📄 The IE Formula Reference
Every formula behind these tools - EOQ, OEE, Cp/Cpk, FMEA RPN, Fitts's Law, and more - on two printable pages. Free, no email required.
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Learn by Doing
Personal Projects for Practical Learning
Real formulas, applied to everyday problems - built so students (and I) can experience the concepts by using them, not just reading about them.
Every project below takes a technique from Industrial Engineering, Management, or AI & ML and turns it into something you'd actually use on yourself: your pantry, your habits, your study routine, your day. The math is the same math taught in the domain pages - this is where it gets hands dirty.
Projects
Pick a problem, learn the technique
Supply Chain · Featured
Personal Supply Chain
A household inventory optimizer applying EOQ, reorder points, safety stock, and exponential smoothing to the items in your pantry. Treat your home like a warehouse.
Open project → Quality ManagementPersonal Quality Control
Apply X̄–R control charts to a personal metric - sleep, steps, study hours - to learn statistical process control by finding your own out-of-control days.
Open project → AI & Machine LearningPersonal Study Predictor
Log study hours against scores and fit a live regression model - the same least-squares math behind demand forecasting, applied to your own exam prep.
Open project → Work System DesignPersonal Productivity OEE
Score your own day the way a factory scores a machine - Availability × Performance × Quality - and see where your personal "line" is actually losing time.
Open project → ManagementPersonal Breakeven Analysis
"Will this actually pay for itself?" - a buy-vs-pay-per-use breakeven calculator with a live cumulative-cost crossover chart.
Open project → Management · MCDMPersonal Decision Making
A Weighted Sum Model for job offers, apartments, or any decision with competing criteria - ranked by the weights you actually declare.
Open project → ErgonomicsPersonal Ergonomic Analysis
An integrated audit of your own desk setup - anthropometric fit and posture risk combined into one Workspace Ergonomic Score with prioritized fixes.
Open project →Teaching, Hiring, or Just Curious
Take something away, or bring me in
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🏫 Bring This Into Your Classroom
Teaching IE, OM, or Analytics? I'll walk you through adapting any of these tools - or the Team Constraint Diagnostic framework - for your own course.
Book 15 MinutesNo mail app? Write to fencer.saran@gmail.com directly.
🎯 Cite or Adopt a Framework
The Team Constraint Diagnostic is an original Theory-of-Constraints framework for team performance - citable, and open to adapt for your own research or consulting.
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