The stages of development of industrial engineering pass through its development in several stages, in which many thinkers and pioneers of engineering play a major role in it, and these stages are:
The first industrial engineering development stage The work specialization stage (in English: Specialization): At this stage, the production method is divided into units, so that each unit has a specialized workforce, which increases productivity.
The second industrial engineering development stage Simplification work stage (English: Simplification): At this stage, steps are defined for each production process unit, because they are sequential and logical steps, resulting in a new design for the production system.
The third stage of industrial engineering development Standardization stage (in English: Standardization): where product standards and specifications are standardized, which results in the standardization of equipment and tools used in production.
Fourth industrial technique development stage Mass Production: In this stage, sophisticated production equipment and methods are used. To ensure production in large quantities, taking into account high production efficiency, and competitive product prices in the market.
The next stage of industrial engineering development The stage of scientific management (in English: Scientific Management): where the production system is managed, and management includes planning, design, measurement, and scheduling, and this stage also includes many tasks, namely: Studying methods of planning, scheduling, and production (English: Scheduling, Planning and Controlling).
Study equipment, labor and workplace requirements (in English: Industrial acumen design). The study of production methods and methods (in English: Process Design).
Work Design & Motion and Time Studies. Industrial integration stage (in English: Industrial Integration): At this stage, technical methods and modern mathematical methods are used for operations research, statistical operations, sociology, psychology, and various matters affecting industrial work, conditions, and technical departments. To realize industrial integration.
Industrial engineering pioneer
Among the pioneers of industrial engineering, who contributed greatly to its development:
[1] Samuel Colt: He was the first to come up with the idea of the assembly line.
Frederick Taylor (English: Frederick Taylor): He was the first to present the ideas of practical management (in English: Scientific Management), and the study of time and motion (in English: Study of Motion and Time).
Harrington Emerson: He describes the basic methods that increase production efficiency in his book, The Twelve Principles of Efficiency.
Henry Laurence Gantt: He was the one who developed the organization’s management plan.
Henry Ford: He was the first to use assembly lines to produce cars. Eliyahu M. Goldratt (English: Eliyahu M. Goldratt): He was the first to develop the theory of limitations and conditions (in English: Theory of Constraints), through which the most important factors that can hinder the progress of industrialization, or other processes, and the ways to repair identified.