Production and industrial engineering

This book presents 58 refereed papers given at the 38th Matador Conference held at National Formosa University, Taiwan in March 2015.

This book highlights the industrial potential and explains the physics behind laser metal deposition (LMD) technology.

The volume presents a collection of 44 peer-reviewed articles from the First International Conference on Intelligent Systems in Production Engineering and Maintenance (ISPEM 2017).

This graduate textbook imparts the fundamentals of reliability and risk that can be connected mathematically and applied to problems in engineering and medical science and practice.

This book presents the methodology of environmental and financial performance evaluation in 3D printing processes using the MFCA and LCA.

The volume focuses on theoretical and computational approaches and involves areas such as simulation-based engineering and science, integrated computational materials engineering, mechanics, material science, manufacturing processes, and other specialized areas.

This book addresses a modern topic in reliability: multi-state and continuous-state system reliability, which has been intensively developed in recent years.

Mechanics of Additive and Advanced Manufacturing, Volume 9 of the Proceedings of the 2017 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the ninth volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book provides best-practice guidance and practical recommendations on the use of numerical simulation for probability of detection (POD) curve estimation in the study of non-destructive testing reliability.

This book comprehensively reviews, as well as analyzes, various aspects related to the Indian textile and apparel industries.

This book explores the ways that disciplinary convergence and technological advance are transforming systems engineering to address gaps in complex systems engineering: Transdisciplinary Systems Engineering (TSE).

Fundamental Theories of Mega Infrastructure Construction Management: Theoretical Considerations from Chinese Practices is a collection of decades of research and applications of managing megaprojects using theories of complex systems and management sciences.

This book provides readers with a snapshot of recent methods for non-stationary vibration analysis of machinery.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region, RAAD 2017, held at the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy, from June 21-23, 2017.

This book brings together some 20 chapters on state-of-the-art research in the broad field of computational plasticity with applications in civil and mechanical engineering, metal forming processes, geomechanics, nonlinear structural analysis, composites, biomechanics and multi-scale analysis of materials, among others.

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

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

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

This book describes the latest research developments in modeling and simulation in industrial engineering.

This book covers recent developments in practically all spheres of mechanical engineering related to different kinds of gears and transmissions.

The present customers' consumption models result in an increasing number of used products that need to be collected and reused or disposed.

The book's general scope covers the latest advances in the development of artificial intelligence systems and their applications in engineering and manufacturing.

X-ray computed tomography has been used for several decades as a tool for measuring the three-dimensional geometry of the internal organs in medicine.

This book is organized in 2 volumes and 6 parts.

This book examines key aspects of the increasingly important phenomenon of reshoring - the decision of companies to reverse offshoring by bringing manufacturing back from overseas.

This book deals with stochastic combinatorial optimization problems in supply chain disruption management, with a particular focus on management of disrupted flows in customer-driven supply chains.

This book presents the proceedings of the XXII International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, International IIE Conference 2016, and International AIM Conference 2016.

This engaging volume presents the exciting new technology of additive manufacturing (AM) of metal objects for a broad audience of academic and industry researchers, manufacturing professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, hobbyists, and artists.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to Industry 4.

Offering an up-to-date account of systems theories and its applications, this book provides a different way of resolving problems and addressing challenges in a swift and practical way, without losing overview and grip on the details.

This contributed volume contains the research results of the priority programme (PP) 1480 "e;Modelling, Simulation and Compensation of Thermal Effects for Complex Machining Processes"e;, funded by the German Research Society (DFG).

This textbook covers the fundamentals of optimization, including linear, mixed-integer linear, nonlinear, and dynamic optimization techniques, with a clear engineering focus.

The revised edition of this important reference volume presents an expanded overview of the analytical and numerical approaches employed when exploring and developing modern laser materials processing techniques.

This book describes efficient and safe repair operations for pipelines, and develops new methods for the detection and repair of volumetric surface defects in transmission pipelines.

This book is a uniquely pedagogical while still comprehensive state-of-the-art description of LCA-methodology and its broad range of applications.

This book presents the proceedings from the 5th NEWTECH conference (Belgrade, Serbia, 5-9 June 2017), the latest in a series of high-level conferences that bring together experts from academia and industry in order to exchange knowledge, ideas, experiences, research results, and information in the field of manufacturing.

This book discusses challenges and solutions for the required information processing and management within the context of multi-disciplinary engineering of production systems.

This book introduces readers to additive technology and its application in different business sectors.

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.