Tapan P Bagchi

Abstract

Profits, quality, efficiency… No other engineering discipline targets these as fervently as a passionate industrial engineer (IE) does. To do this the IE does not design fighter aircraft or smartphones. He hunts for the right methods, ideas, tools, technology, and human engagement, to profitably deliver products or services by their suppliers, nonstop. As is also true globally, our survey now indicates that by far the largest demand for industrial engineers in India is moving to data analytics, data science, robot applications, AI/ML, and Industry 4.0, from factory-anchored production management. Young IE graduates, being particularly endowed in analytics and advanced computing methods, prefer and are getting rapidly into India’s vast software sector, Big Data projects, Analytics applications, AI/ML, and telecom resource deployment.

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