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Logendran named as Fellow of Institute of Industrial Engineers
Professor honored for contribution in cellular manufacturing and design
Ben Sundberg
Issue date: 5/22/09 Section: News
By Ben Sundberg
The Daily Barometer
Late last month, R. Logen Logendran, Ph.D., professor in the school of mechanical, industrial and manufacturing engineering, was named a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. Logendran is one of only 20 engineers nationwide who will receive this award at the IIE Annual Conference and Exposition on May 31 in Miami, Fla.
The fellow award, according to the IIE, "recognizes outstanding leaders of the profession who have made significant, nationally recognized contributions to industrial engineering. A fellow is the highest classification of IIE membership."
Logendran is being honored for his contribution in the area of cellular manufacturing design and group scheduling. Fundamentally, cellular manufacturing is designing and classifying product components such that they can be manufactured in small, specific cells of a factory. Each of these cells would contain a variety of machines that perform different tasks.
"We are eliminating waste in manufacturing … [we do] anything to improve manufacturing technology," Logendran said. "We identify families of parts that are similar and put those families in smaller cells or departments with dissimilar machines."
Traditionally a manufacturing plant would be segregated by the type of machine, i.e. lathes vs. milling machines, and the product components would be shuttled from place to place in the plant. Dr. Logendran's research focuses on mixing these machines such that factory "cells" can produce a family of parts with a limited movement of material.
"For me, this is the icing on the cake," Logendran said.
Logendran has been researching these concepts for the past 20 years. He has authored or co-authored nearly 100 publications that have been featured in numerous books and journals including IIE Transactions and the European Journal of Operational Research. In the past, Logendran has also been a researcher with the U.S. Air Force, Boeing and NASA.
Dr. Belinda Batten, head of the school of mechanical, industrial and manufacturing engineering commended Logendran on his achievement. "It's a great honor for Dr. Logendran to be selected as a fellow of IIE. Having faculty achieve this status is very positive for the school of MIME (as well as College of Engineering and OSU) because it reflects our stature and impact."
Ben Sundberg, staff writer
news@dailybarometer.com, 737-2231
The Daily Barometer
Late last month, R. Logen Logendran, Ph.D., professor in the school of mechanical, industrial and manufacturing engineering, was named a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. Logendran is one of only 20 engineers nationwide who will receive this award at the IIE Annual Conference and Exposition on May 31 in Miami, Fla.
The fellow award, according to the IIE, "recognizes outstanding leaders of the profession who have made significant, nationally recognized contributions to industrial engineering. A fellow is the highest classification of IIE membership."
Logendran is being honored for his contribution in the area of cellular manufacturing design and group scheduling. Fundamentally, cellular manufacturing is designing and classifying product components such that they can be manufactured in small, specific cells of a factory. Each of these cells would contain a variety of machines that perform different tasks.
"We are eliminating waste in manufacturing … [we do] anything to improve manufacturing technology," Logendran said. "We identify families of parts that are similar and put those families in smaller cells or departments with dissimilar machines."
Traditionally a manufacturing plant would be segregated by the type of machine, i.e. lathes vs. milling machines, and the product components would be shuttled from place to place in the plant. Dr. Logendran's research focuses on mixing these machines such that factory "cells" can produce a family of parts with a limited movement of material.
"For me, this is the icing on the cake," Logendran said.
Logendran has been researching these concepts for the past 20 years. He has authored or co-authored nearly 100 publications that have been featured in numerous books and journals including IIE Transactions and the European Journal of Operational Research. In the past, Logendran has also been a researcher with the U.S. Air Force, Boeing and NASA.
Dr. Belinda Batten, head of the school of mechanical, industrial and manufacturing engineering commended Logendran on his achievement. "It's a great honor for Dr. Logendran to be selected as a fellow of IIE. Having faculty achieve this status is very positive for the school of MIME (as well as College of Engineering and OSU) because it reflects our stature and impact."
Ben Sundberg, staff writer
news@dailybarometer.com, 737-2231
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