Subject Areas in Industrial Engineering - A New Scheme

I am currently teaching an advanced course in industrial engineering with the following subject scheme.

Subject Areas in Industrial Engineering - A New Scheme

Industrial engineering principles
Product industrial engineering
Process industrial engineering
   - Technical process industrial engineering
   - Management process industrial engineering
Industrial engineering optimization
Industrial engineering technometrics (Application of statistics in industrial engineering projects and practice).
Industrial engineering economics
Human effort industrial engineering
Measurements in industrial engineering
Productivity management

The course is going smoothly. We are studying the basic content on each topic for two hours based on the notes prepared by our first year masters students based on their class lecture, discussion and study. Then we are examining some recent research papers.

A presentation was done to the prospective masters students based on this scheme and they appreciated the presentation.

What is missing in the scheme is productivity science or industrial engineering science. Under this head we need to discuss scientific method and some of the experiments, research and theory building done in the industrial engineering field. In the textbooks of sociology and psychology, scientific enquiry is described as one chapter.

Introductory Articles on the New Subject Areas in Industrial Engineering

Industrial engineering principles

Industrial engineering Principles, Methods Tools and Techniques
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/03/industrial-engineering-principles.html

Product industrial engineering

Product Industrial Engineering
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/02/product-industrial-engineering.html

Process industrial engineering

Process Industrial Engineering
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/02/process-industrial-engineering.html

   - Technical process industrial engineering

   - Management process industrial engineering

     Management Process Industrial Engineering
     http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/03/management-process-industrial.html


Industrial engineering optimization (IEO)

Product and process alternative concepts developed by industrial engineers initially start as concepts, go through technical feasibility and commercial feasibility stages. Optimization using mathematical and operations research methods becomes an important stage in industrial engineering studies and projects. The optimization done in IE projects is one component of industrial engineering optimization. Independently, IEs may examine systems for lack of optimality and suggest or do optimization. This aspect also comes under I.E.O.

Industrial engineering technometrics (Application of statistics in industrial engineering projects and practice).

Sampling increases productivity of activities. So industrial engineering field suggests and utilizes sampling at appropriate stages in the production process. Industrial engineers use experiments in developing science as well as engineering solutions. Use of statistics by industrial engineers is convered in industrial engineering technometrics.

Industrial engineering economics

Use of engineering economic analysis in IE studies is explained in Industrial engineering economics.

Human effort industrial engineering

Human effort is redesigned by F.W. Taylor, Frank Gilbreth, R.L. Barnes and H.B. Maynard to realise productivity improvements. Motion study and work measurement are two important methods of IE in this area. The concern of IE regarding fatigue and comfort of operators is now supported by ergonomics discipline in providing science of occupational impact on the workmen. The musculoskeletal disorders suffered by the workers are prevented by early analyses of ergonomists. IEs take the scientific theories developed by ergonomics and engineer human effort.

Measurements in industrial engineering

Work measurement, Productivity measurement and Cost measurement are the three important measurement subjects for industrial engineers.

Productivity management

Productivity Management
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2016/11/productivity-management.html