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President's Message |
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Greetings from IIE's Process Industries Division, and welcome to our first bi-monthly newsletter! The reason that you are receiving this is that when you joined IIE, or renewed your membership, you checked Process Industries as one of your areas of interest. While some of you may have checked that box from a very casual interest, I hope you will all find this newsletter and our other activities useful to your pursuit of engineering excellence.
The Process Industries Division (PID) was founded on the belief that manufacturing operations that produce paints, salad dressings, synthetic fibers, plastics and ceramics, and pharmaceuticals are quite different from operations that assemble refrigerators, automobiles, cell phones, lawn mowers, and medical instruments. The differences are significant enough that industrial engineers working in a process environment face challenges unique to those operations, and must adapt traditional IE tools to apply them successfully. Read more |
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PID Webinars |
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PID has begun a series of webinars, to present topics relevant to process industry issues. Three have been held so far:
Our Next webinar
"Work Measurement and Lean Applications in the Process Industries"
Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 2-3 p.m. EST
Presenter: Luis Armendariz, Baxter Healthcare
Reserve your Webinar seat
Webinars coming in 2010 will include:
- Value Stream Mapping Process Industry Operations - January
- Safety in the Process Industries - March
- Kaizen Events applied to Process Problems - May
If you have suggestions for future webinar topics, please contact Vincent Howell. |
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PID News & Announcements |
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PID at the Annual Conference
PID again plans to host a track of presentations at the IIE Annual Conference and Expo 2010 in Cancun, Mexico, next June. If you have a topic you'd like to present, please contact our track chair, Joe Paris. (Note that the deadline for abstracts is Nov. 20.)
Monthly PID Advisory Board telephone meetings
The PID board holds a one-hour call each month, both to discuss administrative details (approximately 20 minutes) and to conduct a round-table discussion on a topic of current interest to IEs (20 to 30 minutes). All PID members are welcome to participate.
If you'd like to be added to the distribution list for these calls, please contact Peter King. |
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Article: Making Cereal, Not Cars |
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By Peter King, Douglas R. Kroeger, J. Bennett Foster, Nathan Williams and William Proctor
Several members of the Process Industries Division co-authored an article, Making Cereal, Not Cars, which appeared in the December 2008 issue of IE magazine. The article highlights some of the key differences between process manufacturing and assembly manufacturing, and the challenges that poses to IEs working in that environment. An expanded version of the article with additional figures is presented here. Full article | |
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| Important Scholarship Deadlines |
The deadline for nominations for all IIE scholarships is Nov. 16 with the exception of the SHS Scholarship which is due on Dec. 1.
Students must be nominated by IE department heads.
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| Honors and Award Deadlines |
The deadline for honors and awards nominations is Dec. 1.
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| Corporate Alliance |
Smart companies form smart alliances!
Learn how an alliance with IIE can help your company become more effective and successful.
Contact Doug Long, IIE Director of Strategic Alliances
(770) 349-1109 |
| IIE Annual Conference and Expo 2010 |
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June 5-9
Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach Hotel
Cancún, Mexico
When you go to your bosses and tell them you're planning to attend a professional development conference in Cancún, they may be skeptical.
See You in June in Cancún!
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