This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...in all our industry has brought into being a new kind of engineering in which mechanical engineers are peculiarly qualified. This branch is known as industrial engineering, and its functions consist of the careful scientific supervision of a plant with regard to economy of production. The industrial engineer is ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...in all our industry has brought into being a new kind of engineering in which mechanical engineers are peculiarly qualified. This branch is known as industrial engineering, and its functions consist of the careful scientific supervision of a plant with regard to economy of production. The industrial engineer is employed partly as a research worker and partly as an executive, to investigate, organize, improve, rearrange, and systematize every department of an industry in order to increase production and lower costs. He will recommend new methods of storing raw material, changes in the relative positions of machines, provisions for utilization of waste, different systems of bookkeeping, alteration of personnel, eliminating superfluous positions or departments, reorganizing labor; in short, discovering every possible situation in which there is waste or inefficiency, and trying to redirect the energy that is lost or making new use of the material that is wasted. A good industrial engineer must have, in addition to a mechanical engineering education, some knowledge of electricity and technical chemistry; accounting, business administration and economics generally, but, most important, he must have had experience in some sort of factory management. A man who has been the head of several departments in a plant and who has made a careful study of both the technical and the business side of the industry is equipped to begin as an industrial engineer. No one can hope, of course, to get into this phase until experience has fitted him for it. In some works electrical or chemical engineers are employed as industrial engineers, depending on the nature of the industry. As a rule, an industrial engineer is a salaried man in the employ of a company; sometimes, however, he ...
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