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Article: Intern dilemma.(ANSWERS TO YOUR TECHNICAL QUESTIONS)(managing employees and increasing productivity)
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- Industrial Engineer
- Article date:
- November 1, 2007
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Q: I am working approximately 10 hours a week as an industrial engineering intern and have been asked to document detailed work instructions for a particular product. Some workers do not know the names of the parts they work with or the serial numbers, so this makes for a time-consuming task. Since I work only 10 hours a week, I am not present as much as I would like to be so that I may observe how the product is built. In addition, I don't not want to take too much time away from the workers by asking a bunch of questions. I have a spreadsheet of stock numbers and descriptions of the parts they use and I was going to present this spreadsheet to workers during their ...