What do industrial engineers do ?

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History

Efforts to apply science to the design of processes and of production systems were made by many people in the 18th and 19th centuries. They took some time to evolve and to be synthesized into disciplines that we would label with names such as industrial engineering, production engineering, or systems engineering.

What is it about?

 Industrial Engineering is about making people and processes safer, more efficient, and more effective. As such, Industrial Engineers are capable of taking on many different jobs in many different industries. The industries most notable for hiring Industrial Engineers include: manufacturing, banking, health care, and the military. Note that many Industrial Engineering (IE) jobs, though, don't have "Industrial Engineer" as the job title. For example:

·        Managing the production processes (e.g. Production Engineering)

·        Managing the product quality (e.g. Quality Engineering)

·        Managing information systems (e.g. Systems Engineering)

·        Evaluating, and redesigning workstations(e.g. Human Factors Engineering)

·        Optimizing processes, in general (e.g. Process Engineering)

·        Managing a supply chain (e.g. Supply Chain Management)

Some universities allow students specialize in areas within IE, such as:

      1)     Information engineering

2)     Operations research

3)     Human factors

Videos

1)  my cool job: industrial engineer

2) what is industrial engineering

3) industrial engineers job description 

Salaries

Here are some links to salary charts in different companies and in the Israeli market in general:

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/industrial-engineer-salary-SRCH_KO0,19.htm

http://www.alljobs.co.il/SalarySurvey.aspx

companies hiring industrial engineers

Car industry: Toyota, GM, Volkswagen

pharmaceutical companies: Teva , Perrigo

Hi-Tech: Intel, Applied Materials

There are much more, all you need to do is look 

Glassdoor,com

alljobs.co.il