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Future of Industrial Engineers in Healthcare Quality

The concept of “Quality Management” as advocated by management theorists and industrial engineers has been adopted by healthcare leaders. Healthcare quality professionals use knowledge, experience, evidence, performance, and process improvement tools to manage and improve the health of the individual and populations. I strongly believe, Industrial Engineers are desperately required in healtRead More…

Profession of Industrial & Systems Engineering inevitable

Promotion of Industrial & Systems Engineering inevitable

The speakers at a function here on Thursday called for promoting an increased awareness of industrial and systems engineers in the country. They were addressing the orientation ceremony of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) the University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar chapter held here. UET Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr Iftikhar Hussain was the chief guest on the oRead More…

PSIE Launches E-Mail Newsletter

PSIE Launches E-Mail Newsletter

Dear all members of PSIE. We are delighted to share the launch of our E-mail based Newsletter system. This is exclusively for our paid members who will from now on receive latest updates from the society. You will receive latest news updates, events, workshops and job alerts that will help you advance your careers. All the paid members of the society are requested to please check their registerRead More…

Dr. Hakeem ur Rehman now a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt Professional

Dr. Hakeem ur Rehman now a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt Professional

It gives us immense pleasure to share that our most prominent Advisory Board member Dr. Hakeem ur Rehman is now a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt Professional by the Exemplar Global. Exemplar Global Inc. provides personnel certification, credential management for individuals seeking further professional recognition and independent certification for training providers to enhance their course qualRead More…

First 10 PSIE professional members get IISE memberships

A first batch of 10 industrial engineers from Pakistan get registered with the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE) at exclusive discounted rates. Their membership with IISE comes with a lot of benefits that include premium access to IISE’s membership directory, access to the training centre, conferences and discounts on their premium activities. These Pakistani industrial engineRead More…

PSIE is now a strategic partner with IISE

We’re absolutely delighted to share with you our official collaboration with the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers which is the world’s largest professional society dedicated solely to the support of the industrial and systems engineering profession. The IISE is offering amazing discounts to the members of PSIE! Some key benefits of their membership are: 1. Free access to monRead More…

Six Sigma Green Belt Project | By Qurrattulain Shakoor

This project was about developing a solution towards increased scrap generation for a tobacco grade (SF2RWS) due to degradation in the primary conditioning cylinder in the GLT Factory, British American Tobacco Company (BAT). Scrap generation is one of the contributing factors in reducing the quality of tobacco grades. The average scrapper sample was 13.5%. The critical tools used in this project wRead More…

Words From Gregory Watson

It seems like just yesterday when we held discussions in Pakistan about the interest in developing a national organization for the promotion of the profession of industrial engineering. At that time I was Senior Vice President of the Institute of Industrial Engineers and was visiting Lahore, Pakistan to deliver a key-note address at the Quality and Productivity Society of Pakistan. We had a dinnRead More…

Women in Industrial Engineering

Engineering was once considered as one of the most underrated profession for women in Pakistan, although there has been an improvement in our society and the way people now think about it but I believe that more needs to be done. There is a lot of space for improvement in educating the mass of Pakistan. When it comes to Industrial Engineering, the term itself is already misinterpreted (even Read More…