Production and industrial engineering

This book covers the recent developments in the production of micro and nano size products, which cater to the needs of the industry.

This handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and applications of scheduling in advanced planning and computer systems.

This book reports on cutting-edge research and technologies in the field of advanced manufacturing and materials, with a special emphasis on unconventional machining process, rapid prototyping and biomaterials.

This book offers the state of the art on the progress and accomplishments of 25 years of research at the Associate Laboratory LSRE-LCM - Laboratory of Separation and Reaction Engineering - Laboratory of Catalysis and Materials on lignin conversion to value-added products and their downstream separation.

This book showcases different processes of fabrication and processing applied to shape memory alloys.

This book reports the best practices that companies established in Latin America are implementing in their manufacturing processes in order to generate high quality products and stay in the market.

The book focuses on the next fields of computer science: combinatorial optimization, scheduling theory, decision theory, and computer-aided production management systems.

Providing a comprehensive overview of hot stamping (also known as 'press hardening'), this book examines all essential aspects of this innovative metal forming method, and explores its various uses.

This fully revised 3rd edition offers an introduction to optimal control theory and its diverse applications in management science and economics.

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 presents selected extended papers from The First International Conference on Mechanical Engineering (INCOM2018), realized at the Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

The book covers recent advances and progress in understanding both the fundamental science of lasers interactions in materials science, as well as a special emphasis on emerging applications enabled by the irradiation of materials by pulsed laser systems.

This book outlining the latest developments in engineering digital transformation gathers a selection of the best papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management (CIO 2017), held in Valencia, Spain, from July 5th to 6th, 2017.

This book focus on the challenges faced by cutting materials with superior mechanical and chemical characteristics, such as hardened steels, titanium alloys, super alloys, ceramics and metal matrix composites.

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.

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify.

This book highlights recent findings in industrial, manufacturing and mechanical engineering, and provides an overview of the state of the art in these fields, mainly in Russia and Eastern Europe.

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.