Ahmed Alrehaili: Small Changes, Better-Running Systems

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From warehouse organisation to a smart-facility capstone, Ahmed AbdulAziz Alrehaili is developing an engineering approach that begins with the process, not the technology.

Before a warehouse needs a smarter dashboard, it may need a clearer answer to a simpler question: where does everything belong? That practical starting point helped shape Ahmed Alrehaili's early experience of industrial engineering.

During an internship with Al-Madinah Region Development Authority, he worked on inventory organisation and storage layouts. Categorised sections and an alphanumeric classification system addressed a familiar operational frustration: time spent looking for tools and materials.

The work reduced retrieval and search time by 20%. More than a headline figure, the result illustrates an approach to improvement based on making everyday work easier to navigate.

“It is tempting to begin with the tool you want to use,” he says. “I learned to begin with what is slowing people down, even when the answer looks quite simple.”

Giving technology a clear job

His capstone at Taibah University moved from physical organisation to connected systems. The Smart Integrated Facility Management System brought inventory monitoring, energy management and queue-flow control into a central dashboard.

The project explored how real-time information and alerts could help someone act before a small issue became a larger operational problem. Project testing recorded shorter waiting times and lower idle power consumption, offering an early demonstration of the concept rather than evidence of a commercial rollout.

Ahmed describes the design principle behind the interface: every alert needed an obvious response. A signal without a responsible person or a next step could add activity without improving the system.

That thinking links the capstone to the warehouse work. Whether the intervention is a shelf label or a connected sensor, its usefulness depends on the task it supports.

His industrial engineering studies gave him a range of ways to examine that relationship, including process mapping, work measurement, forecasting and quality control. Training in Primavera added an interest in the sequencing and coordination required to deliver improvements.

“The best result is not that people notice how sophisticated the system is,” he says. “It is that the work becomes more predictable and problems become easier to solve.”

He is building an early portfolio around that practical ambition. Technology has a place in it, but the starting point remains the same: understand the process well enough to know what should change.

Profile details

Field: Industrial engineering, operational improvement and facility systems.

Education: Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering, Taibah University, June 2026.

Selected project: Smart Integrated Facility Management System.

Tools and methods: Process mapping, inventory classification, Excel and Primavera.

Get in touch

For more information about Ahmed's work in industrial engineering, process improvement or facility systems, contact Ahmed directly at eng.ahmadalrehaili@gmail.com. Enquiries about the ideas and projects featured in this article are welcome.