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> Foreman had to keep a quota. I have worked on production lines and I’ve worked in the manufacturing and quality engineering side of things. I know a lot of companies do have that…

In my observation, there are a lot of unaccounted for and unintended issues that can arise from this. Where I live, we are going through a lot of this right now (98+% of population…

It's going to come across very naive and dumb, but I believe we can and people just aren't aware of or they simply aren't implementing the basics. Harvard Business Review and proba…

> software engineers' body of knowledge can change 52 times in a year I understand I’m replying against the spirit of your point, but the IEEE has actually published one and it see…

Depending on what you're looking for in industrial engineering, there are a lot of blogs on lean manufacturing and the Toyota Production System. INFORMS, may be paywalled, also pub…

The list of exam fellows can be found online [1]. Probably their research or any personal blogs would be the closest you can find. [1] https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/people

Which proof assistant did you use?

In case you’re not aware, there is a podcast by Jessica Livingston and Carolyn Levy called “The Social Radars” that interviews founders.

I’m not sure if it’s similar to what you’re talking about, but there is something called “TRIZ” that’s a collection of “things” we were introduced to in a mechanical design class I…

Do you mind elaborating on the definition of "cross functional team" here? It seems either non-standard or something that may differ by industry. Where I've worked, a cross functio…

Yeah, sorry if I wasn't clear. I 100% agree with definitions, theorems, counterexamples, and proof techniques being incredibly important. Those are the "warm ups" or "scales" or th…

For what little it’s worth, the thing that finally made it click for me was a series of comments on HN that were discussing musical scales. I don’t have any musical training, but I…

When I was doing an associate's in engineering, our calculus and differential equations courses were like this. We'd learn some math, do some problems by hand, then we'd have a lab…

> having a course based on this as a credential. I'm assuming you mean a single course? If so, this material would not be a standalone course. It would be baked into the entire bac…

This was posted as a comment on a thread about a new Google tool for LP [0]. It was in response to someone asking for resources on learning linear programming for business applicat…

> Have you considered calling it Rapids development? A variation of this exists with one more word thrown in for good measure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_application_devel…

> Doing so misses any state you can't hit via small iterations (you'll find a local minimum rather than global). When I worked in manufacturing, we distinguished between “continuou…

They do not cite it, but searching that sentence on Google brings up a few articles mentioning a “20-year study by The Williams Group involving 3200 families, show that 70% of fami…

It sounds like if you have production issues, there is a priority to put out an actual fix immediately.

What was the time to implementation for the real solutions? Was there any cost considerations associated with prioritizing the implementation or even limiting the scope of the solu…

I’m neither of the previous posters, so I may be off… For simplicity, I’m going to assume each variable in the model is independent of every other variable. We can interpret the co…

If you don’t mind sharing, I’m curious what your first degree was in and what you think you got out of studying that subject?

Lean manufacturing and the Toyota Production System are absolutely about manufacturing. It's rooted in industrial engineering and operations research. It is about addressing root c…

I had a math instructor in my small, unknown technical school for my mechanical engineering program. He took a huge amount of initiative to work with the profs in the engineering d…

Within project management, there are predictive, adaptive, and hybrid approaches to structuring a project. Predictive is waterfall, adaptive is agile, and hybrid is a mix. Yes, eve…