Production and industrial engineering

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 book contains the proceedings of the Additive Manufacturing in Product Development Conference.

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.

This book gathers the refereed proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Applications (A2IA'2020), the first installment of an annual international conference organized by the ENSAM-Meknes at Moulay Ismail University, Morocco.

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 gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 2nd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication (Digital Concrete), held online and hosted by the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands from 6-9 July 2020.

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 comprehensive Springer Handbook covers all major areas encompassed by the broad field of mechanical engineering.

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.

This book explores systems-based, co-design, introducing a "e;Decision-Based, Co-Design"e; (DBCD) approach for the co-design of materials, products, and processes.

The book provides an introduction to logistics and supply chain management and the application of evolutionary computation, focusing on specific fields related to supply chain issues, from strategic sourcing decisions, and production planning and control to inventory to logistics and its application using evolutionary / heuristics techniques.

This book unites two fast-developing forms of control-vision-based control and fractional-order control-and applies them in mechatronic systems.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Industry 4.

This book discusses the main quality management (QM) programs and their possible integration into systematic industrial maintenance (SIM).

This book presents the latest advances in flowsheet simulation of solids processes, focusing on the dynamic behaviour of systems with interconnected solids processing units, but also covering stationary simulation.

The book gives a broad overview of the Internet of Things (IoT) concept from various angles.

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 conference proceedings of the 25th edition of the International Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management.

This book highlights some of the latest research advances and cutting-edge analyses of real-world case studies on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management from diverse international contexts, while also identifying business applications for the latest findings and innovations in operations management and the decision sciences.

This book focuses on the emerging additive manufacturing technology and its applications beyond state-of-the-art, fibre-reinforced thermoplastics.

The Encyclopedia of Systems and Control collects a broad range of short expository articles that describe the current state of the art in the central topics of control and systems engineering as well as in many of the related fields in which control is an enabling technology.

This introductory book describes the initial (first) level of studying the theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ) from the series "e;TRIZ from A to Z,"e; and presents the most general methods for solving inventive problems and generating new ideas.

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

This volume chronicles the 16th Annual Conference on System Engineering Research (CSER) held on May 8-9, 2018 at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.

This book presents the advances in abrasive based machining and finishing in broad sense.

This book has resulted from the activities of IFAC TC 5.