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.

• 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.