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Industrial engineering

Firms have now to face continual changes, due to the pressure of competition. Industrial engineering is the studying and the management of those changes. It involve multidiciplinary in the areas of engineering, economics and social sciences, to be able to have a general vision of the phenomenons and the parameters involved. The industrial engineer is although called logistics engineer, purchasing engineer, manufacturing engineer, quality engineer...

Here is the definition from the American Institute of Industrial Engineers :

"Industrial Engineering is concerned with the design, improvement, and installation of integrated systems of people, material, equipment, and energy. It draws upon specialized knowledge and skills in the mathematical, physical and social sciences together with the principles and method of engineering analysis and design to specify, predict, and evaluate the results to be obtained from such systems."



DEFINITION OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

Industrial Engineers integrate people, technology, and information to enhance a globally




competing enterprise

This definition of Industrial Engineering has been recently developed to more accurately reflect the

new global economy.

Integration
refers to the ability to understand the need for looking at broader system and scope

and not focus on individual problems. Most engineering disciplines fail to do this.



Globally
competitive enterprise: Whether we like it or not one has to look at it. Foreign countries,

many with lower labor costs, can manufacture many things at much lower cost than we can in USA. Shoes

and clothing are few examples. One must consider all problems in a global con************.



Where They Work?

Most in Manufacturing:
Type of work/Title can be of wide variety. Few examples:

Plant Engineer

Manufacturing Engineer

Quality Engineer

Process Engineer

Methods Improvement and many more



Others may work for:

Hospitals

Banks

Transportation/Logistics

United Parcel Service

Post Office

Insurance Companies

Most industrial and manufacturing engineers cannot differentiate between the two. Manufacturing

engineers invariably work in manufacturing environment. On the other hand, industrial may work for both

manufacturing as well as service environments. For example, such engineers working in a hospital or UPS

will be called industrial engineers (and not manufacturing engineers). The academic training required for

both, in general, is very similar

How can they work on a wide variety of jobs?

Focus is on improving production systems (manufacturing, hospitals, airlines etc.)

Analysis of all production systems require similar training, tools, and knowledge. All production

systems must perform at highest possible efficiency, best quality and with least cost especially in a

globally competitive enterprise.

Many IE and Manufacturing programs teach different aspects of a production system:

Many classes relate to following topics:

Quality Control

Manufacturing Processes

Plant Layout/Material Handling

Engineering Economy/Cost Estimating

Time Studies/ Labor Cost

Human Factors/ Safety

Simulation/ Statistics

And many others........................

Few examples of work they might do:

Make or buy a needed component

Should this part be welded or brazed?

Reduction of % of defective parts

Schedule of patients in an operating room

Where is the bottleneck and how to remove it?

Automated or manual packaging

Acceptable load for a warehouse operator

How many airline counters?

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