@AlmostThere2018. Pm me if you want to. My son plans on doing what your saying. Manufacturing is really just one subset of Industrial. My son plans on going into business management in tech…lol… His first internship was on the project development team of a known tech company and 2 of his bosses were industrial engineers. What your describing is exactly what industrial engineering is. You can really go into many different areas with it.
Just an idea but not limited to… https://ioe.engin.umich.edu/academics/undergrad/programs/
He actually learned scrum business technique at his internship and brought it back to his tech club he started 3 years ago at school. https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/agile/scrum
He was in daily business meetings and given projects that had to do with analysis and cost savings for the company. Lots of these kids don’t really need an MBA but I assume some do get them.
BTW… All that fancy calculus… He mostly used Excell… Lol… He now knows sql and sees some benefit to that as well.
FYI…