Production and industrial engineering

This richly illustrated book describes statistical extreme value theory for the quantification of natural hazards, such as strong winds, floods and rainfall, and discusses an interdisciplinary approach to allow the theoretical methods to be applied.

The metal casting, uses large amounts of natural resources, energy and metals as well as generates significant amounts of gases and solid wastes, which have an essential influence on the natural environment and work conditions in casting houses.

This book covers the subject of digital manufacturing.

This book gathers selected contributions in the field of civil and structural engineering, as presented by international researchers and engineers at the International Conference on Materials Physics, Building Structures and Technologies in Construction, Industrial and Production Engineering (MPCPE), held in Vladimir, Russia on April 26-28 2021.

This book gathers contributions presented at the International Joint Conference on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing (JCM 2022), held on June 1-3, 2022, in Ischia, Italy.

The volume will include selected and reviewed papers from CONAT - International Congress of Automotive and Transport Engineering to be held in Brasov, Romania, in October 2016.

This book brings together some 20 chapters on state-of-the-art research in the broad field of computational plasticity with applications in civil and mechanical engineering, metal forming processes, geomechanics, nonlinear structural analysis, composites, biomechanics and multi-scale analysis of materials, among others.

The volume presents a collection of 44 peer-reviewed articles from the First International Conference on Intelligent Systems in Production Engineering and Maintenance (ISPEM 2017).

This book shows how jute waste is collected from industry and used as a cheaper source to extract and use cellulose.

This book focuses on the application of ionic liquids in flow assurance in the oil and gas industry.

Drawing on their experiences in successfully executing hundreds of MEMS development projects, the authors present the first practical guide to navigating the technical and business challenges of MEMS product development, from the initial concept stage all the way to commercialization.

This book introduces readers to essential strategies, practices, and benchmarking for asset maintenance in operations intensive industries.

This authored monograph provides in-depth analysis and methods for aligning electricity demand of manufacturing systems to VRE supply.

This book provides a review of the latest research on emotion in engineering, with a particular focus on design and manufacturing.

This monograph analyses in detail the physical aspects of the elastic waves radiation during deformation or fracture of materials.

This textbook provides the tools, techniques, and industry examples needed for the successful implementation of design of experiments (DoE) in engineering and manufacturing applications.

This book forms an excellent basis for the development of intelligent manufacturing system for Industry 4.

This book reports on cutting-edge research and technologies in the field of advanced manufacturing and materials, with a special emphasis on unconventional machining process, rapid prototyping and biomaterials.

This book is about design.

This book introduces readers to the "e;Jaya"e; algorithm, an advanced optimization technique that can be applied to many physical and engineering systems.

This volume presents the proceedings of the Joint International Conference of the XII International Conference on Mechanisms and Mechanical Transmissions (MTM) and the XXIII International Conference on Robotics (Robotics '16), that  was held in Aachen, Germany, October 26th-27th, 2016.

This 2nd edition is a complete revision with an update of the methods that have been investigated recently and that are now fully accepted by the adhesion community.

This book provides users, pump manufactures, engineers, researchers and students with extensive information about pump's behavior in reverse operation.

Drawing on empirical insights from the field of desktop 3D printing, this book elaborates the concept of innovation communities as a pattern of open and distributed innovation.

This book provides insights into the possibilities, realities and challenges of the rapidly evolving world of 3D printing or additive manufacturing.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations and applications in the field of condition monitoring, plant maintenance and reliability, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 5th International Conference on Maintenance Engineering and the 2020 Annual Conference of the Centre for Efficiency and Performance Engineering Network (IncoME-V & CEPE Net-2020), held in Zhuhai, China on October 23-25, 2020.

This updated, second edition provides readers with an expanded treatment of the FEM as well as new information on recent trends in rapid prototyping technology.

This book presents the proceedings from the 5th NEWTECH conference (Belgrade, Serbia, 5-9 June 2017), the latest in a series of high-level conferences that bring together experts from academia and industry in order to exchange knowledge, ideas, experiences, research results, and information in the field of manufacturing.

This book addresses recycling technologies for many of the valuable and scarce materials from spent lithium-ion batteries.

This book covers practical and philosophical aspects of Engineering, paying special attention to the social impacts of emerging technologies.

This book reports on innovative concepts and practical solutions at the intersection between engineering design, engineering production and industrial management.

This book addresses the evaluation and optimization of key elements in concentrating solar thermal (CST) technologies, such as solar receivers and working fluids, using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling.

This book describes in great detail the semi-solid processing of aluminum alloys.

This book contains the proceedings of the Additive Manufacturing in Product Development Conference.

This book discusses challenges and solutions for the required information processing and management within the context of multi-disciplinary engineering of production systems.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to printed flexible electronics and their applications, including the basics of modern printing technologies, printable inks, performance characterization, device design, modeling, and fabrication processes.

This book presents selected contributions on a wide range of scientific and technological areas covered by AITeM (the Italian Association of Manufacturing).

Mechanics of Additive and Advanced Manufacturing, Volume 9 of the Proceedings of the 2017 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the ninth volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

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 volume contains the Proceedings of the First International Conference of IFToMM Italy (IFIT2016), held at the University of Padova, Vicenza, Italy, on December 1-2, 2016.

This textbook fosters information exchange and discussion on all aspects of introductory matters of modern mechanical engineering from a number of perspectives including: mechanical engineering as a profession, materials and manufacturing processes, machining and machine tools, tribology and surface engineering, solid mechanics, applied and computational mechanics, mechanical design, mechatronics and robotics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer, renewable energies, biomechanics, nanoengineering and nanomechanics.

This book develops the core system science needed to enable the development of a complex industrial internet of things/manufacturing cyber-physical systems (IIoT/M-CPS).

This book focusses on additive manufacturing including many aspects, like vacuum assisted high pressure die casting, semi-solid metal casting, compressive and tensile forming processes, micro and nano machining, nanocomposite manufacturing, adhesive bonding, laser cutting and joining.

This book provides readers with the comprehensive insights of the recent research breakthroughs in additive, subtractive, and hybrid technologies.

This book explains how the specifics of Stiff Extrusion influence on the metallurgical properties of Extruded Briquettes.

No pyrometallurgical smelter can operate without some form of tapping system.

This book presents a complete coverage of micromachining processes from their basic material removal phenomena to past and recent research carried by a number of researchers worldwide.

This book explains the design and fabrication of any electronic enclosure that contains a printed circuit board, from original design through materials selection, building and testing, and ongoing design improvement.

This book provides discussion and the exchange of information on principles, strategies, models, techniques, and applications related with the challenges and trends that competitive organizations are facing.

This book presents the tools used in machine learning (ML) and the benefits of using such tools in facilities.