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“As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.” – Sir James Dyson , British inventor, industrial designer and founder and chief executive of  Dyson Ltd. (Source: BrainyQuotes)   “Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.” – Scott Raymond Adams , creator of the Dilbert  comic strip, and the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary and business (Source: ...

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Last year, many of you asked IISE membership staff about the potential for launching a podcast. Well, “ask and you shall receive!” Yesterday at the IISE Annual Conference was the launch of “PROBLEM SOLVED: The IISE Podcast,” which will feature engineers from diverse backgrounds in both academia and industry discussing a wide range of topics about the work they do as industrial and systems engineers as well as some off-beat topics that will fascinate you, the audience. The first episode ...

In the May, 2019 edition of ASME magazine, they offered an educated guess on the future of manufacturing and business. As an industrial engineer working in IT, I can see some of the trends they are discussing. They thought that digital platforms would increase global trade by 1.3 to 2.1 trillion dollars by trimming costs, increasing trade 6 to 10 percent by “reducing friction”. Having ordered parts off eBay from China for a client and responding to customer support requests from Canada and Pakistan, ...