INTRODUCTION TO INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING:
Industrial Engineering may be defined as engineering approach to the detailed analysis of the use and cost of resources such as men, material, money, machinery and equipment of an organization. The industrial engineer carries out such analysis in order to achieve the objectives like enough efficiency, productivity and profits.
before 1940 industrial engineering was mainly applied to manufacturing industries for improving methods of production to develop work standard, to formulate production control and wage policies. But afterwards the use of industrial engineering spread to non-manufacturing activities such as construction transportation, farm and airline operations and maintenance, public utilities, government and military operations. Today industrial engineering finds major applications in manufacturing plants and industries. In an industry besides the production, other groups utilizing engineering concepts are Marketing, Finance, Purchasing etc.
The industrial engineering came into working by following some of the studies conducted at the work place they are as follows:
WORK STUDY
The object of work study is to determine the best method of performing east operation and to eliminate wastage so that protection increases with less fatigue. The work study is also used in determining the standard time, that a qualified worker should take to perform the operation when working at a normal pace one study investigates the work done in an organization and it aims at finding the best and most efficient way of using available resources men, material, money and money and machinery. Every organization tries to achieve best quality production in the minimum possible time. One part of work study known as "Method Study" or "Work Simplification" aims at finding the best possible manufacturing procedure which involves least time and does not cause fatigue to the workers.
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