Industrial Engineering

The Industrial Engineering is concerned with the design, improvement, and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, money, equipment, and energy [Merriam-Webster dictionary]. Following this definition, the IE (Industrial Engineer) is a person who develops work methods, makes innovations on the equipment’s, defines procedures, performs operator trainings, follows the KPI’s, controls the manufacturing, is in charge with the suppliers, finds the solutions and … could be continued. Judging with some experience behind, exist companies where the above listing of the IE tasks isn’t it an exaggeration.

Sales, market share, profit margin are the well known and frequently used indicators by the management. What is common ? All of them are out of control of the management, are external indicators.

The question is the title of an article by Prasanta Sarkar from his valuable OCS blog. Origin of the question is a comment on a recent article on OCS.