Production and industrial engineering

This book highlights innovative solutions together withvarious techniques and methods that can help support the manufacturing sectorto excel in economic, social, and environmental terms in networked businessenvironments.

This book describes the latest efforts to develop aluminumnanocomposites with enhanced damping and mechanical properties and goodworkability.

This book comprisesrefereed papers from the 10th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management(WCEAM 2015), held in Tampere, Finland in September 2015.

Thisbook provides readers with a timely and comprehensive yet concise view on the field of fuzzy logic and its real-world applications.

This book introduces the most recent innovations in natural polymer applications in the food, construction, electronics, biomedical, pharmaceutical, and engineering industries.

This book focuses on the design of Robotic Flexible Assembly Cell (RFAC) with multi-robots.

Covering key topics in the fieldsuch as technological innovation, human-centered sustainable engineering andmanufacturing, and manufacture at a global scale in a virtual world, this bookaddresses both advanced techniques and industrial applications of key researchin interactive design and manufacturing.

This book analyzes the continuous operation of a power plant with condensing power units in combined heat and power mode (CHP-mode) over a period of one year.

This book describes industrial applications of polyolefins from the researchers' perspective.

This book describes various hybrid machining and finishing processes.

This book reports the elements required for implementing Just in Time (JIT) technique in companies.

This new edition provides an up-to-date coverage of important theoretical models in the scheduling literature as well as  significant scheduling problems that occur in the real world.

This book assesses the state of international manufacturing strategy and clarifies how recent developments, for example regarding configuration, technology, and the environment, are impacting on its content and direction and on its relationship to manufacturing performance.

This research monograph aims at presenting an integrated assessment approach to describe, model, evaluate and improve the eco-efficiency of existing and new grinding processes and systems.

Maximizing reader insights into the key scientific disciplines of Machine Tool Metrology, this text will prove useful for the industrial-practitioner and those interested in the operation of machine tools.

This second volume moves beyond a general introduction to product lifecycle management (PLM) and its principal elements to provide a more in-depth analysis of the subjects introduced in Volume 1 (21st Century Paradigm for Product Realisation).

This significantly updated edition looks at each stage in the life cycle of petroleum products, from exploration to end use, examining the environmental pressures on the oil industry and its response.

This book presents resent research advances in the area of eco-triobology.

This book covers design of experiments (DoE) applied in production engineering as a combination of manufacturing technology with applied management science.

This book provides a basis for the design and analysis of welded components that are subjected to fluctuating forces, to avoid failure by fatigue.

This book is about applied materials research in industry.

The objective of this book is to assist scientists and engineers select the ideal material or manufacturing process for particular applications; these could cover a wide range of fields, from light-weight structures to electronic hardware.

Providing a step-by-step guide for the implementation of virtual manufacturing using Creo Parametric software (formerly known as Pro-Engineer), this book creates an engaging and interactive learning experience for manufacturing engineering students.

This book demonstrates how to apply modern approaches to complex system control in practical applications involving knowledge-based systems.

This book presents the most recent advances in the research and applications of reconfigurable mechanisms and robots.

This book treats several subjects from the History of Mechanism and Machine Science, and also contains an illustrative presentation of the Museum of Engines and Mechanisms of the University of Palermo, Italy, which houses a collection of various pieces of machinery from the last 150 years.

This book presents a complete, in-depth analysis for on the impact of liquid sulfur dioxide and liquid sulfur trioxide to carry out complex and difficult sulfonations, as well as manufacture of sulfuric acid with a CAPEX requirement of less than half, an area requirement less than one-third, and no emission of sulfur dioxide.

The purpose of this monograph is to characterize and describe the quality of machined wood surfaces, whereas particular attention is given to the utility and to aesthetical values in product design.

This book guides readers through the systematic analysis of Arc Spraying: one of the most widespread and important thermal spraying methods.

This book explores emerging methods and algorithms that enable precise control of micro-/nano-positioning systems.

This book describes the phases for innovative metallurgical process development, from concept to commercialization.

The lessons in this fundamental text equip students with the theory of Computer Assisted Design (CAD), Computer Assisted Engineering (CAE), the essentials of Rapid Prototyping, as well as practical skills needed to apply this understanding in real world design and manufacturing settings.

A coherent, concise and comprehensive course in the statistics needed for a modern career in chemical engineering; covers all of the concepts required for the American Fundamentals of Engineering examination.

This monograph provides a methodological approach for establishing demand-oriented levels of energy transparency of factories.

This textbook introduces essential topics and techniques in production and efficiency analysis and shows how to apply these methods using the statistical software R.

This book covers recent research and trends in Manufacturing Engineering.

Analyzing maintenance as an integrated system with objectives, strategies and processes that need to be planned, designed, engineered, and controlled using statistical and optimization techniques, the theme of this book is the strategic holistic system approach for maintenance.

This book brings together papers from all spheres of mechanical engineering related to gears and transmissions, from fundamentals to advanced applications, from academic results in numerical and experimental research, to new approaches to gear design and aspects of their optimization synthesis and to the latest developments in manufacturing.

This book systematically introduces the development of simulation models as well as the implementation and evaluation of simulation experiments with Tecnomatix Plant Simulation.

Showcasing exemplars of how various aspects of design research were successfully transitioned into and influenced, design practice, this book features chapters written by eminent international researchers and practitioners from industry on the Impact of Design Research on Industrial Practice.

This book presents a social-psychology model delineating the factors that may influence in an altruistic manner sustainable behaviour (SB) of students, faculty and administrators in four higher education institutions (HEI) with very different economic and social characteristics.

This book presents the grind-hardening process and the main studies published since it was introduced in 1990s.

This book presents an intelligent, integrated, problem-independent method for multiresponse process optimization.

This book presents guidelines on quantitative and qualitative measures of the geometric features and imperfections of welds to ensure that it meets the fatigue strength requirements laid out in the recommendations of the IIW (International Institute of Welding).

This book introduces shape memory alloy technology with a specific focus on valve applications.

This book focuses on the state-of-the-art developments in machining with nanomaterials.

This monograph provides a field-proven approach to analyze industrial production with a cross-company scope as well as regarding all hierarchical system levels of manufacturing enterprises.

The book presents a coherent description of distributed manufacturing, providing a solid base for further research on the subject as well as smart implementations in companies.

This book provides discussions and the exchange of information on principles, strategies, models, techniques, methodologies and applications of industrial engineering.

This book covers the state-of-the-art technologies in dynamic balancing of mechanisms with minimum increase of mass and inertia.