Recently added articles from Industrial Engineer:
Know your world.(editor's desk)(Cover story)
Nov 01, 2009; ... There is no excuse for not being aware of what happens beyond the confines of your local community these days. There are dozens of news stations on television and radio along with countless news outlets on the Web. And for anyone who shuns or does not have access to technology, I believe ...
One more time: GM'S new product line paves road for returning workers.(NEWS, TRENDS, TACTICS)(General Motors Corp.'s bankrupty reorganization and production)
Nov 01, 2009 ... Numbers are the bottom line in the automotive industry, and a simple equation is responsible for the replacement of shifts and overtime for workers in Canada and the U.S. Raised production of 60,000 fuel-efficient vehicles happened largely because the government's Cash for Clunkers program ...
GTRI takes on homeland security: two projects to define the next generation of cargo safety.(NEWS, TRENDS, TACTICS)
Nov 01, 2009 ... A recent event sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate ushered the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) into the limelight with the focus being on cargo. Two contracted projects--the Container Security Device (CSD) and the Composite ...
Rambling railroads.(PRIME NUMBER)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2009 ... In July, U.S. intermodal traffic totaled 922,734 trailers and containers, down 18 percent (203,061 units) ...
Uncommon IE historian.(NEWS, TRENDS, TACTICS)
Nov 01, 2009 ... THE TASK AT HAND: Thomas Fiske, a former manufacturing engineer at General Electric, lives by one responsibility above all others when chronicling history--to tell the truth. His new book, Ploughshares into Swords, reveals how civilians and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) ...