Appendix D
How do you score on this quiz?
How does systems engineering differ
from systems and procedures? value analysis? industrial engineering? Operations
research? project management? process engineering?
Can you explain, to your wife's
satisfaction, terms such as total systems, materials management, information
retrieval, direct costing, closed loop, group processes, theory x and theory y,
interface, parameters, on-line, ambivalence, binary logic, motivational
research, transducer, polymer, learning curves, simulation?
Have you quit reading your
professional journal because the material is getting too hard to understand -
'too technical' too impractical'? Do you have trouble keeping up the jargon peculiar
to your industry or your field of specialization?
What does PERT have
to do with: linear programming? probability theory? computers? How does it
differ from critical path scheduling? flow charting? Gantt charting?
Can you name two major changes that
have taken place, over the last five years, in the fields of job evaluation, powder
metallurgy, work measurement, data processing, Purchasing, packaging,
metalworking, materials handling, bench assembly?
Do you trouble helping the kids do
their math or science homework? Can you still let your old texts fall open to
any page and handle the problems on it?
List the six most important
innovations or trends that have shown up in your industry in the last 10 years.
(Clue what are leading companies in the industry doing, changing, or planning?
)
Are you frankly snowed-by some of
the speakers at conventions and seminars in your field? Do you find yourself
retreating to familiar 'primer' sessions?
If computers were free, what five
jobs would you first put on yours?
What's the difference between line
balancing and line of balance? quality control and reliability? programmed
instruction and teaching machines? analog and digital computers'? cryogenics
and cybernetics? scientific management and management science?
Name three ways your plant could use
operations research if the money were available. (It is not 'big plant stuff' !)
What are the two most important
management or technical books you have read in the last year? (Good intentions
don't count.)
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