Industrial engineering analyzes and optimizes systems to make them more efficient. Industrial engineers work in various industries like manufacturing, logistics, banking, and more. They determine things like the best location for a new store, the shortest delivery routes, and how to efficiently pack products. The document promotes studying industrial engineering and introduces the student organization SAIIE Maties, which organizes site visits, guest speakers, and social events to encourage the study of industrial engineering.

1. What is Industrial Engineering?

2. Do you think IE is like this?

3. Or maybe this…?

4. Getting dirty?

5. Machine Design?

6. Grease and Oil?

8. The IE’s hands weren’t
made for getting dirty…
they’re made for signing
cheques! Just Kidding

9. Examples in Industry
Tim Cook

10. • 47 000 pallets
• 24 hrs/day
• 400 deliveries/day
• Where would you pack the sugar?
• How many delivery trucks would you need?
• What’s the shortest route?

11. Where would you open a Scooters Pizza in order to serve the most
people, quickest?
Die Boord? Cloetesville? Town centre?
That’s what an Industrial Engineer finds out…

12. Plain and simple…
Industrial Engineers
analyse systems
and make them better.
[we optimise]

13. IE’s are also known as…
• Business Analysts (Scooters)
• Supply Chain Managers (Checkers)
• Process Engineers (Manufacturing)

14. Job Opportunities
• Banking
– Queuing, Financial Management
• Consumer Goods
– Tiger Brands, Unilever
• Production
– JIT, Lean
• Distribution & Logistics
– Checkers, Pharmacies, Mercedes-Benz, Airbus
• Financial
– Insurance (how many call centre agents required?)
• And SO much more!

15. What is SAIIE?

16. What is SAIIE Maties ?
A group of IE students who:
– Encourage the study of IE
– Site visits
– Informative guest speakers
– How to become a professional engineer
– Get IE students to network (a.k.a Socialising)

17. Talking about ‘Socialising’…
Welcome to the bi-annual
‘Bedryfs Braai’!

19. Still puzzled?
Feel free to ask any questions
& take a pamphlet!
We’ll even take you on a tour
of the faculty if you’d like…

20. Maties
Contact us! saiie_maties@sun.ac.za
WWW blogs.sun.ac.za/saiiematies
Saiie Maties

21. Saiie Maties
and stand a chance to
WIN !
two bottles of wine from

22. Study
Industrial Engineering!
Presented by SAIIE Maties