36-601: [REDACTED] Look up ie , -ie , i.e. , or IE in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ie , ie , IE or I/E may refer to: Arts and entertainment [ edit ] Iced Earth , a band from Florida, US Improv Everywhere , a comedy group Into Eternity (band) , a band from Canada Individual events (speech) , events centred around public speaking Businesses and organizations [ edit ] Iarnród Éireann , or Irish Rail Identity Evropa ,
72-441: A Dutch village Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Ie . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ie&oldid=1231898891 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
108-641: A basic building block of wireless messages in a cellular network Ionization energy , the energy required to strip an atom or molecule of an electron Other uses [ edit ] Ie , the classical Japanese family system Ie , a shirt in traditional Romanian dress See also [ edit ] " i before e except after c ", a spelling guideline of the English language Indo-European (disambiguation) , as in: Indo-European languages Proto-Indo-Europeans , Indo-European people Indo-European studies Ee, Dongeradeel , (West Frisian Ie ),
144-430: A brand of mouse by Microsoft Other uses in science and technology [ edit ] Inclusion/exclusion criteria, in clinical trials Industrial ecology , the study of sustainable industrial systems Industrial engineering , an engineering discipline Information engineering , an engineering discipline Infective endocarditis , a form of endocarditis caused by infectious agents Information Element ,
180-439: A broad math and science foundation spanning chemistry , physics , mechanics (i.e., statics, kinematics, and dynamics), materials science , computer science , electronics/circuits, engineering design , and the standard range of engineering mathematics (i.e., calculus , linear algebra , differential equations , statistics ). For any engineering undergraduate program to be accredited, regardless of concentration, it must cover
216-432: A process, system, or organization operates. In fact, the industrial in industrial engineering means the industry in its broadest sense. People have changed the term industrial to broader terms such as industrial and manufacturing engineering , industrial and systems engineering , industrial engineering and operations research , industrial engineering and management . Industrial engineering has many sub-disciplines,
252-458: A separate program in 1909 through the efforts of Hugo Diemer . The first doctoral degree in industrial engineering was awarded in 1933 by Cornell University . In 1912, Henry Laurence Gantt developed the Gantt chart , which outlines actions the organization along with their relationships. This chart opens later form familiar to us today by Wallace Clark . With the development of assembly lines ,
288-800: A white supremacist group in the United States Ie (trading houses) , a Japanese cottage industry IE Business School , formerly Instituto de Empresa, a business school in Spain Institut Eksekutif , an educational institution in Malaysia Institute for Energy , of the European Union Instituto Escuela (disambiguation) , various entities Solomon Airlines (IATA airline designator) Language [ edit ] id est ( i.e. ), Latin for "that is" or "in other words" ie (digraph) Indian English ,
324-495: 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
360-413: Is also a significant milestone in the field. Engineering is traditionally decompositional. To understand the whole of something, it is first broken down into its parts. One masters the parts, then puts them back together to create a better understanding of how to master the whole. The approach of industrial and systems engineering (ISE) is opposite; any one part cannot be understood without the context of
396-415: Is central to manufacturing operations. Industrial engineers use specialized knowledge and skills in the mathematical, physical , and social sciences , together with engineering analysis and design principles and methods, to specify, predict, and evaluate the results obtained from systems and processes. Several industrial engineering principles are followed in the manufacturing industry to ensure
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#1733086049490432-580: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages ie">ie The requested page title contains unsupported characters : ">". Return to Main Page . 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 engineering
468-432: Is different in that it is based on discrete variable math, whereas all other engineering is based on continuous variable math. We emphasize the use of linear algebra and difference equations, as opposed to the use of differential equations which are so prevalent in other engineering disciplines. This emphasis becomes evident in optimization of production systems in which we are sequencing orders, scheduling batches, determining
504-434: Is generally credited as being the father of the industrial engineering discipline. He earned a degree in mechanical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and earned several patents from his inventions. His books, Shop Management and The Principles of Scientific Management , which were published in the early 1900s, were the beginning of industrial engineering. Improvements in work efficiency under his methods
540-478: Is the branch of Engineering most closely related to human resources in that we apply social skills to work with all types of employees, from engineers to salespeople to top management. One of the main focuses of an Industrial Engineer is to improve the working environments of people – not to change the worker, but to change the workplace." "All engineers, including Industrial Engineers, take mathematics through calculus and differential equations. Industrial Engineering
576-494: 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 application of concepts such as cost control systems to reduce waste and increase productivity and the institution of skills training for craftsmen. Charles Babbage became associated with industrial engineering because of
612-504: The Scottish island of Iona (or Ì Chaluim Chille ) Ie, Noardeast-Fryslân , Netherlands Science and technology [ edit ] Computing [ edit ] Internet Explorer , a web browser by Microsoft .ie , Internet top-level domain for Ireland Industrial Ethernet , a version of Ethernet Infinity Engine , a video game engine Information extraction , a type of information retrieval IntelliMouse Explorer,
648-526: The bachelor, masters, and doctoral level. In the United States, the undergraduate degree earned is either a bachelor of science (B.S.) or a bachelor of science and engineering (B.S.E.) in industrial engineering (IE). In South Africa , the undergraduate degree is a bachelor of engineering (BEng). Variations of the title include Industrial & Operations Engineering (IOE), and Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISE or ISyE). The typical curriculum includes
684-547: 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. Eli Whitney and Simeon North proved
720-772: The development of decision support systems in supply such as material requirements planning (MRP), one can emphasize the timing issue (inventory, production, compounding, transportation, etc.) of industrial organization. Israeli scientist Dr. Jacob Rubinovitz installed the CMMS program developed in IAI and Control-Data (Israel) in 1976 in South Africa and worldwide. In the 1970s, with the penetration of Japanese management theories such as Kaizen and Kanban , Japan realized very high levels of quality and productivity. These theories improved issues of quality, delivery time, and flexibility. Companies in
756-758: The effective flow of systems, processes, and operations. These include: These principles allow the creation of new systems , processes or situations for the useful coordination of labor , materials and machines and also improve the quality and productivity of systems, physical or social. Depending on the subspecialties involved, industrial engineering may also overlap with, operations research , systems engineering , manufacturing engineering , production engineering , supply chain engineering , management science , engineering management , financial engineering , ergonomics or human factors engineering , safety engineering , logistics engineering , quality engineering or other related capabilities or fields. There
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#1733086049490792-408: The elements of human motion into 18 basic elements called therbligs . This development permitted analysts to design jobs without knowledge of the time required to do a job. These developments were the beginning of a much broader field known as human factors or ergonomics . In 1908, the first course on industrial engineering was offered as an elective at Pennsylvania State University , which became
828-399: The factory of Henry Ford (1913) accounted for a significant leap forward in the field. Ford reduced the assembly time of a car from more than 700 hours to 1.5 hours. In addition, he was a pioneer of the economy of the capitalist welfare ("welfare capitalism") and the flag of providing financial incentives for employees to increase productivity. In 1927, the then Technische Hochschule Berlin
864-486: The feasibility of the notion of interchangeable parts in the manufacture of muskets and pistols for the US Government. Under this system, individual parts were mass-produced to tolerances to enable their use in any finished product. The result was a significant reduction in the need for skill from specialized workers, which eventually led to the industrial environment to be studied later. Frederick Taylor (1856–1915)
900-513: The first time. The concept of the production system had its genesis in the factories created by these innovations. It has also been suggested that perhaps Leonardo da Vinci was the first industrial engineer because there is evidence that he applied science to the analysis of human work by examining the rate at which a man could shovel dirt around the year 1500. Others also state that the industrial engineering profession grew from Charles Babbage’s study of factory operations and specifically his work on
936-769: The form of English spoken in the Republic of India International English , a global English language -ie , an English diminutive suffix Ye (Cyrillic) , also spelled Ie, a Cyrillic letter that looks exactly like the Latin E Ukrainian Ye , also spelled Ie, the Cyrillic letter Є Interlingue , originally the Occidental language (ISO 639-1 code IE) Indo-European language family Places [ edit ] Republic of Ireland , by ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code Inland Empire , California, US Ie, Okinawa , Japan Old Irish name for
972-507: The interaction of human beings with machines, materials, information, procedures and environments in such developments and in designing a technological system. Industrial engineering degrees accredited within any member country of the Washington Accord enjoy equal accreditation within all other signatory countries, thus allowing engineers from one country to practice engineering professionally in any other. Universities offer degrees at
1008-416: The manufacture of straight pins in 1832 . However, it has been generally argued that these early efforts, while valuable, were merely observational and did not attempt to engineer the jobs studied or increase overall output. 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
1044-988: The most common of which are listed below. Although there are industrial engineers who focus exclusively on one of these sub-disciplines, many deals with a combination of them such as supply chain and logistics, and facilities and energy management. Methods engineering Facilities engineering & energy management Financial engineering Energy engineering Human factors & safety engineering Information systems engineering & management Manufacturing engineering Operations engineering & management Operations research & optimization Policy planning Production engineering Quality & reliability engineering Supply chain management & logistics Systems engineering & analysis Systems simulation Related disciplines Organization development & change management Behavioral economics Industrial engineers study
1080-412: The number of materials handling units, arranging factory layouts, finding sequences of motions, etc. As, Industrial Engineers, we deal almost exclusively with systems of discrete components." While originally applied to manufacturing , the use of industrial in industrial engineering can be somewhat misleading, since it has grown to encompass any methodical or quantitative approach to optimizing how
1116-624: The recovery of Japan after the war. The American Institute of Industrial Engineering was formed in 1948. The early work by F. W. Taylor and the Gilbreths was documented in papers presented to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers as interest grew from merely improving machine performance to the performance of the overall manufacturing process, most notably starting with the presentation by Henry R. Towne (1844–1924) of his paper The Engineer as An Economist (1886). From 1960 to 1975, with
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1152-509: The west realized the great impact of Kaizen and started implementing their own continuous improvement programs. W. Edwards Deming made significant contributions in the minimization of variance starting in the 1950s and continuing to the end of his life. In the 1990s, following the global industry globalization process, the emphasis was on supply chain management and customer-oriented business process design. The theory of constraints , developed by Israeli scientist Eliyahu M. Goldratt (1985),
1188-868: The whole system. Changes in one part of the system affect the entire system, and the role of a single part is to better serve the whole system. Also, industrial engineering considers the human factor and its relation to the technical aspect of the situation and all of the other factors that influence the entire situation, while other engineering disciplines focus on the design of inanimate objects. "Industrial Engineers integrate combinations of people, information, materials, and equipment that produce innovative and efficient organizations. In addition to manufacturing, Industrial Engineers work and consult in every industry, including hospitals, communications, e-commerce, entertainment, government, finance, food, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, sports, insurance, sales, accounting, banking, travel, and transportation." "Industrial Engineering
1224-405: Was based on improving work methods, developing of work standards, and reduction in time required to carry out the work. With an abiding faith in the scientific method, Taylor did many experiments in machine shop work on machines as well as men. Taylor developed "time study" to measure time taken for various elements of a task and then used the study observations to reduce the time further. Time study
1260-406: Was done for the improved method once again to provide time standards which are accurate for planning manual tasks and also for providing incentives. The husband-and-wife team of Frank Gilbreth (1868–1924) and Lillian Gilbreth (1878–1972) was the other cornerstone of the industrial engineering movement whose work is housed at Purdue University School of Industrial Engineering. They categorized
1296-399: Was the first German university to introduce the degree. The course of studies developed by Willi Prion was then still called Business and Technology and was intended to provide descendants of industrialists with an adequate education. Comprehensive quality management system ( Total quality management or TQM) developed in the forties was gaining momentum after World War II and was part of
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