Production and industrial engineering

Innerstädtische Schienenverkehrssysteme stoßen bei steigender Verkehrsnachfrage zunehmend an ihre Grenzen.

Materials processing and manufacturing are fields of growing importance whereby transport phenomena play a central role in many of the applications.

This book describes machining technology from a wider perspective by considering it within the machining space.

This book contains accepted papers presented at SOCO 2022 conference held in the beautiful and historic city of Salamanca (Spain), in September 2022.

This book explains the implementation of just in time (JIT) production in an industrial context, while also highlighting the application of various, vital lean production tools.

Three Dimensional Weaving is a nascent technology which has  triggered research interests around the world.

This book represents the first ever scientific monograph including an in-depth analysis of all major field-assisted sintering techniques.

This book provides readers with a snapshot of recent methods for non-stationary vibration analysis of machinery.

Process intensification (PI) is a chemical and process design approach that leads to substantially smaller, cleaner, safer and more energy-efficient process technology.

Industrial and Process Furnaces provides a comprehensive reference to all aspects of furnace operation and design, with coverage of key topics that plant and process engineers and operators need to understand, including the combustion process and its control, furnace fuels, efficiency, burner design and selection, aerodynamics, heat release profiles, furnace atmosphere, safety and emissions.

This book is a uniquely pedagogical while still comprehensive state-of-the-art description of LCA-methodology and its broad range of applications.

Today's product development teams have to comprise an integrated group of professionals working from the very beginning of new product planning through design creation and design review and then on to manufacturing planning and cost accounting.

This book provides process engineers with all of the information necessary for installation, maintenance and management of refractory in a cement industry.

The safe and reliable operation of technical systems is of great significance for the protection of human life and health, the environment, and of the vested economic value.

The fundamental motivation of this book is to contribute to the future advancement of Asset Management in the context of industrial plants and infrastructures.

This volume provides resourceful thinking and insightful management solutions to the many challenges that decision makers face in their predictions, preparations, and implementations of the key elements that our societies and industries need to take as they move toward digitalization and smartness.

High-technology industries using plastic deformation demand soundly-based economical decisions in manufacturing design and product testing, and the unified constitutive laws of plastic deformation give researchers aguideline to use in making these decisions.

Practical Process Control introduces process control to engineers and technicians unfamiliar with control techniques, providing an understanding of how to actually apply control in a real industrial environment.

Pipe designers and drafters provide thousands of piping drawings used in the layout of industrial and other facilities.

Plant engineers are responsible for a wide range of industrial activities, and may work in any industry.

This contributed volume guides researchers and practitioners on resource collaborative management of supply chains and manufacturing enterprises within an industrial internet technological environment.

Model-Based Enterprise describes Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) and Model-Based Definition (MBD) in detail, focusing on how to obtain significant business value from MBE.

The growing dependence of working environments on complex technology has created many challenges and lead to a large number of accidents.

Computer techniques have made online measurements available at every sampling period in a chemical process.

This book is a companion text to Active Control of Sound by P.

Computer simulation is the key to comprehending and controlling the full-scale industrial plant used in the chemical, oil, gas and electrical power industries.

Reliability, Maintainability and Risk has been updated to ensure that it remains the leading reliability textbook and cementing the book's reputation for staying one step ahead of the competition.

Rethinking Risk and the Precautionary Principle challenges the claim that the precautionary principle is an appropriate guide to public policy decision-making in the face of uncertainty.

Robotics, Second Edition is an essential addition to the toolbox of any engineer or hobbyist involved in the design of any type of robot or automated mechanical system.

Root Cause Failure Analysis provides the concepts needed to effectively perform industrial troubleshooting investigations.

Sustainable process engineering is a methodology to design new and redesign existing processes that follow the principles of green chemistry and green engineering, and ultimately contribute to a sustainable development.

Control systems design methodologies have long suffered the traditional and myopic dichotomy between time and frequency domain approaches, each of them being specialized to cope with only scarcely overlapping performance requirements.

This book offers a thorough introduction to the basics and scientific and technological innovations involved in the modern study of reinforcement-learning-based feedback control.

This book presents the advances in the concept, model, method, and tools for the global supply chain management.

This book presents the role of AI-Driven Digital Twin in the Industry 4.

Unfortunately, dust explosions are common and costly in a wide array of industries such as petrochemical, food, paper and pharmaceutical.

No matter which industry a company is a part of, its profitability, like its products, is driven by the reliability and performance of its plant(s).

CAD/CAM systems are perhaps the most crucial advancement in the field of new technology relating to engineering, design and drawing in all technical domains.

This book includes concepts, methodologies, and practices for achieving sustainability in business operations.

Communication is the glue that binds the diverse elements of the national economy.

Today's control system designers face an ever-increasing "e;need for speed and accuracy in their system measurements and computations.

The Covid-19 pandemic changed the world.

Intelligent autonomous systems are increasingly being applied in various fields, ranging from industrial applications to professional services and household domains.

While there are thousands of books written about feedback control, it is surprising that this is the very first book about feedforward control.

The history of man is recorded, recovered and remembered through the designs he created and the materials he used.

This book provides detailed information on the methods and techniques that can be used to process coir, cocopeat and other coconut byproducts for developing various bioproducts.

This text emphasizes the importance of sustainable material, design, and manufacturing processes, and how the needs are changing day by day.