Production Engineering

Manufacturing or Production Engineering

Manufacturing or Production Engineering is the subset / specialization of a Mechanical Engineering. Mechanical Engineering with the focus only on Machine Tools, Materials Science, Tribology, and Quality Control is known as Manufacturing Engineering. Professional manufacturing engineers are responsible for all aspect of the design, development, implementation, operation and management of manufacturing system. Manufacturing is the most important element in any engineering process & Manufacturing Engineers are key personnel in many organization. The manufactured products range from aero planes, turbines, engines and pumps - to integrated circuits and robotic equipment.

What does a Manufacturing / Production Engineer do?

Production Engineers work towards Choosing machinery and equipments for the particular manufacturing process

• Production Engineers will be planning & scheduling the production in any manufacturing industry. [e.g. Automobile Manufacturing industry].

• Production Engineers will be programming the CNC machines to produce engineering components such as gears, screws, bolts, etc

• They are responsible for quality control, distribution and inventory control.

What is the future for a Manufacturing / Production Engineering graduate?

• The job of manufacturing/production Engineer involves the use of machine tools, materials and human resources in the most effective way to produce any goods. They can find opportunities in any of the following category.....

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Top Sectors for Production Engineers to work

1.     Research Labs

2.     Manufacturing sector

3.     Communication sector

4.     Transportation

5.     Banking

6.     Pharmaceuticals

7.     Finance

8.     Travel

9.     Semiconductor

10.   e-business

11.   Sports

12.   Health

13.   Information Technology