World leadership-whether for nations, states or individual companies-depends upon providing the highest quality in goods and services at costs that are affordable to the widest possible audience. Retaining world-class status requires relentless continuous improvement in all aspects of the business or governmental enterprise. Industrial engineers focus on the processes for achieving quality, continuous improvement and cost effectiveness for all types of enterprises-manufacturers, service industries, non-profits and governments. The ProfessionIndustrial engineers work in every type of enterprise-manufacturers of every sort of industrial and consumer product; healthcare, financial, transportation, distribution and other types of service industries; governmental units and agencies. Where most branches of engineering are concerned with designing products, industrial engineering concentrates on designing, installing and improving procedures and systems for effective and efficient operation of enterprises.
Industrial engineering has a unique focus, as well as extraordinary breadth. The primary idea is to apply systematic, disciplined, engineered thinking to all types of human enterprise. Often this means applying lessons that have been hard won in the industrial sector to service oriented enterprises, such as healthcare, transportation and government. Often, advancements in quality, cost effectiveness and timeliness that have been learned in the crucible of global industrial competition can be extended to service providers. Industrial engineers are the people who do this.
The industrial engineer functions at all levels of the enterprise. The knowledge and skills learned in an industrial engineering program equip a person to rise through an organization to the highest levels. Virtually every activity in an enterprise can be a professional home for industrial engineers: operations management, information systems, accounting, finance, supply chain management, human resources, marketing. At every level and in all types of activity, industrial engineers design and develop operating plans and procedures that permit effective use of human and economic resources. Industrial engineers frequently work in teams with other professions, often as the bridge between the technological and business people in the organization.
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I came out with the definition for industrial engineering recently. i want to look at industrial engineering as bridge between technology department and employees. All employees or maximum number of employees should get their standard operating procedures along with standard working conditions, standard time and standard pay from the IE department of a company. IE department core job has to be work system design that includes working conditions, machines elements and man elements, hours of working, base salary and incentive payments.
“Industrial Engineering is Human Effort Engineering. It is an engineering discipline that deals with the design of human effort in all occupations: agricultural, manufacturing and service. The objectives of Industrial Engineering are optimization of productivity of work-systems and occupational comfort, health, safety and income of persons involved.” (Narayana Rao, Definition of Industrial Engineering: Suggested Modification, Udyog Pragati, Oct-Dec 2006, pp. 1-4.)
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