Production and industrial engineering

These proceedings include a collection of papers on a range of topics presented at the 12th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM) in Brisbane, 2 - 4 August 2017.

This book reveals how a generative design process capitalizes on understanding humans in context to deliver appropriate innovation.

This book introduces readers to the core principles and methodologies of product development, and highlights the interactions between engineering design and industrial design.

Mechanics of Additive and Advanced Manufacturing, Volume 8 of the Proceedings of the 2018 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the eighth volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book discusses the latest advances in affective and pleasurable design.

This book explores the application of external physical fields to the solidification processing of metallic alloys.

This volume includes selected and reviewed papers from the 4th International Congress of Automotive and Transport Engineering, held in Cluj, Romania, in September 2018.

This book addresses a wide range of issues relating to the theoretical substantiation of the necessity of Industry 4.

This book discusses the latest advances in manufacturing  and process control, with a special emphasis on digital manufacturing and intelligent technologies for manufacturing and industrial processes control.

This book presents modeling methods and algorithms for data-driven prediction and forecasting of practical industrial process by employing machine learning and statistics methodologies.

This book provides some regional aspects considered by manufacturing firms in their decisions to gain competitiveness and have effects on the performance of their supply chains (SC).

This edited monograph presents a selection of research contributions on eco-factories of the future.

This book presents the integration of new tools, the modification of existing tools, and the combination of different tools and approaches to create new technical resources for assisting the innovation process.

This book trains engineers and students in the practical application of machining dynamics, with a particular focus on milling.

This book reports on topics at the interface between manufacturing, mechanical and chemical engineering.

This book presents the proceedings of the 3rd International Joint Conference - ICIEOM-ADINGOR-IISE-AIM-ASEM (IJC2017) "e;XXIII International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management"e;, "e;International ADINGOR Conference 2017"e;, "e;International IISE Conference 2017"e;, "e;International AIM Conference 2017"e; and "e;International ASEM Conference 2017"e;, which took place at UPV (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia) from July 6th to 7th, 2017.

This book covers the strategic use of continuous improvement (CI) techniques for manufacturing performance improvement.

This book presents the proceedings of the 3rd Brazilian Technology Symposium (BTSym), which is a multi/trans/interdisciplinary event offering an excellent forum for presentations and discussions of the latest scientific and technological developments in various areas of research, with an emphasis on smart design and future technologies.

This book provides an overview of friction stir welding and friction stir spot welding with a focus on aluminium to aluminium and aluminium to copper.

This book presents computational and statistical methods used by intelligent systems within the concept of Industry 4.

This is the Proceedings of the 20th International Congress on Project Management and Engineering, that was held at the Technical University of Cartagena, Spain, from July 13 to 15, 2016.

The conference aims at forming a unique platform to bring together academicians and practitioners from industrial engineering and management engineering as well as from other disciplines working on production function applying the tools of operational research and production/operational management.

The book contains the latest developments in the field of life cycle assessment (LCA) and its application.

This book presents the state of the art of learning factories.

This book provides a solid background for understanding the immediate past, the ongoing present, and the emerging trends of additive manufacturing, with an emphasis on innovations and advances in its use for a wide spectrum of manufacturing applications.

This book describes approaches, opinions, and concepts for new and emerging solutions and technologies that could be successfully applied in the configuration, optimization and management of supply networks in the highly volatile environment of today's global economy.

This book discusses the functional ink systems of graphene and related two-dimensional (2D) layered materials in the context of their formulation and potential for various applications, including in electronics, optoelectronics, energy, sensing, and composites using conventional graphics and 3D printing technologies.

This book gives a contemporary and comprehensive overview of the physics of lightning and protection systems, based on nearly 40 years of research, teaching, and consultancy work in this area.

This volume contains the Proceedings of the First International Congress?

This book presents the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on the Industry 4.

This proceedings volume contains papers that have been selected after review for oral presentation at ROMANSY 2018, the 22nd CISM-IFToMM Symposium on Theory and Practice of Robots and Manipulators.

This book introduces readers to the "e;Jaya"e; algorithm, an advanced optimization technique that can be applied to many physical and engineering systems.

This textbook fosters information exchange and discussion on all aspects of introductory matters of modern mechanical engineering from a number of perspectives including: mechanical engineering as a profession, materials and manufacturing processes, machining and machine tools, tribology and surface engineering, solid mechanics, applied and computational mechanics, mechanical design, mechatronics and robotics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer, renewable energies, biomechanics, nanoengineering and nanomechanics.

This book introduces microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) packaging utilizing polymers or thin films - a new and unique packaging technology.

This book is a practical guide to downhole rock sampling and coring concepts, methods, systems, and procedures for practitioners and researchers.

This proceedings volume presents the latest research from the worldwide mass customization & personalization (MCP) community bringing together new thoughts and results from various disciplines within the field.

This book explains the implementation of just in time (JIT) production in an industrial context, while also highlighting the application of various, vital lean production tools.

This book presents current developments in smart city research and application regarding the management of manufacturing systems, Industry 4.

This book offers new transparent views and step-by-step methods for performance evaluation of a set of units using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).

This book presents selected papers from the international conference on advanced manufacturing and materials sciences (ICAMMS 2018).

This textbook is for readers new or returning to the practice of optimization whose interest in the subject may relate to a wide range of products and processes.

This book provides an overview of training and teaching methods, as well as education strategies, for Additive Manufacturing (AM) and its application in different business sectors.

This book covers the various advanced manufacturing processes employed by manufacturing industries to improve their productivity in terms of socio-economic development.

This book represents the first ever scientific monograph including an in-depth analysis of all major field-assisted sintering techniques.

With a special focus on private label food brands and manufacturer brands, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the fast-moving consumer goods marketing landscape.

This textbook presents theory and practice in the context of automatic control education.

The book develops manufacturing concepts and applications beyond physical production and towards a wider manufacturing value chain incorporating external stakeholders that include suppliers of raw materials and parts, customers, collaborating manufacturing companies, manufacturing service providers, and environmental organisations.

This book focuses on advanced processing of new and emerging materials, and advanced manufacturing systems based on thermal transport and fluid flow.

This book reports on advanced theories and methods in three related fields of research: applied physics, system science and computers.

This updated, second edition provides readers with an expanded treatment of the FEM as well as new information on recent trends in rapid prototyping technology.