Industrial and production engineering is an interdisciplinary discipline
the includes manufacturing technology, engineering sciences, management
science, and optimization of complex processes, systems, or organizations. It is
concerned with the understanding and application of engineering procedures in
manufacturing processes and production methods. Industrial and production
engineering includes three areas: Mechanical engineering (from where the
production engineering comes from), industrial engineering, and management
science. The objective is to improve efficiency, drive up effectiveness of
manufacturing, quality control, and to reduce cost while making their products
more attractive and marketable. Industrial engineering is concerned with the
development, improvement, and implementation of integrated systems of people,
money, knowledge, information, equipment, energy, materials, as well as analysis
and synthesis. The principles of IPE include mathematical, physical and social
sciences and methods of engineering design to specify, predict, and evaluate the
results to be obtained from the systems or processes currently in place or being
developed. The target of production engineering is to complete the production
process in the smoothest, most-judicious and most-economic way. Production
engineering also overlaps substantially with manufacturing
engineering and industrial engineering. The concept of production engineering is
interchangeable with manufacturing engineering.
The B.Tech program in industrial and production engineering at Assam
engineering College was started in the year 1998 with 20 seats and is affiliated to
Assam science and technology university (ASTU). The course is approved by the
AICTE. Currently this program is attached to the department of mechanical
engineering vide government of Assam notification no. TEC 71/96/96 dated 8th
July 1998.
