Production and industrial engineering

This book provides information on the generation and the effects of hazardous substances that are produced during welding and allied processes.

This new edition focuses on modeling and manufacturing in the field of prototyping and bio manufacturing.

This volume includes contributions on the physical and numerical modeling of materials processing, and covers a range of metals and minerals.

This collection presents papers from the 149th Annual Meeting & Exhibition of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.

This book presents the proceedings of CIDIN and COPINAVAL.

This is the third book in a series devoted to gear design and production.

This book provides solution for challenges facing engineers in urban environments looking towards smart development and IoT.

Wine has been around for thousands of years, grape growing and wine production is worldwide, and recipes are prolific.

This book outlines the methodologies, approaches and tools for modelling chemicals in a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) perspective, and also covers the main advantages and drawbacks of applying LCA to chemical processes.

This book focuses on the global quality of the design of systems that people interact with during their work activities and daily lives; a quality that involves the globality of people's experience - physical, sensory, cognitive and emotional.

This book focuses on core functionalities for wireless real-time multi-hop networking with TDMA (time-division multiple access) and their integration into a flexible, versatile, fully operational, self-contained communication system.

This book helps professionals to turn their own Six Sigma projects into reality.

This book presents new findings in industrial cyber-physical system design and control for various domains, as well as their social and economic impacts on society.

This book covers challenges and solutions in establishing Industry 4.

This book provides guidelines to ensure a safe and smooth running chemical production plant.

This book describes the future of microscopically small medical devices and how to locate a lab to start conducting your own do-it-yourself microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) research in one of the many national, international, government, and other regional open use facilities, where you can quickly begin designing and fabricating devices for your applications.

This book examines the Capacitated Lot Sizing Problem (CLSP) in process industries.

This book offers an introduction to the ripple effect in the supply chain for a broad audience comprising recent developments.

This book summarises the advanced CO2 capture technologies that can be used to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, especially those from large-scale sources, such as power-generation and steel-making plants.

This new edition focuses on modeling and manufacturing in the field of prototyping and bio manufacturing.

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

This book develops and substantiates methods for structural mathematical modeling in the context of protecting machines and equipment from vibration effects.

This book discusses the conference that forms a unique platform to bring together academicians and practitioners from industrial engineering and management engineering as well as from other disciplines working on production function applying the tools of operational research and production/operational management.

This book reflects and expands on the current trend in the building industry to understand, simulate and ultimately design buildings by taking into consideration the interlinked elements and forces that act on them.

This book contains selected papers from the First International Conference on Progress in Digital and Physical Manufacturing (ProDPM'19), organized by the School of Technology and Management (ESTG) of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (IPL).

This fourth edition of the book provides readers with a detailed explanation of PLM, enabling them to gain a full understanding and the know-how to implement PLM within their own business environment.

This book develops innovative techniques from operational research and management science for the design and implementation of a reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS), and subsequently analyzes and assesses their performance.

This volume provides resourceful thinking and insightful management solutions to the many challenges that decision makers face in their predictions, preparations, and implementations of the key elements that our societies and industries need to take as they move toward digitalization and smartness.

This book is divided into four parts that outline the use of science and technology for applications pertaining to chemical and bioprocess engineering.

This book presents the latest research on mechatronic systems engineering.

Striking a balance between state-of-the-art research and practical applications, this book provides a forum for contributions that cover the main research challenges in the cyclic modeling, development, and validation of concurrently acting distributed production systems: systems that employ multi-assortment production in large quantities, are characterized by gradual changes in their product mix, and exclusively manufacture products in a cyclic manner.

This book demonstrates how the creation of emotional satisfaction will change in tomorrow's connected, IoT world.

This is the first book to examine the "e;nuts and bolts"e; of production processes.

This book gathers papers from the 11th Construction Industry Development Board (cidb) Postgraduate Research Conference, held on 28-30 July 2019 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

This book gathers together a set of chapters covering recent development in optimization methods that are inspired by nature.

In the agriculture, forestry, the primary and secondary wood working industry there are considerable resources of raw materials which can only be used in a rational manner for energetic purposes.

This volume advocates accurate case outcome prediction that does not rely on symmetric modeling.

This book gives details on the processes of agglomeration and its role in modern metal production processes.

This book is presented to demonstrate how energy efficiency can be achieved in existing systems or in the design of a new system, as well as a guide for energy savings opportunities.

This book defines innovation as both a problem and a problem-solving process.

This book aims to give readers a basic understanding of commonly used additive manufacturing techniques as well as the tools to fully utilise the strengths of additive manufacturing through the modelling and design phase all the way through to post processing.

This book reports on cutting-edge findings concerning characterization of material behavior, material modeling and simulation, and applications in the field of manufacturing.

Discrete-Time and Discrete-Space Dynamical Systems provides a systematic characterization of the similarities and differences of several types of discrete-time and discrete-space dynamical systems, including:Boolean control networks;nondeterministic finite-transition systems;finite automata;labelled Petri nets; andcellular automata.

In this book, theory of large scale optimization is introduced with case studies of real-world problems and applications of structured mathematical modeling.

This book gathers contributions presented at the 10th Workshop on Cyclostationary Systems and Their Applications, held in Grodek nad Dunajcem, Poland in February 2017.

This book discusses the stability of axially moving materials, which are encountered in process industry applications such as papermaking.

This book provides a comprehensive survey of the technology of flash lamp annealing (FLA) for thermal processing of semiconductors.

This book provides an overview of cleaner production, including how regulations have evolved, and presents a broad perspective on how it is being developed.

The book explores the state of the art in the mechanics of fibrous media, providing an overview of the theoretical, modelling and practical aspects of designing and working with these materials.

This book reports on topics at the interface between manufacturing, mechanical and chemical engineering.