WHY YOU SHOULD HIRE AN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER?

"Industrial engineers determine the most effective ways to use the basic factors of production—people, machines, materials, information, and energy—to make a product or provide a service"

                                                           Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010

To survive in today’s highly competitive world, industries and business organisations need managers and decision-makers who can apply mathematical concepts and scientific management techniques to resolve technical issues in a cost-effective way. The industrial engineering field has extensively been documented as a major source of management talent. An industrial engineer along with understanding these problems, is able to devise and carry out methods to solve them.  

How They Do IT?

Industrial engineers focus on increasing quality and productivity through:

• The management of people
• Methods of business organization, and
• Technology. 

To increase efficiency and effectiveness, industrial engineers carefully study the requirements of product/service and then to meet those requirements they design manufacturing and information systems with the help of mathematical methods and models. 
They develop control systems such as management control systems to support financial planning and cost analysis, and production planning and control systems to coordinate activities and ensure quality of product. 
They deal with developing or improving the physical distribution systems to provide goods and services to final destinations. They also determine the most efficient plant locations, develop wage and salary administration systems and job evaluation programs. 

They Are Versatile..

Industrial engineers increase efficiency keeping in mind the cost control factors. therefore they are also useful for most industries including nonprofits. 
They are not as specialized as other engineers, hence they are employed in a wide range of other industries, including  hospitals, consulting and engineering services, and research & development firms. 

They are versatile because their expertise focuses on reducing internal costs, making their work valuable for many industries. For example, growth in healthcare and finding ways to deliver best care will create demand for industrial engineers. 

Types of Versatile Problems They Can Solve..

• They can find out the optimum inventory levels to be kept in the warehouse, or in the super store

• They can design automated material handling systems for the movement of parts in a factory such as AGV.

• They can integrate information and control between manufacturing systems, automated guided vehicles, automated warehouse facilities, and management personnel by designing computer-integrated manufacturing systems and decision support systems.

• They can provide you optimal scheduling cases to operating rooms in a hospital, or production orders in a factory.

• They can provide you best location analysis whether it is about placing a machine, plant or locating a factory considering the economic and operational perspective. 

• They can design computer-aided process planning (CAPP) systems that accommodate flexibly to vary the sequence of operations to produce a product.

• They can determine the optimal route of ambulances through a city, or material handling vehicles in a factory, to minimize travel time.

• They can develop reliability and quality management systems (QMS) to ensure that a manufactured product is free from defects.

• They study Ergonomics to improve productivity of workers by ensuring work place safety, designing user-friendly computer graphics systems to assist operators in the monitoring and control of industrial processes.

If you want to increase the efficiency of your organisation...Hire an Industrial Engineer! 

Reference: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2016-17 Edition, Industrial Engineers, 

on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/industrial-engineers.htm

UMT-IIE Student Chapter wins Gold Award 2012!

Congratulations! to the Industrial Engineering Student Chapter at UMT, which has garnered national recognition with the Gold Award from the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), honoring student achievement during the 2011-2012 academic years.

The Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Student Chapter at UMT is the premier organized campus chapter. It was founded in January 2011. Prof. Farhan Daud Qazi has served as the faculty advisor of the IIE Student Chapter since its inception.

University of Management and Technology is the only university from Pakistan that has received the Gold Award. This award shows how UMT's Industrial Engineering program students are willing to help each other and serve their community. Their willingness, hard work, commitment, and team work brought this important and prestigious award to UMT. We will soon be arranging a celebration event at UMT-IIE Student Chapter along with our members because it is a big success for all of us!

Students visited local heavy mechanical industries gaining knowledge about the on field industrial engineering applications; organized various functions including membership camp, oath taking ceremony, and orientation for new students, seminars and lectures on important IE topics such as Arena Simulation software. First time ever from Pakistan our student members participated in the Annual Rockwell's Arena Simulation competition and this year participating again. We also conducted the first election in our organization giving chance to the new leadership to come forward and lead the organization to new heights. These are just some of the great achievements of our newly born student chapter which is "God wiling" destined to become one of the best run student chapters of industrial engineering profession in Pakistan.

Where IEs Work

Almost every kind of business hires industrial engineers and they work in many different kinds of jobs. These are some of the jobs that IIE members are doing:

• Anheuser-Busch Inc., Manager of Distribution and Logistics
• Bose Corp., Industrial Engineer
• Coca-Cola Consolidated Inc., Business Process Design Manager
• City of Fort Worth, Management Analyst
• City of Kansas City, City Auditor
• Deere & Co., Quality Manager
• Dell, Inc., Project Senior Consultant
• Estee Lauder Inc., Director of Industrial Engineering
• Federal Aviation Administration, Industrial Engineer
• Hasbro, Business Improvement Manager
• Hershey Foods Corp., Director of Manufacturing
• Honda of America Manufacturing, Process Engineer
• Johnson & Johnson, Worldwide Manager of Ergonomics
• Kraft Food, Distribution Design Project Engineer
• Lockheed Martin Missiles & Fire Control, Cost Estimator
• Mayo Clinic, Director of Patient Financial Services
• McDonald’s, Real Estate Manager
• Microsoft, User Experience Manager
• Motorola, Vice President of Supply Chain
• NASA Kennedy Space Center, Spaceport Technology Development Manager
• Naval Surface Warfare Center, Human Systems Integration Engineer
• Nike Inc., Senior Engineer
• Northeastern University, Dean of Engineering
• Payless Shoe Source, Manager of Corporate Quality Assurance
• Sony Disc Manufacturing, Industrial Engineer
• Target Corp., Senior Recruiter
• Texas A&M University, Research Engineer
• Toys R Us, Industrial Engineer
• Wal-Mart, General Manager
• Walt Disney World, Director of Costuming & Cosmetology

Typical IE Projects

Industrial engineers figure out how to do things better. They engineer processes and systems that improve quality and productivity. IEs make significant contributions to their employers by saving money while making the workplace better for fellow workers. In addition to manufacturing, industrial engineers apply their skills in a variety of settings. Here are a few examples:

• Convert an airplane production line to lean manufacturing
• Perform motion and time studies at a candy company
• Reduce the length of waiting lines in a theme park
• Design the admissions procedure at a hospital
• Develop prototypes for the cell phone car adapter market
• Design a clothing warehouse using computer simulation
• Develop a hardware protection program for spacecraft
• Create a quality assurance program for a national restaurant chain
• Prevent worker injuries with an ergonomic intervention program
• Make customer service more efficient at an electronics company
• Launch a material handling system for a new automobile
• Develop the conceptual layout of a dockyard
• Work on a design project to make a medical device that treats sleep apnea
• Teach industrial engineering courses at a university

from: http://www.iienet.org/Details.aspx?id=718

What IE's Do?
From the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)
http://www.iienet2.org/details.aspx?id=716

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, allthese challenges share the common goal of saving companies 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.

The benefits of industrial engineering are widespread as indicated in three different slide shows.

• IIE overview of the profession
• What IEs do in different industries
• IE job description: Boeing

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