Production and industrial engineering

This book deals with research in open challenges in Management Engineering in the 21st century, as well as selected opportunities and solutions to remedy them.

This contributed volume contains the research results of the Cluster of Excellence "e;Integrative Production Technology for High-Wage Countries"e;, funded by the German Research Society (DFG).

This book illustrates innovative support-decision models, methods, and advanced automation and robotic technologies aimed at enhancing the overall performance of Warehousing and Material Handling (WMH) in terms of time and space efficiency, service levels, labor safety, and ergonomics.

This book discusses the design of textile production within the framework Industry 4.

Featuring selected contributions from the 2nd International Conference on Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering, held in Nice, France, February 18-19, 2016, this book introduces recent advances and state-of-the-art technologies in the field of advanced intelligent manufacturing.

Optimization of Pharmaceutical Processes presents contributions from leading authorities in the fields of optimization and pharmaceutical manufacturing.

The book gives a systematic and detailed description of a new integrated product and process development approach for sheet metal manufacturing.

This book provides a comprehensive exchange of information on current developments in the field of sustainable management of manufacturing systems and Industry 4.

This book presents the findings of research projects from the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 73.

This book presents a collection of papers on topics in the field of strategic mine planning, including orebody modeling, mine-planning optimization and the optimization of mining complexes.

This book explains and exemplifies how SMEs can embrace the Smart Production approach and technologies in order to gain a beneficiary outcome.

This book presents the trends, challenges, and advances in Internet of Things (IoT) in the areas of industrial management and industrial engineering.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the production of smelter grade alumina from bauxite ores.

This textbook covers the fundamentals of optimization, including linear, mixed-integer linear, nonlinear, and dynamic optimization techniques, with a clear engineering focus.

In order to deal with the societal challenges novel technology plays an important role.

This book describes and illustrates metal spray and spray deposition from the process engineering, metallurgical, and application viewpoints.

This book focusses on all advanced methods of joining such as friction stir welding, joining by plastic deformation, laser welding, advanced mechanical joining, adhesive bonding and hybrid joining.

This book focuses on technical safety, means of expanding the current procedures, and making the related risks more predictable.

This book introduces readers to cybersecurity and its impact on the realization of the Industry 4.

This book addresses problems of GNSS performance support under geomagnetic storms and solar radio bursts.

This book is the continuation of the textbook Lean Compendium - Introduction to Modern Manufacturing Theory.

This book reports on innovative research and developments in automation.

This collection presents fundamentals and the current status of friction stir welding (FSW) and solid-state friction stir processing of materials, and provides researchers and engineers with an opportunity to review the current status of the friction stir related processes and discuss the future possibilities.

This book presents some developments in the field of welding technology.

This book is the first research collection by the Malaysian Society for Automatic Control Engineers (MACE).

The book examines the integration of IoT, Blockchain, and Smart Healthcare, providing a comprehensive analysis of these advanced technologies and their impact on the healthcare industry.

This book introduces the main concepts of manufacturing systems and presents several evaluation approaches for these systems' evaluation.

This book focuses on the predictive capabilities derived from digital representation of humans in simulation or virtual environments.

This book discusses the latest advances in affective and pleasurable design.

In this book, the history of the concepts critical to the discovery and development of aluminum, its alloys and the anodizing process are reviewed to provide a foundation for the challenges, achievements, and understanding of the complex relationship between the aluminum alloy and the reactions that occur during anodic oxidation.

This book collects perceptions and needs expectations and experiences concerning the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning in the steel sector.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of machine science and mechanical engineering, as presented by international researchers and engineers at the 11th International Conference on Machine and Industrial Design in Mechanical Engineering (KOD), held in Novi Sad, Serbia on June 10-12, 2021.

This textbook covers in detail digitally-driven methods for adding materials together to form parts.

This book reports on topics at the interface between manufacturing and materials engineering, with a special emphasis on product design and advanced manufacturing processes, intelligent solutions for Industry 4.

This book contains a collection of peer-reviewed papers from the 2020 Conference on Multidisciplinary Engineering and Technology (COMET 2020) held online on December 15-16, 2020.

This book presents the history, fundamentals, process development, applications, post-processing, and experimental results from additive manufacturing.

The book covers various topics in mechanical engineering, with a special attention to machine design, product assembly, technological aspects of production, mechatronics and production maintenance.

This unique volume imparts practical information on the operation, maintenance, and modernization of heavy performance machines such as lignite mine machines, bucket wheel excavators, and spreaders.

This book presents the proceedings of the 11th Scientific Conference "e;Intelligent systems for industrial automation,"e; WCIS-2020, held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on November 26-28, 2020.

This book relates research being implemented in three main research areas: secure connectivity and intelligent systems, real-time analytics and manufacturing knowledge and virtual manufacturing.

This book explains concepts and techniques for business analytics and demonstrate them on real life applications for managers and practitioners.

This volume gathers the latest fundamental research contributions, innovations, and applications in the field of design and analysis of complex robotic mechanical systems, machines, and mechanisms, as presented by leading international researchers at the 2nd USCToMM Symposium on Mechanical Systems and Robotics (USCToMM MSR), held in Rapid City, South Dakota, USA on May 19-21, 2022.

This book presents statistical processes for health care delivery and covers new ideas, methods and technologies used to improve health care organizations.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the main electrical technologies for process heating, which tend to be treated separately in specialized books.

This book presents contributions of intelligent management theories and models for a more effective management of sustainable business practices in competitive, profitable and socially responsible organizations.

This book reports a comprehensive study on the Industry 4.

This book offers a comprehensive look at materials science topics in aerospace, air vehicle structures and manufacturing methods for aerospace products, examining recent trends and new technological developments.

This book describes the latest research developments in modeling and simulation in industrial engineering.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of structural health monitoring (SHM) and more broadly in the fields of smart materials and intelligent systems, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 10th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM), held in Palermo, Italy on July 4-7, 2022.

This volume gathers the peer reviewed papers presented at the 11th edition of the International Workshop on Service-oriented, Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing Systems for the Industry of the Future, SOHOMA'21, organized on 18-19 November, 2021 by the Arts et Metiers Institute of Technology of Cluny, France in collaboration with University Politehnica of Bucharest (the CIMR Research Centre in Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Robotics), Polytechnic University Hauts-de-France (the LAMIH Laboratory of Industrial and Human Automation Control, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science) and Polytechnic Institute of Braganca (the CeDRI Research Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics).