INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING 

CONCEPT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING 

The American Institute of Industrial Engineering (AIIE) had defined the special field of industrial  engineering as
"Concerned with the design improvement and installation of integrated  system of people materials, equipment and energy .
Industrial engineering is engineering approach to the detailed analysis of the use and cost of the resources of an organisation . The main resources are men, money, materials, equipment and machinery .The Industrial engineer carries out such analysis in order to achieve the objectives and policies of  the operation . An Industrial Engineer's techniques go beyond the mechanical cost factor . He is associated with organization structure , administrative techniques , human problems and at the same time he understands the relationship between efficiency and consent .
Essentially, the industrial engineer is engaged in the design of a system and his function is primarily that of  management .
If industrial engineer had to focus on only one concept to describe his field of interest and objective , it would have to be productivity improvement .

Productivity improvement implies 
1. a more efficient use of resources 
2. Less waste per unit of  input supplied .
3. higher levels of output for fixed levels of input supplied and so on .

The input may be
1. Human efforts 
2. energy in any of its myriad forms .
3. materials 
4. invested capital 

HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

- What industrial engineering is today and aspires to be in future is determined by what has gone before .
- With the growth in the size of industries , came the beginning of management and management thinking .


APPLICATION OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING 

- Before 1940 Industrial engineering was mainly applies to manufacturing industries for improving methods of production to develop work standards or to formulate production control and wage policies .
- Latter the use of Industrial engineering also  spreaded to non-manufacturing activities such as construction and transportation , farm and air-line operation and maintenance, public utilities, government and military operations .
- Still today ,Industrial Engineering finds major applications in manufacturing plants and industries .
- In an industry besides the production other department utilising industrial engineering concept are Marketing , Finance , Purchasing , Industrial Relations etc .

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