Production Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Manufacturing Systems

Engineering are closely related disciplines.

Production / Industrial Engineering are pretty much the same

disciplines. The areas of study include production systems (batch / mass /
etc.), production planning and management, economics of production
systems, optimization and simulation techniques, etc. The supporting core
engineering disciplines like engineering design, machine tools, production
technology, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, strength of materials, material
science, are all taught as well.

Manufacturing Systems Engineering is more often a graduate level

course rather than an undergraduate course which focuses on production
systems and practices, and their mathematical modeling. There is far less
emphasis on the supporting engineering disciplines and far more focus on
understanding the determinants of efficient manufacturing in different modes
of production. In addition, manufacturing processes are studied in detail -
from CNC's and other precision machinery, to nanotechnology.

Comparison on behalf of Study Departments

 Production engineering is a graduate and post graduate department both

but manufacturing is a branch of mechanical engineering and generally a
post-graduate department of study.
 Manufacturing engineering is purely a sub branch of mechanical
engineering but in production engineering you will not only study about
manufacturing but also about few subjects of industrial engineering also.
 Manufacturing engineering talks about various process of manufacturing an
object but production engineering talks about all aspects of production
from manufacturing to planning to the entire setup and arrangement of
everything.