Production and industrial engineering

With a special focus on private label food brands and manufacturer brands, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the fast-moving consumer goods marketing landscape.

This textbook presents theory and practice in the context of automatic control education.

The book develops manufacturing concepts and applications beyond physical production and towards a wider manufacturing value chain incorporating external stakeholders that include suppliers of raw materials and parts, customers, collaborating manufacturing companies, manufacturing service providers, and environmental organisations.

This book focuses on advanced processing of new and emerging materials, and advanced manufacturing systems based on thermal transport and fluid flow.

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

This updated, second edition provides readers with an expanded treatment of the FEM as well as new information on recent trends in rapid prototyping technology.

This book focuses on the new direction of magnetic pulsed metal working by attraction of sheet metals.

This book illuminates advanced cutting and joining processes, what they are used for, and the capabilities of these manufacturing techniques, especially in micro- and nano-fabrication.

This book gathers the peer-reviewed papers presented at the seventh edition of the international workshop "e;Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing - SOHOMA'17"e;, held on October 19-20, 2017 and organized by the University of Nantes, France in collaboration with the CIMR Research Centre in Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Robotics at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania, the LAMIH Laboratory of Industrial and Human Automation Control, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambresis, France and the CRAN Research Centre for Automatic Control, Nancy at the University of Lorraine, France.

This book provides some recent research advances in the field of lean manufacturing.

This book summarizes the author's lifetime achievements, offering new perspectives and approaches in the field of metal cutting theory and its applications.

Focusing on the theory and applications of point processes, Point Processes for Reliability Analysis naturally combines classical results on the basic and advanced properties of point processes with recent theoretical findings of the authors.

This book advances the use of biodiesel-more environmentally friendly than traditional fossil fuels-by showing how it can be synthesized at a lower cost, with greater efficiency and as a more pure and stable product.

This book reports on the latest research and applications in the fields of sustainable manufacturing and remanufacturing, as well as process planning and optimization technologies.

This book introduces social manufacturing, the next generation manufacturing paradigm that covers product life cycle activities that deal with Internet-based organizational and interactive mechanisms under the context of socio-technical systems in the fields of industrial and production engineering.

This book introduces readers to robotics, industrial robot mechanisms, and types of robots, e.

This book explains how the specifics of Stiff Extrusion influence on the metallurgical properties of Extruded Briquettes.

This book aims to offer a thorough study and reference textbook on electrical machines and drives.

Written for students and practicing engineers working in automotive engineering, this book provides a fundamental yet comprehensive understanding of chassis systems and requires little prior knowledge on the part of the reader.

In this book, the history of the concepts critical to the discovery and development of aluminum, its alloys and the anodizing process are reviewed to provide a foundation for the challenges, achievements, and understanding of the complex relationship between the aluminum alloy and the reactions that occur during anodic oxidation.

This thesis reports on an innovative production-scheduling model for virtual computer-integrated manufacturing (VCIM) systems.

Mastering the complexity of innovative systems is a challenging aspect of design and product development.

This book discusses sustainable waste management technologies for managing end-of-life (EoL) post-consumer and packaging plastic solid waste (PSW) from domestic and commercial waste streams.

This book shows how to prepare titania rich slag from metallized ilmenite using thermal plasma processing.

This book addresses recycling technologies for many of the valuable and scarce materials from spent lithium-ion batteries.

The book presents an integrated planning concept for heat flows in production systems comprising various short term and long term related models.

Within the last decade, several industrialized countries have stressed the importance of advanced manufacturing to their economies.

This book explains the design and fabrication of any electronic enclosure that contains a printed circuit board, from original design through materials selection, building and testing, and ongoing design improvement.

This book presents a collection of papers on topics in the field of strategic mine planning, including orebody modeling, mine-planning optimization and the optimization of mining complexes.

This book offers an introduction to structural dynamics, ripple effect and resilience in supply chain disruption risk management for larger audiences.

This book provides insights into sensor development for structural health monitoring.

This book presents an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the production and use of microalgal biomass and bioproducts for energy generation.

The book presents the latest developments in narrow fabrics and smart materials from research institutions, machinery building companies and producers of such products, presented during the International Week of Narrow and Smart Textiles in Spring 2018 in Monchengladbach, Germany.

This book provides details on various micro and precision manufacturing and finishing operations performed by conventional and advanced processes, including micro-manufacturing of micro-tools and precision finishing of engineered components.

This book introduces the main concepts of manufacturing systems and presents several evaluation approaches for these systems' evaluation.

This book focuses on technical safety, means of expanding the current procedures, and making the related risks more predictable.

This book covers a variety of topics in material, mechanical, and management engineering, especially in the area of machine design, product assembly, measurement systems, process planning and quality control.

This book offers a unique approach to integrated high-temperature process modelling, intended to serve as a design aid for new metal processing technologies.

This book presents state-of-the-art research, challenges and solutions in the area of cloud-based cyber-physical systems (CPS) used in manufacturing.

This book provides users, pump manufactures, engineers, researchers and students with extensive information about pump's behavior in reverse operation.

This book is a comprehensive treatment of micro and nanofabrication techniques, and applies established and research laboratory manufacturing techniques to a wide variety of materials.

These proceedings exchange ideas and knowledge among engineers, designers and managers on how to support real-world value chains by developing additive manufactured series products.

Drawing on empirical insights from the field of desktop 3D printing, this book elaborates the concept of innovation communities as a pattern of open and distributed innovation.

This book offers a collection of original peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 7th International Congress on Design and Modeling of Mechanical Systems (CMSM'2017), held in Hammamet, Tunisia, from the 27th to the 29th of March 2017.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of the most recent and advanced work on metallurgy sciences and technologies--including material characterization of complicated alloys, heat and surface treatment, ferrous metals metallurgy, and energy savings in pyrometallurgy--in the important Ural industrial region of Russia.

This monograph presents a state-of-the-art analysis of eco-friendly and aesthetic structures in wooden dome construction.

This book presents a compilation of over 200 numerical problems and solutions that students can use to learn, practice and master the Inventory Control and Management concepts.

This book presents the most important tools, techniques, strategy and diagnostic methods used in industrial engineering.

This book shows how jute waste is collected from industry and used as a cheaper source to extract and use cellulose.

This book presents statistical processes for health care delivery and covers new ideas, methods and technologies used to improve health care organizations.