工业工程专业英语.doc

Understanding of Industrial Engineering 工业工程的认识 Real IE Value 工业工程的真正价值 Industrial engineers are great at solving problems. Ironically enough, there is still one age-old problem they unable to solve-identity. And the problem is not getting any to solve. In fact, “ identity ” is just one of several challenges currently facing the IE profession. Today ’petitive global economy and tighter corporate budgets are forcing IEs to deal with issues that were barely mentioned a decade ago. Companies are flattening corporate structures; IE departments are being eliminated or renamed; and universities and colleges are under even greater pressure to provide industry with graduates who are better trained to handle a much wider variety of job responsibilities. On the other hand, today ’s IE has at his or her disposal more technology and tools than the IE of 30 years ago could have ever imagined. New technologies have improved accuracy and speed and generally have increased the IE’s ability to cover a more diverse set of interests. In addition, the IE now has a greater opportunity to concentrate on any one of a broad variety of areas that panies now recognize as individual departments-including simulation, operations research, ergonomics, material handling and logistics. 工业工程师非常善于解决问题。可是具有讽刺性的却是他们仍有一个长期性的问题得不到解决---- 一致性。而且这个问题解决起来一直很困难。事实上,“一致性”恰好是目前工业工程领域所面临的众多挑战性问题之一。今天激烈的世界竞争和紧张的公司预算都迫使工业工程师