Production and industrial engineering

This book provides solution for challenges facing engineers in urban environments looking towards smart development and IoT.

This book provides a detailed understanding of optimization methods as they are implemented in a variety of manufacturing, fabrication and machining processes.

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 provides information on the generation and the effects of hazardous substances that are produced during welding and allied processes.

This book is divided into four parts that outline the use of science and technology for applications pertaining to chemical and bioprocess engineering.

This book addresses optimization in robotics, in terms of both the configuration space and the metal structure of the robot arm itself; and discusses, describes and builds different types of heuristics and algorithms in MATLAB.

This book reflects and expands on the current trend in the building industry to understand, simulate and ultimately design buildings by taking into consideration the interlinked elements and forces that act on them.

This book discusses the conference that forms a unique platform to bring together academicians and practitioners from industrial engineering and management engineering as well as from other disciplines working on production function applying the tools of operational research and production/operational management.

This book explores the evolution of products from the beginning idea through mass-production.

This book helps professionals to turn their own Six Sigma projects into reality.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on the Industry 4.

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.

In the agriculture, forestry, the primary and secondary wood working industry there are considerable resources of raw materials which can only be used in a rational manner for energetic purposes.

This book sheds light on the development of traditional and advanced optimization methods.

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.

The book provides an introduction to logistics and supply chain management and the application of evolutionary computation, focusing on specific fields related to supply chain issues, from strategic sourcing decisions, and production planning and control to inventory to logistics and its application using evolutionary / heuristics techniques.

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 introduces the materials and traditional processes involved in the manufacturing industry.

This book covers a variety of topics related to the Industry 4.

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 book contains selected papers from the First International Conference on Progress in Digital and Physical Manufacturing (ProDPM'19), organized by the School of Technology and Management (ESTG) of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (IPL).

This book presents a number of efficient techniques for solving large-scale production scheduling and planning problems in process industries.

This book presents the research advances in the science of measurement, giving special focus to the field of machining and tribology.

This book offers an extensive, interdisciplinary overview of dynamic textiles.

This book highlights recent findings in industrial, manufacturing and mechanical engineering, and provides an overview of the state of the art in these fields, mainly in Russia and Eastern Europe.

This book is part of a five-volume set that explores sustainability in textile industry practices globally.

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 contains the Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on the Education in Mechanism and Machine Science (ISEMMS 2017), which was held in Madrid, Spain.

This book presents the potential applications of hard materials as well as the latest trends and challenges in machining hard materials.

The book explores the state of the art in the mechanics of fibrous media, providing an overview of the theoretical, modelling and practical aspects of designing and working with these materials.

This book introduces models and methodologies that can be employed towards making the 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 presents some of the recent hybrid micro-machining processes used to manufacture miniaturized products with micro level precision.

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 wide range of management issues, concerning planning, control and continuous improvement.

This book deals with the design and optimization of the bucket elevator using the discrete element method (DEM).

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 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 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 describes an effective framework for setting the right process parameters and new mold design to reduce the current plastic defects in injection molding.

The book collects the latest research and thinking from international experts on green computing and the smart city.

The book is basically written with a view to project Computer Numerical Control Programming (CNC) Programming for machines.

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 collection presents papers from the 149th Annual Meeting & Exhibition of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.

This book provides an overview of cleaner production, including how regulations have evolved, and presents a broad perspective on how it is being developed.

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 focuses on the global quality of the design of systems that people interact with during their work activities and daily lives; a quality that involves the globality of people's experience - physical, sensory, cognitive and emotional.

This book presents critical information on the principles and operation of friction welding, friction stir welding, and friction stir processing enhanced with many robust illustrations.

This volume includes contributions on the physical and numerical modeling of materials processing, and covers a range of metals and minerals.

This book reports on cutting-edge findings concerning characterization of material behavior, material modeling and simulation, and applications in the field of manufacturing.