工业工程专业英语复习(完整版)

CHARTER 2

Industrial engineers are great at solving problems.

工业工程师非常善于解决问题。

New technologies have improved accuracy and speed and generally have increased the IE’s ability to cover a more diverse set of interests.

新技术已经提高了精确度和速度并逐渐提高了工业工程师们解决更多样问题的能力。

The problems associated with renaming IE departments to describe their particular function may have more to do with appearance than with the actual job being performed.

将工业工程部重新命名，以明确描述其具体职能，期间所所出现的问题与其说与实际完成的工作有关，倒不如说与问题的表象有关。

Most IEs eventually must sell their ideas and plans to management, which often requires above-average communication skills. For many IE graduates, this is a tough challenge.

许多工业工程师都必须要推销自己的想法和计划给管理部门，这常常需要较好的交流技巧.可这对于工业工程的毕业生来说是个很大的挑战.

With all of these challenges facing the IE profession, there may be some who doubt the IEs’future. But if the individual IE will assume the role as a change implementer --- not a change follower --- broad opportunities are on the horizon.

工业工程行业所面临的这些挑战会使一些人担心工业工程师的前途。然而，如果每个工业工程师都承担起变化的实施者而不是变化的追随者的角色，则广泛的机会就会出现. Industrial engineers seeking to expand their opportunities and improve the quality of operations are now looking at the entire process, rather than just a particular task or business function.

在质量运动中寻求更广机遇和进步的工业工程师们现在关注整个过程，而不仅仅是一个特别的工作或商业功能。

Two areas that may be of special importance to IEs in the coming years include information technology (IT) and business process redesign. As IT continues to evolve, technological advancements will have a big impact on how companies look at business processes of the next decade. Working together, IT and BPR has the potential to create a new type of industrial engineering, changing the way the discipline is practiced and the skills necessary to practice it.

信息技术和业务流程再造这两个领域未来对工业工程师们特别重要。随着信息技术的发展，先进的技术将影响企业在下个世纪的商业进程。信息技术和业务流程再造的联合操作有创造一个新型的工业工程的潜力。它将改变实用的准则和实际操作的技能。

CHARTER 4

Operations research as defined by the Operations Research Society of America, “is concerned with scientifically deciding how to best design and operate man-machine systems, usually under conditions requiring the allocation of scarce resources.”Important to the field is the development, testing, and use of models to predict various outcomes under differing conditions or to optimize the outcome for a given condition.

美国运筹学学会将运筹学定义为：在需要对紧缺资源进行分配的前提下决定如何最好的设计和运作人-机系统的决策科学。这个领域的重点是发展，检测和应用模型去预测在不同条件下的各种结果，或者优化给定条件下的结果。

The networks of queues can represent the situations such as the flow of messages through a communication network, job through a computer system, or products through centers in a factory. 网络排队的情况等同于信息流通过通信网络，工作通过计算机系统，或产品通过加工中心。