What is Industrial Engineering?

IE activities grouped into three.


1. Human effort engineering

2. Systems efficiency engineering

3. Systems design, installation and improvement management.

Articles related to all three
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Industrial Engineering Definition

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING. Concerned with the design, improvement, and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, information, equipment, and energy. It draws upon specialized knowledge and skill in the mathematical, physical, and social sciences together with the principles and methods of engineering analysis and design, to specify, predict, and evaluate the results to be obtained from such systems. (Official definition of the Institute of Industrial Engineers.)

http://www.iienet2.org/Details.aspx?id=2584

I recently came across the book - Hospital Industrial Engineerig by Harold Smalley and John Freeman. In this books there is a reference to a book by R.N. Lehrer, The Management of Improvement: Concepts, Organization, and Strategy.

Do we have books dedicated to the design aspect of industrial engineering and installation aspect of industrial engineering?

Role of Industrial Engineers in Technology Commercialisation

Conference Paper presented at 5th International Conference of AIMS

Abstract

Industrial Engineering has its primary focus on design of work systems integrating man, machine and material. Industrial engineering department is expected to develop manual elements in man-machine interaction that will make the system productive and the man comfortable. Each time a new technology is to be commercialized by an organization, industrial engineers have to understand the technology first and then assess the human involvement required to come out with design of manual elements required in the production process. The paper is an attempt to examine the existing literature in this area of industrial engineering practice.

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Neglect IE in Management Literature

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Article on IE

Reclaiming traditional IE responsibilities.
IIE Solutions, September, 1995 by Howell, Walker T.

Down load Value Analysis L D Miles

Download the original lecture by L D Miles on value analysis/ value engineering

http://minds.wisconsin.edu/bitstream/1793/5652/1/124.pdf

Neglect of Industrial Engineering in Management Literature

As I am going through the book on Management by Koontz, O'Donell and Weihrich, the thought comes to me that they should have covered industrial engineering and tools and techniques in it in many places. Similarly, many management books have not included any reference to industrial engineering. Industrial engineering profession needs to correct this.