Industrial engineering in industrial engineering is a discipline to design and improve an integrated system composed of personnel, materials, equipment, energy and information.
When Japanese enterprises carry out lean production, they use a lot of operational research, action research and time analysis techniques in basic IE, so that lean production is always on the basis of science, so it is full of vitality and fruitful. Japanese enterprises have made great innovations by using IE, which not only brought about qualitative changes in production organization, but also brought a series of fundamental enterprise organization systems and management systems such as product development, quality control, internal and external collaborative management and user relations.
IE is an engineering course, which was formed in Taylor's scientific management movement in the United States at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century. Industrial engineering is an interdisciplinary subject which combines engineering technology, economic management and humanities. IE is a methodology to improve efficiency, cost and quality, that is, organically combine technology and management to study how to make production factors form a higher operating system, so as to achieve the purpose of improving productivity.
The process of the formation, development and evolution of industrial engineering is actually the history of the production and application of various knowledge principles and methods used to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Starting from scientific management, industrial engineering has experienced four intersecting things: scientific management theory, industrial engineering, operational research, industry and system engineering, which highlights the remarkable development of industrial engineering in different periods.
The research goal of IE in industrial engineering is to use the input factors in the production system more efficiently, reduce costs, ensure quality and safety, improve productivity and obtain the best benefits. Specifically, it is to design all components of the manufacturing system through research, analysis and evaluation, and then design the whole system by combining all components appropriately, so as to realize the rational allocation and optimal operation of production factors and ensure the low-cost, safe, high-quality, punctual and efficient completion of production tasks. What he pursues is the optimization and perfection of the whole system.