About AppliedIE
Where industrial engineering meets software.
Industrial engineering gave us the math of operations — flow, variability, capacity, quality. Software gave us the means to apply it continuously instead of in one-off studies. Most people live on one side of that line. AppliedIE exists for the intersection: concepts you learned in class, turned into tools you can actually use.
Who writes this
I'm Lase. I hold a master's in industrial engineering from the University of Iowa and have spent 6+ years as an industrial engineer in high-volume semiconductor manufacturing, where I build automated solutions for factory-wide problems — capacity planning, flow control, and the daily firefights in between. The pattern I kept noticing: the highest-leverage work always happened where IE thinking met software execution. This site is my public workshop for that pattern.
What you'll find here
- Essays on core IE concepts — Little's Law, safety stock, coefficient of variation, burn rate, quality estimation — written for practitioners, not exams.
- Interactive tools embedded in every essay, so you can build intuition by dragging the variables instead of squinting at formulas.
- Products — templates and calculators for teams that want to go deeper.
Everything here uses generic or synthetic examples — the thinking is portable; the data is not anyone's proprietary information.
Elsewhere
Find me on Instagram.