Production and industrial engineering

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

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.

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.