History Of Industrial Engineering In Indonesia

History of  Industrial Engineering in Indonesia at the start of ITB Bandung Institute of Technology campus. The history of the establishment of Industrial Engineering at ITB education is inseparable from the conditions of practice in five undergraduate engine-tens. At that time, the profession’s degree Mechanical engineering is a continuation of the profession in the Dutch period, which is limited to the work of the operation and maintenance of machines or production facilities. Capital goods is fully imported, because in Indonesia there has been no engine factory.
If at that time, found relatively large workshops does the work for the design of steel construction such as those, among others, contained in Pasuruan city and Klaten, the job was still a part of the treatment for sugar mill machinery and farm product processing plant located in East Java and Central Java. Thus the design activities carried out by scholars of Mechanical Engineering at that time was still very limited in design and manufacture of spare parts are simply based on the examples of existing goods. Similar role for undergraduate Mechanical Engineering also occur in cement factories and in workshops railway.
At that time, in carrying out his profession as an undergraduate Mechanical Engineering with the task of machine operation and production facilities, the main challenge they face is how to keep the operation can be conducted smoothly and economically. So the focus of Mechanical Engineering undergraduate work at that time is loading the settings on the machines in order to become economically productive activities, and maintenance (maintenance) to maintain the condition that the machine is always ready to use.
At that time, a head of plant which is generally set in the rear-engine of education, and discipline is very strict in monitoring the condition of the engine. In the morning before the plant began operating, he tour the factory to check the machines to believe whether the means of production in a state saddled ready for a job.
This experience shows that the knowledge and design abilities are possessed by a graduate of Mechanical Engineering is not much utilized, but they just need a stock of knowledge management for the more able and better prepared in the management of a factory and large workshops.
Around the year 1955, it realized such experiences really need, so it came to the idea of ​​the need for additional tuition for students of Mechanical Engineering in the field of plant management.
In the same year, the Dutch left Indonesia since the crisis relations between Indonesia and the Netherlands, as a result, many factories which originally managed by the Dutch administrators, suddenly became a good vacuum of keadministrasian. This experience becomes an increasingly strong urge to continuously think about the idea of ​​alternative education in the educational field of expertise in Mechanical Engineering.
In early 1958, introduced several new courses in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, including: Corporate Science, Statistics, Production Engineering, Tata Calculate Cost and Economic Engineering. Since it began a new chapter in the education of Mechanical Engineering at ITB, the courses are optional began favored by students of Mechanical Engineering and Chemical Engineering and Mining.
Meanwhile, in the years around 1963-1964 Mechanical Engineering Section has started to produce some degree by a qualified knowledge of production management / production techniques. Production Engineering is growing with increasing types of courses. Subjects such as: Technical Procedures, Dimensional Measurement, Machine Tools, Non Destructive Testing, Tools and Safety Assistant enrich sufficient knowledge of Production Engineering students.
In the year 1966 – 1967, lectures at the Technical Production is growing. The course is based on industrial engineering began much introduced. Man-machine system, the material is no longer just based on the scope of manufacturing knowledge, but on a broader scope of enterprise and the environment. In the meantime, it began to be taught in the Department of subjects: Personnel Management, Corporate Administration, Industrial Statistics, Factory Layout Design, Feasibility Study, Investigation Operations, Inventory Control Quality Statistics and Linear Programming. So in 1967, the name of Production Engineering was officially changed to the Industrial Engineering and still shelter under Section Mechanical Engineering ITB.
In the year 1968 – 1971, began effort to build an independent Department of Industrial Engineering. The effort was realized on January 1, 1971.