Production and industrial engineering

This book comprehensively reviews, as well as analyzes, various aspects related to the Indian textile and apparel industries.

This book explores the ways that disciplinary convergence and technological advance are transforming systems engineering to address gaps in complex systems engineering: Transdisciplinary Systems Engineering (TSE).

Fundamental Theories of Mega Infrastructure Construction Management: Theoretical Considerations from Chinese Practices is a collection of decades of research and applications of managing megaprojects using theories of complex systems and management sciences.

This book provides readers with a snapshot of recent methods for non-stationary vibration analysis of machinery.

This book brings together some 20 chapters on state-of-the-art research in the broad field of computational plasticity with applications in civil and mechanical engineering, metal forming processes, geomechanics, nonlinear structural analysis, composites, biomechanics and multi-scale analysis of materials, among others.

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

This book discusses the latest advances in people-centered design, operation, and management of broadly defined advanced manufacturing systems and processes.

This book describes the latest research developments in modeling and simulation in industrial engineering.

This book covers recent developments in practically all spheres of mechanical engineering related to different kinds of gears and transmissions.

The present customers' consumption models result in an increasing number of used products that need to be collected and reused or disposed.

The book's general scope covers the latest advances in the development of artificial intelligence systems and their applications in engineering and manufacturing.

X-ray computed tomography has been used for several decades as a tool for measuring the three-dimensional geometry of the internal organs in medicine.

This book examines key aspects of the increasingly important phenomenon of reshoring - the decision of companies to reverse offshoring by bringing manufacturing back from overseas.

This book deals with stochastic combinatorial optimization problems in supply chain disruption management, with a particular focus on management of disrupted flows in customer-driven supply chains.

This book presents the proceedings of the XXII International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, International IIE Conference 2016, and International AIM Conference 2016.

This engaging volume presents the exciting new technology of additive manufacturing (AM) of metal objects for a broad audience of academic and industry researchers, manufacturing professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, hobbyists, and artists.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to Industry 4.

Offering an up-to-date account of systems theories and its applications, this book provides a different way of resolving problems and addressing challenges in a swift and practical way, without losing overview and grip on the details.

This contributed volume contains the research results of the priority programme (PP) 1480 "e;Modelling, Simulation and Compensation of Thermal Effects for Complex Machining Processes"e;, funded by the German Research Society (DFG).

This textbook covers the fundamentals of optimization, including linear, mixed-integer linear, nonlinear, and dynamic optimization techniques, with a clear engineering focus.

This book describes efficient and safe repair operations for pipelines, and develops new methods for the detection and repair of volumetric surface defects in transmission pipelines.

This book is a uniquely pedagogical while still comprehensive state-of-the-art description of LCA-methodology and its broad range of applications.

This book presents the proceedings from the 5th NEWTECH conference (Belgrade, Serbia, 5-9 June 2017), the latest in a series of high-level conferences that bring together experts from academia and industry in order to exchange knowledge, ideas, experiences, research results, and information in the field of manufacturing.

This book discusses challenges and solutions for the required information processing and management within the context of multi-disciplinary engineering of production systems.

This book introduces readers to additive technology and its application in different business sectors.

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 highlights the latest advances and trends in advanced signal processing (such as wavelet theory, time-frequency analysis, empirical mode decomposition, compressive sensing and sparse representation, and stochastic resonance) for structural health monitoring (SHM).

This book provides details and collective information on working principle, process mechanism, salient features, and unique applications of various advanced manufacturing techniques and processes belong.

This book deals with research in open challenges in Management Engineering in the 21st century, as well as selected opportunities and solutions to remedy them.

Building on the author's earlier Applied Simulation and Optimization, this book presents novel methods for solving problems in industry, based on hybrid simulation-optimization approaches that combine the advantages of both paradigms.

This book offers a unique guide to the three-dimensional (3D) printing of metals.

The brief explains in simple terms the essentials of polymer chemistry and how polymers came to be discovered by pioneers in this field.

This book describes machining technology from a wider perspective by considering it within the machining space.

This book presents the concept of functionally graded materials as well as their use and different fabrication processes.

This book deals with casting powders and explains how they work and how they are best used to minimise defects in the ninety per cent of world steel production that is continuously cast.

This book presents for the first time a methodology that combines the power of a modelling formalism such as colored petri nets with the flexibility of a discrete event program such as SIMIO.

This book provides a review of the latest research on emotion in engineering, with a particular focus on design and manufacturing.

This book describes and illustrates metal spray and spray deposition from the process engineering, metallurgical, and application viewpoints.

This book presents a domain of extreme industrial and scientific interest: the study of smart systems and structures.

The book gives a systematic and detailed description of a new integrated product and process development approach for sheet metal manufacturing.

This book presents a complete coverage of micromachining processes from their basic material removal phenomena to past and recent research carried by a number of researchers worldwide.

This book provides an overview on current sustainable machining.

This book gathers the best papers presented at the 19th International Congress on Project Management and Engineering, which was held in Granada, Spain in July 2015.

The book offers an integrated vision on Cloud and HPC, Big Data, Analytics and virtualization in computing-oriented manufacturing, combining information and communication technologies, service-oriented control of holonic architectures as well as enterprise integration solutions based on SOA principles.

This book introduces readers to cybersecurity and its impact on the realization of the Industry 4.

This textbook provides an introductory presentation of all types of lasers.

This edited book offers further advances, new perspectives, and developments from world leaders in the field of through-life engineering services (TES).

Addressing the challenge of improving battery quality while reducing high costs and environmental impacts of the production, this book presents a multiscale simulation approach for battery production systems along with a software environment and an application procedure.

This monograph analyses in detail the physical aspects of the elastic waves radiation during deformation or fracture of materials.

This contributed volume presents the research results of the program "e;Small machine tools for small work pieces"e; (SPP 1476), funded by the German Research Society (DFG).