Industrial Engineering

Facilities Planning and Management

 To effectively apply industrial engineering principles to the facilities management environment, it is important for a facility manager to understand the differences between manufacturing (production) activities and operational activities in a facilities management department. Production activities are highly standardized and respective events. The respective action makes them predictable by the use of statistical analysis techniques.

The work units’ criteria should include the following:

• Clear hierarchy of countable, transformable units of quantification for an objective to the workload.
• Allow for meaningful workload forecast, in terms related to the needed resources or convertible to such terms.
• At least one or more levels, the work unit should demonstrate a firm relationship to required resources to be established: at these levels a work count, the number of times a work unit to be performed, should be a meaningful number with respect to required resources.