Industrial engineers improve organisational outcomes and predict and evaluate the results of change.
Among the many analysis tools and techniques industrial engineers use include, work-study, operations research, continuous improvement, value management and project management. All are based on the mathematical, physical, physiological and social sciences. Many specific techniques that were previously the exclusive professional domain of industrial engineers have become routinely used by all levels of the working community. Major organisational changes are generated by managers responding to global competition pressures, changes to the marketplace and society. Industrial engineers are best placed to analyse proposed changes, to predict the outcome of change and to advise on the more appropriate means of implementation.