Equipment Cut in Half: Lessons in Planning from Systems Engineering

In this episode, Stacey and Bill talk with Joan Wagner about how systems engineering and industrial engineering (IE) work together. The former includes defining and verifying requirements, while the later involves optimizing processes and efficiency. Highlights include: The "Systems Engineering V" model and the importance of setting clear project boundaries Why Lean and Kaizen work best when the people doing the work drive the improvements A story about building stakeholder buy-in with a resistant shop-floor manager Costly planning failures, including a machine built too tall for its doorway Where Six Sigma works well, and where it gets misapplied The ongoing search for better systems-engineering documentation tools Joan's outreach work with ISE Day, bringing IE education to K–12 students Episode notes can be found here.  The podcast music was written and produced by Stacey Merola. The podcast artwork was created by Zoe Targino.