What are common practical examples of tasks performed by industrial engineers?

Reconfigure airport check-in services to shorten queues and improve passenger’s satisfaction.

  • Streamline an operating room so that it is safer, faster, and easier to use.
  • Analyse retail customer order history to predict future behaviour and develop targeted
    marketing strategies.
  • Investigate how mineral-rich countries can leverage their mineral endowments optimally for
    sustainable development.
  • Routing and scheduling decisions for fleets of delivery vehicles.
  • Employee duty roster or timetabling decisionsfor the manufacturing and health sectors.
  • Manufacture customised products like a maxillofacial implant that is surgically inserted into
    patients who have lost significant portions of their facial bone structure due to disease.
  • Shelf-space allocation and inventory decisionsforretailers.
  • Crop irrigation and agricultural pest-control.
  • Facility location decisionsfor effective supply chain logistics

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