IP Engineers
Shah Md. Rajiur Rahman Sher- e- Bangla Hall , BUET
In DS of March 9, the letter from Mr. Ifthekhar Ahmed titled "Good RMG Manager" has drawn my attention. In his letter he identified some real life problems which a fresh engineer has to face as soon as he gets into the job. He is right to some extent, I suppose, but Industrial and Production Engineering (IPE) is somewhat different from traditional engineering (Mechanical, electrical and so on). As an IP student I would like to write something about Industrial and Production Engineering.The department started its undergraduate programme in 1997 in BUET. The programme blends courses in Manufacturing, Computer Aided Design/Manufacturing, Advanced Material Processing, Management Information Technology and Business communication along with basic engineering courses. So IP engineers are capable of working as production manager and finding optimal production policy, inventory manager for maintaining the optimum inventory level in warehouses or stores, safety engineer in making a work place safe and hazard free, quality engineer in developing and implementing quality assurance programme with the help of statistical quality techniques and so on. The basic idea of the department is to minimise the gap between technology and management. On the contrary, the major problem in the RMG industry, as identified by Mr. Anisul Haque, is lack of mid-level management system. So it is true that proper utilisation and proper treatment of IP engineers can develop the mid-level management system in the RMG sector.
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