The globalization of markets poses enormous challenges for the field of industrial engineering, since vital aspects such as supply and demand are becoming phenomena of constant analysis. For this reason, and in order to learn about the instruments proposed by statistics to facilitate this type of study, the results of a literature review are presented below, which identifies the mechanisms that can be associated with economic analysis and market projections. As a result, we obtain postulates of timely application in this type of requirements and the conclusion points to great opportunities for optimization for the professional practice of the industrial engineer in search of continuous improvement of business processes.

The dynamics of formation of the industrial engineer is projected towards scenes of major competitiveness, so in the measure that the requirements of the economies and productive areas change, also they must change the ways of approaching and giving solution to the requirements of interest. With the purpose of analyzing how they come renewing aspects related to the training to discipline of this professional, there are exposed later the results of a bibliographical review that it took as a purpose, to penetrate into the tools that from the statistics the industrial engineer must receive to give response to the market researches. The results allow to view a sinnúmero of instruments that can use as forceful form for the generation of new alternatives in the constant improvement that is looked in an inherent way from this field of the engineering.