company profile & indsutry profile of fine fab

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COMPANY PROFILE

We are primarily Designers, Fabricators and Erectors of Chemical & Pharmaceutical

equipment and Waterworks equipment. We are based in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh,

India.

We have been supplying different kinds of equipment to various organizations of

chemical & pharmaceutical industries both in India & Abroad. We have been in the field

of custom fabrication for over 23 years and have acquired expertise, resources and

technical manpower. We have some of the finest and precise manufacturing facilities as

well as a well-equipped design team.

Each and every product of ours renders a very high quality of performance and is made

from the best quality stainless steel and mild steel. The materials used undergo various

chemical and physical tests for quality of highest order. We can also meet your

requirement of conforming to both Indian & International standards. We have qualified

engineers with vast experience and the added experience of having worked with the

best consultants in the business. We are also certified as an ISO 9001:2000 compliant

company by TUV-SUD, Germany

Profile

Fine Fab Pvt. Ltd. is a steel fabrication company, which fabricates primarily

chemical equipment, among other things. These chemical equipment involve

equipment which are used in bulk drugs and pharmaceutical companies, like

Chemical Reactors, Heat Exchangers, Receivers, Storage Tanks, Nutch Filters,

Driers etc. Other equipment Finefab manufactures include Radial gates, hot mix

plants etc. Since the majority of orders come from bulk drug sectors we have come

to specialize in Chemical equipment. Finefab also has developed a reputation of

manufacturing quality equipment and has also exported a lot of equipment to the

Middle East and East Asia. M/s. Orchid Chemicals and pharmaceuticals Ltd. is our


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biggest client and Finefab has supplied equipment for over 10 million dollars.

Philosophy & Achievements

Our philosophy basically puts a strong emphasis on trust and commitment to ourfour wheels of success.

Quality We know that quality is the foremost factor to strengthen the trust

that our customers have bestowed on us. That is why we pay utmost

attention in providing the best quality of materials and finish. That is precisely

why 90 % of our orders come from repeat business.

Technology We understand the importance of keeping ourselves abreastof the various changes in the requirements of our customers. Hence we

invest a considerable amount of time and resources in the updating of

ourselves with the changing times and technologies.

Customer Service We strongly believe in providing the best customer

service, both before and after delivery. That is why our motto has been

Custom Fabrication for Customer Satisfaction.

Timely Delivery We know the value and cost of your time and how much

you would stand to lose even if one item doesnt reach you on time. That is

why we give our very best for a timely delivery and a strict adherence to

schedules.

Our Reputation and Track Record of over 23 years speaks for itself. It is in lieu of

our above philosophy and our export accomplishments that the Indian Council for

Small & Medium Exporters had bestowed us with the Excellence Award in 1997.

We have also received a credit rating of SE 2B by CRISIL indicating a high

performance capability.


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Promoters

The following are the chief promoters of this company:

V.VENUGOPAL REDDY, (M.Tech), Managing Director: Mr. Venugopal

Reddy is a postgraduate from REC-WARANGAL, in the field of power

systems. He has over 30 years of experience in various fields and is also a

class-A civil contractor. He enjoys a huge goodwill among his peers and is

well known for his social endeavors. He is a true entrepreneur and has

successfully executed various projects. He was also a well renowned

sportsman during his academic years.

V.VAMSI KRISHNA, (M.S.), Executive Director: Mr. Vamsi Krishna hascompleted his graduation as a bachelor of engineer in the field of electronics

and communication. He has also completed his masters degree in the field

of computer science, in Northern Illinois University, Chicago, U.S.A. He has

also worked in the U.S.A. for over 2 years in one of the most reputed

companies in the U.S.A., before returning back to India. He has since been

instrumental in developing the various companies & firms in the group.

D.VENKATESWARA REDDY (B.E.), Director: Mr. Venkateswara Reddy

has completed his graduation as a bachelor of engineer in the field of

Mechanical Engineering. He has over 17 years of experience in the field of

steel fabrication and is known to lead by example with respect to work

ethics.


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Products

Our main products are as follows:

Chemical Reactors

Hydrogenator

Crystallizes

Permenters

Heat Exchangers

Tube Bundles

Cooling Coils

Storage Tanks

Leaf Filters

Nutch Filters

Centrifugal Leaf Filters

Centrifuges

Drum Mixing plants

Blenders

Belt Conveyors

Online Filters Pressure Filters

Flackers

Distillation Columns

Sodium Cutting machines

We also manufacture Penstocks (Water Pipes) and Radial gates in addition to

undertaking Piping, Structural Fabrication and Lead/Rubber lining works as well.

We are always on the lookout to enlarge and diversify our product range to meet

our customers needs.


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Infrastructure

LIST OF MACHINERY

Description Quantity (in Nos.)

Plate Bending Machines 2

Plasma Arc Cutting cum Tig Welding Machine 2

Welding Generators 3

Air Cooled Welding Transformers 7

Radial Drilling Machines 2

Pillar Type Drilling Machine 3

Grinding Machines (Various Types) 9

Bench Grinders 3

Portable Drilling Machine 4

Lathe Machine 2

Air Compressor 2

Pug Cutting Machines 4Hydraulic Pipe Bending Machines 3

Hydraulic Testing Equipment 3

Air plasma Cutting Machine 2

Gas Cutting Sets 3

Power Hacksaw 2

Pipe Cutting Machine 1


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ORGANISATION STRUCTURE

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

MANAGINGDIRECTOR

MARKETINGMANAGER

PRODUCTION

MANAGER

FINANCE MANAGER

ACCOUNTANTSUPERVISORSALES

REPRESENTATIVES

MACHINEOPERATORS

WORKERS


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VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS:-

There are mainly eight departments in the Fine Fab. They are as follows:-

Purchase Department Quality Control Department

Production Department

Marketing Department

Accounts Department

HRD Department

Despatch Department

R & D Department

PURCHASE DEPARTMENT

Purchase department looks after all the purchases of raw materials. The

department looks after the purchase of all divisions. The purchase manager handles all

matters regarding the purchase. The manager is assisted by supervisor and

storekeeper. The purchasing decision is done only after a close examination of the

quantity and quality of the materials to be purchased.


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PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT

The production of all the medicines is managed by the production manager.

The production manager is assisted by five supervisors and ninety workers. The

material requirement for the production of medicines are evaluated by supervisors

and reported to the manager. The production process and the time required for the

completion of the product differs for the entire product. There are more products

being produced by this department.

CHART

Production Manager

Supervisor

Workers


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ACCOUNTS DEPARTMENT

The accounting department maintains all the accounting works of the

company. There are five accountants in the department. These accountants

maintain all accounting records like balance sheet and profit & loss account. The

report thus obtained is submitted to the senior assistant. The senior accountant

thus examines all the records and clears it. The final report is submitted to the

accounts manager. The accounting manager then thus forwards the report to the

top management.

CHART

Accounts Manager

Senior Accountant

Accountants


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RESEARCH &DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

All kinds of research and developments take place in this department. The

company is also maintaining a separate department for all the researches. The lab

assistant creates different ways for the purpose of innovating new medicines. The

research is found successfully is tested and developed so that they can produced

and sold. A small portion of the raw materials purchased are used for this purpose.

CHART

R & D Manager

Workers


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QUALITY CONTROL DEPARTMENT

The quality control department checks the quality of both the raw materials

as well as that of the finished products. Only after proper checking of the raw

materials, they are used for the purpose of production. Then only after proper

checking of the finished products they are further proceeded for despatch. The

functions of this department include incoming raw material quality control, in

process quality control activities, and finished products quality control activities.

CHART

Manager

Workers


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DESPATCH DEPARTMENT

Despatch department deals with packing and dispatching of the product as

per the production and orders received from the concerned agencies. Despatch

department deals only with the finished product. The despatch department dealings

are done by the manager and the workers in the department.

CHART

Manager

Workers


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MARKETING DEPARTMENT

Marketing department undertakes all the matters regarding the sales,

pricing and sales promotion activities of the products. This department provides

cash as well as credit sales. The credit sales are allowed for a period of one month.

The marketing manager takes all the important decisions concerning the marketing

of the products.

CHART

Marketing Manager

Assistant Manager

Sales representatives

Agency


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HUMAN RESOURCE DEPARTMENT

The human resource department deals with the training and development of

workers in the pharmacy. They provide training for all the workers. The HR

manager manages all the work related with the human resource of the company.

INDUSTRY PROFILE

Industrial engineering is a branch of engineering dealing with the optimization of

complex processes or systems. It is concerned with the development, improvement,

implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people, money, knowledge,

information, equipment, energy, materials, analysis and synthesis, as well as the

mathematical, physical and social sciences together with the principles and methods of

engineering design to specify, predict, and evaluate the results to be obtained from such

systems or processes. Its underlying concepts overlap considerably with certain

business-oriented disciplines such as operations management, but the engineering side

tends to emphasize extensive mathematical proficiency and usage of quantitative

methods.

Depending on the subspecialties involved, industrial engineering may also be known as,

or overlap with, operations management, management science, operations research,

systems engineering, manufacturing engineering, ergonomics or human factors

engineering, safety engineering, or others, depending on the viewpoint or motives of theuser. For example, in health care, the engineers known as health management

engineers or health systems engineers are, in essence, industrial engineers by another

name.

Overview
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While the term originally applied to manufacturing, the use of "industrial" in "industrial

engineering" can be somewhat misleading, since it has grown to encompass any

methodical or quantitative approach to optimizing how a process, system, or

organization operates. Some engineering universities and educational agencies around

the world have changed the term "industrial" to broader terms such as "production" or

"systems", leading to the typical extensions noted above. In fact, the primary U.S.

professional organization for Industrial Engineers, the Institute of Industrial Engineers

(IIE) has been considering changing its name to something broader (such as the

Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers), although the latest vote among

membership deemed this unnecessary for the time being.

The various topics concerning industrial engineers include management science,financial engineering, engineering management, supply chain management, process

engineering, operations research, systems engineering, ergonomics / safety

engineering, cost and value engineering, quality engineering, facilities planning, and the

engineering design process. Traditionally, a major aspect of industrial engineering was

planning the layouts of factories and designing assembly lines and other manufacturing

paradigms. And now, in so-called lean manufacturing systems, industrial engineers

work to eliminate wastes of time, money, materials, energy, and other resources.

Examples of where industrial engineering might be used include designing an assembly

workstation, strategizing for various operational logistics, consulting as an efficiency

expert, developing a new financial algorithm or loan system for a bank, streamlining

operation and emergency room location or usage in a hospital, planning complex

distribution schemes for materials or products (referred to as Supply Chain

Management), and shortening lines (orqueues) at a bank, hospital, or a theme park.

Industrial engineers typically use computer simulation (especially discrete event

simulation), along with extensive mathematical tools and modeling and computational

methods for system analysis, evaluation, and optimization
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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. For example, precursors

to industrial engineering included some aspects ofmilitary science; the quest to develop

manufacturing using interchangeable parts; the development of the armory system of

manufacturing; the work of Henri Fayol and colleagues (which grew into a larger

movement called Fayolism); and the work ofFrederick Winslow Taylorand colleagues

(which grew into a larger movement called scientific management). In the late 19th

century, such efforts began to inform consultancy and higher education. The idea of

consulting with experts about process engineering naturally evolved into the idea of

teaching the concepts as curriculum.

Industrial engineering courses were taught by multiple universities in Europe at the end

of the 19th century, including in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Spain.[1]In

the United States, the first department of industrial and manufacturing engineering was

established in 1909 at the Pennsylvania State University. The first doctoral degree in

industrial engineering was awarded in the 1930s by Cornell University.

Industrial engineers determine the most effective ways to use the basic factors of

production -- people, machines, materials, information, and energy -- to make a product

or to provide a service. They are the bridge between management goals and

operational performance. They are more concerned with increasing productivity through

the management of people, methods of business organization, and technology thanare engineers in other specialties, who generally work more with products or processes.

Although most industrial engineers work in manufacturing industries, they may also

work in consulting services, healthcare, and communications. To solve organizational,

production, and related problems most efficiently, industrial engineers carefully study

the product and its requirements, use mathematical methods such as operations
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research to meet those requirements, and design manufacturing and information

systems. They develop management control systems to aid in financial

planning and cost analysis and design production planning and control systems to

coordinate activities and ensure product quality. They also design or improve systemsfor the physical distribution of goods and services. Industrial engineers determine which

plant location has the best combination of raw materials availability, transportation

facilities, and costs. Industrial engineers use computers for

simulations and to control various activities and devices, such as assembly lines and

robots.

They also develop wage and salary administration systems and job evaluation

programs. Many industrial engineers move into management positions because the

work is closely related.

The work of health and safety engineers is similar to that of industrial engineers in that it

deals with the entire production process. Health and safety engineers promote worksite

or product safety and health by applying knowledge of industrial processes, as well as

mechanical, chemical, and psychological principles. They must be able to anticipate,

recognize, and evaluate hazardous conditions as well as develop hazard control

methods. They also must be familiar with the application of health and safety

regulations

The provinces manufacturing industry developed around processing the abundant

natural resources harvested or extracted in the province: canning salmon, processing

fruits and berries, producing lumber and paper, and smelting and refining ores. These

activities still dominate manufacturing in BC, but their role has been diminishing over

time as other industries are becoming more prominent.

During the last decade and a half, the composition of BCs manufacturing industry has

been changing. It remains dominated by resource-based production, but the focus is

gradually shifting to a greater emphasis on other products such as computers,

electronics, plastics and clothing. This has partly been fostered by free trade


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agreements, which have opened up new markets for Canadian products. As well, new

types of manufacturing have emerged in order to take advantage of changes in

technology, and shifting consumer and business demand for various types of products.

The largest manufacturing industry in BC continues to be the wood industry, with BC

contributing 40% of Canadas GDP in this sector. Food production is the second largest

manufacturing industry in BC, with dairy and meat production the primary contributors.

Other manufacturing industries in the province include paper, machinery, electronics,

and computers & peripheral devices.

The greatest growth from 1997 to 2006 was in computer and peripheral equipment

manufacturing, which more than quadrupled its GDP in this period, rising from $40 to

$220 million. The production of pharmaceuticals and medicines more than doubled in

BC between 1997 and 2006, a growth rate similar to that seen in the electronics

industry.


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Future job growth for industrial and manufacturing engineers is expected to be average,

with a total of 270 job openings in BC between 2010 and 2015. Just over half of these

will be from the creation of new jobs, with the remaining positions as a result of

retirements.

Traditionally, industrial engineers worked in the manufacturing industry, helping

factories achieve the most efficient balance of human labour, natural resources, and

technology. In recent years, they have branched out. Engineers now work with

hospitals, fast food restaurants, and other organizations that depend on efficient

physical performance for their success. Industrial engineers are efficiency experts. They

improve companies productivity by evaluating the way the different branches of acompany do things, and thinking of better ways to do them.

Efficiency includes not only technical problems, but also financial and personnel issues.

For example, if an industrial engineer is deciding whether or not to replace factory

workers with computerized machines, he or she considers the cost of the machines and

the effect they will have on remaining factory workers. Because industrial engineers

deal with such a wide range of issues, theirs is one of the least technical and most

people-oriented of the engineering disciplines.

Some industrial engineers design processes (such as assembly lines) within factories or

service sector companies to ensure the most efficient use of resources. Others

specialize in human factors engineering, meaning they create ergonomic (human-

friendly and comfortable) machines, tools, office furniture, and computer work stations.


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Specialists in other areas concentrate on measuring the quality of certain goods and

services, or creating information-gathering systems that are used by computers in the

manufacturing process.

The Employment Outlook for BC 2007-2017 provides job openings projections for

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineers within BC regions

Employment Outlook in BC

RegionEstimated

Employment 2010

Estimated

Employment 2015

Average Annual %

Change (2010-2015)

Vancouver Island 140 150 1.0%

Lower

Mainland/Southwest940 1030 1.8%

Thompson-Okanagan 100 110 1.3%

Kootenay 40 40 0.4%

Cariboo 30 30 1.1%

North Coast &

Nechako20 20 0.9%

Northeast 20 20 1%

Duties Industrial and manufacturing engineers conduct studies, and develop and

supervise programs to achieve the best use of equipment, human resources,

technology, materials and procedures to enhance efficiency and productivity.


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Industrial and manufacturing engineers perform some or all of the following

duties:

Plan and design plant layouts and facilities

Study new machinery and facilities and recommend or select efficient

combinations

Develop flexible or integrated manufacturing systems and procedures

Conduct studies and implement programs to determine optimum inventory levels

for production and to allow optimum utilization of machinery, materials and

resources

Analyze costs of production

Design, develop and conduct time studies and work simplification programs

Determine human resource and skill requirements and develop training programs

Develop performance standards, evaluation systems and wage and incentive

programs

Conduct studies of the reliability and performance of plant facilities and

production or administrative systems

Develop maintenance standards, schedules and programs

Establish programs and conduct studies to enhance industrial health and safety

or to identify and correct fire and other hazards

Evaluate or assess industrial facilities

Supervise technicians, technologists, analysts, administrative staff and other

engineers.

Industry Sectors and Types of Employers

Industrial and manufacturing engineers are employed in consulting firms, manufacturing

and processing companies, in government, financial, health care and other institutions,

or they may be self-employed.


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Wages and Salaries in the Industry

Salaries for industrial engineers vary depending on experience, level of education, and

employer. Engineers with graduate degrees generally earn higher salaries than those

with only a bachelors degree.

Entry-level industrial engineers can earn anywhere from $35,000 to $65,000 a year. As

they acquire expertise and seniority, their annual earnings increase. The national

average income for industrial engineers is somewhere between $65,000 and $90,000 a

year. Those who move up into senior engineering or senior management positions can

earn more than $115,000 a year.

Economic downturns or recessions generally do not affect industrial engineers

incomes. In such times, the competitiveness and efficiency that industrial engineers can

deliver become more important.

Source: Career Cruising Profile for Industrial Engineers. Available from the VPL

Newspapers, Articles, Encyclopedias & More page:

In addition to their salaries most salaried engineers also receive benefits, including

health and dental insurance and paid sick leave and vacation time. Some may receive

further benefits, including performance-based bonuses, use of a company car, and

pension plan contributions.

In its 2008 Report On Members Compensation And Benefits, The Association of

Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia (APEGBC) provided

these salary figures:


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Total Annual Compensation

# of

responsesMean

Lower

QuartileMedian

Upper

Quartile

Industrial/Manufacturing

Consulting12 $89,008 $67,300 $87,300 $115,950

Heavy Manufacturing 67 $102,871 $69,625 $97,500 $120,000

Light Manufacturing 31 $92,147 $63,250 $75,900 $108,750

Service Canadas Labour Market Information provides hourly wages for industrial and

manufacturing engineers in four BC regions:

Across Canada, industrial and manufacturing engineers can expect to make:


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Working Conditions and Environment

Unlike many other types of engineers, industrial engineers spend a large part of their

day meeting or working with people - everyone from factory workers to business

managers.

Engineers who work in manufacturing plants may have to deal with elevated noise

levels, and wear steel-toed boots and safety helmets while on the factory floor. The risk

of injury is fairly low, however, as long as established safety procedures are adhered to.

Typical Hours of Work

The most commonly reported standard work week for engineers in BC is 40 hours,

although the average number of hours actually worked each week is 44 according to the

2008 APEGBC survey. Deadlines may cause added pressure that results in longer

hours and more stress, and actual hours tend to vary between 40 and 50 per week.

Engineers are entitled to vacation time ranging from 2 weeks (10%) to 5 weeks or more

(22%). Most engineers (67%) receive 3-4 weeks of paid vacation.


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Industrial Engineering is concerned with the design of production systems. The

Industrial Engineer analyzes and specifies integrated components of people,

machines, and facilities to create efficient and effective systems that produce goods

and services beneficial to mankind.

Anywhere there is a "value-added" enterprise, there is a production process. The IE

focuses on "how" a product is made or "how" a service is rendered. The goal of

Industrial Engineering is improving the "how."

Generally, the criteria for judging improvement are productivity and quality. Productivity

means getting more from the resources being expended, namely being efficient. Quality

judges the value or effectiveness of the output.

Industrial Engineering focuses on systems design. Production processes are composed

of many interacting parts, all of whom work together. Experience has taught that

changes to one portion may not result in improvements to the whole. Thus Industrial

Engineers generally work with tools that emphasize systems analysis and design.

Since production systems are found anywhere there is an attempt to provide a service,

as well as produce a part, the methodologies of Industrial Engineering are applicable. In

that sense, the adjective "industrial" should be interpreted as "industrious", referring to

the process of being skillful and careful. In many departments, Industrial Engineering is

called "Industrial and Systems Engineering" in an attempt to make it clear that the

industrial adjective is intended to be generic.

All IE's take at least one manufacturing course, which deals with manufacturing

processes, and other courses closely associated with manufacturing. Every IE is


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therefore knowledgeable about metal working machinery and processes. Further,

related courses address manufacturing as a system. At NC State the IE department

also includes furniture manufacturing, which makes students aware of wood working

machinery and processes. The manufacturing industry has and remains a manifest

concern of Industrial Engineering.

In general engineers are concerned with the analysis and design of systems. Electrical

Engineers are concerned with electrical systems, Mechanical Engineers are concerned

with mechanical systems, Chemical Engineers are concerned with chemical systems,

and so forth. Industrial Engineers are concerned with production systems. In general,

engineering is the application of science and mathematics to the development of

products and services useful to mankind. Industrial Engineering focuses on the "way"those products and services are made, using the same approaches that other

engineers apply in the development of the product or service, and for the same

purpose.

The Industrial Engineer is trained in the same basic way as other engineers. They take

the same foundation courses in mathematics, physics, chemistry, humanities, and

social sciences. Thy also take some of the basic physical engineering sciences like

thermodynamic, circuits, statics, and solids. They take Industrial Engineering specialty

courses in their later years. Like other engineering courses, the industrial engineering

courses employ mathematical models as a central device for understanding their

systems.

Fundamentally, Industrial Engineering has no basic physical science like mechanics,

chemistry, or electricity. Also because a major component in any production system is

people, Industrial Engineering has a person portion. At NC State, the human aspect is

called ergonomics, although elsewhere it is called human factors. A more subtledifference between Industrial Engineering than other engineering disciplines is the

concentration on discrete mathematics. IE's deal with systems that are measured

discretely, rather than metrics which are continuous.


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Because Industrial Engineering deals with the "way" something is done, IE tools

emphasize "methods" of understanding systems. The fundamental sciences that deal

with methodology are mathematical sciences, namely mathematics, statistics, and

computer science. System characterization thus employ


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mathematical, statistical, and computer models and methods and give direct rise to

Industrial Engineering tools such as optimization, stochastic processes, and simulation.

Industrial Engineering specialty courses therefore use these "basic sciences" and the IE

tools to understand traditional production elements as economic analysis, production

planning, facilities design, materials handling, manufacturing systems and processes,

job analysis, and so forth.

All engineers, including IE's, take mathematics through calculus and differential

equations. Industrial Engineering is different in that it is based on "discrete variable"

math, whereas all other engineering is based on "continuous variable" math. Thus IE's

emphasize the use of linear algebra and difference equations, as opposed to the use of

differential equations which are so prevalent in other engineering disciplines. Thisemphasis becomes evident in optimization of production systems in that we are

sequencing orders, scheduling batches, determining the number of materials handling

units, arranging factory layouts, finding sequences of motions, etc. Industrial Engineers

deal almost exclusively with systems of discrete components. Thus IE's have a different

mathematical culture

All IE's take at least one course in probability and one course in statistics. Industrial

Engineering specialty courses that follow these include quality control, simulation, and

stochastic processes. Further the traditional courses in production planning, economic

risk assessment, and facilities planning employ statistical models for understanding

these systems. Some of the other engineering disciplines take some probability and

statistics, but none have integrated these topics more into their study of systems.

Probably no other aspect of technology has greater potential impact on Industrial

Engineering than computing. Like all other engineers, IE's take computer programming.

Specific Industrial Engineering specialty courses like real-time control and simulationexpanding the role of computer science principles within Industrial Engineering. Further,

most all Industrial Engineering tools are now computer based, with growing recognition

that computer assisted analysis and design of production systems hold new untapped

potential. Of special note is that computer simulation involves using specialized

computer languages for modeling production systems and analyzing their behavior on


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the computer, before experimentation with real systems begin. In addition, both

computer science and Industrial Engineering share a common interest in discrete

mathematical structures.

Industrial Engineering at the undergraduate level is generally seen as a composition of

four areas. First is operations research, which provides methods for the general

analysis and design of systems. Operations Research (OR) includes optimization,

decision analysis, stochastic processes, and simulation.

Production generally includes such aspects as economic analysis, production planning

and control, quality control, facilities design, and other aspects of world-class

manufacturing.

Third is manufacturing processes and systems. Manufacturing process deals directlywith materials forming, cutting, shaping, planning, etc. Manufacturing systems focus on

the integration of manufacturing process, usually through computer control and

communications.

Finally ergonomics deals with the human equation. Physical ergonomics view the

human as a biomechanical device . while informational ergonomics examines the

cognitive aspects of humans.

Industrial engineers analyze and evaluate methods of production and point out ways to

improve them. They decide how a company should allocate its limited tangible

resources (equipment and labor) within the framework of existing physical constraints

(physical plant). Each company that hires an industrial engineer, either as a consultant

or as an internal manager, has its own specific limitations. An industrial engineer must

quickly become an expert not only in the manufacturing and production processes of the

industry, but also in the specific culture, problems, and challenges that the company

faces. This may mean face-to-face meetings with executives, extensive stays on

manufacturing floors, and review of historical production data. Industrial engineers

receive information from others about what goes on in the day-to-day work environment,

but they must also make their own observations of these activities. Many employees are

uncomfortable being watched by industrial engineers, and industrial engineers often


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walk a thin line between being an analyst and being a detective. An industrial engineers

most difficult task is communicating his observations and suggestions to company

executives, many of whom are emotionally invested in their traditional way of doing

business. Industrial engineers must be tactful in what they say and in how they say it. In

addition to tact, being a successful industrial engineer requires charm and the

willingness to stand by ones recommendations even in the face of unresponsive

management. The large majority of industrial engineersaround 70 percentworks at

manufacturing companies, and many have specific areas of specialization, such as

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raw-product processing, or administrative (paperwork) practices. Most industrial

engineers have good working conditions, intellectually challenging work, and a high

level of satisfaction. Hours can be long, but this tends to be outweighed by the

satisfaction derived from the education that each different project brings.

Recent Advances in Industrial Engineering

Recent Advances in Industrial Engineering addresses manufacturing processes and

methods, optimization, experimental engineering design, and reliability and quality

control techniques, as well as other topics, including:

Quality management systems

Computer supported collaborative engineering

Human factors and ergonomics

Engineering management and leadership

Transportation network design

Stochastics modeling

Queueing theory

company profile & indsutry profile of fine fab

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