Manufacturing engineering is a branch of professional engineering that shares many common concepts and ideas with other fields of engineering: such as mechanical, chemical, electrical, and industrial engineering.
Manufacturing engineering is a branch of engineering that focuses on improving an item's production, whether making product design changes or creating more effective manufacturing processes.
Job duties of manufacturing engineers can include developing solutions to production issues, performing cost-benefit analyses, or operating computer-aided design software to design and produce products and systems. Professionals in this field sometimes go by the title plant engineer or process engineer.
Manufacturing Engineers focus on designing and operating integrated systems to produce high-quality, economically competitive products. These systems may include computer networks, robots, machine tools, and materials-handling equipment.
- Automate a chemical manufacturing facility through computer-integrated technology.
- Design circuit board manufacturing processes to reduce costs and improve product quality.
- Develop the best assignment of machines and equipment to various manufacturing cells in discrete parts manufacturing.
- Develop and implement fabrication processes for Nano-/micro-devices.
- Identify the most cost-effective material handling and facility layout alternative for an aerospace manufacturing company.