In 1920, the ASME council approved and adopted the First Report of the Committee of Aims and Organizations with L.C. Going in 1911Įmerson joined other progressive engineers in founding the Society of Industrial Engineers in 1917.Ī handbook of useful information for managers, engineers, superintendents, designers, draftsmen and others engaged in constructive work,įuture of Industrial Engineering, by C.E. What is Industrial Engineering? Answer by C.B. Principles of Industrial Engineering by Charles Buxton Going published. Industrial Engineering - A brochure by Clinton E. The focus of industrial engineering became productivity, efficiency and cost reduction.Įvolution of Industrial Engineering - James Gunn, Towne, Taylor, Diemer, Going, Barnes Even production engineering emerged as a separate branch that focused much more on the technical function of creating process plans, instructing and training operators. Subsequently the course in industrial engineering was also started. The term industrial engineer appealed to some. He wanted a new engineer to emerge "production" or "industrial".
James Gunn is given the credit for using the term "industrial engineer" first in an article. He also highlighted the issue of reduction of cost of production in that paper. Towne (1886), in his" The Engineer as Economist, advocated that engineers can learn manaement and economics/accounting to provide a unified management service well coordinated with engineering. We have for our work the cheapening and improvement of all textile fabrics, the perfecting of metallurgical processes, the introduction of the electric light, the increase of facilities for rapid and cheap transportation, the invention of new and more efficient forms of steam and gas engines, of means for relieving woman from drudgery, and for shortening the hours of labor for hard-working men, the increase in the productive power of all mechanical devices, aiding in the great task of recording and disseminating useful knowledge and ours is the duty to discover facts and to deduce laws bearing upon every application of mechanical science and art in field, workshop, school, or household." - Thuston "We are now called upon to do our part in the work so well begun by our predecessors, and so splendidly carried on by our older colleagues during the past generation.