Design of Products and Processes: A Perspective from the Pyramid Model of Value System

This paper started with the review of the evolvement of industrial engineering and illustrated the new problems encountered in modern industrial engineering. By using the Seven Elements Pyramid Model in the new generation of value engineering, researchers and practitioners are able to discover the sources and processes of value generation. Moreover, since human resource is an indispensible part of value engineering, we find it is in great need of new research methods to study workers’ physiological and psychological status in the course of work. Therefore, neuroscience methods are introduced into the modern industrial engineering, creating the new field of Neural Industrial Engineering (NeuroIE).