industrial engineering

1. 1.

   the branch of engineering that deals with the creation and management of systems that integrate people and materials and energy in productive ways

   Synonymsindustrial management

   Broaderengineering

Questions about industrial engineering

What does industrial engineering mean?

industrial engineering means "the branch of engineering that deals with the creation and management of systems that integrate people and materials and energy in productive ways".

What is another word for industrial engineering?

Close synonyms include industrial management. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is industrial engineering a common word?

industrial engineering is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.