While most engineering disciplines apply skills to very specific areas, industrial engineers work in many different kinds of businesses and industries.
Industrial engineers examine and analyze to find out how to do things better.
They design complex systems of people, processes, and technology to accomplish organizational goals. Whether it's shortening a rollercoaster line, streamlining operating room procedures, distributing products worldwide or manufacturing superior automobiles - it's all in a day's work for an industrial engineer. More than 1,500 small and large companies and government institutions, including the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Mint, have received help from ARRI since it opened in 1988. The group is currently focusing on projects in the area of liquid metal jet research, where they have already demonstrated the feasibility of jetting solders for printed wiring board assembly and jetting copper for printed wiring board manufacturing. Since its inception, the main purpose of DRAS has been to advance the state of the art in flexible assembly through applied research and prototyping activities of direct relevance and use to ARRI's industrial customers.