Engineers whose defining technological contribution is organizing labor, workflow and quality across a manufacturing operation rather than a single machine or material. Belongs here: Frederick Winslow Taylor for scientific management, Lillian Gilbreth for time-and-motion study, Taiichi Ohno for the Toyota Production System, and W. Edwards Deming and Walter A. Shewhart for statistical quality control. Does not belong here: engineers who design or build the individual machines a factory runs, grouped under Mechanical Engineering, even where an industrial engineer's method is applied on the same factory floor.
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1. Wikipedia: Engineering
WikipediaIntroduction, traditional disciplinesQuote, Introduction, traditional disciplines
The traditional disciplines of engineering are civil, mechanical, electrical, and chemical.
2. Wikipedia: Industrial engineering
WikipediaHistory, 1901 term originQuote, History, 1901 term origin
The term 'industrial engineer' is credited to James Gunn who proposed the need for such an engineer focused on production and cost analysis in 1901.
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