Publications

Published work over 25 years by Robin Owens on facility planning, space utilization, operations, and industrial engineering.

These articles reflect the same practical focus behind VCE: understand the operation before major facility decisions are made.

ISE Magazine (June 2026) - Measuring What Matters: Rethinking How Facility Space Is Defined and Managed Industrial Engineer Magazine (Oct 2013) - Automatic Engineering: Asian Manufacturers Can Duplicate Western Improvements with MPM Systems Industrial Engineer Magazine (Nov 2011) - Advancing Facility Planning: Education and Practice in Asia Fall Short of Europe and the United States Cover Story IIE Solutions Magazine (Aug 2001) - Modeling Future Factories: Whether You Look to the East or the West, 3D Modeling is the Future