Production and industrial engineering

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.

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.