Jan. 12, 1948 Idea of AIIE was discussed in a meeting. AIIE is now IISE.
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. Productivity improvement is the focus of industrial engineers. Productivity and efficiency have same meanings, but efficiency is a more broad concept. Productivity is generally expressed as output for a unit of input. The input can be a single input like a machine, or a combination of inputs.
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. Efficiency is thus a broader concept.
#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.”
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