Role and Daily Activities of an Industrial Engineer (Executive):

Each executive has eight areas of responsibility to manage.

1. Security

2. Line balancing

3. Quality - Operation Control

4. Training – How to train new employees

5. Operator Output – Maintains high output and improves their capacity with low output.

6. Loss Control – Minimize off-standard losses

7. Waste control – materials, supplies and equipment

8. Standard conditions – at work, sewing method, machine

Daily activities of an Executive :

First thing in the morning

• Arrive quickly

• Greeting incoming employees

• Encourage them to start working early

• Check attendance

• Adjust to balance line according to absence.

• Attend production meetings and discuss yesterday's results and today's goals and plans.

• Planning

      1. How to increase efficiency

      2. How to improve outgoing quality

       3. How to prepare for routine problems or emerging problems.

During the day :

• Measure target vs. actual output hourly

• Check the quality level

• Check inline and last line quality reports

• Discuss with quality inspectors Perform quality drills

• Work with low output operators

• Check the correct procedure

• Motivate and empower operators

• Follow new operators in training

• Follow up the operator in retraining

• Identify bottleneck operations and balance accordingly

• Provide immediate and continuous follow-up for repairs

• Bundle tracking and track and follow up on outgoing bundles.

• Allow any off-standard "clock-out".

• Order supply and material for production