Production and industrial engineering

Covering the complete design cycle of nanopositioning systems, this is the first comprehensive text on the topic.

This book presents the state-of-the-art research in the field of transdisciplinary design, and highlights the challenges and issues from the perspectives of processes, people and products in transdisciplinary product design and development.

Presenting current trends in the development and applications of intelligent systems in engineering, this monograph focuses on recent research results in system identification and control.

This book presents cutting-edge emerging technologies and approaches in the areas of service-oriented architectures, intelligent devices and cloud-based cyber-physical systems.

This book focuses on the development of a new simulation paradigm allowing for the solution of models that up to now have never been resolved and which result in spectacular CPU time savings (in the order of millions) that, combined with supercomputing, could revolutionize future ICT (information and communication technologies) at the heart of science and technology.

This book introduces the fundamental principles of understanding business requirements to apply enterprise resource planning (ERP) in order to meet business needs.

This book introduces the basic concepts of contact mechanics, friction, lubrication, and wear mechanisms, providing simplified analytical relationships that are useful for quantitative assessments.

Chemical Reactor Modeling closes the gap between Chemical Reaction Engineering and Fluid Mechanics.

This book presents some definitions and concepts applied in Latin America on lean manufacturing (LM), the LM tools most widely used and human and cultural aspects that most matter in this field.

In 2007 INTEROP-VLab defined Enterprise Interoperability as "e;the ability of an enterprise system or application to interact with others at a low cost with a flexible approach"e;.

Industrial Applications of Affective Engineering introduces new analytical methods such as fluctuation, fuzzy logic, fractals, and complex systems, and pursuing interdisciplinary research that traverses a wide range of fields, including information engineering, human engineering, cognitive science, psychology, and design studies.

Focussing on occurrences of unstable vibrations, or Chatter, in machine tools, this book gives important insights into how to eliminate chatter with associated improvements in product quality, surface finish and tool wear.

This book presents the state of the art in advanced customization within the sector of architectural design and construction, explaining important new technologies that are boosting design, product and process innovation and identifying the challenges to be confronted as we move toward a mass customization construction industry.

Engineering Ethics: Challenges and Opportunities aims to set a new agenda for the engineering profession by developing a key challenge: can the great technical innovation of engineering be matched by a corresponding innovation in the acceptance and expression of ethical responsibility?

This book presents new food production systems (for plants and animals) involving agrochemicals that increase in a controlled manner the bioactives content, under greenhouse conditions.

This book is among the first to address the novel process intensification technologies for biodiesel production, in particular the integrated reactive separations.

This book offers broad, detailed coverage of theoretical developments in induction and direct resistance heating and presents new material on the solution of problems in the application of such heating.

This volume presents controlling tools for management in order to be in a position to communicate with control engineers concerning technological decisions.

The high reliability required in industrial processes has created the necessity of detecting abnormal conditions, called faults, while processes are operating.

This book is dedicated to composite materials, presenting different synthesis processes, composite properties and their machining behaviour.

This book examines the modules/elements required before implementing knowledge management solutions in typical manufacturing and service industry.

This edited volume includes all papers presented at the 22nd International Conference on Mine Planning and Equipment Selection (MPES), Dresden, Germany, 2013.

This book covers virtually all of the engineering science and technological aspects of separating water from particulate solids in the mining industry.

Tight gas reservoirs have very low permeability and porosity, which cannot be produced at economical flow rates unless the well is efficiently stimulated and completed using advanced and optimized technologies.

This book offers a state-of-the-art overview of controlled drug delivery systems, covering the most important innovative applications.

The changing manufacturing environment requires more responsive and adaptable manufacturing systems.

This critical volume provides practical insights on sulfuric acid and related plant design and on techniques to improve and enhance substantially the efficiency of an existing plant by means of small modifications.

This contributed volume contains the research results presented at the 4th Machining Innovations Conference, Hannover, September 2013.

This book introduces model studies and experimental results associated with laser forming and welding such as laser induced bending, welding of sheet metals, and related practical applications.

The objective of the book is to give a selection from the papers, which summarize several important results obtained within the framework of the Jozsef Hatvany Doctoral School operating at the University of Miskolc, Hungary.

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This volume presents chemical vapour deposition of diamond films for application in cutting tools, microdrills, dental burs and surgical tools.

The proceedings includes the set of revised papers from the 23rd International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM 2013).

This book covers bleach plant effluents, that most polluting effluent from the pulp and paper industry.

This book contains papers on a wide range of topics in the area of kinematics, mechanisms, robotics, and design, addressing new research advances and innovations in design education.

This book introduces laser pulse heating and thermal stress analysis in materials surface.

This is the first text to cover all aspects of solution processed functional oxide thin-films.

Structure formation in crystallizing polymers, as occurring during processing, has not been treated so far in a coherent form.

An up-to-date text on climate change focussing on technical solutions for the most important and climate relevant economic sectors is presented.

Manufacturing a product is not difficult, the difficulty consists in manufacturing a product of high quality, at a low cost and rapidly.

With advancement in modern technology human life span in 21st century has significantly improved as compared to past centuries.

This book of Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing contains accepted papers presented at SOCO 2021 conference held in the beautiful and historic city of Bilbao (Spain), in September 2021.

This book presents selected, peer-reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Mechanical Engineering, Automation and Sustainable Development 2021 (AMAS2021), held in the city of Ha Long, Vietnam, from November 4 to 7, 2021.

This book is part of a six-volume series on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience.

Process Plant Operating Procedures presents an introduction to the theory and applications of procedure synthesis that is primarily concerned with the task of conjecturing the sequence of controller (or operator) actions needed to achieve designated operational goals in a given system.

This work presents a comprehensive investigation of the most significant renewable hydrogen production processes.

This SpringerBrief presents novel methods of approaching challenging problems in the reconstruction of accurate 3D models and serves as an introduction for further 3D reconstruction methods.

Logistics and supply chain management is facing disruptive economic, technological and climate change developments that require new strategies.

This book presents the proceedings of the first International Upcycling Symposium 2020, held on 4th September 2020 at De Montfort University (DMU) in Leicester, UK (online), as a joint effort between DMU, Lund University, Nottingham Trent University and Newcastle University.