Production and industrial engineering

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of structural health monitoring (SHM) and more broadly in the fields of smart materials and intelligent systems, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 10th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM), held in Palermo, Italy on July 4-7, 2022.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of structural health monitoring (SHM) and more broadly in the fields of smart materials and intelligent systems, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 10th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM), held in Palermo, Italy on July 4-7, 2022.

This book highlights the latest innovations and applications in robotics, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the ROMANSY 2022, the 24th CISM IFToMM Symposium on Theory and Practice of Robots and Manipulators, held in Udine, Italy, on July 4-7, 2022.

This book applies artificial intelligence to lean production and shows how to practically combine the advantages of these two disciplines.

This book gathers timely contributions on metrology and measurement systems, across different disciplines and fields of applications.

This book focuses on the advances of additive manufacturing in the applications of wearable electronics, energy storage, biomedical implants and devices, drug delivery, and technologies for 4D printing, large-scale printing, and ceramics printing.

This book presents different numerical modeling and nature-inspired optimization methods in advanced manufacturing processes for understanding the process characteristics.

The book's general scope covers the latest advances in the development of artificial intelligence systems and their applications in engineering and manufacturing.

This book is the continuation of the textbook Lean Compendium - Introduction to Modern Manufacturing Theory.

This book reports research findings and outcome from various discipline of engineering and technology, focusing on industrial technology operation and sustainable development.

The book covers various topics in mechanical engineering, with a special attention to machine design, product assembly, technological aspects of production, mechatronics and production maintenance.

This volume gathers the latest fundamental research contributions, innovations, and applications in the field of design and analysis of complex robotic mechanical systems, machines, and mechanisms, as presented by leading international researchers at the 2nd USCToMM Symposium on Mechanical Systems and Robotics (USCToMM MSR), held in Rapid City, South Dakota, USA on May 19-21, 2022.

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 fifth edition of "e;Product Lifecycle Management"e; updates and adds to the successful fourth edition, the most frequently cited PLM publication.

This book presents a guide to digital twin technologies and their applications within manufacturing.

The book describes the main approaches to produce and synthesize iron and steel through hydrogen-based technologies.

This book provides discussion and the exchange of information on principles, strategies, models, techniques, and applications related with the challenges and trends that competitive organizations are facing.

This book discusses and exchanges information on principles, strategies, models, techniques, methodologies and applications of technological challenges in a digital era.

This book presents contributions of intelligent management theories and models for a more effective management of sustainable business practices in competitive, profitable and socially responsible organizations.

This book proposes theoretically developed and practically tested solutions for manufacturing and business improvements achieved in the period between two conferences.

This book provides readers with the comprehensive insights of the recent research breakthroughs in additive, subtractive, and hybrid technologies.

This volume gathers the peer reviewed papers presented at the 11th edition of the International Workshop on Service-oriented, Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing Systems for the Industry of the Future, SOHOMA'21, organized on 18-19 November, 2021 by the Arts et Metiers Institute of Technology of Cluny, France in collaboration with University Politehnica of Bucharest (the CIMR Research Centre in Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Robotics), Polytechnic University Hauts-de-France (the LAMIH Laboratory of Industrial and Human Automation Control, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science) and Polytechnic Institute of Braganca (the CeDRI Research Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics).

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations and applications in the field of condition monitoring, plant maintenance and reliability, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 6th International Conference on Maintenance Engineering and the 2021 conference of the Efficiency and Performance Engineering Network (IncoME-VI  TEPEN 2021), held in Tianjin, China on October 20-23, 2021.

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

This book focus on the product design process.

This book reports four structural equation models (SEM) for quantifying the relationship between the most important lean manufacturing (LM) practices applied to the manufacturing industry.

Process Control details the core knowledge and practical skills that a successful process control practitioner needs.

This book provides state-of-the-art descriptions of smart service innovations in the industry, supported by novel scientific approaches.

The book describes and explains the results of the collaborative project Generative Manufacturing of Optical, Thermal and Structural Components over the last three years.

This book introduces new solutions for mining tools, unique lubricated holders and mining methods for hard-rock mining using mini-disk tools.

The book presents the proceedings of the 6th EAI International Conference on Management of Manufacturing Systems (MMS 2021), which took place online on October 6, 2021.

This book provides a thorough overview of the integration of cyber-physical systems and maintenance management models.

The book is primarily focused on natural plant (lignocellulosic) fibers as sustainable reinforcement material for green composites.

This book aims to present dominant applications and use cases of the fast-evolving DT and determines vital Industry 4.

Blockchain Driven Supply Chains and Enterprise Information Systems examines initiatives for blockchain implementation in supply chain management and the integration of blockchain technology with existing enterprise management applications.

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.

This book presents a selection of the best papers given at the XXIV International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management.

This book presents the latest advances and research achievements in the fields of autonomous robots and intelligent systems, presented at the IAS-16 conference, conducted virtually in Singapore, from 22 to 25 June 2021.

This book is about design.

The book examines the supply chain from different perspectives: the physical structure which it is composed of (actors, roles, infrastructures and processes), the organizational structure of the people involved (business functions and related interactions and integrations), and the manifold flows that characterize it (product flows, information flows, service flows and monetary flows).

This book highlights the importance of geothermal energy by studying its potential either alone or in combination with solar energy, focusing on its industrial application.

This book focusses on all advanced methods of joining such as friction stir welding, joining by plastic deformation, laser welding, advanced mechanical joining, adhesive bonding and hybrid joining.

This book gives a contemporary and comprehensive overview of the physics of lightning and protection systems, based on nearly 40 years of research, teaching, and consultancy work in this area.

Industry 4.

Shape Memory Composites Based on Polymers and Metals for 4D Printing is a thorough discussion of the physics and chemistry behind this developing area of materials science.

This contributed volume presents recent developments in nonlinear dynamics applied to engineering.

This book explains concepts and techniques for business analytics and demonstrate them on real life applications for managers and practitioners.

This book contains a collection of peer-reviewed papers from the 2020 Conference on Multidisciplinary Engineering and Technology (COMET 2020) held online on December 15-16, 2020.

This book discusses the next level of innovative technologies influencing sectors in industry and their future in industrial, urban and sustainable development.

This book was written by a team of leading gear experts from across the globe, including contributions from USA, Germany, Poland, China, Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.