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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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