Industrial Engineering : Introduction
Industrial engineering is the branch of engineering that concerns the
development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated
systems of people, knowledge, equipment, energy, material and process.
Industrial engineering draws upon the principles and methods of engineering
analysis and synthesis. It eliminates waste of time, money, materials,
energy and other resources. Industrial Engineering is also known as Operations
management, Production Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering or Manufacturing
Systems Engineering depending on the viewpoint or motives of the user.
In healthcare Industrial Engineers are more commonly known as Management
Engineers or Health Systems Engineers.
Whereas most engineering disciplines apply skills to very specific areas,
industrial engineering is applied in virtually every industry, like shortening
queues at a theme park, streamlining an operating room, distributing products
worldwide, and manufacturing cheaper and more reliable automobiles.
Even though the term industrial engineering is originally applied to manufacturing,
it has extended it's service to similar fields like operations research,
systems engineering, ergonomics and quality engineering.
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