Prasanta Sarkar

Industrial Engineer's Digest Prasanta Sarkar

This book is written for you if you want to learn the industrial engineering basics, about the necessary tools for engineers and activities done by industrial engineers. This book is for you if you want to work as an industrial engineer in a garment factory. By learning industrial engineers subject, you can bring changes and bring improvement in the factory where you are working and where you will be working. An engineering degree is not necessary to improve a factory's productivity and reducing the manufacturing cost. What is required is the right attitude. If you allow yourself to learn industrial engineering tools, you can learn most of them in one month. Then you can practice these IE tools and IE activities in the next 3 months. After that, you are ready for serving the apparel manufacturing industry. You can make things better in a garment factory. You need to find ways of doing things in a better way - which in turn can bring a huge improvement. If you can improve line efficiency by 1% each week, monthly efficiency improvement will be 4%. In a factory, to bring measurable improvement you need to fight against the odds, resistance from the line supervisor, and non-acceptance of new things and new concepts. To fight against these odds, you need to be strong within yourself through being more knowledgeable, logical, analytical, and proactive. This book will enrich your knowledge. The how-to guide part will increase your confidence in finding solutions and answers to the odd questions at the workplace.