Production and industrial engineering

This book focuses on the implementation of AI for growing business, and the book includes research articles and expository papers on the applications of AI on decision-making, health care, smart universities, public sector and digital government, FinTech, and RegTech.

This book presents a systematic approach to the management of physical assets from concept to disposal, building upon the previous editions and brought up-to-date with the new international standards ISO55002 and ISO/TS50010.

This book develops best practices for collaboration between teams within large organizations, and demonstrates how an optimal environment for teamwork can improve business processes.

This book includes the introduction of emerging manufacturing technologies and planning cases with established technologies.

This book comes out of the 12th Iberoamerican Congress of Food Engineering, which took place at the University of Algarve in Faro, Portugal in July 2019.

Drawing on their experiences in successfully executing hundreds of MEMS development projects, the authors present the first practical guide to navigating the technical and business challenges of MEMS product development, from the initial concept stage all the way to commercialization.

This book is intended for students, academics, designers, process engineers and CMM operators, and presents the ISO GPS and the ASME GD&T rules and concepts.

This book is intended to help management and other interested parties such as engineers, to understand the state of the art when it comes to the intersection between AI and Industry 4.

Residual Stress, Thermomechanics & Infrared Imaging and Inverse Problems, Volume 7 of the Proceedings of the 2020 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the seventh volume of sseven from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book contains a collection of 13 carefully selected papers contributed by researches in technical and partial medical diagnostics as well as fault-tolerant control and constitutes a comprehensive study of the field.

This edited volume reviews the current state of the art in the additive manufacturing of optical componentry, exploring key principles, materials, processes and applications.

This book amalgamates the facts on carbon dioxide capture from ethanol fermentation of sugarcane molasses and its impact on climate changes.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest advances in laser techniques for micro-nano-manufacturing and an in-depth analysis of applications, such as 3D printing and nanojoining.

This book contains accepted papers presented at SOCO 2020 conference held in the beautiful and historic city of Burgos (Spain), in September 2020.

This book presents selected contributions on a wide range of scientific and technological areas covered by AITeM (the Italian Association of Manufacturing).

This book contains the description of machines and systems as investments goods in production.

This volume gathers selected peer-reviewed papers presented at the XXVI International Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IJCIEOM), held on July 8-11, 2020 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

This textbook covers in detail digitally-driven methods for adding materials together to form parts.

This book highlights recent findings in industrial, manufacturing and mechanical engineering, and provides an overview of the state of the art in these fields, mainly in Russia and Eastern Europe.

This book highlights recent findings in industrial, manufacturing and mechanical engineering, and provides an overview of the state of the art in these fields, mainly in Russia and Eastern Europe.

This book considers all aspects of performability engineering, providing a holistic view of the activities associated with a product throughout its entire life cycle of the product, as well as the cost of minimizing the environmental impact at each stage, while maximizing the performance.

This book presents the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of IFToMM ITALY, held online on September 9-11, 2020.

This book gathers the best papers presented at the International Congress on Project Management and Engineering, in its 2017 and 2018 editions, which were held in Cadiz and Madrid, Spain.

This text presents readers with an engaging while rigorous manual on the use of oscilloscopes in laboratory and field settings.

This book reports on recent advances in the rapidly growing field of high-speed water jet technology, discussing research, developments and applications related to cutting, machining, repair of structures and buildings, cleaning, removal of coatings and layers, mining, and abrasive materials.

This book brings together the latest research in smart sensors technology and exposes the reader to myriad industrial applications that this technology has enabled.

The metal casting, uses large amounts of natural resources, energy and metals as well as generates significant amounts of gases and solid wastes, which have an essential influence on the natural environment and work conditions in casting houses.

Laser cladding is an additive manufacturing technology capable of producing coatings due to the surface fusion of metals.

This book focuses on advanced methods for the structural and thermal analysis of deepwater pipelines and risers.

This book presents a concept for fostering resource efficient manufacturing.

This book explores on how the Internet of Things (IoT) will change society by bringing living and non-living things together.

This book reports on topics at the interface between manufacturing and materials engineering, with a special emphasis on design and simulation issues.

The new edition of this textbook, while largely retaining the proven chapter structure of the previous editions, combines the quantitative, mathematical analysis of the mechanisms of wood processing with practical recommendations and solutions.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the most relevant research and standardization results in the area of wireless networking for Industrial IoT, covering both critical and massive connectivity.

The Pigments from Microalgae Handbook presents the current state of knowledge on pigment production using microalgae-based processes, and covers both the scientific fundamentals of this technology and its practical applications.

This book presents new approaches to logistics solutions in global environments, with a special focus on collaborative logistics and intermodality.

This book consolidates the current state of knowledge on implementing cooperating robot-based systems to increase the flexibility of manufacturing systems.

This book covers the latest developments in life cycle assessment LCA both in terms of methodology and its application in various research areas.

This peer-reviewed book explores the technologies driving broadband internet connectivity in the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.

This book sheds light on the development of traditional and advanced optimization methods.

Modeling and Control of Batch Processes presents state-of-the-art techniques ranging from mechanistic to data-driven models.

This book includes the best papers from two conferences on machining and abrasive machining, organized in Poland on September 11-12, 2019.

This book features a selection of the best papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management (ICIE2019), held in Bucaramanga, Colombia, from 9 to 11 October 2019.

This book provides a thorough overview of the applications of 3D printing technologies to ubiquitous manufacturing (UM).

Design Engineering and Science teaches the theory and practice of axiomatic design (AD).

This book develops and describes a general methodology that can be applied to any complex human activity (activity with a non-trivial, multi-level internal structure).

This book focuses on structural characterisation techniques for porous materials.

The book collects the latest research and thinking from international experts on green computing and the smart city.

In this book, fused deposition modeling (FDM) is described with focus on product quality control and enhancement.

This book is the translated English version of a text on industrial surveys, originally published in Slovak by SPEKTRUM STU Publishing.