Volume 1, Issue 1
Page 31
Pakistan – A heaven for Industrial Engineers
By Engr. Azeem Iqbal Founder and Chairperson PSIE
IT HAS been a great journey till now and I got to observe the world from a new dimension. Industrial engineering( IE) is really a guru to me in a way that no other engineering discipline could have taught me so well. The characteristic is that it develops a technical and analytic mind into a humane integrated form of an innovator is its endowment to the society.
Having gone through the basic IE education at University of Management and Technology, Lahore, I have become very optimistic rather curious that industrial engineering indeed has a great future in the country. This is a state suffering from inefficiency from upstairs to the downstairs; under developed in virtually every sector of life. It is a place where time studies, process optimizations, operations management, operations research, engineering management, human factors, logistics etc. all at the moment can play a vital role in substantially every section of the authorities.
Government and private departments in Pakistan at the moment are suffering at the hands of corrupt and inefficient leadership. They have made their own illegal processes fast and productive but at the cost of the collapsed native systems. Due to this however, I believe it seems as though government is actually creating job opportunities for industrial engineers in this region;“ Seems like we will be having a lot of work to do in the future, ha-ha!”
I have a keen interest in observing processes that I am surrounded with, whether it is to produce a tangible product or to serve in the opposite. In my country, queue lengths which adds a lot of waste to a particular system are so common that an Industrial Engineer
“ Pakistan, a heaven for Industrial Engineers!” because there is a lot of work to do and only industrial super engineers can save the world in this region.