Industrial management

Industrial management is a branch of engineering which creates management systems and integrates engineering processes. Industrial management uses industrial design, construction, management, and application of scientific and engineering principles to improve the industrial infrastructure and processes. Industrial managers can be said to be responsible for the proper and most efficient interaction of "the 4Ms": man, material, machine and method. Industrial management also involves the study of the performance of machines. Specialists are employed to keep machines in good working condition and to ensure the quality of their production. The flow of materials through the plant is supervised to ensure that neither workers nor machines are idle. Constant inspection is made to keep output up to standard. The term industrial company is generally applied to a manufacturing firm that, contrary to a crafts business, produces consumer durables in factories from raw materials in mass and serial production (a division of labor) using modern manufacturing machines.