IET is a full service industrial and manufacturing engineering firm. We serve as engineering and manufacturing consultants in addition to providing hands-on support. With a comprehensive range of capabilities in our toolkit from business process reengineering to plant layout analysis, we improve our clients' competitiveness.
Strategic Design
- Production relationships / philosophy
- General capacity / capital requirements
- Space allocation and planning
- Plant layout and vision
- Create current state process maps for each product family
- Conduct functional area relationship assessment
- Develop general capacity plan
- Develop general space analysis
- Prepare conceptual facility layout options
Detail Design
- Detail design for all flows
- Simplification
- Visual control
- Flexible use of all assets
- Appropriate plan for all working capital
- Effective performance design
- Identify product families and demand variation
- Perform detailed work sampling / measurement of production
- Develop current state summary / opportunity assessment
- Develop detailed equipment capacity analysis
- Perform detailed storage space requirements analysis (PFEP)
- Develop detailed plant layout
- Develop detailed work design
- Develop future state process map
Implementation Assistance
- Performance to design
- Continuous improvement
- Sustainability
- Launch success
- Shop floor design adjustments
- Production philosophy support
- Supervision & production support education
- Performance passion
Facility Layout / Design
- Existing Facility Layout Documentation on CADD
- Manufacturing System Layout / Workplace Design
- Manufacturing Consolidation or Relocation
- Cellular Layout
- Lean Manufacturing Design
- Process and Material Flow Analysis
- Space Utilization Analysis
- Warehousing
- Material Handling Design
- Distribution
- Storage Analysis
Work Measurement
- Time Studies to Determine Standards
- Predetermined Time Standards
- Methods Analysis
- Line Balancing
- Delay and Downtime Analysis
- Overall Equipment Effectiveness (O.E.E.)
- Work Sampling Studies
- Direct and Indirect Labor Analysis
- Labor Utilization
- Standard Operating Procedures and Job Instructions
- Ergonomic Evaluation
- Production Variance Analysis
- Capacity Analysis
Strategic Planning
- Consolidation Evaluation
- Make or Buy Analysis
- Cost Analysis
- Economic Modeling or Potential Costs, Savings and Justification
- Project Management
- CPM Diagrams and Action Plans
- Value Stream Mapping
Manufacturing Execution System
- Automated Work Instructions
- Integration of PLC and Torque Tools
- Bar Coding and Part Traceability
- Operator Tracking
- Machine Monitoring
- Quality Alerts and OJT Verification
- Production Dashboards
- Production Scheduling and Sequencing
- Pick to Light Display
- Product Testing
- Vision System Integration
- Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
- Full System Integration
- Supplier Portal Systems
Simulation
- Proposed Manufacturing System Evaluation
- Production Bottleneck Evaluation
- Labor Efficiency and Manning
- Product Mix, Scrap Rates, Set-ups, Downtime, etc.
Production Planning
- Strategic plant flow
- Production mix strategy
- Shift schedule design
- Value added work content design
- Goal-setting and feedback design
- Expansion planning
Contract Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Quality Engineering
- Project Management
- Process Engineering
- Production Supervision
- Maintenance Supervision
Industrial Engineer Training
- VIA, Productivity Improvement Through Time Study®
- VIA, World Class Manufacturing®
- MOST®
- MODAPTS
- Six Sigma Greenbelt
- Lean
- Quality
- PPAP