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62nd Annual IIE Conference and Expo
Orlando, FL, May 19-23, 2012
Hot Topics for
Sustainability in the
IE Research Agenda
Eliseo Vilalta-Perdomo
University of Lincoln, UK
John Corliss
PEER Consultants, PC
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Orlando, FL, May 19-23, 2012
Outline
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Aim of this presentation
Sustainability
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Industrial Engineering
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The genealogy
Dimensions
Complementary or In Conflict
Languages
Potential contributions’ matrix
Current position
Current sources of improvement
Potential unique contributions of IE professionals
Sustainability Division, IIE
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Potential contribution
Future steps
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Aims of this presentation
 to
identify which part of the IE body of
knowledge can contribute most
effectively to sustainable development,
and
 an
initial exploration to recognize some
“hot topics” that constitute the future of
IE research and professional agendas
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Orlando, FL, May 19-23, 2012
Sustainability
“a
Key
“sustainable
comprehensive
objectives
development
in relation
plan
ofto
“It
has
said
that
the
Different
strategies
and
What
isbeen
(ought
to
be)
the
“to
Included
propose
economic,
long-term
social
action
peace,
programmes
to
security
be
taken
must
seek
globally,
to
great
question
isand
now
at
issue,
actions
to
end
poverty
and
Engineering
Research
Agenda
environmental
and
environmental
strategies
objectives
for
nationally
disarmament;
enhance
the
and
quality
development
locally
of
bylife of
whether
man
shall
henceforth
hunger;
universal
education;
to
Support
Sustainable
achieving
in
the
sustainable
sustainable
organizations
and
peoples,
poverty
including
eradication;
of
the
their
United
start
forwards
with
accelerated
gender
quality;
health;
Improvement?
development
bychild
agenda
the
year
The Limits
to Growth.
First 2000
Nations
protecting
health,
well-being
System,
our common
Governments,
and
velocity
towards
illimitable,
maternal
health;
combat
What
are
(ought
to
be) the
and
beyond”
environmental
best-seller
and
environment;
safety”.
Majorenvironmental
Groups
human
in every
rights,
hitherto
unconceived
HIV/AIDS;
contributions
from
the
Malthus, 1798,
area
democracy
in which
and
human
good
impacts
improvement,
or be
sustainability,
and
global
Industrial
Engineering
Club of Rome, 1968
on
governance;
the environment”
protecting
the
condemned
to
a perpetual
partnership
Brundtland Report (March, 1987) discipline?
vulnerable;
meetinghappiness
the
oscillation between
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, June
special
needs
of after
Africa,
and
and misery,
and
every
1992
strengthening
theatUnited
effort remain still
an
Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small
immeasurable
distance from
Island Developing States, Nations
May-June 1994
the wished-for goal”.
Genealogy
Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21,
June 1997
UN Millennium Declaration, 2000
Millennium Development
Goals 2005
IE Research & Professional agendas on
sustainability, 2012
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Sustainability
Dimensions
Bearable: affordable
development that
increases quality of life
PEOPLE
Bearable
Equitable: provides
similar opportunities to
everybody
Equitable
Sustainable
PLANET
Viable: runs its activities
in the long-term
PROFIT
Viable
(Elkington, 2004)
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Sustainability
Complementary
or In Conflict
PLANET
PEOPLE
Resource
Conflict
PROFIT
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Sustainability
Languages
Knowledge
• Internal vs. external
• Acquisition,
codification,
recovery & use
Capital:
•Local vs. global
•Standardization
•Lost cost
Efficiency & effectiveness
• Lean vs. agile
• Low-cost
Language of
consensus
SOCIETY
(people)
Globalization
(equitable)
Quality of Life
(bearable)
ENVIRONMENT
(Planet)
ECONOMY
(Profit)
Impact
(viable)
Trade-offs
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Industrial Engineering
Dimensions
Quality: process that
does well what it is
designed to do
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Ergonomics
Management: process of
dealing with or controlling things or people
Ergonomics: design to
optimize human wellbeing & overall system
performance
TECHNICAL
SCIENCES
Management
Industrial
Engineering
Quality
ECONOMIC
SCIENCES
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Sustainability
Potential contributions’ matrix
Economy
Environment
People
Coordination
(language)
Effectiveness
Sustainability
Profit
Equitable
Decision-making
(language)
Efficiency
Planet
Bearable
Viable
Natural laws
(language)
Environmental perspective
IE perspective?
Society
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Industrial engineering
Current position
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IE professionals have a ‘multidisciplinary’ agenda,
as they study the design, improvement, and
installation of integrated systems of people,
materials, information, equipment, and energy (IIE
definition).
Active presence of its professionals in the
sustainability facets:
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Economic evaluations
Environmental aspects have also been included
and coded -e.g. ISO 14000.
Social concerns are considered in current
engineering research agenda, -e.g. participatory
design.
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Industrial engineering
Current sources for improvement
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EFFECTIVENESS. “A dimension of
organizational performance involving the
ability to choose and achieve appropriate
goals”.
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EFFICIENCY. “A dimension of organizational
performance involving the ability to make the
best use of available resources in the process
of achieving goals”.
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SUSTAINABILITY. To be developed
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What is sustainability?
A look at IIE transactions
Under the query of “sustainability” we find…
 T.C. Woo (1997) Review of: “Re-engineering for Sustainable Industrial
Production”, L.M. Camarinha-Matos (ed.) Chapman & Hall.
 John Jackman (1997) Review of: “Modeling Techniques for Business
Process Re-engineering and Benchmarking”, Guy Doumeingts and Jim
Browne (eds) Chapman & Hall.
 Kenneth N. McKay & Thomas E. Morton (1997) Review of: “Critical
Chain”, Eliyahu M. Goldratt The North River Press Publishing Corporation,
Great Barrington, MA, 1997.
 Ki-Joo Kim & Urmila M. Diwekar (2002) ‘Hammersley stochastic
annealing: efficiency improvement for combinatorial optimization under
uncertainty’, IIE Transactions,34(9), pp. 761-777
 Irad Ben-Gal, Roni Katz & Yossi Bukchin (2008) ‘Robust eco-design: A new
application for air quality engineering’, IIE Transactions, 40(10), pp. 907918
 Alan G. Hawkes, Lirong Cui & Zhihua Zheng (2011) ‘Modeling the
evolution of system reliability performance under alternative
environments’, IIE Transactions, 43(11), pp. 761-772
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Orlando, FL, May 19-23, 2012
What is sustainability?
A look at IIE transactions
Ki-Joo Kim & Urmila M. Diwekar (2002) ‘Hammersley stochastic annealing:
efficiency improvement for combinatorial optimization under uncertainty’,
IIE Transactions,34(9), pp. 761-777
 This paper presents hierarchical improvements to combinatorial
stochastic annealing algorithms using a new and efficient sampling
technique. The Hammersley Sequence Sampling (HSS) technique is used
for updating discrete combinations, reducing the Markov chain length,
determining the number of samples automatically, and embedding
better confidence intervals of the samples. The improved algorithm,
Hammersley stochastic annealing, can significantly improve
computational efficiency over traditional stochastic programming
methods. This new method can be a useful tool for large-scale
combinatorial stochastic programming problems. A real-world case
study involving solvent selection under uncertainty illustrates the
usefulness of this new algorithm.
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Orlando, FL, May 19-23, 2012
What is sustainability?
A look at IIE transactions
Irad Ben-Gal, Roni Katz & Yossi Bukchin (2008) ‘Robust eco-design: A new
application for air quality engineering’, IIE Transactions, 40(10), pp. 907-918
 The method of robust design has long been used for the design of
systems that are insensitive to noises. In this paper it is demonstrated
how this approach can be used to obtain a robust eco-design
(ecological design). In a case study, robust design principles are applied
to the design of a factory smokestack, using the Gaussian Plume Model
(GPM). The GPM is a well-known model for describing pollutant dispersal
from a point source, subject to various atmospheric conditions. In this
research, the mean-square-error (MSE) of the accumulated and the
maximum pollution values around a given target are defined as the
performance measures and used to adjust the design parameters. Both
analytical and numerical approaches are used to evaluate the MSE
measures over the design space. It is demonstrated how to use the nonlinearity in the GPM to reach a low MSE value that produces a cheaper
design configuration. The differences between the manufacturer
viewpoint and the environmentalist viewpoint with respect to the
considered eco-design problem are discussed and analyzed.
62nd Annual IIE Conference and Expo
Orlando, FL, May 19-23, 2012
What is sustainability?
A look at IIE transactions
Alan G. Hawkes, Lirong Cui & Zhihua Zheng (2011) ‘Modeling the evolution
of system reliability performance under alternative environments’, IIE
Transactions, 43(11), pp. 761-772
 The dynamics of a system represented by a finite-state Markov process
operating under two alternating regimes, for example, day/night,
machine working/machine idling, etc., are modeled in this article. The
transition rate matrices under the two regimes will usually be different.
Also, the set of states of the system that are regarded as satisfactory
may depend on the regime in operation: for example, a particular state
of the system that may be regarded as satisfactory by day might not be
tolerated at night (e.g., the headlights on a car not working). It is
assumed that the regime durations are random variables and results are
obtained for the availability of such a system and probability distributions
for uptimes. Results and numerical examples are also given for two
special cases: (i) when the regimes are of fixed duration; and (ii) when
the regime durations have negative exponential distributions.
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Orlando, FL, May 19-23, 2012
What is sustainability?
A look at IIE transactions
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As the flagship journal of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, IIE
Transactions publishes original high-quality papers on a wide range of
topics of interest to industrial engineers who want to remain current with
the state-of-the-art technologies. The refereed journal aims to foster the
engineering community by publishing papers with a strong
methodological focus motivated by real problems that impact
engineering practice and research. Published monthly, the journal is
composed of four focus issues: Design and Manufacturing, Operations
Engineering and Analysis, Quality and Reliability Engineering, and
Scheduling and Logistics.
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IIE Transactions encourages research motivated by critical and complex
engineering problems that arise in a wide variety of domains including
service, public policy, health care, security, biotechnology,
transportation, and others. The journal publishes papers that integrate
industrial engineering with other disciplines including statistics, other
engineering disciplines, computer science, biological science, and
operations research. Articles covering new methodologies and state-ofthe-art surveys are included in the journal.
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What is sustainability?
At 2011 IIE Conference-ISERC
Dimension
Topic
Sustainability in Supply Chains
Sustainability through Systems
Economic
Modelling a Sustainable Solution
Economics of Sustainability
Life Cycle Assessment
Emergy - Basic Metric of
Environmental Sustainability Evaluation
Environmental Sustainability
Social
Community operational research
Papers
Contribution
Topic
Dimension
6
5
3
3
2
18%
15%
9%
9%
6%
56%
3
9%
3
9%
9
26%
34
18%
26%
100%
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What is sustainability?
IE professional & researchers
Is
it then the
economy/environment relation
what are we looking at?
Where is the social dimension?
Unique integrated systems
perspective?
What is sustainability?
IE professional & researchers
Holland:
35,000kg CO2 emissions
550,000 megajoules (>99% fossil)
221 estimated food miles
Potential role of the
Sustainability Division:
To become a source for
better-informed
sustainable decisions:
Should we buy roses from
Holland or Kenya?
Is this the right
question?
$100 million USD annually injected on
deprived Kenyan communities
Kenya:
2,200kg CO2 emissions
53,000 megajoules (15% fossil)
4,237 estimated food miles
Note: According to Williams (2007) for 12,000 roses
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Potential unique contributions
of IE professionals
 Policy
makers and others
are more comfortable in
their silos
 Industrial Engineers are
trained to take a systems
view and deal with
compound complex
systems
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Potential unique contributions
of IE professionals
• Icon
Consultants
 Most
Engineers are
uncomfortable at
the top of the food
chain
 Industrial Engineers
are Visionary
• Industry Peers
• Accounting
Firms
• Industry
Practitioners
Board f • Vision,
Mission,
Directors
Policies
and Strategies
CEO
Business
Units
• Goals,
Priorities,
Measures
• Industry
Associates
• Operational
• Regulating
Procedures
Organizations Operations
and
Objectives
• Architects
• Engineering
Firms
Projects
RFPs
• Projects to
Achieve
Objectives
• Implement
(Bill Wallace, 2010)
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Sustainability division
Potential contribution
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1.
2.
Some potential tasks for the Sustainability
Division:
Define the concept of SUSTAINABILITY in
the IE context -- What is IIE’s definition of
sustainability
Identify Hot Topics:
•
•
IE Tools which, with or without modification,
are applicable to Sustainability
Fields where IE research and practice can
excel
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Sustainability division
Future steps
 To
test different proposition with the rest of
our colleagues
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Website-based survey?
 To
participate in the Sustainability Division
(SD)
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To identify the role and purpose of the SD
To be an active contributor in SD
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Thank your for your attention
 Questions?
 Comments?