Lowering costs and increasing reliability and productivity are the objectives of methods engineering.

The last three years offer courses for professional development in the areas of methods engineering, systems dynamics, operations research, and basic engineering sciences.

Reuse : one of the basic strategies of methods engineering is reuse.

The terms operation analysis, work design and simplification, and methods engineering and corporate re-engineering are frequently used interchangeably.

Methods engineering is a subspecialty of industrial engineering and manufacturing engineering concerned with human integration in industrial production processes.

He is known for his contributions to chemical engineering in general and for the development and application of computational methods engineering problems in particular.

Time and methods engineering use statistics to study repetitive operations in manufacturing in order to set standards and find optimum (in some sense) manufacturing procedures.

They are represented, for example, by the functions of industrial engineering, time and motion analysis, methods engineering, value analysis and engineering, tool and machine design, etc.

This integrated approach to work system improvement is known as methods engineering and it is applied today to industrial as well as service organizations, including banks, schools and hospitals.

With a total of 133 credit hours, the program covers the major areas of industrial engineering, such as operations research, production planning, inventory control, methods engineering, quality control, facility location, manufacturing, and facility layout.

The basic MTM data was developed by H.B. Maynard, JL Schwab and GJ Stegemerten of the Methods Engineering Council during a consultancy assignment at the Westinghouse Brake and Signal Corporation, USA in the 1940s.

'A £4 million manufacturing investment programme is under way for 1993 and the project engineering team is actively involved with production management and methods engineering in ensuring that the Group has the best available machines and equipment, all operating at maximum efficiency and quality of output,' said Phil Richens, department manager.