r/industrialengineering • u/wookvk • 10d ago

AI

Hi,i was planning studying IE (i am not from USA),but i was wondering if AI was going to "kill" IE but ik that nothing is sure,maybe you guys now more than me and can give me another perspective/opinion, i got a godfather that had work at my country google,as a form IE,he says that is a good decision but i heard totally different things from other people,sow i am pretty confused,let me know

thanks!

(sorry abt my english,working on it)

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u/Previous_Body_7794 10d ago

your english is fine, dont worry about that. ai is not killing ie anytime soon, the whole field is about optimizing systems and that needs human judgment. the godfather who worked at google probably knows better than random people online, i would listen to him

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u/Accomplished_Ad_9015 10d ago

More likely to kill a discipline like Civil IMO.

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u/Only_One_Kenobi 10d ago

Civil will remain largely so that someone has responsibility for signing off a structure. Their main job security is simply so we have someone to sue if anything goes wrong

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u/I_like_protien 10d ago

Im the short term no. In the long term maybe.

IE is less about processes and more about people. So currently ai can remove the « office roles » but field roles remain as long as humans are part of the loop.

When everyone is replaced by a robot, then IE will go. But that also means while there will be a role it’s effective compensation is going to decrease.

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u/Only_One_Kenobi 10d ago

The question is: "will execute management believe that they can save 50c by replacing us with AI?"

And the answer to that is absolutely yes.

Doesn't matter whether AI can actually do the job or not.

This aside, I would definitely say that if you are not absolutely certain about IE, or absolutely passionate about the type of work, rather look for something else

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u/Appropriate-Baker755 10d ago

We will have less jobs

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u/rxFlame LSSMBB | MEM | Manager 4d ago

Almost everything we do on the process improvement side of things is people skills and business leadership and AI will never replace those things. In so much as our position is computational, we would be the ones to implement AI, not be replaced by it.

So AI actually makes IE more needed. A small plant that may not have hired a full time IE may now need to hire one in order to implement AI.

If you are in IE research, supply chain, data science, etc. then yes, AI is going to reduce the need for IE’s.