Production and industrial engineering

This book focuses on the new direction of magnetic pulsed metal working by attraction of sheet metals.

This book illuminates advanced cutting and joining processes, what they are used for, and the capabilities of these manufacturing techniques, especially in micro- and nano-fabrication.

This book gathers the peer-reviewed papers presented at the seventh edition of the international workshop "e;Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing - SOHOMA'17"e;, held on October 19-20, 2017 and organized by the University of Nantes, France in collaboration with the CIMR Research Centre in Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Robotics at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania, the LAMIH Laboratory of Industrial and Human Automation Control, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambresis, France and the CRAN Research Centre for Automatic Control, Nancy at the University of Lorraine, France.

This book provides some recent research advances in the field of lean manufacturing.

This book summarizes the author's lifetime achievements, offering new perspectives and approaches in the field of metal cutting theory and its applications.

Focusing on the theory and applications of point processes, Point Processes for Reliability Analysis naturally combines classical results on the basic and advanced properties of point processes with recent theoretical findings of the authors.

This book advances the use of biodiesel-more environmentally friendly than traditional fossil fuels-by showing how it can be synthesized at a lower cost, with greater efficiency and as a more pure and stable product.

This book reports on the latest research and applications in the fields of sustainable manufacturing and remanufacturing, as well as process planning and optimization technologies.

This book introduces social manufacturing, the next generation manufacturing paradigm that covers product life cycle activities that deal with Internet-based organizational and interactive mechanisms under the context of socio-technical systems in the fields of industrial and production engineering.

This book introduces readers to robotics, industrial robot mechanisms, and types of robots, e.

This book explains how the specifics of Stiff Extrusion influence on the metallurgical properties of Extruded Briquettes.

This book aims to offer a thorough study and reference textbook on electrical machines and drives.

Written for students and practicing engineers working in automotive engineering, this book provides a fundamental yet comprehensive understanding of chassis systems and requires little prior knowledge on the part of the reader.

In this book, the history of the concepts critical to the discovery and development of aluminum, its alloys and the anodizing process are reviewed to provide a foundation for the challenges, achievements, and understanding of the complex relationship between the aluminum alloy and the reactions that occur during anodic oxidation.

This thesis reports on an innovative production-scheduling model for virtual computer-integrated manufacturing (VCIM) systems.

Mastering the complexity of innovative systems is a challenging aspect of design and product development.

This book discusses sustainable waste management technologies for managing end-of-life (EoL) post-consumer and packaging plastic solid waste (PSW) from domestic and commercial waste streams.

This book shows how to prepare titania rich slag from metallized ilmenite using thermal plasma processing.

This book addresses recycling technologies for many of the valuable and scarce materials from spent lithium-ion batteries.

The book presents an integrated planning concept for heat flows in production systems comprising various short term and long term related models.

Within the last decade, several industrialized countries have stressed the importance of advanced manufacturing to their economies.

This book explains the design and fabrication of any electronic enclosure that contains a printed circuit board, from original design through materials selection, building and testing, and ongoing design improvement.

This book presents a collection of papers on topics in the field of strategic mine planning, including orebody modeling, mine-planning optimization and the optimization of mining complexes.

This book offers an introduction to structural dynamics, ripple effect and resilience in supply chain disruption risk management for larger audiences.

This book provides insights into sensor development for structural health monitoring.

This book presents an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the production and use of microalgal biomass and bioproducts for energy generation.

The book presents the latest developments in narrow fabrics and smart materials from research institutions, machinery building companies and producers of such products, presented during the International Week of Narrow and Smart Textiles in Spring 2018 in Monchengladbach, Germany.

This book provides details on various micro and precision manufacturing and finishing operations performed by conventional and advanced processes, including micro-manufacturing of micro-tools and precision finishing of engineered components.

This book introduces the main concepts of manufacturing systems and presents several evaluation approaches for these systems' evaluation.

This book focuses on technical safety, means of expanding the current procedures, and making the related risks more predictable.

This book offers a unique approach to integrated high-temperature process modelling, intended to serve as a design aid for new metal processing technologies.

This book presents state-of-the-art research, challenges and solutions in the area of cloud-based cyber-physical systems (CPS) used in manufacturing.

This book provides users, pump manufactures, engineers, researchers and students with extensive information about pump's behavior in reverse operation.

This book is a comprehensive treatment of micro and nanofabrication techniques, and applies established and research laboratory manufacturing techniques to a wide variety of materials.

These proceedings exchange ideas and knowledge among engineers, designers and managers on how to support real-world value chains by developing additive manufactured series products.

Drawing on empirical insights from the field of desktop 3D printing, this book elaborates the concept of innovation communities as a pattern of open and distributed innovation.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of the most recent and advanced work on metallurgy sciences and technologies--including material characterization of complicated alloys, heat and surface treatment, ferrous metals metallurgy, and energy savings in pyrometallurgy--in the important Ural industrial region of Russia.

This monograph presents a state-of-the-art analysis of eco-friendly and aesthetic structures in wooden dome construction.

This book presents a compilation of over 200 numerical problems and solutions that students can use to learn, practice and master the Inventory Control and Management concepts.

This book presents the most important tools, techniques, strategy and diagnostic methods used in industrial engineering.

This book shows how jute waste is collected from industry and used as a cheaper source to extract and use cellulose.

This book presents statistical processes for health care delivery and covers new ideas, methods and technologies used to improve health care organizations.

This book highlights the industrial potential and explains the physics behind laser metal deposition (LMD) technology.

The volume presents a collection of 44 peer-reviewed articles from the First International Conference on Intelligent Systems in Production Engineering and Maintenance (ISPEM 2017).

This graduate textbook imparts the fundamentals of reliability and risk that can be connected mathematically and applied to problems in engineering and medical science and practice.

This book presents the methodology of environmental and financial performance evaluation in 3D printing processes using the MFCA and LCA.

The volume focuses on theoretical and computational approaches and involves areas such as simulation-based engineering and science, integrated computational materials engineering, mechanics, material science, manufacturing processes, and other specialized areas.

This book addresses a modern topic in reliability: multi-state and continuous-state system reliability, which has been intensively developed in recent years.

Mechanics of Additive and Advanced Manufacturing, Volume 9 of the Proceedings of the 2017 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the ninth volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book provides best-practice guidance and practical recommendations on the use of numerical simulation for probability of detection (POD) curve estimation in the study of non-destructive testing reliability.