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Production Engineering – a new approach to management or a new discipline? The paper discusses the origins and the evolution of production engineering, which, in 2010, became a separate discipline of technological sciences. It outlines the definition of production engineering as formulated by the American Institute of Industrial Engineers, in 1989. Based on that definition, the body of knowledge referring to the product lifecycle is described and, next, 10 areas – the building blocks of the production engineering discipline are delineated. All of them are based on IT technological developments.