H. Yamashina of Japan developed World Class Manufacturing approach and he included Total Industrial Engineering along with Total Quality Management, Total productive Maintenance and Cost Deployment.
According to him TQM is the brain, TPM is the muscle and TIE is the humanware.
I am trying to find out the details of the concept. So far I could only access three or four slides on the concept. Covered in a post on Knol.
Birth Day of Frank Gilbreth 7th July is celebrated as the Knol Day of Industrial Engineering for the year 2010. Many articles on Industrial Engineering are being written for the occasion.
Students of NITIE are posting number of articles which are summaries of various articles published in Industrial Engineer magazine
Index of articles written by IE students of NITIE, Mumbai, India on the occasion of Knol Day of Industrial Engineering