the branch of engineering that is concerned with designing and managing systems to make the best use of industrial resources such as workers, materials, equipment, and information
industrial engineering in American English
noun
engineering applied to the planning, design, and control of industrial operations
Derived forms
industrial engineer
Word origin
[1970–75]This word is first recorded in the period 1970–75. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Heimlich maneuver, New Age, consciousness-raising, cornrow, stress test
Examples of 'industrial engineering' in a sentence
industrial engineering
They include beverages, mining and industrial engineering.
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In the wings, we can see big industrial engineering firms watching and waiting.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
He also realised that the technology would have many wider applications in industrial engineering.
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In banking, post-tax profits could cover only half of the dividends paid, utilities covered 0.6 times and industrial engineering 0.3 times.
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Other sectors to benefit from sterling weakness were industrial engineering, electrical equipment and forestry and paper.
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The sector with the highest number of profit warnings was support services, with 15,followed by industrial engineering with six.
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The highest warning sectors were support services, with 22; media, 13; industrial engineering and software & computer services, with 10 each; and general financial, 9.
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The robot arm needs to be 10 times more precise before it can compete with industrial engineering processes.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
His gained his first degree, in industrial engineering, in 1999 at the height of the first dot-com boom.