Other manufacturing technologies

Design for Manufacturability: How to Use Concurrent Engineering to Rapidly Develop Low-Cost, High-Quality Products for Lean Production shows how to use concurrent engineering teams to design products for all aspects of manufacturing with the lowest cost, the highest quality, and the quickest time to stable production.

For some organizations, Lessons Learned (LL) is an informal process of discussing and recording project experiences during the closure phase.

During the next 10 years, an estimated 40-50 percent of the partners in public accounting firms will retire.

If you've employed consultants and embarked on a Lean transformation only to find your efforts stall after the consultants leave, this book will teach you what you must do to stay the course over the long term.

Based on a bestselling book originally published in Japanese, Manufacturing Technology Transfer: A Japanese Monozukuri View of Needs and Strategies offers time-tested methods and little-known tips for achieving successful transfer of technology along with the skills required to operate that technology.

Change Management: Manage Change or It Will Manage You represents a substantial core guidance effort for Change Management practitioners.

The basic principle of the Theory of Constraints (TOC) is the impossibility of running a balanced factory at 100 percent capacity.

As machining processes become more advanced, so does the science behind them.

As machining processes become more advanced, so does the science behind them.

Henry Ford's industrial innovations were directly responsible for the transformation of the United States into the most productive, affluent, and powerful nation on Earth.

To better understand and improve your systems, you must measure and map their essential characteristics.

Updated yearly to match changing requirements, this guide is designed to help you understand the criteria for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

It is estimated that U.

This book explains how to use Lean principles to drive innovation and strategic portfolio planning.

This textbook teaches the key business and marketing principles needed to successfully design and launch new products and services in an international marketplace.

Recycling of materials in building and infrastructure applications are global concerns driven by natural resource preservation needs of modernized countries and sustainable development of emerging countries.

Recent advances in green technologies and sustainable development deals with cutting-edge research and innovative ideas in different categories of green technologies and operational aspects of sustainable development including renewable energy sources, power systems, mathematical ecol?

Textile Technology and Design addresses the critical role of the interior at the intersection of design and technology, with a range of interdisciplinary arguments by a wide range of contributors: from design practitioners to researchers and scholars to aerospace engineers.

Textile Technology and Design addresses the critical role of the interior at the intersection of design and technology, with a range of interdisciplinary arguments by a wide range of contributors: from design practitioners to researchers and scholars to aerospace engineers.

The development of digital textile printing at the end of the twentieth century has had a profound effect on the design, creation, use and understanding of textiles.

The development of digital textile printing at the end of the twentieth century has had a profound effect on the design, creation, use and understanding of textiles.

Fully revised and with a new chapter and international case studies, this second edition of the best-selling book traces how artists and designers continue to adapt and incorporate 3D printing technology into their work and explains how the creative industries are directly interfacing with this new technology.

Fully revised and with a new chapter and international case studies, this second edition of the best-selling book traces how artists and designers continue to adapt and incorporate 3D printing technology into their work and explains how the creative industries are directly interfacing with this new technology.

To work with the materials of tomorrow, design students across visual arts disciplines need to understand the cutting edge of today.

This book provides knowledge about the process of creating and designing products based on an Industry 4.

A Public Sector Journey to Operational Excellence links effective government operations to the ability to accomplish bold social goals.

First published in 1926, "e;Weaving Patterns of Yesterday and Today"e; is a comprehensive handbook on the textile industry, dealing with every aspect from the basic materials and tools to bleaching, finishing, and beyond.

"e;Weaving Patterns of Yesterday and Today"e; explores the history of weaving and weaving patterns, first looking at its origins before walking the reader trough the various methods used to produce different patterns.

Contained within this book is a classic guide to weaving, focusing on weaving narrow pieces of fabric.

Volume two of the "e;Hand Books of the Textile Industry"e; contains information on the manufacture of woven fabrics and related materials, describing in detail the different types of yarn and how to use a loom.

This classic guide contains a complete course on plate metal working, originally written for novices and students.

"e;Art Of Coppersmithing"e; is a detailed and interesting treatise on the subject, exploring its history and development and giving precise, illustrated instructions as to how various results are achieved.

Follow instructions on how to make leather items.

This book contains a classic handbook on the art of decorating leather, with information on tools and equipment, materials, techniques, common problems, and many other related aspects.

This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to decorating leather, with information on staining, painting, modelling, tools and equipment, and many other related aspects.

Few subjects related to the design or construction of machinery are of greater importance than the subject of bearings.

Japanese manufacturers have made concepts like kaizen (continuous improvement), poka-yoke (error-proofing), and just-in-time famous.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

This antique text comprises a comprehensive and practical manual for aspiring students of leatherworking, complete with many illustrations and original designs by the author.

This informative book comprises a comprehensive manual of the varying methods used in leatherworking.

This antique book contains a detailed step by step guide to making toy animals out of leather.

The making of bags and purses with leather is one of the oldest and most universal of its uses.

Detailed in this text are a variety of leatherworking techniques and guides that will instruct the reader on how to make plethora of serviceable and decorative items.

This antique text contains one of a series of pamphlets known as the 'Merit Badge Library', written with the intention of providing American boy scouts with the information required to attain certain merit badges.

First published in 1913, this book contains a fascinating treatise on Japanese swords, in particular the 'katana', 'wakizashi', and 'tachi'.