About Industrial Engineer Profile

As stated by the Institute of Industrial Engineers professional society, Industrial engineering is about choices. Other engineering disciplines apply skills to very specific areas. IE gives practitioners the opportunity to work in a variety of businesses.

Many practitioners say that an industrial engineering education offers the best of both worlds: an education in both engineering and business. The most distinctive aspect of industrial engineering is the flexibility it offers. Whether it’s shortening a rollercoaster line, streamlining an operating room, distributing products worldwide, or manufacturing superior automobiles, all these challenges share the common goal of saving company’s money and increasing efficiencies. As companies adopt management philosophies of continuous productivity and quality improvement to survive in the increasingly competitive world market, the need for industrial engineers is growing. Why? Industrial engineers are the only engineering professionals trained specifically to be productivity and quality improvement specialists. 

Industrial Engineers figure out how to do things better. They engineer processes and systems that improve quality and productivity. They work to eliminate waste of time, money, materials, energy, and other commodities. This is why many industrial engineers end up being promoted into management positions.

Many people are misled by the term industrial engineer. It’s not just about manufacturing. It also encompasses service industries, with many IEs employed in entertainment industries, shipping and logistics businesses, and health care organizations.

IEs make processes better in the following ways:

• More efficient and more profitable business practices
• Better customer service and product quality
• Improved efficiency
• Increased ability to do more with less
• Making work safer, faster, easier, and more rewarding
• Helping companies produce more products quickly
• Making the world safer through better designed products
• Reducing costs associated with new technologies

 

The total employment of Industrial engineers (including heath and safety) had been predicted to increase almost as fat as the other occupations till and through 2012. Openings will also be crated in case of transfer and retirements of existing engineers. The hiring of industrial engineers is projected to increase as fast as other average occupations while that of health and safety engineers, more slowly.

Firms which focus on lowering costs and increasing efficiency and productivity would employ industrial, health and safety engineers because these engineers work on producing goods as efficiently and safely as is possible. An increasing need for health and safety engineers is also felt due to the increasing concern of health and safety regulations and rules in and out of the work place.