What is Industrial Engineering (IE) and Key Factors for It?

What is Industrial Engineering (IE) and Key Factors for It?

At Present Industrial Engineering (IE) is a very important key factor for the industry. It has so much importance as the Textile Engineers at the industry level. An Industrial Engineer makes a product or provides a service by determining the most effective ways to use the five basic factors of production: machines, materials, energy, information, and people.

Definition of Industrial Engineering (IE):

Industrial engineering is a branch of engineering which is related to the optimization of complex systems or processes. It is totally concerned with the improvement, development, and implementation of integrated systems of people, money, information, knowledge, energy and it’s also analysis as well as the mathematical, physical, and social sciences together with the principles and systems of engineering design to predict and assess the results to be obtained from such types of systems.

Industrial Engineering assigns certain systems such as floor layouts, personnel, organization, the standard of time, wage rates, incentive payment plants to control the quantity and especially the quality of goods and services produced.

Industrial Engineering (IE) obeys the following contents:

1. Forecasting,
2. Routing and Scheduling,
3. Line Balancing,
4. Break-Even Analysis,
5. PERT and CPM,
6. Inventory Control,
7. Materials Requirement Planning,
8. Work Study,
9. Plant Layout,
10. Quality Analysis and Control,
11. Process Capability,
12. Graphical Method,
13. Simplex Method,
14. Transportation Model,
15. Assignment Model,
16. Queuing Model,
17. Value Analysis for Cost,
18. Wages Plan,
19. Mass Production and,
20. Others.

Key Factors for an Industrial Engineer (IE):

An industry will achieve the maximum profit if an Industrial Engineer has accurate knowledge about the following matters and those are so important for meeting the right quality of goods. Those are –

1. Education and Research,
2. Management,
3. Supply Chain,
4. Technical Sales and Marketing,
5. Military and Homeland Security,
6. Energy,
7. Public Services,
8. Manufacturing,
9. Finance, Banking and Service Industry,
10. Defense and Aerospace,
11. Information Technology and
12. Health Care.

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