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二Real IE Value工业工程的真正价值1、On the other hand,today’s IE has at his or her disposal more technology and tools than the IE of 30 years ago could have ever imagined.另一方面，现在的工业工程师可以使用许多30年前的同行想都不可能想到的技术和工具。

2、If a person loses sight of the total job and starts looking at the individual pieces,it comes out a little hairy.如果一个人不能对整项工作做全面把握而只是将注意力放在个别的方面，则结果将不会令人满意。

3、Problems associated with renaming IE departments to describe their particular function may have more to do with appearance than with the actual job being performed.将工业工程部重新命名以明确描述其具体职能，其间所出现的问题与其说与实际完成的工作有关倒不如说与问题的表象有关。

4、In fact,even though ABET accredits many IE and IET programs in the United States,there remains much variance and flexibility among each of the programs. 【ABET是工程与技术鉴定委员会（the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology）的简写。

该委员会是美国用来检查和评价各工程类大学全部课程的官方机构，ABET鉴定目的是向公众和工程类毕业生的雇主保证学校的课程满足了规定的最低标准。

】实际上，尽管工程与技术鉴定委员会鉴定了美国的许多工业工程和工业工程与技术项目，但这些项目之间仍然存在很大的区别和灵活性。

6、But if the individual IE will assume the role as a change implementor—not a change follower—broad opportunities are on the horizon.然而，如果每个工业工程师都承担起变化的实施者而不是变化的追随者的角色，则广泛的机会就会出现。

7、If we’ve got a problem,it’s of our own doing and our own unwillingness to take the lead in a lot of these major improvement activities.如果我们遇到了问题，这些问题也是由于我们自己的所作所为和不愿意在一些重大的改进活动中承担领导角色所造成的。

三、Operetions Research运筹学Operations research,as defined by the Operations Research Society of America,“is concerned with scientifically deciding how to best desigh and operate man-machine systems,usually under conditions requiring the allocation of scarce resources.”美国运筹学学会将运筹学定义为：在需要对紧缺资源进行分配的前提下决定如何最好地设计和运作人—机系统的决策科学。

四、Work-measured Labor Standards 基于作业测量的劳动标准4.1 Perhaps the only thing wrong with these tools is their lack of a buzz word or catchy acronym.也许这些工具的唯一缺点是它们没有一个能够反映其内涵的响亮的词组或引入的字母的缩写。

4.2 Human workers come in at least a billion models with varying physical,mental,and emotional specifications and work under varying environmental conditions.由于身体、精神和感情等方面以及工作环境的不断变化，工人至少可以被分为十亿种不同的类型。

4.3 Standard times are standard times only because all parties involved agree they are standard times.标注时间之所以是标准的仅仅是因为相关的所有部门都承认其是标准时间。

4.4 Like any standards system, a computerized standards system won’t help-and can be counterproductive-if it is not kept up-to-date.同其他的任何标准系统一样，如果不能做到与时俱进，计算机化的标准系统将起不到相应的作用并且可能会降低生产率。

五、Ergonomics 人因学5.1 Accident proneness implies that there are certain individuals with enduring personality characteristics,who incur a majority of accidents.事故倾向性指具有某类特性的个体导致主要事故的发生。

5.2 The transformation from a rural,agrarian to an urban,,industrialized lige has come at a cost,and workers are ‘paying’in terms of a tremendous increase in industrial and in terms of worker stress.从以田园为主的农业经济向以城市化为主的工业经济的转变付出了一定的代价，这些代价是工人显著增加的工业伤害和工作压力的形式付出的。

5.3 Technology transfer from the Western word is important,but must be concerned not only with the adaptation and use of machines but also with the entire infrastructure of training local users to develop independent capabilities so that they can act freely on the global market.尽管从西方引进技术很重要，但技术转让的过程不仅要考虑如何使本土使用者适应和使用机器，而且还要考虑如何建设能够培训这些本土使用者的独立能力以便使其能够在全球化的市场中运用自如的整个基础设施。

5.4 Ergonomics is rather a design methodology that is used to arrive at safety,productivity and satisfaction.应该说工效学是一种用来实现系统安全性、生产率和操纵者满意度的设计方法。

六、Next Generation Factory Layouts 21世纪的工厂布局6.1While grouping resources based on function provides some economies of scale and simplicity in allocating workloads,it makes the layout susceptipble to manufacturing inefficiencies when there are changes in product mix or routings.尽管根据能够实现的功能将资源分组能够获得一定的规模效应并能简化工作量的分配，但当产品的组合或工艺路劲发生变化时很容易造成功能布局的制造效率低下。

6.2Layout design procedures,whether for functional or cellular layouts,have been largely based on a deterministic paradigm.无论是功能式布局还是单元式布局，其设计过程大体上都是基于确定性假设的。

6.3 In fact,the relationship between layout flexibility and layout performance is poorly understood and analytical models for its evaluation are lacking.实际上，人们对于布局灵活性与布局绩效之间的关系的理解很有限而且缺乏用来评价这些关系的分析模型。

6.4 Facility planner had to choose layouts that make material handing efficient not only in each individual plant but throughout the complex. The challenge for facility planners is then to develop a layout and a material-handling system to permit high efficiency at the core and flexibility and reconfigurability at the periphery.设施规划者必须选择那些不仅在每个工厂内部而且在整个综合企业中就物料搬运来说都是有效的布局。

因而，这里的挑战在于如何开发布局和物料搬运系统使得每个工厂在内部都很有效而在其他工厂的交界处则具有很高的灵活性和可重组性。