Production and industrial engineering

Inventive Engineering is an emerging engineering science focused on the conceptual designing processes whereby creative, or inventive, designs are developed.

Developed in the early 70s in Japan, the Kansei Engineering (KE) method gives you the tools to develop profitable and well-received products and services.

There is often a deep disconnect between the project team's goals and those of the organization.

Designed to give non-engineers an understanding of systems engineering, Systems Engineering Simplified presents a gentle introduction to the subject and its importance in any profession.

A Firsthand Look at the Role of the Industrial EngineerThe industrial engineer helps decide how best to utilize an organization's resources to achieve company goals and objectives.

This book provides a variety of answers in its description and discussion of new, sometimes radical approaches to `usability evaluation', now an increasingly common business tool.

Mastering Complexity is designed to help readers develop and maintain logical, adaptable solutions to business problems.

Manufacturers are becoming more aware of human factors in product design as a major competitive issue.

Demands for improvements in aerospace and automotive energy-efficiency, performance, corrosion resistance, body stiffness and style have increased the use of adhesive bonds to help meet those demands, by providing joining technology that accommodates a wider variety of materials and design options.

"e;There is no strategic investment that has a higher return than investing in good pricing, and the text by Gallego and Topaloghu provides the best technical treatment of pricing strategy and tactics available.

This is the first book to cover GRASP (Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures), a metaheuristic that has enjoyed wide success in practice with a broad range of applications to real-world combinatorial optimization problems.

This book discusses the models and tools available for solving configuration problems, emphasizes the value of model integration to obtain comprehensive and robust configuration decisions, proposes solutions for supply chain configuration in the presence of stochastic and dynamic factors, and illustrates application of the techniques discussed in applied studies.

This book covers in detail the various aspects of joining materials to form parts.

Now that were moving from a product economy to a digital service economy, software is becoming critical for navigating our everyday lives.

Now that were moving from a product economy to a digital service economy, software is becoming critical for navigating our everyday lives.

This handbook serves as a complement to the Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis (eds, W.

This handbook focuses on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) applications in operations analytics which are fundamental tools and techniques for improving operation functions and attaining long-term competitiveness.

This handbook compiles state-of-the-art empirical studies and applications using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).

This book focuses on the tactical planning level for spare parts management.

This handbook represents a milestone in the progression of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).

This book provides readers with the fundamental, analytical, and quantitative knowledge of machining process planning and optimization based on advanced and practical understanding of machinery, mechanics, accuracy, dynamics, monitoring techniques, and control strategies that they need to understanding machining and machine tools.

This book is devoted to analysis and design of supply chain contracts with stochastic demand.

Lithic analysts have been criticized for being atheoretical in their approach, or at least for not contributing to building archaeological theory.

Das Buch "FlexCAR: Die Forschungsplattform von morgen" beschreibt ein innovatives Forschungsprojekt, das sich mit flexiblen Produkt- und Produktionskonzepten für modulare Fahrzeuge beschäftigt.

"e;There is no strategic investment that has a higher return than investing in good pricing, and the text by Gallego and Topaloghu provides the best technical treatment of pricing strategy and tactics available.

This volume contains 67 papers reporting on the state-of-the-art research in the fields of adaptive control and intelligent tuning.

The problems surrounding the subject of distributed databases in real-time control were addressed at the workshop.

A key solution for present and future technological problems is an integration systems approach.

This title provides a general overview of recent developments and research into types of systems and their uses in the agricultural and horticultural industry.

Since the early 1970s there has been a considerable growth in the literature published on the topic of human reliability.

Materials Information for CAD/CAM addresses the problem of designing databases, expert system, communication systems, and decision support aids that can be integrated with manual and software-supported tasks in design and manufacture, in CAD and CAM.

Basic Engineering Technology covers various topics related to engineering, from safety procedures and movement of loads to measurement and dimensional control.

Manufacturing Assembly Handbook identifies the possibilities for the rationalization of assembly in relation to the production rate and the product design.

Information Control Problems in Manufacturing Technology 1979 is a compilation of papers presented at the second IFAC/IFIP Symposium held at Stuttgart, Germany on October 22-24, 1979.

Microcomputers for Process Control provides an introduction to microprocessor technology for process monitoring and control.

Digital Computer Applications to Process Control presents the developments in the application of digital computers to the control of technical processes.

Manufacturing Cells: Control, Programming and Integration presents the issues surrounding the integration of manufacturing cells and small manufacturing systems.

How Designers Think: The Designing Process Demystified, Second Edition provides a comprehensive discussion of the psychology of the design process.

Production Engineering: The Competitive Edge describes the applications of advanced manufacturing technologies and their environmental impact.

The conditions in which leaders apply Hoshin Planning today have changed substantially since the method was established in the 1950's.

Economic and Financial Analysis for Engineering and Project Management is for engineers and others who must analyze the financial and economic ramifications of producing and sustaining capital projects.

The 2000 edition of this long running and highly respected series, contains the best papers from the Ergonomics Society Annual Conference in 2000.

The Technical Committee on Mechatronics formed by the International Federation for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms, in Prague, Czech Republic, adopted the following definition for the term: Mechatronics is the synergistic combination of precision mechanical, electronic control and systems thinking in the design products and manufacturing proc

For the past several decades, systems engineering has grown rapidly in its scope and application and shown significant benefits for the design of large, complex systems.

The one manual that every corporate executive should read again and again re-released for the first time in an affordable paperback versionKnown as the JIT bible in Japan, this six-volume set present the genius of Hiroyuki Hirano who leaves no detail to chance in explaining ho

Modern society faces two problems: the development of acceptable methods for the introduction of new and powerful tools and the need for a trustworthy, universally applicable ethical system.

This handbook is an endeavour to cover many current, relevant, and essential topics related to decision sciences in a scientific manner.