Production and industrial engineering

This book reports on cutting-edge technologies that have been fostering sustainable development in a variety of fields, including built and natural environments, structures, energy, advanced mechanical technologies as well as electronics and communication technologies.

This volume contains the Proceedings of the First International Conference of IFToMM Italy (IFIT2016), held at the University of Padova, Vicenza, Italy, on December 1-2, 2016.

This unique volume imparts practical information on the operation, maintenance, and modernization of heavy performance machines such as lignite mine machines, bucket wheel excavators, and spreaders.

This contributed volume contains the research results of the Cluster of Excellence "e;Integrative Production Technology for High-Wage Countries"e;, funded by the German Research Society (DFG).

This book presents basic knowledge on the examination of textile materials, from fibers to yarns and knitted or woven fabrics, using mathematical and physical methods.

This book presents a series of high performance product design (PD) and development best practices that can create or improve product development organization.

This authored monograph provides in-depth analysis and methods for aligning electricity demand of manufacturing systems to VRE supply.

This book provides an overview of metal casting technologies starting from its historical evolution to casting design strategies that are being followed today in foundries and other metal casting industries.

This book presents state-of-the-art research on forming processes and formed metal product development aided by the Finite Element Method (FEM).

This book presents the principles of plasma and heat spraying.

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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the main electrical technologies for process heating, which tend to be treated separately in specialized books.

This book addresses the evaluation and optimization of key elements in concentrating solar thermal (CST) technologies, such as solar receivers and working fluids, using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling.

This book gathers papers presented at the International Joint Conference on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing (JCM 2016), held on 14-16 September, 2016, in Catania, Italy.

This book gathers a selection of the best papers presented at the joint international conference ICIEOM-CIO-IIE 2015, offering recent research on industrial engineering, management and operations from an international and interdisciplinary perspective.

This volume presents the proceedings of the Joint International Conference of the XII International Conference on Mechanisms and Mechanical Transmissions (MTM) and the XXIII International Conference on Robotics (Robotics '16), that  was held in Aachen, Germany, October 26th-27th, 2016.

The volume will include selected and reviewed papers from CONAT - International Congress of Automotive and Transport Engineering to be held in Brasov, Romania, in October 2016.

The book summarizes the results of the European research project "e;Intelligent fixtures for the manufacturing of low rigidity components"e; (INTEFIX).

This book presents advances and innovations in grouping genetic algorithms, enriched with new and unique heuristic optimization techniques.

This book collects the most recent advances in mechanism science and machine theory with application to engineering.

This book gives a unified presentation of the research performed in the field of multiscale modelling in sheet metal forming over the course of more than thirty years by the members of six teams from internationally acclaimed universities.

This textbook is about three key aspects of system design: decision making under uncertainty, trade-off studies and formal risk analyses.

This book helps the reader to understand the specific properties of piezoelectric ceramic resonators.

This Brief reviews thermal processes in the food industry - pasteurization, sterilization, UHT processes, and others.

This textbook is intended for an introductory graduate level on process control, taught in most engineering curricula.

This book provides readers with a timely snapshot of ergonomics research and methods applied to design, development, prototyping, as well as evaluation, training and manufacturing of products, systems and services.

This is the first book to explore how Semantic Web technologies (SWTs) can be used to create intelligent engineering applications (IEAs).

This book addresses selected aspects of steel-deformation modelling, both at very high temperatures and under the conditions in which the liquid and the solid phases coexist.

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

This book focuses on emerging issues in ergonomics, with a special emphasis on modeling, usability engineering, human computer interaction and innovative design concepts.

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

This book focuses on the predictive capabilities derived from digital representation of humans in simulation or virtual environments.

This work presents a comprehensive investigation of the most significant renewable hydrogen production processes.

This book deals with complex problems in the fields of logistics and supply chain management and discusses advanced methods, especially from the field of computational intelligence (CI), for solving them.

This book provides technical data and information on unconventional- and inactive energy sources.

This book describes in great detail the semi-solid processing of aluminum alloys.

This book offers a detailed analysis of the key sectors in the Italian economy, with the focus especially on areas in which the economy excels, such as the automatic packaging machinery sector, pharmaceutical production, the food and wine industry, and tourism.

This book provides in-depth theoretical and practical information on recent advances in micro-manufacturing technologies and processes, covering such topics as micro-injection moulding, micro-cutting, micro-EDM, micro-assembly, micro-additive manufacturing, moulded interconnected devices, and microscale metrology.

This book describes improvements in the iron and steel making process in the past few decades.

This book provides comprehensive and integrated approaches for rigid and flexible object assembly.

This book provides an in-depth review of state-of-the-art orthopaedic techniques and basic mechanical operations (drilling, boring, cutting, grinding/milling) involved in present day orthopaedic surgery.

This book presents an internationally comprehensive perspective into the field of complex systems.

This book is part of a six-volume series on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience.

This proceedings volume contains papers that have been selected after review for oral presentation at ROMANSY 2016, the 21th CISM-IFToMM Symposium on Theory and Practice of Robots and Manipulators.

This new edition presents information and knowledge on the field of biomedical devices and surgical tools.

This book presents a precise approach for defect sizing using ultrasonics.

This book introduces the issues and problems that arise when implementing smart energy management for sustainable manufacturing in the automotive manufacturing industry and the analytical tools and applications to deal with them.

This book explores sustainability engineering through the lens of the manufacturing and chemical process industries to elucidate the safe and economic implementation of process designs used to transform raw materials into useful finished products.

This book provides a synthesis of recent developments in Axiomatic Design theory and its application in large complex systems.

This volumes consists of 59peer-reviewed papers, presented at the International Conference on SustainableDesign and Manufacturing (SDM-16) held in Chania, Crete Greece in April 2016.