Neuro‐industrial engineering: the new stage of modern IE ‐ from the human‐oriented perspective

This paper reviewed the three stages of the evolvement of Industrial Engineering from the human‐oriented perspective and analysed the new problems faced by existing theories in modern production process. According to the idea and the methodology of Neuro‐Industrial Engineering (Neuro‐IE), this paper gave a more detailed account of the applied branches of Neuro‐IE based on the combination of the neurophysiologic information from brain's reaction to the production environment and process, which is a brand‐new perspective in both Services Operation and Informatics. Meanwhile, the differences between traditional IE and Neuro‐IE, between Neuroergonomics and Neuro‐IE were discussed in somewhat detail. The basic hypotheses underlying traditional IE and Neuro‐IE, i.e. the cornerstones of them, were also compared.