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

Pakistan - Industry
During the 1960s and 1970s, light industry expanded rapidly— especially textiles, sugar refining, fertilizers, and other manufactures derived from local raw materials. Large government investments in the 1970s established the country's first large-scale ship-building and steel milling operations; the production of chemical fertilizers was also given special government support. The Pakistan Industrial Development Corp., established in the early 1980s with IDA credit, developed industrial estates for small- and medium-scale industries, assisting their occupants in obtaining credit, raw materials, technical and managerial assistance, access to production facilities, as well as marketing support. Despite steady overall industrial growth during the 1980s, the sector remains concentrated in cotton processing, textiles, food processing and petroleum refining.
The 1973 nationalization program, which placed 10 basic industries wholly within the public sector, was reversed in 1991 with the enactment of an ambitious privatization program. In 1992, the government began auctioning off majority control in nearly all public sector industrial enterprises, including those manufacturing chemicals, fertilizers, engineering products, petroleum products, cement, automobiles, and other industrial products requiring a high level of capital investment, to private investors. In 1995, however, the speed of privatization began to slow as the sale of some large state-owned units were stalled and postponed. In 2002, the public industrial sector, under the Production Wing of the Ministry of Industries and Production consisted of eight public holding companies—Pakistan Steel, the State Cement Corporation (PACO), Federal Chemical and Ceramics Corporation (FCCC), State Petroleum Refining and Petrochemical Corporation (PERAC), State Engineering Corporation (SEC), the Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC), the state fertilizer corporation and Pakistan Automobile Corporation. The majority of the 74 production enterprises controlled by these holding companies have been privatized, and most of those remaining are scheduled to be sold. The public sector continues to dominate in steel, heavy engineering, automobiles, petroleum and defense-related production.
Cotton textile production is the most important of Pakistan's industries, accounting for about 19% of large-scale industrial employment, and 60% of total exports in 2000/01. Pakistan has become self-sufficient in cotton fabrics and exports substantial quantities. Some long and extra-long staple cotton is imported to meet demand for finer cottons. About 80% of the textile industry is based on cotton, but factories also produce synthetic fabrics, worsted yarn and jute textiles. Jute textile output amounted to 70,100 tons in 1999/00. The textile industry as a whole employs about 38% of the industrial work force, accounts for 8.5% of GDP, 31% of total investment, and 27% of industrial value-added.
Other important industries include food processing, chemicals manufacture, and the iron and steel industries. Food processing is considered Pakistan's largest industry, accounting for slightly more than 27 of value-added production. Pakistan Steel, the country's only integrated steel mill, employs about 14,500 workers and has an annual production capacity of 1.1 million tons. The government plans to expand the mill's annual capacity to 3 million tons. Pakistan Steel produces coke, pig iron, billets, hot and cold rolled coils and sheets, and galvanized sheets. In June 1999, the first tin-plating plant began operation, a joint venture with Japan.
Pakistan has ten fertilizer plants, six state-owned and four private, with a total annual production capacity of 4.65 million tons. Production in 2000/01 was 3.66 million tons, up 10.5% from 1999/00. There are 21 cement plants, four state-owned and 17 private, with an annual production capacity of 19.2 million tons. Production in 1999/00 was 9.9 million tons., up 4% from 1999/98. Pakistan's chemical industry produces an number of basic chemicals used in its other industries, including soda ash, caustic soda and sulfuric acid. Industrial output from other major industries also includes refined sugar, vegetable ghee, urea, rubber tubes, electric motors, electrical consumer products (light bulbs, air conditioners, fans refrigerators, freezers, TV sets, radios, and sewing machines), and pharmaceuticals

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