Industrial engineering is a management discipline that focuses on human effort and efficiency. It emerged out of the management effort put in by engineers in manufacturing and construction fields. Frederick Taylor and Harrington Emerson are the pioneers in the field. Frederick Taylor concentrated on improving the output from human operators in various activities undertaken by him. In the process he developed the philosophy of scientific management. Management has to study the working processes employed by various operators and develop scientific theories about processes. These theories are then empirically verified and methods are designed by managers/engineers that incorporate these scientific theories. The scientific theories used in methods design include theories developed in various human sciences like anatomy, physiology, psychology and sociology. Concepts like fatigue, stress, occupational diseases are a part of industrial engineering theory. In this particular dimension industrial engineering can be referred to as human effort engineering.
Harrington Emerson focused on efficiency of business concerns as a whole as well as that of various functions.
Industrial engineering professional society as it exists today is developed by a merger between a society started by Taylor and a society started by Emerson.
Subjects like statistical quality control, value engineering and operations research became part of industrial engineering due to its efficiency focus.
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