Introduction to Industrial Engineering

This guide outlines the major tasks performed by industrial engineers and the basic tools to support them, focusing on the organizational processes for which they are needed and the terminology used in tasks, tools, and processes. It also addresses the role of the industrial engineer in the production and service sectors. It covers the nature and history of the profession, modeling the organizational structure and facility layout, project management, marketing considerations, purchasing and inventory management, scheduling, material requirements planning, enterprise resource planning, and the human factor. This edition incorporates new fields that are part of the industrial engineering profession, such as information systems, supply chain management, and service engineering. Annotation c2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Professor Avraham Shtub holds the Stephen and Sharon Seiden chair in project management. He has a BSc in electrical engineering from the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology (1974), an MBA from Tel Aviv University (1978), and a PhD in management science and industrial engineering from the University of Washington (1982). Professor Shtub is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI-USA). He has been a consultant to industry in the areas of project management, training by simulators, and the design of production–operation systems.

Yuval Cohen is a senior faculty member at the Industrial Engineering Department of the Tel-Aviv Afeka College of Engineering. His areas of expertise are planning and operation of assembly lines, design and management of production and logistic systems, project management, supply chain management, and business decision making. Dr. Cohen served several years as a senior operations planner at FedEx Ground (USA) and received several awards for his contributions to the hub and terminal network planning. He received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh (USA), his MSc from the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, and BSc from Ben-Gurion University.