Production and industrial engineering

This book discusses the latest advances in digital modeling systems (DMSs) and additive manufacturing (AM) technologies.

This book provides a detailed understanding of optimization methods as they are implemented in a variety of manufacturing, fabrication and machining processes.

This book discusses the latest advances in affective and pleasurable design.

This book addresses Integrated Design Engineering (IDE), which represents a further development of Integrated Product Development (IPD) into an interdisciplinary model for both a human-centred and holistic product development.

This book addresses key questions about the materials used for the wind instruments of classical symphony orchestra such as flutes, clarinets, saxophones, oboes, bassoons and pipe organs.

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 book covers a variety of topics in manufacturing, with a special emphasis on product design, production planning, and implementation of both resources and production processes.

This book covers a variety of topics related to the Industry 4.

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

This book gathers the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Measurement and Quality Control - Cyber Physical Issues (IMEKO TC 14 2019), held in Belgrade, Serbia, on 4-7 June 2019.

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 monograph focuses on the design of optimal reference governors using model predictive control (MPC) strategies.

This book covers a wide range of management issues, concerning planning, control and continuous improvement.

This book provides extensive information on the key technical design disciplines, education programs, international best practices and modes of delivery that are aimed at preparing a trans-disciplinary design workforce for the future.

This book, divided in two volumes, originates from Techno-Societal 2018: the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Societal Applications, Maharashtra, India, that brings together faculty members of various engineering colleges to solve Indian regional relevant problems under the guidance of eminent researchers from various reputed organizations.

This book covers a variety of topics related to machine manufacturing and concerning machine design, product assembly, technological aspects of production, mechatronics and production maintenance.

This book, divided in two volumes, originates from Techno-Societal 2018: the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Societal Applications, Maharashtra, India, that brings together faculty members of various engineering colleges to solve Indian regional relevant problems under the guidance of eminent researchers from various reputed organizations.

This monograph presents state-of-the-art knowledge in wood manufacturing design with a special focus on the elaboration of functional relationships.

Aimed at students and professionals, this book covers every major aspect of petroleum: the origin of fossil hydrocarbons and their chemical/physical properties; discovering hydrocarbon reserves; recovering oil, gas, and bitumen; purifying gas; the chemical and physical characterization of crude oil; refining crudes into fuels and lubricants; and converting simple chemicals into solvents, polymers, fibers, rubbers, coatings, and myriad other products, including pharmaceuticals.

This book presents a novel framework, known as Active Robust Optimization, which provides the tools for evaluating, comparing and optimizing changeable products.

This book explores the evolution of products from the beginning idea through mass-production.

This book discusses the general concept and applications of rapid tooling technologies and introduces the use of incremental forming for the development of rapid sheet tools.

The purpose of this book is to distinguish the single-de-source multilevel inverter topologies and to teach their control, switching and voltage balancing.

This work reviews the current state of the art in metallic microlattice structures, manufactured using the additive manufacturing processes of selective laser melting, electron beam melting, binder jetting and photopolymer wave guides.

This book presents the Proceedings of The 4th Brazilian Technology Symposium (BTSym'18).

This handbook summarizes the research results on hydraulic problems in centrifugal pump design and describes the state of the art in a comprehensive way.

Business innovation and industrial intelligence are paving the way for a future in which smart factories, intelligent machines, networked processes and Big Data are combined to foster industrial growth.

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

This book provides a comprehensive exchange of information on current developments in the management of manufacturing systems and Industry 4.

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This book gathers the proceedings of "e;Engineer of the XXI Century: The VIII Inter-University Conference of Students, PhD Students and Young Scientists"e;, which was held at the University of Bielsko-Biala (ATH), Poland, on the 8th of December 2017.

This book presents the skills required in business and management careers.

This book presents some of the recent hybrid micro-machining processes used to manufacture miniaturized products with micro level precision.

This book examines an intelligent system for the inspection planning of prismatic parts on coordinate measuring machines (CMMs).

This book provides valuable information on polymer composite manufacturing, with a focus on liquid molding processes and the resin transfer molding technique (RTM).

This book contains the papers presented at the International Joint Conference on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing (JCM 2018), held on 20-22 June 2018 in Cartagena, Spain.

This book comprises recent developments in life cycle assessment (LCA) both with regards to the methodology and its application in various research fields, including mobility, engineering and manufacturing.

This book has become the standard textbook and reference guide to an important and rapidly growing field.

This book covers a variety of topics in mechanics, with a special emphasis to fluid mechanics and energy transfer.

This book is part of a five-volume set that explores sustainability in textile industry practices globally.

This book highlights recent research on sustainable production.

This book is aimed at researchers, industry professionals and students interested in the broad ranges of disciplines related to condition monitoring of machinery working in non-stationary conditions.

This book covers the mechanism, salient features, and important aspects of various subtractive, additive, forming and hybrid techniques to manufacture near net-shaped products.

This book deals with the design and optimization of the bucket elevator using the discrete element method (DEM).

This book is ideal for practitioners and managers with low experience in the field.

This book presents the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computer Aided Engineering, collecting the best papers from the event, which was held in Wroclaw, Poland in June 2018.

This book presents the basics of the Laser Assisted Oxygen (LASOX) cutting process, its development, advantages and shortcomings, together with detailed information on the research work carried out to date regarding the modelling and optimization of the process.

This book describes a variety of teaching and academic research applications that effectively utilize FlexSim to: (1) provide guidelines, methods and tools for simulation modeling and analysis in a variety of educational settings and (2) address a variety of important design and operational issues in industry.

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.

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