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Meshing Education and Industrial Needs: Two Views
Meshing Education and Industrial Needs: Two Views
Pages 48-61
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Several trends within both individual firms and industry sectors have contributed to the loss of manufacturing dominance: · The shift away from manufacturing and industrial engineering as the driving function in manufacturing operations; · A separation of production and manufacturing from other corporate functions, such as research and finance; and · The decline of investment in manufacturing resources. Edward A
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This concerted effort led to strong manufacturing operations. Since then, however, the number of students studying the industrial engineering disciplines has declined.
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A manufacturing strategy The need for competent people may appear obvious, but neither manufacturers nor educators have done a good job of giving high
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to manufacturing. On a longer term basis, a steady influx of properly trained graduates with new ideas and technologies should enter manufacturing and regard it as a challenging and rewarding career.
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At the TRW plant in Douglas, Georgia, for example, a preselection/training process spends up to 80 hours on training and performing job tasks in a separate facility. A potential worker is evaluated in this work atmosphere prior to final job selection.
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These questions should be clearly answered to achieve the goal of manufacturing excellence. FUTURE ACTION industry usually looks to the academic community as a resource that can contribute and develop: · Educated people, · Basic and applied research from which the products and manufacturing processes of tomorrow will evolve, and · Expert, independent advice with specific knowledge not normally found in manufacturing operations.
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From an educational standpoint, a slight controversy exists between two overall options. Should the primary emphasis be on creating generalists with a broad knowledge of manufacturing or on developing a student with more detailed expertise in a particular manufacturing specialty?
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In principle, these nine areas encompass the basic content of a manufacturing education. Execution of the program using the proper faculty, adequate facilities, participative teaching methods, workshops, exposure to real manufacturing problems, and the proper response by industry in defining career opportunities is absolutely essential to obtain sustainable results.
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Top students are not motivated to go into manufacturing careers by hearing, "Everybody who is going to be a manufacturing engineer, line up and take the following courses." A more effective method is to say, for instance, "Here are some exciting problems and some ways that new applications of basic physics can contribute to solving them." For example, top-notch students are attracted to the Stanford laboratory in large numbers to work on robots unlike any seen before. These robots are flimsy, with very flexible manipulator elements not the big, clumsy devices seen in factories today.
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Mr. Steigerwald also made a strong point about enterprise integration: The engineering perspective has broken down manufacturing operations into small segments, which has tended to maximize the performance of each segment, often at the expense of optimum integration....
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, Automatic control, · Robotics, · Behavior of materials, · Expert systems, · Chemical processes, and · Operations research. These currently exciting basic research areas relate to the five "manufacturing excellence" issues listed by Mr.
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The following precept addresses the companies directly: Precept 4: The second most important thing companies obtain when sponsoring a university researcher is his or her insight into what new research might contribute to new opportunities for the company. As bright students and faculty members become familiar with real manufacturing problems and opportunities, they will identify ways in which their research and teaching can contribute to the solution-new ways often not considered by those in the industrial community.
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The factory computer simulation research project could make the same kind of sensitivity analysis of manufacturing. The important educational link in the proposed idea is that the simulation is made part of the M.S.-level program curriculum.
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That is, it should build on the university's basic disciplinary and interdisciplinary strengths in computer science, materials formability, mechanical design, chemical processing, automatic control, expert systems, and so on. Such a program should be exciting to faculty and students alike.
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