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 .