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(Redirected from Industrial Engineering) Industrial engineering is a branch of engineering dealing with the optimization of complex processes or systems. It is concerned with the development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information, equipment, energy, materials, analysis and synthesis, as well as the mathematical, physical and social sciences together with the principles and methods of engineering design to specify, predict, and evaluate the results to be obtained from such systems or processes. Its underlying concepts overlap considerably with certain business-oriented disciplines such as operations management, but the engineering side tends to emphasize extensive mathematical proficiency and usage of quantitative methods. Depending on the subspecialties involved, industrial engineering may also be known as, or overlap with, operations management, management science, operations research, systems engineering, manufacturing engineering, ergonomics or human factors engineering, safety engineering, or others, depending on the viewpoint or motives of the . For example, in health care, the engineers known as health management engineers or health systems engineers are, in essence, industrial engineers by another name.

Contents 1 Overview 2 History 3 Tertiary education institutions & programs 4 University programs 4.1 Undergraduate curriculum 4.2 Postgraduate curriculum 5 US Salaries and workforce statistics 6 Norwegian Salaries 7 Bangladesh Salaries 8 Notable people 9 See also 10 Notes 11 Further reading

Overview While the term originally applied to manufacturing, the use of "industrial" in "industrial engineering" can be somewhat misleading, since it has grown to encom any methodical or quantitative approach to optimizing how a process, system, or organization operates. Some engineering universities and educational agencies around the world have changed the term "industrial" to broader such as "production" or "systems", leading to the typical extensions noted above. In fact, the primary U.S. professional organization for Industrial Engineers, the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) has been considering changing its name to something broader (such as the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers), although the latest vote among hip deemed this unnecessary for the time being. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Engineering

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The various topics concerning industrial engineers include management science, work-study, financial engineering, engineering management, supply chain management, process engineering, operations research, systems engineering, ergonomics / safety engineering, cost and value engineering, quality engineering, facilities planning, and the engineering design process. Traditionally, a major aspect of industrial engineering was planning the layouts of factories and deg assembly lines and other manufacturing paradigms. And now, in so-called lean manufacturing systems, industrial engineers work to eliminate wastes of time, money, materials, energy, and other resources. Examples of where industrial engineering might be used include flow process charting, process mapping, deg an assembly workstation, strategizing for various operational logistics, consulting as an efficiency expert, developing a new financial algorithm or loan system for a bank, streamlining operation and emergency room location or usage in a hospital, planning complex distribution schemes for materials or products (referred to as Supply Chain Management), and shortening lines (or queues) at a bank, hospital, or a theme park. Modern Industrial Engineers typically use Predetermined motion time system, computer simulation (especially discrete event simulation), along with extensive mathematical tools and modeling and computational methods for system analysis, evaluation, and optimization.

History See also: List of industrial engineers Efforts to apply science to the design of processes and of production systems were made by many people in the 18th and 19th centuries. They took some time to evolve and to be synthesized into disciplines that we would label with names such as industrial engineering, production engineering, or systems engineering. For example, precursors to industrial engineering included some aspects of military science; the quest to develop manufacturing using interchangeable parts; the development of the armory system of manufacturing; the work of Henri Fayol and colleagues (which grew into a larger movement called Fayolism); and the work of Frederick Winslow Taylor and colleagues (which grew into a larger movement called scientific management). In the late 19th century, such efforts began to inform consultancy and higher education. The idea of consulting with experts about process engineering naturally evolved into the idea of teaching the concepts as curriculum. Industrial engineering courses were taught by multiple universities in Europe at the end of the 19th century, including in , , the United Kingdom, and Spain.[1] In the United States, the first department of industrial and manufacturing engineering was established in 1909 at the Pennsylvania State University. The first doctoral degree in industrial engineering was awarded in the 1930s by Cornell University. In general it can be said that the foundations of industrial engineering as it looks today, began to be built in the twentieth century. The first half of the century was characterized by an emphasis on increasing efficiency and reducing industrial organizations their costs. In 1909, Frederick Taylor published his theory of scientific management, which included accurate analysis of human labor, systematic definition of methods, tools and training for employees. Taylor dealt in time using timers, set standard times and managed to increase productivity while reducing labor costs and increasing the wages and salaries of the employees. In 1912 Henry Laurence Gantt developed the Gantt chart which outlines actions the organization along with their relationships. This chart opens later form familiar to us today by Wallace Clark. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Engineering

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Assembly lines: moving car factory of Henry Ford (1913) ed for a significant leap forward in the field. Ford reduced the assembly time of a car more than 700 hours to 1.5 hours. In addition, he was a pioneer of the economy of the capitalist welfare ("welfare capitalism") and the flag of providing financial incentives for employees to increase productivity. Comprehensive quality management system (TQM) developed in the forties was gaining momentum after World War II and was part of the recovery of Japan after the war. In 1960 to 1975, with the development of decision systems in supply such as the MRP, you can emphasize the timing issue (inventory, production, compounding, transportation, etc.) of industrial organization. Israeli scientist Dr. Jacob Rubinovitz installed the CMMS program developed in IAI and Control-Data (Israel) in 1976 in South Africa and worldwide. In the seventies, with the penetration of Japanese management theories such as Kaizen and Kanban West, was transferred to highlight issues of quality, delivery time, and flexibility. In the nineties, following the global industry globalization process, the emphasis was on supply chain management, and customer-oriented business process design. Theory of Constraints developed by an Israeli scientist Eliyahu M. Goldratt (1985) is also a significant milestone in the field.

Tertiary education institutions & programs The SLITA in Sri Lanka, has Industrial Engineering short courses as well as diploma programs. In India ATDC has similar programs.

University programs Many universities have BS, MS, M.Tech and PhD programs available. US News and World Report's article on "America's Best Colleges 2012" lists schools offering Undergraduate engineering specialities in Industrial or Manufacturing. At the North Carolina State University[3] the Department head is Professor Paul Cohen. Also teaches in the Department Professor Rick Wysk who retired from the Penn State University,the first Industrial Engineering Department in the U.S.[4] The Georgia Institute of Technology has been ranked as having the best Industrial Engineering program in the United States consecutively for the last twenty-two years while the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor and University of California - Berkeley have been consistently ranked second and third, respectively.

2012 U.S News Rankings [2] University

Rank

Georgia Institute of Technology

1

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

2

University of California - Berkeley

3

Purdue University

4

Stanford University

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Texas A&M University

6

Northwestern University

7

Pennsylvania State University

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University of Wisconsin

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In Asia, the University of Moratuwa of Sri Lanka includes Virginia Tech 10 Industrial Engineering in their curriculum. The Mechanical Engineering Department conducts research in to applications in manufacturing industry mainly Apparel, with en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Engineering

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linkages to European, American and other institutions. Many universities in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan also has such linked programs.

Undergraduate curriculum In the United States, the usual undergraduate degree earned is the Bachelor of Science or B.S. in Industrial Engineering (BSIE). Like most undergraduate engineering programs, the typical curriculum includes a broad math and science foundation spanning chemistry, physics, engineering design, system analysis and design, calculus, differential equations, statistics, materials science, engineering mechanics, computer science, circuits and electronics, and often additional specialized courses in areas such as management, systems theory, ergonomics/safety, stochastics, advanced mathematics and computation, politics, robotics and economics. Some Universities require International credits to complete the BS degree.. In South Africa, either B.Eng.(Industrial) or B.Sc.(Industrial) can be obtained at different universities, but the degrees are quite similar in content.

Postgraduate curriculum The usual postgraduate degree earned is the Master of Science in Industrial Engineering, Production Engineering, Industrial Engineering & Management, Manufacturing Engineering & Management or Industrial Engineering & Operations Research. The typical MS curriculum includes: Operations research & Optimization techniques Engineering economics Supply chain management & Logistics Systems Simulation & Stochastic Processes System Dynamics & Policy Planning System Analysis & Techniques Manufacturing systems/Manufacturing engineering Human factors engineering & Ergonomics (Safety engineering) Production planning and control Management Sciences Computer aided manufacturing

Facilities design & Work space design Quality Engineering Reliability Engineering & Life Testing Statistical process control or Quality control Time and motion study Predetermined motion time system and Computer use for IE Operations management Corporate planning Productivity improvement Materials management Robotics

US Salaries and workforce statistics The total number of engineers employed in the U.S. in 2006 was roughly 1.5 million. Of these, 201,000 were industrial engineers (13.3%), the third most popular engineering specialty. The average starting salaries were $55,067 with a bachelor's degree, $64,759 with a master's degree, and $77,364 with a doctorate degree. This places industrial engineering at 7th of 15 among engineering bachelors degrees, 3rd of 10 among masters degrees, and 2nd of 7 among doctorate degrees in average annual salary.[5] The median annual income of industrial engineers in the U.S. workforce is $68,620.

Norwegian Salaries en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Engineering

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The average total starting salary in 2011 for Norwegian industrial engineers is NOK 505,100 ($83,100),[6] while the average total salary in general is NOK 1,049,054 ($172 600).[7]

Bangladesh Salaries Legally lowest in the world, in 2012 it hovered around US$ 38 depending on the exchange rate. But, in the light of 2013 Industrial disaster in Bangladesh, the lack of checks and balances while shopping inputs, such as cheaper labor of world and its implications to the poorest of poor has come to the forefront of the global conscience. An Asian study in 2012 on to Living Wage by Professor Doug Miller of Northumbria University it has been highlighted how the evolving global trade practices may have by-ed essential components such as Industrial Engineering in "Towards Sustainable Labour Costing in UK Fashion Retail."

Notable people Stuart Dreyfus, American Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Israeli Physicist inventor of the Theory of Constraints. Shaul Ladany, Israeli Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management at Ben Gurion University, has authored over a dozen books and 120 scholarly papers.[8] Richard Muther, American Jacob Rubinovitz, Israeli Genichi Taguchi, Japanese Myron T. Tribus, American

See also Related topics Environment, Health and Safety Ergonomics / Human factors engineering Living wage List of production topics Methods engineering Nutrient systems Operations research Overall Equipment Effectiveness Product design / Industrial design Production engineering

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Quality assurance Associations Reverse engineering American Society for Engineering Safety engineering Education Occupational Safety American Society for Quality and Health European Students of Industrial Sales process Engineering and Management engineering Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering Scientific INFORMS management Institute of Industrial Engineers Sociotechnical Institution of Electrical Engineers systems Washington Accord Statistical process control Toyota Production System Value engineering

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Notes 1. ^ http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=62202 2. ^ "U.S News Rankings" (http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineeringdoctorate-industrial-manufacturing). U.S News. November 13, 2012. Retrieved November 13, 2013. 3. ^ http://www.ise.ncsu.edu/ 4. ^ "America's Best Colleges 2009: Industrial / Manufacturing" (http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/spec-doct-industrial). U.S. News & World Report. USNews.com. 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-17. 5. ^ U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Engineering – http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos027.htm#earnings – Accessed 14 January 2009 6. ^ NTNU Bindeleddet's diplomundersøkelsen 2011 (eng.: diploma study 2011) 7. ^ NTNU Bindeleddet's alumniundersøkelsen 2012 (eng.: alumni study 2012) 8. ^ Green, David B. (January 14, 2009). "Questions & Answers / A conversation with Shaul P. Ladany" (http://www.haaretz.com/news/questions-answers-a-conversation-with-shaul-p-ladany-1.268137). Haaretz. Retrieved February 24, 2013.

Further reading Badiru, A. (Ed.) (2005). Handbook of industrial and systems engineering. CRC Press. ISBN 0-84932719-9. Blanchard, B. and Fabrycky, W. (2005). Systems Engineering and Analysis (4th Edition). Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0-13-186977-9. Salvendy, G. (Ed.) (2001). Handbook of industrial engineering: Technology and operations management. Wiley-Interscience. ISBN 0-471-33057-4. Turner, W. et al. (1992). Introduction to industrial and systems engineering (Third edition). Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-481789-3. Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox: The Goal” (1984). North River Press; 2nd Rev edition (1992). ISBN 088427-061-0; 20th Anniversary edition (2004) 0-88427-178-1 Miller, Doug, Towards Sustainable Labour Costing in UK Fashion Retail (February 5, 2013). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2212100 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2212100

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