Why Industrial Engineering is required in Bangladesh? IE’s Role in Bangladeshi Industry & Organizations

Why Industrial Engineering is required in Bangladesh?

IIE (USA) contends that the following benefits can be directly linked to the work of Industrial Engineers

• Leaner, more efficient & profitable business practices while increasing customer service & quality

• Improved efficiency & as a result improved competitiveness & profitability

• Setting of labor & time standards,

• Good organization & improving productivity, essential for long term business

• Increased ability to do more with less focusing on optimization

• Making work safer, faster, easier & more rewarding

• Providing a method for business to analyze their processes & try to make improvements

• Reducing costs associated with new technologies

• Designing safer & easier to use products, etc.

Industrial Engineering is a philosophy that ‘there is always a better way to do things’.

Industrial engineer takes ‘what exists today and conceptualizes what should exist in the future’.

IE’s Role in Bangladeshi Industry & Organizations

In almost every discussion forum on the state of industry in Bangladesh, talk about:

• Low productivity

• Inefficient operation

• Inefficient management

• Low product/service quality

• Higher price of local products

• Inability to compete in the global market

• Wastage, & so on.

What people often fail to realize, “there is a built-in inefficiency in the local industry”

               

                Reason: Right persons are not put in the right job.

Many jobs related to IE are being done by engineers /managers who are not educated or well trained in IE & the consequence we all witness.

Some important roles IE graduates can play

• Production planner (aggregate planning, MRP, ERP, supply chain management)

• Production cost controller (setting cost standards)

• Quality engineer (developing & implementing quality assurance programs)

• Works manager (developing labor & time standards using Time & Motion Study)

• Logistic support manager (inventory policy, supply chain management)

• Maintenance manager (maintenance management programs -TPM, RCM, TRM, etc.)

• Safety manager (making workplace safer and hazard free)

• Manufacturing system engineer (determining suitable materials, manufacturing processes, planning capacity)

• Facility layout designer (determining appropriate factory layout)

• Technology assessor (technical, economic, environmental & other relevant factors)

Particularly important in setting up a new industry or for Balancing, Modernization, Replacement & Expansion (BMRE) of an existing industry.