Production and industrial engineering

This book gathers technical and scientific articles by leading experts from 15 countries and originally presented at the world's most prestigious forum on coal preparation: the XVIII International Coal Preparation Congress.

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.

Featuring selected contributions from the 2nd International Conference on Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering, held in Nice, France, February 18-19, 2016, this book introduces recent advances and state-of-the-art technologies in the field of advanced intelligent manufacturing.

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.

The second edition of this handbook provides a state-of-the-art overview on the various aspects in the rapidly developing field of robotics.

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.

This book identifies, analyzes and discusses the current trends of digitalized, decentralized, and networked physical value creation by focusing on the particular example of 3D printing.

This book details how safety (i.

This book explores effective environmental impact mitigation for petroleum-based lubricants to reduce their negative persistence during usage and upon end-of-life disposal.

This book is intended as atribute to Gianluca Spina, the influential and inspiring Professorof Business Management & Organization and Supply Chain Management at theSchool of Management of Politecnico di Milano, who very sadly passed away earlyin 2015.

In this book, experts from academia and industry present the latest advances in scientific theory relating to applied electromagnetics and examine current and emerging applications particularly within the fields of electronics, communications, and computer technology.

This book first presents different approaches to modeling of the cold spray process with the aim of extending current understanding of its fundamental principles and then describes emerging applications of cold spray.

This book discusses the latest developments in narrow fabrics from research institutions, machinery building companies and producers of such products, presented during the International Week of Narrow Fabrics in March 2016 in Monchengladbach, Germany.

This book is an introduction to the wide and varied world of 3D printing-an incredible technology used across an ever-growing list of industries.

This book presents valuable contributions devoted topractical applications of Machine Intelligence and Big Data in various branchesof the industry.

This volume gathers the peer reviewed papers which were presented at the 5th edition of the International Workshop "e;Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-agent Man-ufacturing - SOHOMA'15"e; organized in November 5-6, 2015 by the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) of the University of Cambridge, UK in collaboration with the CIMR Research Centre in Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Robotics of the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania, the LAMIH Laboratory of Industrial and Human Automation Control, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambresis, France and the CRAN Re-search Centre for Automatic Control, Nancy of the University of Lorraine, France.

This book presents topics on monitoring and evaluation of production processes in the automotive industry.

This textbook armsthe reader with powerful techniques of Modern TRIZ self-training andreal problem solving.

This book will provide researchers and graduate students withan overview of the recent developments and applications of processintensification in chemical engineering.

This monograph focuses on abrasive tools for grinding, polishing, honing, and lapping operations.

This proceedings volume presents the latest research fromthe worldwide mass customization, personalization and co-creation (MCPC)community bringing together new thoughts and results from various disciplineswithin the field.

This book explores sustainability within manufacturing enterprises and examines the concepts and principles of this field.

This book describes in a comprehensive manner the technical aspects of separation of rare earth elements into individual elements for industrial and commercial use.

This book presentsa unified methodology for the design of PID controllers that encompasses the widerange of different dynamics to be found in industrial processes.

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.