Track: Production Planning and Management

Abstract

Support the local industry and manufacturing has received a high degree of interest in Saudi Vision 2030. Manufacturing is linked to supply chain management as a totalitarian system where production is one of its parts. Recently, industrial engineering tools have received a high degree of interest as a branch of engineering science. It is concerned with the problems of production systems, in such a way as to achieve the best environment in which human beings interact with the machine in a highly efficient production unit. The tools of industrial engineering that can be applied vary, including statistical, economical, work, reengineering, operations, simulation, feasibility, planning, risk, forecasting, quality, value engineering, and management tools.

It has been possible to deduce how industrial engineering tools contribute to finding optimal solutions and positively influence many of the problems facing responsible people in industry and supply chains. Positive impacts include: Studying the project idea; choice of project location; opportunities for gain or loss; insight into the future status of the institution; evaluation of suppliers; maintaining of staff and employees and creating an appropriate environment to increase their productivity; calculating the optimal ordering size and time of inventory demand; the radical change in design and development processes in order to improve productivity; achieving quality of design, manufacturing, and after-sales services; improvements to enhance work status; allocation of machinery and labor forces; forecasting demand in the short and long terms; optimal distribution of transport means and road selection; optimal choice of advertising means.