C.B. Going developed the concept of industrial engineering through various articles, lectures and a published book in 1911.
Industrial Engineering - The Concept - Developed by Going in 1911
What is industrial engineering?
Industrial engineering is the applied science of management. It directs the efficient conduct of manufacturing, construction, transportation, or even commercial enterprises of any undertaking, indeed, in which human labor is directed to accomplishing any kind of work.
Emphasis: It directs the efficient conduct of manufacturing, construction, transportation and other areas of engineering related work.
It is of very recent origin. It is only just emerging from the formative period. Its elements have been proposed during the past one or two decades. The conditions that have brought into being this new applied science, this new branch of engineering, grew out of the rise and enormous expansion of the manufacturing system.
Emphasis: Elements of Industrial Engineering - The best way of accomplishing elements of operations/processes using machines and men. Many elements are common among operations/processes. Industrial engineering has to measure and develop the best way of doing a work element based on various criteria. Time and cost are two important measures.
Industrial engineering has drawn upon mechanical engineering, upon economics, sociology, psychology, philosophy, accountancy, to fuse from these older sciences a distinct body of science of its own. It provides guidelines or direction to the work of operatives, using the equipment provided by the engineer, machinery builder, and architect.
The cycle of operations which the industrial engineer directs starts with money which is converted into raw materials and labor (machine and man); raw materials and labor are converted into finished product or services of some kind; finished product, or service, is converted back into money. The difference between the first money and the last money is (in a very broad sense) the gross profit of the operation. The starting level (that is, the cost of raw materials and labor) and the final level (the price obtainable for finished product) these two levels are generally fixed by competition and market conditions. Profit of the operating cycle varies with the volume passing from level, to level. Higher volumes lead to greater profits. But with the efficiency of the conversions between these levels also determines the profits. In the case of a hydroelectric power-plant, there are conversion losses like hydraulic, mechanical and electrical. In industrial enterprises the conversion losses are in commercial, manufacturing, administrative and human operations. It is with the efficiency of these latter conversions that industrial engineering is concerned.
Emphasis: Industrial engineering is concerned with technical losses and losses due to human operations (manufacturing and human operations).
The central purpose of industrial engineer is efficient and economical production. He is concerned not only with the direction of the great sources of power in nature, but with the direction of these forces as exerted by machinery, working upon materials, and operated by men. It is the inclusion of the economic and the human elements especially that differentiates industrial engineering from the older established branches of the profession. To put it in another way : The work of the industrial engineer not only covers technical counsel and superintendence of the technical elements of large enterprises, but extends also over the management of men and the definition and direction of policies in fields that the financial or commercial man has always considered exclusively his own.
Emphasis: The central purpose of industrial engineer is efficient and economical production. He has to do productivity engineering and productivity management based on productivity science.
New Writing Project
Industrial Engineering: Productivity Improvement of Systems and Processes - Book by Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2023/04/industrial-engineering-productivity.html
Ud. 2.4.2023
Pub 14.3.2023
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