Production and industrial engineering

The book shows how simulation's long history and close ties to industry since the third industrial revolution have led to its growing importance in Industry 4.

This book provides a comprehensive and thorough guide to those readers who are lost in the often-confusing context of weld fatigue.

This book introduces three key issues: (i) development of a gradient-free method to enable multi-objective self-optimization; (ii) development of a reinforcement learning strategy to carry out self-learning and finally, (iii) experimental evaluation and validation in two micromachining processes (i.

This book presents the research advances in the science of measurement, giving special focus to the field of machining and tribology.

This book provides an overview of polyolefine production, including several recent breakthrough innovations in the fields of catalysis, process technology, and materials design.

The papers in this volume present recent and highly relevant topics in the fields of production research as 3D printing, additive manufacturing processes, agile product development, change dynamics in companies, configurable material systems, data analysis in process optimization, future technologies with high potential in value creation, global production, learning production systems, production of the future, organization of assemblies, resource efficiency in production, robotics in assembly, and technology trends in machine tools.

This book describes an effective framework for setting the right process parameters and new mold design to reduce the current plastic defects in injection molding.

This book provides details on the innovations made to achieve sustainability in manufacturing.

This book discusses the problems of complexity in industrial data, including the problems of data sources, causes and types of data uncertainty, and methods of data preparation for further reasoning in engineering practice.

This book gathers the peer-reviewed papers presented at the 8th edition of the International Workshop "e;Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing - SOHOMA'18"e; held at the University of Bergamo, Italy on June 11-12, 2018.

This book presents the textile-, mathematical and mechanical background for the modelling of fiber based structures such as yarns, braided and knitted textiles.

This book demonstrates that emotion is a highly influential component in creating a new society and new engineering, revealing the importance of emotion in various aspects of the Connected World.

This book contains papers presented in the main track of IITI 2018, the Third International Scientific Conference on Intelligent Information Technologies for Industry held in Sochi, Russia on September 17-21.

This book contains papers presented in the main track of IITI 2018, the Third International Scientific Conference on Intelligent Information Technologies for Industry held in Sochi, Russia on September 17-21.

This book presents the current situation in measurement and analysis of vibrations in production systems with the usage of water jet technology, focusing on sieve analysis and its principle of functioning.

This book present the state of the art in Total Productive Maintainance (TPM) and its benefits.

This book describes different approaches for solving industrial problems like product design, process optimization, quality enhancement, productivity improvement and cost minimization.

This book gives a selection of contributions from the 6th Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA)  Conference in Pescara, Italy.

This book provides a new approach to the control of food transformation processes, emphasizing the advantage of considering the system as a multivariable one, and taking a holistic approach to the decision-making process in the plant, considering not only the technical but also the economic implications of these decisions.

This book focuses on new developments in polytopic projects, particularly on implementation domains and case studies, as well as high-dimensional methodology.

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

This book presents a number of efficient techniques for solving large-scale production scheduling and planning problems in process industries.

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

Cotton fiber is the most important natural fiber used in the textile industry.

This book summarizes the results of experimental work on the development of technologies for the manufacture of sour service line pipe steels.

This volume contains the proceedings of the RAAD 2018 conference, covering major areas of research and development in robotics.

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 contains the Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on the Education in Mechanism and Machine Science (ISEMMS 2017), which was held in Madrid, Spain.

This book covers various multiple-criteria decision making (mcdm) methods for modeling and optimization of advanced manufacturing processes (AMPs).

This book provides an accurate overview of the recent research or industrial application in interactive design.

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This book presents the state-of-the-art methodology and detailed analytical models and methods used to assess the reliability of complex systems and related applications in statistical reliability engineering.

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

Drawing on contributions from various manufacturing fields, this book offers a comprehensive perspective by combining theoretical concepts with practical applications.

Pipeline Engineering ebook Collection contains 6 of our best-selling titles, providing the ultimate reference for every pipeline professional's library.

This book groups the main advances in material forming, considering different p- cesses (conventional and non-conventional) focusing in polymers, composites and metals, that are analyzed from the state of the art, describing the most significant recent advances and identifying the present challenges from the experimental, modeling and numerical points of view.

This textbook provides readers with a comprehensive exploration of optimization techniques in industrial engineering, with a specific focus on the Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) problem.

Rotating Equipment: Maintenance and Troubleshooting has been written on the back of Dr.

This straightforward guide to compressors seeks to unveil a lot of myths surrounding compressors.

This book is for all brewers, whether they consider brewing to be art or science.

Are you trying to improve performance, but find that the same problems keep getting in the way?

Are you trying to improve performance, but find that the same problems keep getting in the way?

This book offers an enhanced and comprehensive understanding of control theory and its practical applications.

The book discusses cutting-edge technologies, advancements in processing techniques, and real-world applications of composite materials in diverse fields such as structural engineering, aerospace, automobiles, and defense.

The book discusses cutting-edge technologies, advancements in processing techniques, and real-world applications of composite materials in diverse fields such as structural engineering, aerospace, automobiles, and defense.

This book deals exclusively and comprehensively with the role of proficiency testing in the quality assurance of analytical data.

Chromatography is a major analytical technique that is used throughout research, development and manufacturing in the pharmaceutical, medical device and associated industries.

Fit-for-purpose is a phrase familiar to all users of analytical data, who need to be assured that data provided by laboratories is both appropriate and of the required quality.