Industrial Revolution 4.0 has changed work by automating dangerous, repetitive jobs and allowing people to focus on intellectual work. This will transform job types in coming years. Industrial engineering management applies scientific methods and results-oriented approaches to solve real-life problems. It draws on multiple disciplines to improve task methods, integrate group tasks, and evaluate results. As work increasingly involves teams, industrial engineers must understand technical, organizational and behavioral aspects to effectively manage dynamic environments.

1. THE ROLE OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
MANAGEMENT IN THE NEW ERA OF INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTION 4.0
Josephine Surya
20190900007
STUDY PROGRAM INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
FACULTY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
BUDDHI DHARMA UNIVERSITY

2. Indonesia has started a new era of Industrial Revolution 4.0 where the changes occurred
had a profound effect on the world’s ecosystem and the ways of life. In this era, all of the
changes are believed to be able to improve the economic system and also the quality of life. It
is also maintain the quantity and quality of goods and services products, and the use of
machines in manufacture and the study (BKPM, 2019). Industrial engineer profession depends
on not only in the ability to operate the facilitation and organisational change but more than
that, to anticipate and change the process itself. In industrial area, “knowledge-worker” is
pivotal for a different management style than the “old school” unskilled worker (Ivancevich &
Duening, 2001).
Based on the information above, Industrial Revolution 4.0 has change the work itself.
The most radical change in the workplace is driven by automation; dangerous, laborious and
repetitive jobs are being transferred to machines, and people can do more intellectual jobs. It
has just begun and will drastically transform the types of jobs in coming years and decades. All
the fields, include management and manufacturing, will use the automation computerized
recording systems (Nam, 2019).
General Electric executive, Jack Welch said that, “In manufacturing, we try to stamp
out variance. With people, variance is everything,” referred to industrial engineering
management that various types of training should be standardized, providing workers with the
necessary tools and knowledge both in managerial and engineering areas by applying scientific
methods and results-oriented approach for real life problem solving (Welch & Byrne, 2001).
Industrial engineering directs the efficient conduct of manufacturing, construction,
transportation, or even commercial enterprises of any undertaking, indeed in which human
labor is directed to accomplishing any kind of work. Industrial engineering has drawn upon
mechanical engineering, upon economics, sociology, psychology, philosophy, accountancy, to
fuse from these older sciences a distinct body of science of its own. It is the inclusion of the

3. economic and the human elements especially that differentiates industrial engineering from the
older established branches of the profession (Going, 1911).
Another author, Thamhain HJ. stated that industrial engineering management has
become so much ubiquitous that is hardly regarded anymore. The main focus is on the process,
neither the basic knowledge which have been devised by industrial engineers. This concepts
make both knowledge-based and unskilled workers more productive. When some critical or
complex tasks are achieved, it must be a team achievement, not individual. Work is hence
mostly a team job, and the leader must orchestrate the team to be effectively managed in
dynamic, environments, technical interaction, organisational and behavioral aspects in order to
execute their jobs (HJ, 1992).
According to Lyndall F. Urwick, industrial engineering is that branch of engineering
knowledge and practices which are:
1. Analyzes, measures, and improves the method of performing the tasks assigned to
individuals;
2. designs and install better systems of integrating tasks assigned to a group;
3. specifies, predicts, and evaluates the results obtained.
It does so by applying to materials, equipment, and work specialized knowledge, skill in the
mathematical and physical sciences, the principles and methods of engineering analysis and
design. Since however, work has to be carried out by people; engineering kowledge needs to
be supplemented by knowledge derived from the biological and social sciences (Urwick, 1963).
I conclude that an industrial engineer has the ability as the main driver of industrial
progress. The ability is arguably as the science of hodgepodge that makes us multitasking. With
the addition of special expertise such as in the field of management, manufacturing, technology,
informatics, and etc., industrial engineers can be master in various fields of work. Since it offers
various work areas, industrial engineering engage problems that force us to choose which

4. sector to work in future years. By concerning this issue, industrial engineering can be
transformative process in order to determine what is necessary method to executing jobs which
like planning and delivering three-stage change (effieciency, technology, and system changes)
(Tonelli, et al., 2013).
By having knowledge management, a process to regenerate the organisation’s ability
in order to execute business become more sufficient. The goal is to produce projects with high
quality and in less time. It can also improve the competitive edge of firms (Mezher, et al., 2005).
Industrial engineers translate the goals of organisation, the constraints imposed, and to find the
best solutions; providing improvement. This would need some industrial expertise in order to
prepare Indonesia in the industrial era 4.0 (Shtub & Cohen, 2016).

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