现代工业工程与可持续发展

Modern Industrial Engineering and Sustainable Development

现代工业工程是实现可持续发展的重要手段。现代工业工程不仅通过减少单位产品全寿命周期的资源消耗,提高生产过程有效性等方式实现资源的节约,更重要的是通过以“绿色”为特征的先进生产方式减少制造系统对不可再生资源的消耗,实现环境可持续发展的目标。同时,现代工业工程从三个方面促进社会可持续发展:通过对生产系统中人的研究,协调人与机器关系;通过人力资源管理和产品订制化等手段提高人们生活质量,协调人与经济发展的关系;工业工程在非制造业中的广泛应用推动社会全面发展。现代工业工程与持续发展理论相结合是工业工程发展的重要方向之一。

Modem industrial engineering（ IE） contributes greatly to sustainable development. Modern IE accomplishes the goal of resource saving by means of improving the effectiveness of manufacturing process and decreasing the resource consuming per unit product through its life cycle. Advanced manufacturing systems reduce the depletion of natural resources so that sustainable environment development is achieved. Also modern IE promotes sustainable social development. The current trend is towards the combination of modern IE with sustainable development theory.