Industrial engineering is one of the earliest fields to utilize computers in research, education, and practice. Over the years, computers and electronic communication have become an integral part of industrial engineering.

The journal aims at an audience of researchers, educators and practitioners of industrial engineering and associated fields. It publishes original contributions to the development of new computerized methodologies for solving industrial engineering problems, and applications of these methodologies to problems of interest to the broad industrial engineering and associated communities. It encourages submissions that expand the frontiers of the fundamental theories and concepts underlying industrial engineering techniques.

《Computers & Industrial Engineering》是一本由PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD出版商出版的专业工程技术期刊，该刊创刊于1976年，刊期Bimonthly，该刊已被国际权威数据库SCIE收录。在中科院最新升级版分区表中，该刊分区信息为大类学科：工程技术 2区，小类学科：计算机：跨学科应用 2区；工程：工业 2区；在JCR（Journal Citation Reports）分区等级为Q1。该刊发文范围涵盖计算机：跨学科应用等领域，旨在及时、准确、全面地报道国内外计算机：跨学科应用工作者在该领域取得的最新研究成果、工作进展及学术动态、技术革新等，促进学术交流，鼓励学术创新。2021年影响因子为7.18，平均审稿速度约11.1个月。