Production and industrial engineering

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.

The capability modeling and simulation (M&S) supplies for managing systems complexity and investigating systems behaviors has made it a central activity in the development of new and existing systems.

Businesses have faced a variety of difficulties as a result of the global pandemic, and how they responded to this disruption has affected both their resilience and their ability to get through this crisis.

This book covers the need for Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and artificial intelligence (AI)-aided IoT solutions for business and production.

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.

This book contains 182 papers presented at the 12th Symposium of Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE-12), held in The Hague, The Netherlands, May 26-29, 2002.

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.

Agile manufacturing is defined as the capability of surviving and prospering in a competitive environment of continuous and unpredictable change by reacting quickly and effectively to changing markets, driven by customer-designed products and services.

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.

Completely updated, this new edition uniquely explains how to assess and handle technical risk, schedule risk, and cost risk efficiently and effectively for complex systems that include Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning.

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 uses a quantitative science-based approach to explain where the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions emitted by the fashion industry are generated and it explores what strategies can be deployed to achieve Net Zero by 2050.

In today's information age, scientists and engineers must quickly and efficiently analyze extremely large sets of data.

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

The objective of the ISO 56002 standard is to provide a framework on how to build an innovation ecosystem that can be sustained over time.

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).

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

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.

This book is a reference on digital technology and its impact on sustainability, providing insight into sustainable practices globally.

This book is a reference on digital technology and its impact on sustainability, providing insight into sustainable practices globally.

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.

The book presents the innovative aspects of smart industries and intelligent technologies involving Robotics and Automation.

Control System Design Guide, 3E will help engineers to apply control theory to practical systems using their PC.

This book focuses on strengthening and joining materials by means of plastic deformation, gathering extended research papers presented at the AIMTDR 2016 conference.

The tools and technique used in the Design of Experiments (DOE) have been proved successful in meeting the challenge of continuous improvement over the last 15 years.