2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Standardization is all around us - traffic lights, weights, and measures to name a couple. However, time standards offer challenges in many ways. These are standards Industrial/Manufacturing engineers must establish all the time for workers/operators. Given the many factors that need to be considered, this paper explores a holistic way of teaching students to appreciate, experience and develop skills to embrace time standard studies. A lot of what is discussed here comes from proven industrial practices and developing student ability to get acquainted to real life work.
Coming from the industry, real life examples were brought into the classroom to teach the challenges associated with the setting of standards. Three different types of simulators were run by the students for them to understand the importance of details and structure - Mailing campaign, Car parking and Robotic simulation. The text around time standards is very limited and theoretical but the hands-on simulators truly drive the point across.