Industrial Engineering

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, or Manufacturing Engineering depending on the viewpoint or motives of the user. In lean manufacturing systems, Industrial engineers work to eliminate wastage of time, money, materials, energy, and other resources

What does a Industrial Engineer do?

• Industrial engineers typically use computer simulation, especially discrete event simulation, for system analysis and evaluation.

• Industrial engineers study how workers perform their jobs, the goal is to reduce the time it takes to perform a certain job and redistribute work so as to require fewer workers for a given task.

• Industrial Engineer in the manufacturing industry will be responsible for Quality control, Statistical process control and to increase productivity through management of people and methods of business organization.

• Industrial Engineers evolve management control systems to assist in financial planning, cost analysis, production planning and physical distribution of goods and services

What is the future for a Industrial Engineering graduate?

The job of an industrial engineer centers involve the use of people, materials, energy, information and machines in the most effective way. They can find opportunities in any of the following category.....

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Career Prospects

The job of an industrial engineer centers around the use of people, materials, energy, information and machines in the most effective way. Industrial Engineers work to increase productivity through management of people and methods of business organisation. They also evolve management control systems to assist in financial planning, cost analysis, production planning and physical distribution of goods and services.

Industrial Engineer can get jobs in almost all types of industries. Self employment opportunities are also available as consultants or specialists in methods and work operation usually after suitable years of industrial experience. They can also join private consultancy firms, R&D establishments of big companies or as purchase engineers and technical sales managers. Because of the broad-based nature of the course, production and industrial engineers can work with all types of engineering and manufacturing industries in the private and public sectors. The areas covering industrial Engineering include work-study, operations and maintenance, production planning and control, materials management, value engineering, network models such as  PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique) /c p m (Critical Path Method), operations research, computer science, financial Management, Statistical Quality Control etc.

Job Options

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• Business systems analyst
• Business process engineer
• Production, process, assets or manufacturing engineer
• Quality control manager
• Health and safety manager
• Human resource manager
• Logistics manager or facilities engineer
• Project manager
• Plant supervisor
• Scheduling and planning manager
• Operations manager
• Management consultant