Industrial engineering is about choices.
Other engineering disciplines apply skills to very specific areas. IE gives
practitioners the opportunity to work in a variety of businesses.
The
most distinctive aspect of industrial engineering is the flexibility it offers.
Whether it’s shortening a roller coaster line, streamlining an operating room,
distributing products worldwide, or manufacturing superior automobiles, these
challenges share the common goal of saving company’s money and increasing
efficiency.
The
various topics concerning industrial engineers include:
·
accounting:
the measurement, processing and communication of financial information about
economic entities
·
operations research, also known as management science: discipline that deals with
the application of advanced analytical methods to help make better decisions
·
operations management: an area of management
concerned with overseeing, designing, and controlling the process of production
and redesigning business operations in the production of goods or services.
·
project management: is the process and activity
of planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling resources, procedures and
protocols to achieve specific goals in scientific or daily problems.
·
job design:
the specification of contents, methods and relationship of jobs in order to
satisfy technological and organizational requirements as well as the social and
personal requirements of the job holder.
·
financial engineering: the application of
technical methods, especially from mathematical finance and computational
finance, in the practice of finance
·
engineering management: a specialized form of
management that is concerned with the application of engineering principles to
business practice
·
supply chain management: the management of
the flow of goods. It includes the movement and storage of raw materials,
work-in-process inventory, and finished goods from point of origin to point of
consumption.
·
process engineering: design, operation,
control, and optimization of chemical, physical, and biological processes.
·
systems engineering: an interdisciplinary field
of engineering that focuses on how to design and manage complex engineering
systems over their life cycles.
·
ergonomics:
the practice of designing products, systems or processes to take proper account
of the interaction between them and the people that use them.
·
safety engineering: an engineering discipline
which assures that engineered systems provide acceptable levels of safety.
·
cost engineering:
practice devoted to the management of project cost, involving such activities
as cost- and control- estimating, which is cost control and cost forecasting,
investment appraisal, and risk analysis.
·
value
engineering: a systematic method to improve the "value" of
goods or products and services by using an examination of function.
·
quality
engineering: a way of preventing mistakes or defects in manufactured
products and avoiding problems when delivering solutions or services to
customers.
·
Industrial plant configuration:
sizing of necessary infrastructure used in support and maintenance of a given
facility.
·
facility management: an interdisciplinary field
devoted to the coordination of space, infrastructure, people and organization
·
engineering design process: formulation of
a plan to help an engineer build a product with a specified performance goal.
·
logistics:
the management of the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point
of consumption in order to meet some requirements, of customers or
corporations.
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