Engineered systems built to organize or automate a manufacturing or production process at scale, rather than a single machine: a production line, a factory-wide control system, or a comparable process-management system. This is the technology atlas's smallest engineered-system field by live count, reflecting how much industrial engineering work is method and workflow rather than a single named physical system. Does not belong here: the individual machines that make up a production line, grouped under Mechanical Engineering, when the machine itself rather than the line as a whole is the subject.
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Main Engineering Branch Field Founding Era All Industrial Engineering
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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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