IET: Industrial Engineering Services
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IET is a full service industrial and manufacturing engineering firm. We serve as engineering and manufacturing consultants in addition to providing hands-on support. With a comprehensive range of capabilities from business process reengineering to plant layout analysis, we improve our clients' competitiveness.

Services

Facility Layout / Design
Work Measurement
Strategic Planning
Production Planning
Simulation
MES: Manufacturing Execution System
Contract Engineering
Industrial Engineering Training
Quality Engineering & Management Services

Industrial Engineering and Production Design

All our projects begin with identifying our clients' objectives and the role we can play in obtaining those goals. Our general Production Design Chart is shown below.

Production Design Chart
Facility Layout / Design

Facility Layout / Design

If you can answer "No" to any of the following questions, IET can help you!

  • Is the production layout designed to meet our customer’s varied demand?
  • Do we have a place for everything (PFEP)?
  • Do we understand all of the flows for our new production design?
  • Have we separated pedestrian and vehicle traffic?

We can assist you with your current or proposed facility layout in the following areas:

  • Existing Facility Layout Documentation on CADD
  • Manufacturing System Layout / Workplace Design
  • Manufacturing Consolidation or Relocation
  • Cellular Layout
  • Lean Manufacturing Design
  • Process and Material Flow Analysis
  • Space Utilization Analysis
  • Warehousing
  • Material Handling Design
  • Distribution
  • Storage Analysis
Work Measurement

Work Measurement

If you can answer "No" to any of the following questions, IET can help you!

  • Have we established realistic and flexible production standards?
  • Have we designed our indirect activities?
  • Can we explain the difference between current performance and 100% OEE?
  • Can we flex our labor requirements as volume and mix change?

We can provide work measurement utilizing the appropriate tools for the client's needs.

  • Time Studies to Determine Standards
  • Predetermined Time Standards
  • Methods Analysis
  • Line Balancing
  • Delay and Downtime Analysis
  • Overall Equipment Effectiveness (O.E.E.)
  • Work Sampling Studies
  • Direct and Indirect Labor Analysis
  • Labor Utilization
  • Standard Operating Procedures and Job Instructions
  • Ergonomic Evaluation
  • Production Variance Analysis
  • Capacity Analysis
Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning

If you can answer "No" to any of the following questions, IET can help you!

  • Do we know our strategic production flows?
  • Have we challenged the use of non-value added space?
  • Do we have a plan and measurement system for appropriate and timely performance improvement?

We can provide a complete project management package. This may include preparing and presenting reports to your customer, monitoring the progress of your suppliers, preparing and following up on action plans and general coordination of any of the project's activities.

  • Consolidation Evaluation
  • Make or Buy Analysis
  • Cost Analysis
  • Economic Modeling or Potential Costs, Savings and Justification
  • Project Management
  • CPM Diagrams and Action Plans
  • Value Stream Mapping
Production Planning

Production Planning

If you can answer "No" to any of the following questions, IET can help you!

  • Do we understand the implications of varied demand upon our constraints, space, and line balance?
  • Can we flex shifts and labor line-up to meet varied levels of production requirements?
  • Have we appropriately maximized asset utilization?

We can assist with your production planning needs in a variety of ways:

  • Strategic plant flow
  • Production mix strategy
  • Shift schedule design
  • Value added work content design
  • Goal-setting and feedback design
  • Expansion planning
Simulation

Simulation

If your production system is difficult to model in a spreadsheet because of the many variations or you need to get your entire production team on the same page regarding your new design, simulation may be the tool to help you.

Our custom simulation models can be used to evaluate various equipment arrangements, material handling alternatives, labor balancing, assembly line sequencing and more.

Common areas of analysis include the following:

  • Proposed Manufacturing System Evaluation
  • Production Bottleneck Evaluation
  • Labor Efficiency and Manning
  • Product Mix, Scrap Rates, Set-ups, Downtime, etc.
MES

MES: Manufacturing Execution System

If you can answer "Yes" to any of the following questions, IET can help you!

  • Is it time to automate the production monitoring and feedback systems?
  • Will immediate performance feedback support the challenges of production supervision?
  • Is production loss documentation and feedback (scrap and rework) a challenge for the production team?

We partner with Nysus Solutions to provide the Manufacturing Execution System (MES). MES is a web application framed around quality assurance through providing automated work instructions. The MES system interfaces with PLCs and Databases in order to provide feedback to the operator even where feedback has not been readily available before.

System Features

  • Automated Work Instructions
  • Integration of PLC and Torque Tools
  • Bar Coding and Part Traceability
  • Operator Tracking
  • Machine Monitoring
  • Quality Alerts and OJT Verification
  • Production Scheduling and Sequencing
  • Production Dashboards
  • Pick to Light Display
  • Product Testing
  • Vision System Integration
  • Full System Integration
  • Supplier Portal Systems
  • Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
Contract Engineering

Contract Engineering

If you can answer "Yes" to any of the following questions, IET can help you!

  • Do we need Industrial Engineering assistance that can immediately work independently?
  • Do we need quality engineering that can immediately integrate with our current team?
  • Do we need production launch support?
  • Do we have a significant data collection effort that requires technical expertise?

We can provide a wide variety of engineering staffing solutions to meet your needs. From quality engineering, mechanical engineering, project management, production and maintenance supervision, we can provide solutions to your needs on a short or long-term basis. We have the expertise to provide contract engineering support across all industries.

IET can provide contract support in the following areas:

  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Manufacturing Engineering
  • Quality Engineering
  • Project Management
  • Process Engineering
  • Production Supervision
  • Maintenance Supervision
Industrial Engineer Training

Industrial Engineering Training

Would Industrial Engineering training provide consistency throughout your organization? We offer the following group training in your facility

  • VIA, Productivity Improvement Through Time Study®
  • VIA, World Class Manufacturing®
  • MOST®
  • Six Sigma Greenbelt
  • Lean
  • Quality
  • PPAP
Quality Engineering

Quality Engineering and Management Services

In addition to our Industrial Engineering solutions, we also offer Quality Engineering and Process Improvement services and provide a hands-on approach to assist in development of, and/or implementation of, your Quality Management or Continuous Improvement projects.

We provide Quality Engineering services including all facets of the APQP process from product inception through the entire PPAP process and on to successful production launches. Have an upcoming audit? We can help with gap analysis, authoring or updating policies or procedures and employee training. We have experience with TS-16949, the ISO 9000 standards and ISO/IEC 17020 as well as many OEM requirements.

We can also provide assistance with process improvements and problem solving. We can help you solve problems, reduce waste and improve your processes using Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing tools to identify root cause, choose the appropriate corrective action and, most importantly, put in place a sustainable preventive action to prevent recurrence.

So whether you need Industrial Engineering or Quality Engineering services to supplement existing efforts, IET has the resources, knowledge and experience to be your one-stop solution destination for your next project or to meet quickly approaching deadlines.