The motivation to write this article is provided by the paper, Sahney VK, Evolution of hospital industrial engineering: from scientific management to total quality management.
J Soc Health Syst. 1993;4(1):3-17.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8268467
A New Related Book
Faster, Better, Cheaper in the History of Manufacturing: From the Stone Age to Lean Manufacturing and Beyond
Christoph Roser
CRC Press, 04-Oct-2016 - Business & Economics - 439 pages
The industrial revolution, mechanization, water and steam power, computers, and automation have given an enormous boost to manufacturing productivity. "Faster, Better, Cheaper" in the History of Manufacturing shows how the ability to make products faster, better, and cheaper has evolved from the stone age to modern times. It explains how different developments over time have raised efficiency and allowed the production of more and better products with less effort and materials, and hence faster, better, and cheaper. In addition, it describes the stories of inventors, entrepreneurs, and industrialists and looks at the intersection between technology, society, machines, materials, management, and – most of all – humans.
"Faster, Better, Cheaper" in the History of Manufacturing follows this development throughout the ages. This book covers not only the technical aspects (mechanization, power sources, new materials, interchangeable parts, electricity, automation), but organizational innovations (division of labor, Fordism, Taylorism, Lean). Most of all, it is a story of the people that invented, manufactured, and marketed the products.
The book shows how different developments over time raised efficiency and allowed production of more with less effort and materials, which brought us a large part of the wealth and prosperity we enjoy today.
1880 to 1907 - The Foundation for Industrial Engineering
Need for Reduction of Cost of Production - Engineering for Productivity - Motivating the Operators, Supervisors, Engineers and Managers to Participate in Cost Reduction and Productivity Improvement
1880 - First ASME President's Inaugural Address - Need for Productivity Improvement
The concern for management and productivity issues occupied the attention of the first ASME president. Thus ASME's attention to the topic is there right from its founding . In fact, R.H. Thurston the first ASME president, in his inaugural address, included productivity improvement and economy among the objects of the society in his inaugural address.
"We are now called upon to do our part in the work so well begun by our predecessors, and so splendidly carried on by our older colleagues during the past generation. We have for our work the cheapening and improvement of all textile fabrics, the perfecting of metallurgical processes, the introduction of the electric light, the increase of facilities for rapid and cheap transportation, the invention of new and more efficient forms of steam and gas engines, of means for relieving woman from drudgery, and for shortening the hours of labor for hard-working men, the increase in the productive power of all mechanical devices, aiding in the great task of recording and disseminating useful knowledge; and ours is the duty to discover facts and to deduce laws bearing upon every application of mechanical science and art in field, workshop, school, or household." - Thurston
H.R. Towne (1886), in his" The Engineer as Economist, advocated that engineers can learn management and economics/accounting to provide a unified management service well coordinated with engineering. He also highlighted the issue of reduction of cost of production in that paper.
James Gunn is given the credit for using the term "industrial engineer" first in an article. He wanted a new engineer to emerge "production" or "industrial". The term industrial engineer appealed to some. Subsequently the course in industrial engineering was also started. Even production engineering emerged as a separate branch that focused much more on the technical function of creating process plans, instructing and training operators. The focus of industrial engineering became productivity, efficiency and cost reduction.
Evolution of Industrial Engineering - James Gunn, Towne, Taylor, Diemer, Going, Barnes
Shop management paper/book has the objective low cost product and high income employees. The focus of the book is achieving low cost of production and high income provision to employees (from the existing position at that time) in engineering production shops. Industrial engineering became the subject that was developed to educate and train engineers in a specialized subject dealing with productivity and cost reduction. Very quickly it became a full fledged four year degree based curriculum as productivity and cost reduction are important dimensions of engineering organizations.
In the course of evolution, emphasis on redesign of the products and processes using engineering knowledge to provide cost reduction and productivity became less. This led to industrial engineering being labelled as imaginary engineering (a branch wherein engineering is nonexistent). The erosion of engineering focus also resulted in IE's narrow reach. Industrial engineering is applicable in all engineering branches that have engineering products or services and processes producing those products and services. Therefore, industrial engineering needs to be used in civil engineering, electrical engineering, electronics engineering, biomedical engineering and biotechnology. Engineering is an essential knowledge discipline in the world and industrial engineering has to focus on all engineering branches and improve productivity.
Prof. Narayana Rao, brought out this shortcoming clearly in a paper and also proposed principles of industrial engineering. Principles of industrial engineering were derived from Principles of Scientific Management of Taylor. The principles of reflect the current concerns and areas of focus of the discipline.
1908
Industrial Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, 1908-1988
Benjamin W. Niebel
Penn State - Industrial engineering - 146 pages
The industrial engineering program at Penn State is founded by Hugo Diemer, a pioneer in the field. . Diemer is named the first head of the department.
1909 – The Department of Industrial Engineering is officially established.
Industrial engineering :
devoted to the interests of works managers, engineers and superintendents. Vol. 1
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100157933
Industrial engineering :
devoted to the interests of works managers, engineers and superintendents. Vol. 1
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100157933
1910 – The department graduates its first two industrial engineering students.
https://www.ime.psu.edu/department/history.aspx (Accessed on 13 July 2019)
Industrial Engineering - A brochure by Clinton E. Woods, New York, 2010
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924105372597&view=1up&seq=5
1911
Principles of Industrial Engineering by Charles Buxton Going published.
Industrial Engineering - A brochure by Clinton E. Woods, New York, 2010
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924105372597&view=1up&seq=5
1911
Principles of Industrial Engineering by Charles Buxton Going published.
What is Industrial Engineering? Answer by C.B. Going in 1911
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1917
Emerson joined other progressive engineers in founding the Society of Industrial Engineers in 1917.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Society%20of%20industrial%20engineers
1917
Emerson joined other progressive engineers in founding the Society of Industrial Engineers in 1917.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Society%20of%20industrial%20engineers
Lilian Gilbreth mentions this society as the professional organization of industrial engineers in an JIE (AIIE) article.
1918
Industrial engineering,
a handbook of useful information for managers, engineers, superintendents, designers, draftsmen and others engaged in constructive work,
by William M. Barr
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001517204
1920
Future of Industrial Engineering, by C.E. Knoeppel, SIE,
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435017176272&view=1up&seq=3
In 1920, the ASME council approved and adopted the First Report of the Committee of Aims and Organizations with L.C. Marburg as Chairman, which included the statement: …that Industrial Engineering is a major subject for consideration by the Society and shall be placed on par with all major subjects.
1918
Industrial engineering,
a handbook of useful information for managers, engineers, superintendents, designers, draftsmen and others engaged in constructive work,
by William M. Barr
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001517204
1920
Future of Industrial Engineering, by C.E. Knoeppel, SIE,
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435017176272&view=1up&seq=3
In 1920, the ASME council approved and adopted the First Report of the Committee of Aims and Organizations with L.C. Marburg as Chairman, which included the statement: …that Industrial Engineering is a major subject for consideration by the Society and shall be placed on par with all major subjects.
Boeing changed the name of Factory Cost Accounting Department to Industrial Engineering in 1945.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23785965?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
1948
Industrial engineering survey
Barnes, Ralph Mosser, 1900-
Language(s): English
Published: [Iowa City, 1949]
Subjects: Personnel management
Physical Description: 47 p. diagrs. 28 cm.
Post Second World -
Formation of AIIE
Definition of Industrial Engineering by AIIE
Japanese Contribution to Industrial Engineering
Training Within Industry: The Foundation of Lean (Toyota Production System)
Donald Dinero, CRC Press, 13-Feb-2019 - Business & Economics - 352 pages
Training Within Industry, by Donald Dinero, explores a crucial input from USA into Japanese industry that prompted them to develop it further and become world class manufacturers by harnessing the inventive and creative energy and talent of many operators in the organization. The Training Within Industry (TWI) program was developed and implemented by the United States during World War II.
2017
Taylor - Narayana Rao Principles of Industrial Engineering
Taylor's Industrial Engineering in New Framework - Narayana Rao
Henry Towne
F.W. Taylor - Scientific Management (D.O.B. 20 March)
Frank Gilbreth - Motion Study (DOB 7 July)
Lilian Gilbreth (24 May 1878)
Harrington Emerson - Principles of Efficiency (2 August 1853)
Taylor's Industrial Engineering in New Framework - Narayana Rao
2019 Alan B. Pritsker Scholars Distinguished Lecture - James J Solberg "Rethinking IE (Again)"
Dr. James J. Solberg, Ransburg Professor of Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering (Emeritus) at Purdue University, gave the 2019 Pritsker Distinguished Lecture on "Rethinkie IE (Again)" on April 25, 2019.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cD9xMPR494
Industrial Engineering Scholars (Academic, Researching and Practicing Industrial Engineers)
Henry Towne
F.W. Taylor - Scientific Management (D.O.B. 20 March)
Frank Gilbreth - Motion Study (DOB 7 July)
Lilian Gilbreth (24 May 1878)
Harrington Emerson - Principles of Efficiency (2 August 1853)
Hugo Diemer (18 November 1870) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Diemer (See for imp. publications)
C.B Going
Henri Gantt
Alan Mogensen - Involvement of Frontline Operators in Work Simplification and Improvement (12 May 1901)
H.B. Maynard - Method Study, Operation Analysis, MTM, MoST, HandBook (18 October 1902)
R.L. Barnes - Motion Study (17 October 1900)
Marvin Mundel - Time and Motion Study
Shigeo Shingo - SMED, Poka Yoke
R.L. Barnes - Motion Study (17 October 1900)
Marvin Mundel - Time and Motion Study
Shigeo Shingo - SMED, Poka Yoke
Taiichi Ohno
David Sumanth - Productivity Management (28 January 1946, Machilipatnam)
D. Scott Sink - Productivity Management
David Sumanth - Productivity Management (28 January 1946, Machilipatnam)
D. Scott Sink - Productivity Management
Mikell P. Groover (8 September 1939) https://prabook.com/web/mikell_porter.groover/821223
Gavriel Salvendy - Handbook
Gavriel Salvendy - Handbook
Seiichi Nakajima
Yamashina - Total Industrial Engineering
Yamashina - Total Industrial Engineering
Narayana Rao, K.V.S.S. - Principles of Industrial Engineering, Functions and Focus Areas of Industrial Engineering, Machine Work Study
Important Articles I have with me in File
About AIIE - The Journal of Industrial Engineering, Vol.1, No.1, 1949
Industrial Engineering in Transition by R.T. Livingston, The JIE, Vol.1, No.2, Sep 1949.
The Changing Concept of Industrial Engineering by Ralph T. Barnes, The JIE, Vol.3, No.2, Aug 1952.
Industrial Engineering as an Occupation by Wyllys Stanton, The JIE, Vol.5, No.2, March 1954.
(https://archive.org/details/sim_journal-of-industrial-engineering_1954-03_5_2)
Industrial Engineering at the Crossroads by Robert N. Lehrer, The JIE, Vol.5, No.3, May 1954.
A Survey: Concepts and Practices in Industrial Engineering by Ralph E. Balyeat, The JIE, Vol.5, No.3, May 1954.
Ranking of 41 subjects taught in BSIE by academicians and industry executives.
The Future of Industrial Engineering As An Academic Discipline.
J.A. Buzacott
March 1984, IIE Transactions. pp. 35-43.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233140675_The_Future_of_Industrial_Engineering_As_An_Academic_Discipline (Paper uploaded by Buzacott)
Industrial Engineering in Transition by R.T. Livingston, The JIE, Vol.1, No.2, Sep 1949.
Five major classifications of IE curricula
Basic science
Basic Engineerings
Industrial Engineering
Business
Humanities or General Educational Courses
The industrial engineering subjects generally offered may be divided into four broad classes:
1. Organization and management and production,
2. Economics and Costs
3. Statistics
4. Personnel
In Organization and management and production, there is a general course which covers the whole field-usually called industrial management. Without exception however, time and motion study and method study is taught separately. There are separate courses in production control and tool engineering or production methods.
The Changing Concept of Industrial Engineering by Ralph T. Barnes, The JIE, Vol.3, No.2, Aug 1952.
In the past, the industrial engineer has been primarily concerned with increasing the productivity of the direct factory workers. However, with the increasing complexity of modern industry, particularly the larger producers of complicate products, the productivity of director labor is only one of the many areas of concern to the industrial engineer. He must broaden his interests and attack such problems as utilization of plant, equipment and materials, measurement and control of yield, efficiency and quality of product; and the analysis of all so-called non-productivity labor groups in the factory, office, and service departments.
Industrial Engineering as an Occupation by Wyllys Stanton, The JIE, Vol.5, No.2, March 1954.
What are the subjects studied by industrial engineers during their period of specialization?
Time and Motion Study
Industrial Organization
Safety Engineering
Quality Control
Accounting
Wage Incentives
Material Handling
Production Control
Industrial Management
Facility Planning
Statistics
Job Evaluation
Industrial Structures
Engineering Economy etc.
Industrial Engineering Specialization Courses - Georgia Tech.
https://www.isye.gatech.edu/academics/bachelors/industrial-engineering/curriculum/general-industrial-engineering-concentration Accessed on 28.6.2022
https://www.isye.gatech.edu/academics/bachelors/current-students/curriculum
BSIE Program
ISYE 2027 - Probability With Apps
ISYE 3030 - Basic Stat Method
ISYE 3025 - Engineering Economy
ISYE 3044 - Simulation Analy & Dsgn
ISYE 3133 - Engineering Optimization
ISYE 3232 - Stochastic Mfg&Serv Sys
ISYE 4031 - Regression/Forecasting
ISYE 4800 - Special Topics
Supply-chain Engineering Concentration
https://www.isye.gatech.edu/academics/bachelors/industrial-engineering/curriculum/supply-chain-engineering-concentration
5 subjects
ISYE 3103 - Sply Chain Mod:Logistics
Course focuses on engineering design concepts and optimization models for logistics decision making in three modules: supply chain design, planning and execution, and transportation.
ISYE 3104 - Sply Chain Mod:Manf&Ware
Design and operation of manufacturing and warehousing facilities.
ISYE 4803 Adv Manufacturing
ISYE 4803 Facility Layout
1 out of 3
ISYE 4111 - Adv Supply Chain Logists
ISYE 4803 - Special Topics
Courses in special topics of timely interest to the profession, conducted by resident or visiting faculty.
ISYE 4803 - Special Topics
Industrial Engineering at the Crossroads by Robert N. Lehrer, The JIE, Vol.5, No.3, May 1954.
We failed in these areas
1. Human Engineering
2. Operations Research
3. Humanized Engineering
4. Quality Control
5. Procedure and System Analysis
6. Electronics for Numerical Analysis and Control
7. Automation
Why industrial engineers are failing?
1. Preoccupation with management as a goal.
2. Preoccupation with management engineering rather than engineering for management
3. Rule of thumb is adequate
4. Not learning behavioral management adequately
5. Let's get away from engineering approach
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