Duration of the online course: 32 hours and 27 minutes
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Industrial engineering is the discipline that turns complex operations into reliable, measurable, and efficient systems. In this course, you will build a solid foundation in industrial engineering principles, learning how industries evolve, how organizations are designed to execute strategy, and how engineers make decisions that improve output without sacrificing quality. The focus is practical: you will connect core concepts to everyday challenges found in manufacturing and service environments, from organizing work and resources to designing facilities that support smoother flow and better performance.
You will explore the purpose of industrial engineering and the tools commonly used to reduce waste, increase productivity, and support continuous improvement. Along the way, you will develop the vocabulary and mindset needed to analyze processes, understand why certain methods work, and communicate your reasoning inside a technical or cross-functional team. The learning experience is reinforced through exercises that help you check your understanding and apply concepts to realistic scenarios.
A central theme of the course is organizational structure: how roles, coordination mechanisms, and departmentalization shape execution. You will see how different structural choices can accelerate decision-making, improve accountability, or introduce bottlenecks, and how culture influences what structures can achieve in practice. By linking structure to product and process needs, you will learn to recognize when a product-focused approach is helpful, when a process perspective is more effective, and what trade-offs leaders must manage as organizations scale.
The course also addresses plant location and plant layout decisions, which often determine long-term cost, responsiveness, and operational risk. You will understand how engineers evaluate location factors, compare alternative sites, and balance demand coverage with transportation, cost, and operational constraints. From there, you will connect layout types to production volume and variety, learning how facility arrangement influences lead time, material movement, coordination, and overall productivity.
Whether you are starting in mechanical and industrial basics, preparing for operations-related roles, or simply looking to understand how efficient systems are designed, this free online course provides a structured path to think like an industrial engineer and make smarter operational decisions.
Video class: Principle of Industrial Engineering
02m
Video class: Lec 01: Introduction
28m
Exercise: What are the three types of industries described in the presentation?
Video class: Lec 02: Introduction: Developments, Objectives, and Functions
38m
Exercise: What was a key contribution by A. Smith in 1776 to industrial engineering?
Video class: Lec 03: Introduction: Functions and Tools
38m
Exercise: What is the term used for the arrangement of facilities in industrial engineering when they are organized sequentially to facilitate continuous production of the same type of unit?
Video class: Lec 04: Tool of IE and Organizational Structure
31m
Exercise: Which tool in industrial engineering focuses on optimizing resource applications to minimize wastage and maximize productivity?
Video class: Lec 05: Organizational Structure
31m
Exercise: What is the primary purpose of establishing an organizational structure in industrial engineering?
Video class: Lec 06: Organizational Structure: Roles
30m
Exercise: Which of the following is NOT a method used for coordination across functions in an organization, according to the presented text?
Video class: Lec 07: Organizational Structure: Types
30m
Exercise: What is a disadvantage of the classical organizational structure?
Video class: Lec 08: Organizational Structure: Product Strategies
30m
Exercise: Which product strategy should be used for a product with low sales volume but unique specifications?
Video class: Lec 09: Organizational Structure: Process
29m
Exercise: What is a primary characteristic of the product focussed organizational structure in industrial engineering?
Video class: Lec 10: Organizational Structure and Culture
33m
Exercise: What are the three types of organizational structures discussed?
Video class: Lec 11: Organizational Structure: Principles
27m
Exercise: What is departmentalization in an organizational structure?
Video class: Lec 12: Plant Location
39m
Exercise: Which method is useful for identifying the location where a plant should be located to effectively serve customers who are scattered all around?
Video class: Lec 13: Plant Location
32m
Exercise: What is the primary factor affecting plant location selection?
Video class: Lec 14 : Plant Location
29m
Exercise: Which method provides greater freedom in site selection by giving relative importance to various factors?
Video class: Lec 15 : Plant Location
31m
Exercise: Which method, among those discussed, helps in showing the relationship between generated revenue, incurred production cost for goods or services, and the volume of units produced?
Video class: Lec 16: Plant Location
28m
Exercise: Which method minimizes the load and distance to be traveled when choosing a site for a plant?
Video class: Lec 17: Plant Location
30m
Exercise: Which method is used to minimize travel distance in plant location?
Video class: Lec 18: Plant Layout: Purpose and Types of Layout
33m
Exercise: What is a characteristic feature of a process layout in industrial engineering?
Video class: Lec 19: Plant Layout: Types of Layout
29m
Exercise: Which plant layout is best suited for high-volume production with limited variety?
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it was easy to learn, everything is explained thoroughly and you can always go back for a refresher.