Industrial Engineer Engineering and Management Solutions at Work

February 2025    |    Volume: 57    |    Number: 2

The member magazine of the Institute of Industrial and Engineers

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FEATURES

Trustworthy and safe AI innovation in healthcare

Technology improves safety, care quality, patient experience and profitability
By Beju Rao

The effect of culture on caregiving for people with dementia

Work systems model provides lessons through a human factors lens
By Laura C. Tovar Felix and Arunkumar Pennathur

Modernizing the five principles of Lean

Today’s evolving workplace requires an agile, employee-centric strategy
By Thomas Beil

Methods improvements in assembly processes

Adding the right fixtures can improve cycle time, quality and ease
By Raj Sanne

THE FRONT LINE

Top stories in this month's news from the field

  • Medical chatbot tools fall short in patient discourse
  • Smartwatch can help smokers snuff out habit
  • Cyberattacks are hitting manufacturing hard
  • Workers, companies OK with dressing down
  • AVs can test-drive in a virtual traffic world
  • High tech’s need for logistics, power fuel job growth
  • New app designed to clear up weather predictions
  • Getting Mars samples to Earth a lofty task
  • Hiring expected to rise in 2025 – if the job is there
  • Technology has vast potential in emergency medicine
  • AI takes a bite out of cookie taste time
  • Shipping’s 2025 trends: Tariffs, packaging, AI adoption

PERSPECTIVES

Performance by Kevin McManus

What day is it in the pond?

Management by Steve Snelling

Tips on interviewing for information during a project

ISE Body of Knowledge by Garett Budagher

The ISE Body of Knowledge and career progression

THE INSTITUTE

This month in IISE news ...

  • Grow your health IQ and network at HSPI
  • Meet and greet in a fun atmosphere at Applied Ergo
  • Get a jump start and 'unleash' at Annual
  • Career Zone: Assembly lines to lifelines: Why ISEs are a great fit for healthcare
  • IISE Training Focus: IISE offers supply chain architect certification
  • Student video entry deadline is Feb. 21
  • Share your best solutions in Innovation Cup

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QUOTE/UNQUOTE

"Enlightened companies are beginning to realize that people other than the supervisor know about employee performance. In fact, a worker's peers are more likely to know how an employee performs on a job on a consistent basis."  

– Merwan B. Mehta, author of "Peer Evaluations Hit the Factory Floor" in the January issue

 MULTIMEDIA

 
The best job ever 

The best job ever

Mark Wallace with UPS discusses why his job is the coolest job for an industrial engineer in this December 2014 Web exclusive.

Resurrection in Atlanta 

Resurrection in Atlanta

Members of the IISE Atlanta Chapter appear in this October 2014 video to discuss the value of a revitalizing the chapter.

Training humanitarian IEs 

Training humanitarian IEs

IE interviews the three co-directors of Georgia Tech’s Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics.