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#IISE75 (1948 - 2023) - 75 Productive Years of IISE (Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers) - IISE History

 

Industrial Engineering Definition


Industrial Engineering is System Efficiency Engineering - Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.

Engineers create things. Industrial Engineers make them Better. Industrial engineers improve products and processes that produce products.

Efficiency is productivity. Efficiency is less cost, less resource consumption. Efficiency is employee satisfaction. Efficiency is more profit due to less cost. Efficiency is comfort. Efficiency is health. Efficiency is safety.


Principles of Industrial Engineering - IISE 2017 Pittsburgh Conference Presentation

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#IISE75 (1948 - 2023) - 75  Productive Years of IISE (Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers) 

1948

Wyllys Stanton. Inside his Columbus, Ohio home on Jan. 12, 1948 (75 years ago), he and a dozen others met to discuss “the problems, methods and potentialities of a new organization specializing in the problems and interests of industrial engineers.”
That’s a direct quote from a blurb Stanton himself penned. It’s included in “Origins of Industrial Engineering: The Early Years of a Profession,” by Howard P. Emerson and Douglas C.E. Naehring.
The fateful discussion inside Stanton’s home included talks on prospective membership requirements, ways such an organization could be useful, scopes of activities and plans for the path ahead.
“There seemed to be no question in the founders' minds of the desirability of such an organization,” Stanton wrote. “They believed that industrial engineering was an important branch of engineering and just as much in need of an organization devoted to its exclusive representation as civil, mechanical, or electrical engineers.”
Invites were sent out to all known industrial engineers in the Columbus area to attend the American Institute of Industrial Engineers’ first-ever meeting. The name would later change multiple times to reflect the organization’s international presence as well as the scope of professions included in what is now the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers. For more: iise.org/75



1949

Excerpts from President's Message in The Journal of Industrial Engineering, June 1949, Vol 1. Issue 1.

One Year’s Growth 


Our first anniversary which fell on January 12th 1949 furnished a good time for looking backward 
on the progress made thus far and ahead on our hopes and plans for the years to come. 

We have grown from the little group of twelve that voted to start a society and to invite others 
of like interest to join with them until we now have approximately 500 Junior and Senior mem- 
bers and about 750 members in student chapters. We have received favorable attention from many 
Industrial Engineering faculties. We have received the endorsement of Mr. Alexander Van Praag, President of the National Society of Professional Engineers. Local chapters have been formed. 

Looking forward, the most encouraging thing is that we have a definite program. This pro- 
gram includes, launching of the Journal of Industrial Engineering to provide the same unifying 
force for our branch of the profession as has been so long enjoyed by the ‘‘founder societies’’ 
and other professional technical groups through their respective publications.  We plan to step up 
the tempo of our publicity work to the end that the entire industrial public shall know more of 
the work of the Industrial Engineer, and shall learn to recognize him as a true professional 
man, rather than confuse him with mere tech- nicians or ordinary business operators. We 
also plan to conduct research in the field of Professional Registration of Industrial En- 
gineers by the 48 states, and concerning the types of positions held by members of our pro- 
fession. There are of course a number of other points in our forward planning such as that of 
contacting every eligible Industrial Engineer that can be located to invite him to join with us, 
but these points will serve to illustrate the program. 




I sincerely hope that all members will con- tinue to view the work of our Institute as an 
opportunity for mutual service. I feel sure that most of you joined in full realization of the fact 
that we are not yet big, we do not speak with a powerful voice in the affairs of the great en- 
gineering fraternity, but we have the opportunity of doing so one day. Whether or not we will do 
so depends upon each individual member. 


Dwight D. Gardner 

The Journal of Industrial Engineering  1949-06: Vol 1 Iss 1

1954

The Journal of Industrial Engineering  1954-11: Vol 5 Iss 6

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, THE MEDIA OF MANAGEMENT CONTROL 
By George A. Jaggers 

Industrial Engineering, The Media Of Management Control 


By GEORGE A. JAGGERS 


President, Monarch Manufacturing Company, Fort Worth, Texas 

Prior  to 1910 problems of Industrial Engineering were discussed only in The 
American Society of Mechanical Engi- neers. It was before that society that 
the papers of Taylor, Gilbreth and Gantt were read. In 1910, several members of 
the Mechanical Engineering Society began to meet separately for the discussion 
of management problems. The group in- cluded Gilbreth, Barth, Cooke and Hath- 
away. In 1912, out of this society, the Society to Promote the Science of Man- 
agement was formally organized. The membership of the society increased to 
more than a hundred by 1917.

During World War I, the name was changed to the Taylor Society, and in 1936 the Tay- 
lor Society amalgamated with the So- ciety for Industrial Engineers to form the Society for the Advancement of Management. This group flourished and still meets regularly to review detailed 
problems in management. And finally, as recently as 1948 your organization, the American Institute of Industrial En- gineers was founded. 


 The Dictionary of Occupational Titles defines an industrial engineer as follows: 

A classification title for engineers who supervise production departments of manu- facturing plants, lay out machinery and apparatus and determine flow of work for most efficient production, conduct and_ in- terpret time-and-motion studies, devise means and set up programs to curb industrial acci- 
dents and fires, set up personnel policies and procedures and evaluate jobs and devise and 
install accounting and inventory-control sys- tems. The definition adds: May specialize in 
such fields as setting up production cost records and control systems, developing jigs 
and fixtures, training production personnel, and wage administration. The definition fur- 
ther adds: The following jobs are typical of those classified under this title: efficiency 
engineer, factory lay-out-man, methods engi-neer, production engineer II, safety engineer, 
time-study engineer, management engineer. This list of subtitles, all directly or 
indirectly related to the Industrial Engi- neering field, is at best, confusing.





I be- lieve that the Industrial Engineer’s prin- cipal functions are threefold, and I offer 
for your consideration a brief, simple description of these three functions. 

First, the competent Industrial Engi neer is an analyst. He is trained and dis- ciplined in the objective study of known or projected situations for the purpose of properly identifying the various fac- 
tors which may be involved, and _ to separate the constituent elements in each factor so that they may be considered separately, or in relation to the whole. 

Secondly, he is a planner. The facts, ascertained through analysis and _ pro- perly assembled, tend to point the way for proper planning to attain a desired result. The analyst, therefore, is the 
first to visualize the plan necessary for corrective measures, or the plan most likely to assure success of a given proj- ect. 

And thirdly, he is a controller in the sense that he well knows that any plan must incorporate features of comparison and verification to measure progress and results, and he is well informed as to 
the most efficient methods which may be employed. 

These terms—analyst, planner, con- troller—are familiar to top management, and indicate to them a pattern of work to be performed for which they recog- nize a need. Likewise, the terms are un- 
derstandable to the small business man who might be interested in engaging the services of an Industrial Engineer, if there were a clear understanding of the services to be rendered.

 The Industrial Engineer should specialize in that area of management having to do with the 
design and manufacture of product. This would encompass all of the ramifications both directly and indirectly associated with the production of product of stan- dard quality and cost; whereas the man- 
agement engineer should specialize in that area of management involving sales, marketing, finance, policies, organization, and problems in reorganization and mer- gers. Neither of these definitions sug- 
gests imposed limitations, but represent logical deductions I have made as a re- sult of having been associated with both branches of the profession. 

2023

Our process improvement knowledge applied to any workplace is essential to growth and efficient operations that can save lives and improve bottom lines. - Don Greene, Fellow and CEO of IISE.
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