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...