What is Industrial Engineering?

Definition of Industrial Engineering

Industrial engineering is a concept of engineering which deals with the elimination of the waste of-

✔ time

✔ man-hour

✔ money

✔ materials

✔ machine time

✔ energy and

✔ other resources

that actually do not generate any value to the products or service and optimize them to get maximum output.

Industrial engineers always find the way to make or do things better. They also concern about doing things right in first time.

Industrial engineers combine the knowledge of -

✔ Mathematics

✔ Physics

✔ Architecture

✔ Ergonomics and

✔ Social science

with the principles and methods of engineering analysis and design to -

✔ measure

✔ specify

✔ forecast and

✔ evaluate

the results obtained from systems and processes.

From these results, they are able to design, create and develop new methods, processes, systems or situations for the fruitful combination and coordination of man, machine, material, money and management as well as improve the productivity, quality, efficiency and effectiveness of product, service or system.

All engineering process starts with the measurement. Where other engineers might measures -

✔ force

✔ load

✔ pressure

✔ temperature etc.

industrial engineer measures the -

✔ cycle time of work to complete

✔ rates of machine failure

✔ demand of customer

✔ amount of non-value adding activities

✔ efficiency of systems etc.