Industrial engineering

Industrial engineering is an engineering profession that is concerned with the optimization of

complex processes, systems, or organizations by developing, improving and implementing
integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information and equipment.
Industrial engineers use specialized knowledge and skills in the mathematical, physical and social
sciences, together with the principles and methods of engineering analysis and design, to specify,
predict, and evaluate the results obtained from systems and processes.[1] From these results, they
are able to create new systems, processes or situations for the useful coordination
of labour, materials and machines and also improve the quality and productivity of systems, physical
or social.[2][3] Depending on the sub-specialties involved, industrial engineering may also overlap
with, operations research, systems engineering, manufacturing engineering, production
engineering, supply chain engineering, management science, management engineering, financial
engineering, ergonomics or human factors engineering, safety engineering, logistics engineering or
others, depending on the viewpoint or motives of the user.

rigins[edit]
Industrial Engineering[edit]
There is a general consensus among historians that the roots of the industrial engineering
profession date back to the Industrial Revolution. The technologies that helped mechanize traditional
manual operations in the textile industry including the flying shuttle, the spinning jenny, and perhaps
most importantly the steam engine generated economies of scale that made mass production in
centralized locations attractive for the first time. The concept of the production system had its
genesis in the factories created by these innovations.[4]
Specialization of labor[edit]

Watt's steam engine (Technical University of Madrid)

Adam Smith's concepts of Division of Labour and the "Invisible Hand" of capitalism introduced in his
treatise "The Wealth of Nations" motivated many of the technological innovators of the Industrial
revolution to establish and implement factory systems. The efforts of James Watt and Matthew
Boulton led to the first integrated machine manufacturing facility in the world, including the
implementation of concepts such as cost control systems to reduce waste and increase productivity
and the institution of skills training for craftsmen.[4]
Charles Babbage became associated with Industrial engineering because of the concepts he
introduced in his book "On the Economy of Machinery and Manufacturers" which he wrote as a
result of his visits to factories in England and the United States in the early 1800s. The book includes
subjects such as the time required to perform a specific task, the effects of subdividing tasks into
smaller and less detailed elements, and the advantages to be gained from repetitive tasks.[4]