Production and industrial engineering

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 2nd edition is a complete revision with an update of the methods that have been investigated recently and that are now fully accepted by the adhesion community.

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

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 handbook provides a comprehensive but concise reference resource for the vast field of petroleum technology.

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).

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.