Industrial engineering has changed so radically within the past two decades that the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) has been considering changing its name to something broader. The term “engineering” often connotes development of a process or production system; but, “industrial” has changed from manufacturing to service-based operations. This is why the following top 50 industrial engineering blogs contain writings about financial engineering, operations research and operations, project and supply-chain management, product lifecycle management (PLM), statistics, analytics and machine learning blogs. (more…)