Industrial Engineering
Industrial engineering refers to a work area where it comes to the design, planning and optimization of processes of services in the broadest sense with engineering methods. In the reaction, it always is work design. Accordingly, the associated courses have course content from both the engineering and the management theory.
Term
The roots of industrial engineering date back to the Scientific Management ( Scientific Management ) by Frederick Winslow Taylor.
The concept of Industrial Engineering has been held since the mid-sixties in Germany by the translation of the Industrial Engineering Handbook by Maynard use. Meanwhile, the Industrial Engineering in the German language has established itself as an independent term, and thus solves its original German word " engineering work " from. So far, however, there is a single definition either in German or in the English language.
Based on an analysis of numerous national and international descriptions characterizes Sascha Stowasser the Industrial Engineering as follows:
- The Industrial Engineering aims at high productivity of management, core and support processes of the company.
- Defined the Industrial Engineering and developed target states and standards of processes.
- Here, the Industrial Engineering for a high transparency makes in order to detect deviations from the standard and take effective countermeasures.
- The Industrial Engineering methodology and tools used for this purpose and uses labor, engineering and business management skills and fundamentals.
While most engineering sciences are focused on very specific application areas, that of the Industrial Engineers is wide and traceable in almost every industry. For example, part of the shortening of the queues in an amusement park, the efficient use of an operating room, the design of a logistics system - Supply chain management - but also easy rationalization in the production of automobiles to area of responsibility. Typically in industrial engineering is the use of computer simulations, especially event-driven process chains for system analysis and system evaluation.
Meanwhile, the activity spectrum of industrial engineering is significantly increased and in addition to the traditional tasks of the work plan also includes other task areas such as work scheduling, time management, pay design, planning, preparation, material planning, resource scheduling and planning methods. In the course of further development of the modern Industrial Engineering is responsible for the productivity development system consisting of human, material and machine. The Industrial Engineering designed the current value of the product planning, production planning / process design to production optimization. These belong together and drive holistic productivity developments, taking into account human aspects. Furthermore ensures the Industrial engineering for the necessary transparency and provides data for strategic planning of management, for example in the context of productivity management.
In all the efforts of Industrial Engineering, the primary objective is to improve productivity and thus ensure the competitiveness of the enterprise applies.
Training and further education
In Germany offered courses entitled Industrial Engineering are mostly with an English title provided industrial engineering degree programs that actually more of a half a degree in economics - including economics and finance - and half a degree in engineering, usually contain from mechanical engineering. The primary topics of industrial engineering sometimes omitted entirely in these courses. Master's degree programs that are not originated from the tradition of industrial engineering, but is originally based on the tasks of the Industrial Engineer, can be found at universities in Aachen, Berlin, Kiel and Lübeck, where one studies in Berlin part-time distance learning and in Aachen the width of the operational area so far into account, that can also enroll graduates economic studies in the local Master's program who have specific study areas occupied.
The course Production Technology Master of Science at the University of Bremen has a specialization in " Industrial Engineering", which is offered in cooperation with the REFA Association.
In collaboration with the University of Louisville Hamburger Fern-Hochschule offers doctoral studies there.
The training in the field of Industrial Engineering is dedicated to primarily and traditionally the REFA Association, which so far contributed to the development, among other account as it its traditional journal " REFA news " in " Industrial Engineering" renamed with issue 1 (2008) - simultaneously with a modernization of the editorial concept. Previously was first published in 1 (2007), the " European Journal of Industrial Engineering" ( EJIE ).
The MTM Association has begun its MTM - specific training to supplement other topics of industrial engineering, so MTM users also get a broader knowledge base in addition to specific knowledge of methods.
Typical course content
Typical fields of study for the Industrial Engineer to be considered:
- Ergonomics Ergonomics particularly
- Applied Statistics
- Workplace design
- Computer - aided manufacturing (CAM )
- Factory Planning
- Logistics
- Materials Management
- Operations Research
- Human Resource Management
- Production Management
- Production Planning and Control (PPC and MES)
- Production systems
- Rationalization methods
- Simulation
- Stochastic Models
- Supply chain management
- Time and motion studies
- Controlling
- Management accounting
- Investment and Financing
- Strategic planning, management and coordination
- Engineering Mechanics
- Thermodynamics
- Fluid dynamics
- Business Administration
Historical development
In the following chronology of major development work and publications are seen: