Manufacturing/Production/Industrial Eng - which is which?

[GliderRider]

If you have worked in any of the above roles, or with people who were, what do they mean to you?

My understanding has always been that:

• The Industrial Engineer designs and optimises the process. i.e. the flow through the factory.

• The Manufacturing Engineer identifies and removes production bottlenecks, overcomes quality issues and reduces cost, probably with a bit of overlap with the Industrial Engineer.

• The Production Engineer is concerned with bills of materials etc, MRP systems and ensuring the right bits are in the right place at the right time.

I'm forever seeing jobs advertised which have the title of one of these, but the job description of another. Whilst I can understand HR not appreciating the nuances, you would think the manager requiring the bodies might?

[Fusion777]

I’m a Production Engineer (for over 13 years). Manufacturing and Production engineers are essentially the same- there tends to be no real change in job spec between the two titles.

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GliderRider said:

If you have worked in any of the above roles, or with people who were, what do they mean to you?

My understanding has always been that:

• The Industrial Engineer designs and optimises the process. i.e. the flow through the factory.

• The Manufacturing Engineer identifies and removes production bottlenecks, overcomes quality issues and reduces cost, probably with a bit of overlap with the Industrial Engineer.

• The Production Engineer is concerned with bills of materials etc, MRP systems and ensuring the right bits are in the right place at the right time.

I'm forever seeing jobs advertised which have the title of one of these, but the job description of another. Whilst I can understand HR not appreciating the nuances, you would think the manager requiring the bodies might?

IANAE but there seems to be a fair bit of potential overlap to me.

I work in Finance and different organisations have different job titles for what is basically the same role. At the end of the day what matters is what is on the Job Description