Industrial Engineering

Intro

in this video we’re discussing what doindustrial engineers do and we’restarting right now[Music]hey one percent nation i’m jake voorheesand welcome back to the one percentengineer show where we inspire engineersto rise to the top one percent of theirengineering career and if this is youmake sure you hit the notification belland subscribe check out the descriptionbelow for access to our free sponsoredthangs sign up along with the discordserver with 800 engineers the 1 engineerkit and the ig page what type of

What is Industrial Engineering

engineer do you want to be what’s yourbiggest problem what video should wemake next comment below all right let’sjump right into what is industrialengineering anyways industrialengineering is an engineering professionthat is concerned with the optimizationof complex processes systems ororganizations by developing improvingand implementing integrated systems ofpeople money knowledge informationequipment energy and materials okaylet’s talk about the history there is ageneral consensus among historians thatthe roots of the industrial engineeringprofession dates back to the industrialrevolution wouldn’t that make sense thetechnologies that helped mechanizetraditional manual operations in thetext style industry include the flyingshuttle the spinning jenny along withthe fact that the steam engine generatedeconomies of scale that made massproduction in centralized locationsattractive for the first time ever

Innovation in Industrial Engineering

innovation within industrial engineeringincludes the specialization of labor soa worker only did one task and theycould be much better and faster andsafer within that task along withinterchangeable parts eli whitney andsimone north provided the feasibility ofthe notion of interchangeable parts inthe manufacture of muskets and pistolsfor the us government before whitneypeople would just make their own gunsand all the parts the hammers thetriggers the bullets everything wasdifferent so there was no way to massproduce or efficiently generate more andmore weapons under the interchangeableparts system parts were mass-produced totolerances to enable their use in anyfinished product the result was asignificant reduction in the need forskill from specialized workers whicheventually led to the industrialenvironment to be studied later allright with that history being coveredlet’s talk about the tasks thatindustrial engineers may participate in

Tasks of Industrial Engineers

along the way industrial engineers wereable to create new systems processes orsituations for the use of coordinationof labor materials and machines toimprove the quality and productivity ofsystems physical or social depending onthe subspecialties involved industrialengineering may also overlap withoperations research systems engineeringmanufacturing engineering productionengineering supply chain engineeringmanagement science managementengineering financial engineeringergonomics or human factors engineeringi have a lot to say about that safetyengineering logistics engineering andeven more can be included depending onthe perspective of the user

Examples of Industrial Engineers

traditionally a major aspect ofindustrial engineering was planning thelayouts of factories and designingassembly lines and other manufacturingparadigms and now in lean manufacturingsystems industrial engineers work toeliminate waste of time money materialsenergy and other resources examples ofwhere industrial engineering might beuseful include flow process chartingprocess mapping designing an assemblyworkstation strategizing for variousoperational logistics consulting as anefficiency expert developing a newfinancial algorithm or loan system for abank streamlining operation andemergency room locations or usage withina hospital planning complex distributionschemes for materials or products thisis also considered supply chainmanagement and shortening lines or

Modern Industrial Engineers

queues at a bank hospital or theme parkmodern industrial engineers typicallyuse predetermined motion time systemcomputer simulation along with extensivemathematical tools for modeling such asmathematical optimization and cueingtheory and computational methods forsystems analysis evaluation andoptimization i really think we should goover the differences between industrialengineering because even though it istechnically one of the big four or fivefields within engineering you only havethree civil electrical and mechanicalthat hire over 300 000 engineers in

Industrial Engineering vs Other Engineering

america but industrial engineering isright behind it with 285 000 peopleworking in that field there’s so manypeople working in software sotechnically it’s like in the big fourbig five but industrial engineering isthere however it is considerablydifferent from the other engineering andlet’s talk about why engineering ingeneral is traditionally decompositionalto understand the whole of something itis first broken down into its parts onceyou master the parts then you put themback together to create a betterunderstanding of how to master the wholethe approach of industrial engineeringis the opposite any one part cannot beunderstood without the context of theentire system changes in one part of thesystem affect the whole system and therole of the single part is to betterserve this greater umbrella system alsoindustrial engineering considers thehuman factor and its relation to thetechnical aspect of the situation andall of the other factors that influencethe entire system while otherengineering disciplines focus on thedesign of inanimate objects industrialengineers integrate combinations ofpeople information materials andequipment that produce innovative andefficient organizations in addition tomanufacturing industrial engineers workand consult in every industry includinghospitals communications e-commerceentertainment government finance foodpharmaceuticals semiconductors sportsinsurance sales accounting bankingtravel and transportation industrialengineering is the branch of engineeringmost closely related to human resourcesin that they apply social skills to workwith all types of employees fromengineers to sales people to topmanagement one of the main focuses of anindustrial engineer is to improve theworking environments of people not tochange the worker but to change theworkplace all engineers includingindustrial engineers take mathematicsthrough calculus and differentialequations industrial engineering isdifferent in that it’s based on discretevariable math whereas all otherengineering is based on continuousvariable math industrial engineersemphasize the use of linear algebra anddifferential equations as opposed to theuse of differential equations which areso prevalent in other engineeringdisciplines the emphasis becomes clearin optimization of production systems inwhich we are sequencing ordersscheduling batches and determining thenumber of materials again the big threeyou have civil mechanical and electricalengineering there’s 151 civilengineering programs in america 179mechanical and 185 electrical andthere’s 94 industrial engineeringprograms there wasn’t one at my almamater but i’m not surprised it’s justbehind the big three because again guyswe know it’s the big four big fiveengineering within itself i also do have

Industrial Engineering Salaries

to say that there is this stigma aroundindustrial engineering that they’re notas smart they don’t get paid as well butas you can see with this salary databasethere are some platforms that report itas nearly identical to some of thesalaries of civil and mechanical and afew of them have it a little bit lessbut i really do again think that we’resplitting errors when you talk aboutwhich engineering field makes the mostmoney because they all do far more thanaverage so if industrial engineering issomething that you like if you likeoptimizing an entire system instead ofactually doing design or tweaking andtweaking and tweaking an individualthing then certainly industrialengineering is for you when i went tograd school i studied trafficengineering traffic engineering requiresso much human input that we actuallytook industrial engineering courses andwe worked with driving simulators and wehad to figure out how humans wouldinteract with red light green lightyellow light and stop signs and when theworkload is high and people are confusedand drowsy and distracted how are theygoing to perform how are they going tooperate and we as engineers within thistraffic ecosystem had to optimize thingsfor the performance of that human nowwhat we’re doing is taking the human outof it because again machines and robotswill always outperform humans so thehuman factors element is decreasingwithin traffic engineering but for eonsit has been very significant so i justwanted to include that personal noteabout human factors engineering i know ineed to make more videos about trafficits transportation engineering andthings like this let me know if you wantthose in the comments below since

Conclusion

industrial engineers don’t reallyparticipate in design they do a wholesystems optimization approach it’s notnecessarily vital that you get your pebut again if you want to be a managementand you want to be a division leader youwant to make more money then itcertainly isn’t bad to go ahead andstand out show your ambition anddifferentiate yourself from otherengineers in the office so if you wantto be a one percent engineer i stillthink that you should go in and get yourpe even if you’re in software orchemical engineering and almost nobodygets it why shouldn’t you just go aheadand do it anyways the work environmentfor industrial engineering can vary somuch you can work in typicalmanufacturing or you can even work formassive industry like theme parksdisneyland and six flags and things likethis most companies release a service ora product where it goes out to peopleand therefore there’s an optimizationelement in almost all fields where youwant to save time energy and resourcesand this is why 285 000 industrialengineers are hired in america alonebecause they can work in so manyindustries who wants to be an industrialengineer what would be your dream jobwithin the sector let us know in thecomments below i hope you enjoyed thatvideo guys we release videos onempowering young engineers to help themrise to the top 1 of their career so ifyou don’t want to miss any more videosand that should be you then make sureyou hit the notification bell andsubscribe check out the descriptionbelow for access to the discord server800 engineers along with the one percentengineer kit the discord page and oursponsor thanks you can go sign up for afree account there and get yourportfolio started thanks again guys forwatching the one percent engineer showand we’ll see you again in another videobye-bye

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