What is industrial engineering? Going's Explanation in 1911

The book, Principles of Industrial Engineering, by Charles Buxton Going was published in the year 1911. 2010-11 is its centenary year.

McGraw Hill is the publisher of the book.

In the first chapter Going explained the work of industrial engineers in a very clear and vivid manner. Every industrial engineering student is to be advised to read this chapter to get the conception of industrial engineering in 1911. The chapter link

Three Major Components of Industrial Engineering

After writing number of articles explaining What is industrial engineering, I feel:


IE is better explained as having three components.

1. Human Effort Engineering
2. Systems Efficiency Engineering
3. Systems Design, Installation and Improvement Management.

All the techniques that IEs use can be categorised under these three heads. Human Effort and System Efficiency are the core focus areas of IE and IE has broadened to systems design management.


I am developing number of online articles to explain my categorisation and the present list of such published articles is:

http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/industrial-engineering-knols-of/2utb2lsm2k7a/1674#