Production and industrial engineering

This sequel to the bestselling Manufacturing at Warp Speed, refines and updates the former approach to production management.

Although usually well-funded, systems development projects are often late to market and over budget.

The rapid evolution of technical capabilities in the systems engineering (SE) community requires constant clarification of how to answer the following questions: What is Systems Architecture?

Systems engineering (SE) is experiencing a significant expansion that encompasses increasingly complex systems.

Innovation is central to business success, yet no other aspect of business is as frustrating and out of control.

The stakes are high and real.

Mention the phrase "e;bottom line,"e; and the immediate thought tends to focus on a company's financial performance.

Taking a new product from the design stage to large-scale production in a profitable, efficient manner can challenge the processes of even the most advanced companies.

There is a glaring lack of recognition for the contributions of women to innovation, entrepreneurship, and sustainable development in literature.

A prevalent system in large corporations for quite some time, Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) is now penetrating moderate to small corporations on an international level.

Risk or uncertainty assessments are used as aids to decision making in nearly every aspect of business, education, and government.

The Portal to Lean Production: Principles and Practices for Doing More with Less describes the steps, difficulties, and rewards of implementing lean production.

Supply Chain Management (SCM) was once a "e;pie in the sky"e; concept that could not be fully achieved.

Everyone in business today has heard of the Theory of Constraints (TOC), developed by Eli Goldratt in his groundbreaking book The Goal.

As organizations move into the future, the operations environment needs to expand into Collaborative Planning and Forecast Replenishment (CPFR), Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), and an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) operating system to become and remain competitive.

There are some very good books available that explain the Lean Manufacturing theory and touch on implementing its techniques.

Manufacturing Handbook of Best Practices: An Innovation, Productivity, and Quality Focus gives you a working knowledge of today's cutting edge tools - preparing you for the way you will be doing your job tomorrow.

It is easy to learn the philosophy and the concepts of kaizen.

The true promise and benefits of Supply Chain Management elude many organizations.

The structure of AI on Trial follows the same process as a High Court trial, taking a unique approach to the most innovative of technological areas.

This book not only presents the overall development of quality function deployment (QFD) and what it has been used for to date but a new product support orientation by which it can be employed.

Traditionally, electrical machines are classi?

Engineering practice often has to deal with complex systems of multiple variable and multiple parameter models almost always with strong non-linear coupling.

This book focuses on the practical aspects of particle size measurement: a major difference with existing books, which have a more theoretical approach.

The NATO Advanced Study Institute on "e;Sensors for Environment, Health and Security: Advanced Materials and Technology"e; was held in Vichy (France) on September 16-27, 2007 where more than 65 participants, ranging from Ph.

4th Party Cyber Logistics For Air Cargo is a technical discussion for researchers and practitioners to understand the issues, models, and future directions of air cargo logistics in the cyber era.

Advanced Wire Bond Interconnection Technology addresses wire bonding from both manufacturing and reliability perspectives.

The 33 papers presented in this book were selected from amongst the 97 papers presented during the sixth edition of the International Conference on Integrated Design and Manufacturing in Mechanical Engineering during 28 sessions.

We have come to know that our ability to survive and grow as a nation to a very large degree depends upon our sci- tific progress.

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Computer Aided Tolerancing (CAT) is an important topic in any field of design and production where parts move relative to one another and/or are assembled together.

The conference proceedings of:International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology & Automation (IETA 05)International Conference on Telecommunications and Networking (TeNe 05)International Conference on Engineering Education, Instructional Technology, Assessment, and E-learning (EIAE 05)include a set of rigorously reviewed world-class manuscripts addressing and detailing state-of-the-art research projects in the areas of: Industrial Electronics, Technology and Automation, Telecommunications, Networking, Engineering Education, Instructional Technology and e-Learning.

Business models, which aims at determining how efficient can be a life cycle strategy from different point of view (customer, policy, environment, economics,.

Chemical sensing using optics is under extensive research all over the world and many optical chemical sensors are finding increasing application in industry, environmental monitoring, medicine, biomedicine and chemical analysis.

The objectives of industrial management are: - Implementation of the policy adopted by the owners or the board of directors - Optimum return on investment - Efficient utilization of Men, Machine and Money.

The chapters in this volume were presented at the July 2005NATO Advanced Study Institute on Advances in Sensing with Security App- cations.

Fuzzy logic is a relatively new concept in science applications.

Bonding in Microsystem Technology starts with descriptions of terminology, kinds of microsystems and market analysis.

The initial impetus for this book on ?

This book presents a selection of papers related to the fifth edition of book further to the International Conference on Integrated Design and Manufacturing in Mechanical Engineering.

Modern industry imposes ever increasing requirements upon tools and tool materials as to the provision for performance under the conditions of high cutting speeds and dynamic loads as well as under intensive thermal and chemical interactions with workpiece materials.

Energy and feedstock materials for the chemical industry are in increasing demand and, with constraints related to the availability and use of oil, the energy and chemical industry is undergoing considerable changes.

Since manufacturing has acquired industrial relevance, the problem of adequately sizing manufacturing plants has always been discussed and has represented a di?

Knowledge itself is soon obsolete; It is a blunt instrument.

The Encyclopedia of Production and Manufacturing Management is an encyclopedia that has been developed to serve this field as the fundamental reference work.

With collaborative product development in a geographically distributed environment and global outsourcing becoming normal for many companies, it is imperative to bring academics, researchers and industrialists together to share research ideas and best practice.