results in principle from the lean enterprise
concept.
The main errors in the post and activities
of industrial engineers can be especially seen
in their local acting within the company and
subordination to local targets, weak support
by the company management, insufficient
communication with other people and
weak presentation of the obtained results,
orientation only to work analysis and its
measuring, justification “why something
cannot be done” and of course, also their
work “from the table” without the necessary
contact with the actual process.
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5S method in practice
The ikvalita.cz server mentions the reference
of one unnamed company which started to
implement industrial engineering methods
in 2011. The first step was the 5S method
by means of which during rather short time
the company succeeded in determination
of the essential rules regarding to the
observation of standards and keeping of
order on the particular working places. At
the current time this company continues with
the SMED method which shall contribute
to the gradual reduction of idle time at
manufacture changes and to the complete
higher efficiency of manufacture.
5S methodology has the target to improve
working environment in an enterprise and
due to this, to improve quality. The approach
is based on increased independence of
employees, on team work and on leading of
people. The designation 5S itself consists of
five Japanese words beginning with S:
Seiri = order on the working place;
Seiton = classification, good arrangement;
Seiso = cleanness, keeping of order;
Seikutsu = standardization;
Shitsuke = training.
The following text presents the generally
valid translation of 5S methodology from
the Japanese original (English equivalents
can be found in parentheses).
1. Seiri (Organisation)
The target is to separate necessary
and unnecessary things. Separate the
unnecessary things and remove them from
your working place. Think also about the
fact how the fixtures, jigs and other material
which are not used at the current time were
used sooner and whether these are still
needed. Deal with documentation in the
similar way. The ideal way is also to check
once every month whether this principle is
observed.
2. Seiton (Neatness)
The sense of this word is to locate the
necessary and used things in such a way
that they can be used simply and quickly, i.
e. you should locate the things used more
often on a nearer place. Mark clearly their
location so that everybody can know what
can be found where. Pay attention also to
safety of their placement and take special
properties into account (sensitivity to humidity,
solar radiation, temperature, ...).
3. Seiso (Cleaning)
The meaning of this word is clear – the matter
is to keep the working place and its ambient
clean. It is useful to determine responsibility
of the particular people for cleaning – be fair
at work dividing. Also the places specified
to store non conforming products or waste
must be located near to reduce time for
unproductive manipulation.
4. Seikutsu (Standardisation)
Standardization means permanent and
repeated improvement of work organization,
of the working place layout and cleanness
on the working place. This matter also deals
with neatness of employees (suitable working
clothes, boots, ...) and their hygiene (e. g. on
those working places where medical aids are
manufactured). The next target is to improve
working environment in order to work quickly,
with top quality and effectively. This is so
called visual management.
5. Shitsuke (Discipline)
When 5S principles are observed, the
discipline is very important – especially the
managing people must serve as examples.
All employees should become acquainted
with company rules and with 5S principles.
Repeating is the mother of wisdom and it is
surely useful to repeat training after some
time. The target is to create suitable habits
of employees already at their entrance on
the working place.
5S methodology has been used in Japan
for very long time. Most of Japanese
applying 5S understand this approach
not only as improvement of the physical
environment but also as a way how to
improve the process of thinking. This
method can help not only on the working
place but also in private life.
Study of industrial engineering
The demand of enterprises for industrial
engineering graduates increases most of
all for the reasons that enterprises need
to increase productivity and efficiency of
enterprise processes with the target to reach
increase of production competitiveness.
The interest is especially in the ability of
industrial engineers to use analysis for
identification and solution of problems,

to formulate the desirable solution within
economical, source and time limits, the ability
to perceive coherences related to the solution
implementation and knowledge of work
with tools like software, model approaches,
simulation, etc. are.
The employee of the industrial engi-
neering department must have knowledge
about technological ability of product
designs, about the manufacturing process
(manufacturing technology, manufacturing
organization, qualification of people,
capacity demands, logistics, application of
lean manufacture principles, etc.) and about
the manufacturing system (manufacturing
machinery and equipment, their productivity
and efficiency). Great demands follow from
the above mentioned which are put on his
previous comprehensive education in the
technology and management branch. And
how are universities prepared to fulfil these
requirements of employers?
Our nearest neighbour, Slovakia, has a
rather wide offer of industrial engineering
branches. We can find them most of all at
the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of
University in Žilina (levels Bc., Ing., Ph.D.),
at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
of Technical University in Košice (levels Bc.,
Ing.) and at the Faculty of Environmental
and Manufacturing Technology of
Technical University in Zvolen (level Ing.).
The offer of industrial engineering
study has reached a great boom at most
of technical colleges and universities
in advanced countries in the whole
world, where this study is provided by
independent institutions and departments.
As the most important ones it is possible
to mention Stanford University (USA,
7th place in Global University Ranking,
rating of all universities in the world);
University of California, Berkeley (USA,
18th place); University of Michigan (USA,
25th place); ETH Zürich (Switzerland, 72nd
place); Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial
Engineering (Germany); Delft University
of Technology (Netherlands).
For example, let us mention University
of California, Berkeley (USA) and its
department of industrial engineering
and operation research. The author had
the opportunity to visit this university
personally in October 2012. The industrial
engineering profession includes here
projecting, organization, implementation
• Technical systems
• Problem solving techniques
Technical systems
• Industrial engineering
• Enterprise organization
• Enterprise logistics
• Manufacturing systems
• Information systems, planning and
management of manufacture
• Quality management, TQM, Six Sigma, TPM
Problem solving techniques
• Value analysis
• Process management
• Work analysis and measuring
• Simulation
• Operation research
• Limitation theory
• Applied statistics
Structure of industrial engineering study [Košturiak 2010]
and economical operation of integrated
manufacture and the service system
with utilization of people, materials and
equipment. The field of activity will include
not only the essential manufacturing
and high tech manufacturing processes
necessary for economy, but also service
organization like banks, medical institutes,
libraries and government offices are.
Dutch Delft University of Technology
offers the industrial engineering study
at the Faculty of Industrial Design
Engineering. Let us look at the study
description (see http://www.io.tudelft.nl/en/):
“We will teach you how to design but for this
purpose, it is necessary to have essential
knowledge about designing and mechanical
engineering which you will have to learn
– for example, a folding ladder must be
designed to be stable and safe. You must
know when to use which material kind. You
will study microelectronics and information
science, you will learn shaping of products
and to assess critically their design. After
all, the dishes used at a festival banquet
differ very much from the plates and cups
which you use when camping.“
The program of industrial design
engineering has been at Delft University
of Technology for almost forty years and
it is the oldest and greatest in its kind.
Almost 4 000 graduates have studied at
this university up to now and it has been
established as one of the leading designer
program in the world.
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• Management and leading of people
• Projecting of systems
Management a vedení lidí
• Team work
• Efficient communication
• Leading of people and time management
• Moderation and presentation techniques
• Enterprise economy and investment
controlling
• Improvement of enterprise processes
• Industrial audits
Projecting of systems
• Projecting of manufacturing systems
• Ergonomy and projecting of working places
• Innovation and innovation process
management
• Project management
• Process teams
• Marketing bases
• Enterprise and manufacturing strategy
Unlike the foreign countries, the Czech
Republic has a very limited offer of study
programs or of industrial engineering study
branches. The comprehensive industrial
engineering study branch is provided only
by the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of
University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (levels
Bc., Ing., Ph.D.) and in a small scope also
by the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of
Technical University in Ostrava (level Bc.).
All other Czech universities teach subjects
coming under the IE branch independently
within various study branches and they
are not connected to each other. E. g.
the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of
Technical University in Liberec teaches the
industrial engineering subject in the branch
“manufacturing systems” and the Faculty
of Mechanical Engineering of Technical
University in Brno teaches the subject
of mechanical engineering technology
and industrial management within the
mechanical engineering branch.
Our oldest technical university, Czech
Technical University in Prague, Faculty of
Mechanical Engineering offers study of some
subjects belonging to the industrial engineer
profile (e. g. projecting of manufacturing
systems, modelling of manufacturing pro-
cesses and systems, quality management), but
there is no comprehensive program available
the result of which will be represented by the
industrial engineer.
What is missing at the above mentioned
home universities, this is narrow connection
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with industrial practice in the form of
managers’ involvement in teaching at
least in 40 % share. It is impossible that
the subjects coming under the industrial
engineering branch are taught by
academic pedagogues who are with
their knowledge very far away from the
actual manufacturing practice. Of course,
there will be no interest in their product –
in a competitive student – in the market
environment.
All of this was the reason why the author
together with the team of four people from
the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
of Czech Technical University in Prague
and with consultation contribution by Prof.
Jiří Marek (Toshulin, Technical University
in Brno) were working almost eighteen
months very intensively to prepare
teaching of the industrial engineering
branch on the bachelor and master levels
at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
of Czech Technical University in Prague.
These people and 35 representatives
of manufacturing companies defined
knowledge of an industrial engineering
graduate and based on this, they
prepared the study plan and drafts of the
particular subjects for both study levels.
More than one half of subjects should
be taught by professionals from practice
and a great number of projects would be
solved together with them. Unfortunately,
the university management represented
by Dean Prof. Hrdlička had no interest in
this branch.
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After half a year the author and Prof.
Marek were contacted by the management
of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of
Mining Technical University and they were
invited to active cooperation determined to
prepare the industrial engineering branch at
this university. The elaborated material has
been modified in dependence on the school
and regional needs, the Industrial Council
was established at the Faculty of Mechanical
Engineering of Mining Technical University
and its members contribute to make the
final material form and now it is prepared
for accreditation (situation in June 2015).
Conclusion
Industrial engineers project, implement,
plan and manage comprehensive integrated
manufacturing systems and systems specified
to provide services and they provide high
performance, reliability, fulfilment of terms
and management of costs in these systems.
These systems integrate people, information,
technological equipment and processes,
materials and energy in the whole life cycle
of the particular product or service.
Industrial engineers should be integrators
of science, commerce, and technology
having the ability to solve a problem in
its technical, human, information and
financial aspects. Industrial engineers
are required to have sufficient knowledge
about functions and operation of the
particular elements within the industrial
enterprise and to be able to organize and
manage projects of enterprise changes.
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