Industrial Engineering is concerned with designing, analyzing, and controlling production and service operations and systems. In the past, an industrial engineer worked in a manufacturing plant and was involved with the operating efficiency of workers and machines. Today, industrial engineers are more broadly concerned with productivity and all of the technical problems of production management and control.
They work in various branches of companies: manufacturing, distribution, and transportation. Their responsibilities range from the design of unit operations to controlling complete production and service systems. They integrate such systems physical, financial, economic, and human components of such systems to attain specified goals. Industrial engineering includes tasks as production planning and control quality control, inventory, equipment, warehouse, and materials management; plant layout job, and workstation design.