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  2. Industrial and production engineering - Wikipedia

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    The roots of the industrial engineering profession date back to the Industrial Revolution.The technologies that helped mechanize traditional manual operations in the textile industry including the Flying shuttle, the Spinning jenny, and perhaps most importantly the Steam engine generated Economies of scale that made Mass production in centralized locations attractive for the first time.

  3. Industrial management - Wikipedia

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    Industrial management is a branch of engineering which facilitates the creation of management systems and integrates the diverse engineering processes. Industrial Management deals with industrial design, construction, management, and application of scientific and engineering principles to improve the entire industrial infrastructure and industrial processes.

  4. Engineering management - Wikipedia

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    Engineering management is the application of engineering methods, tools, and techniques to business management systems. Engineering management is a career that brings together the technological problem-solving ability of engineering and the organizational, administrative, legal and planning abilities of management in order to oversee the operational performance of complex engineering-driven ...

  5. Industrial engineering - Wikipedia

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    There is a general consensus among historians that the roots of the industrial engineering profession date back to the Industrial Revolution.The technologies that helped mechanize traditional manual operations in the textile industry including the flying shuttle, the spinning jenny, and perhaps most importantly the steam engine generated economies of scale that made mass production in ...

  6. W. Brian Arthur - Wikipedia

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    W. Brian Arthur was born in 1945 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.He received his BSc in electrical engineering at Queen's University Belfast (1966), an M. A. in Operational Research (1967) at Lancaster University, Lancaster, England, and an M. A. in Mathematics at the University of Michigan (1969).

  7. History of engineering - Wikipedia

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    The ziggurats of Mesopotamia, the persepolic in Iran the pyramids and Pharos of Alexandria in ancient Egypt, cities of the Indus Valley civilization, the Acropolis and Parthenon in ancient Greece, the aqueducts, Via Appia and Colosseum in the Roman Empire, Teotihuacán, the cities and pyramids of the Mayan, Inca and Aztec Empires, and the Great Wall of China, among many others, stand as a ...

  8. Henry Gantt - Wikipedia

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    Henry Laurence Gantt (/ ɡ æ n t /; May 20, 1861 – November 23, 1919) was an American mechanical engineer and management consultant who is best known for his work in the development of scientific management.

  9. William Brown (industrial relations expert) - Wikipedia

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    William Arthur Brown, CBE (22 April 1945 – 1 August 2019 [1]), also known as Willie Brown, was an academic specialising in the field of industrial relations, [2] who served as Master of Darwin College, Cambridge.