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Industrial engineering is responsible for optimizing complex systems by integrating resources to improve efficiency and productivity; its fundamental principles include process optimization, operations management, and systems engineering to promote continuous improvement; industrial engineers use resources such as raw materials, machinery, capital, organization, and knowledge.
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INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS
What is industrial engineering?
Industrial engineering is a discipline that focuses on optimizing systems.
complexes, integrating human, material, financial resources and information
to improve efficiency and productivity in various industries, organizations
and companies.
Fundamental principles:
Process optimization: Seeks to improve the efficiency of systems
productive through the identification and elimination of waste,
resource optimization and reduction of production times.
Operations management: Includes planning, scheduling, and control
from production operations to maximize resource utilization
and meet the organization's objectives.
Systems engineering: Analyzes and designs complex systems, taking into account
it accounts for the interaction between its components and their environment, to improve its
global functioning.
Continuous improvement: Promotes the constant pursuit of improvements in
processes and systems, through feedback, innovation and
organizational learning.
Work areas where one can perform include:
Design of global approach industrial systems and processes
Organizational processes of large industries
Systemic resolution of organizational problems
Evaluation of production systems, safety, hygiene, and health
Manufacturing process optimization
Management of productive and service processes
Common departments where an industrial engineer is needed:
Research and Development
Production planning
Technical Department
Quality Department
Human resources
Department of Communication
Logistics
Industrial engineers must use the different resources provided to them by the
company, for example:
Raw materials: all those materials that will allow the
physical or chemical transformation
Machinery: equipment that can produce a physical or chemical change.
Capital: they are the economic means that will allow action
Organization: how resources will be coordinated to achieve the objective
Knowledge: it is the set of understandings that allow for action.
company.
Design of quality control and management processes
Example of quality control
A detailed analysis of the production processes is carried out to
identify areas for improvement and establish quality objectives. A team is designated
of work responsible for implementing quality control measures, such as the
inspection of raw materials, staff training and monitoring of
performance indicators. As a result, the company manages to reduce
significantly reducing the defect rate in their products, improving satisfaction
of the client and increasing their competitiveness in the market.
Conclusion
The industrial engineer is responsible for improving business productivity.
applying scientific and technological knowledge; as experts in efficiency and
performance should also carry out the financial and human scope.
This is considered one of the most complex careers as it studies a great
a variety of subjects throughout their university training with the aim of
improve the production of products and different types logically.
It is essential for industrial engineers to understand the fundamentals and
applications of this discipline to face the challenges and opportunities in the
current business environment.