Production and industrial engineering

This edited volume reviews the current state of the art in the additive manufacturing of optical componentry, exploring key principles, materials, processes and applications.

This book approaches its subject matter by promoting concepts, methods and solutions for the digital transformation of manufacturing through service orientation in holonic and agent-based control with distributed intelligence.

This is the third book in a series devoted to gear design and production.

This monograph presents state-of-the-art knowledge in wood manufacturing design with a special focus on the elaboration of functional relationships.

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This book brings together the latest research in smart sensors technology and exposes the reader to myriad industrial applications that this technology has enabled.

This book covers a wide range of conventional and non-conventional machining processes of various composite materials, including polymer and metallic-based composites, nanostructured composites and green/natural composites.

This book deals with complex problems in the fields of logistics and supply chain management and discusses advanced methods, especially from the field of computational intelligence (CI), for solving them.

This fourth edition of the book provides readers with a detailed explanation of PLM, enabling them to gain a full understanding and the know-how to implement PLM within their own business environment.

This book presents a concept for fostering resource efficient manufacturing.

This book explores systems-based, co-design, introducing a "e;Decision-Based, Co-Design"e; (DBCD) approach for the co-design of materials, products, and processes.

This book develops innovative techniques from operational research and management science for the design and implementation of a reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS), and subsequently analyzes and assesses their performance.

This book contains accepted papers presented at SOCO 2020 conference held in the beautiful and historic city of Burgos (Spain), in September 2020.

Aimed at students and professionals, this book covers every major aspect of petroleum: the origin of fossil hydrocarbons and their chemical/physical properties; discovering hydrocarbon reserves; recovering oil, gas, and bitumen; purifying gas; the chemical and physical characterization of crude oil; refining crudes into fuels and lubricants; and converting simple chemicals into solvents, polymers, fibers, rubbers, coatings, and myriad other products, including pharmaceuticals.

This book develops and describes a general methodology that can be applied to any complex human activity (activity with a non-trivial, multi-level internal structure).

This book discusses the general concept and applications of rapid tooling technologies and introduces the use of incremental forming for the development of rapid sheet tools.

The purpose of this book is to distinguish the single-de-source multilevel inverter topologies and to teach their control, switching and voltage balancing.

This work reviews the current state of the art in metallic microlattice structures, manufactured using the additive manufacturing processes of selective laser melting, electron beam melting, binder jetting and photopolymer wave guides.

This book presents a novel framework, known as Active Robust Optimization, which provides the tools for evaluating, comparing and optimizing changeable products.

This handbook summarizes the research results on hydraulic problems in centrifugal pump design and describes the state of the art in a comprehensive way.

This is the first book to cover GRASP (Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures), a metaheuristic that has enjoyed wide success in practice with a broad range of applications to real-world combinatorial optimization problems.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to and technical description of a unique patented surface-modification technology: plasma surface metallurgy with double-glow discharge plasma process, known as the Xu-Tec process.

Effectively Execute Lean Six Sigma Projects using SigmaXL and MinitabWritten by a Six Sigma Master Black Belt and a Ph.

New global standards are the basis for new MES products that have appeared in the last five years in the marketplaceFeatures a comprehensive presentation of available MES technologies

EXTREME SIX SIGMA:A new series that takes Six Sigma to the next level The Six Sigma Operational Methods Series goes beyond simply explaining Six Sigma basics to interested managers--these are hard-core working tools of statistical methods, quantitative and intense, aimed at mathematically sophisticated Six Sigma practitioners unwilling to settle for anything less than peak performance in manufacturing and services.

Multivariate statistical methods are an essential component of quality engineering data analysis.

Computerized Maintenance Management Systems Software programs are increasingly being used to manage and control plant and equipment maintenance in modern manufacturing and service industries.

The cam, used to translate rotary motion into linear motion, is an integral part of many classes of machines, such as printing presses, textile machinery, gear-cutting machines, and screw machines.

This book provides a comprehensive in-depth look into the practical application of AutomationML Edition 2 from an industrial perspective.

Get "e;Up and Running"e; with AutoCAD using Gindis' combination of step-by-step instruction, examples, and insightful explanations.

Science and Technology of Fruit Wine Production includes introductory chapters on the production of wine from fruits other than grapes, including their composition, chemistry, role, quality of raw material, medicinal values, quality factors, bioreactor technology, production, optimization, standardization, preservation, and evaluation of different wines, specialty wines, and brandies.

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.

This new book, by the original developer of the BACnet standards, explains how BACnet's protocols manage all basic building functions in a seamless, integrated way.

Many reliability engineers are gainfully employed in considerations of the physical nature of components and systems-bringing to bear theories and methodologies of physics, electronics, mechanics, material science, chemistry, and so on.

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This book offers a comprehensive introduction to intelligent control system design, using MATLAB simulation to verify typical intelligent controller designs.

This book covers the industrial aspects of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for solid-state lighting (SSL).

The text comprehensively highlights the key issues surrounding the implementation of waste-to-energy systems, such as site selection, regulatory aspects and financial, and economic implications.

This book unravels the intriguing interplay between macroscopic manufacturing processes and microscopic fabrication techniques.

As a mature topic in chemical engineering, the book provides methods, problems and tools used in process control engineering.

This book covers the most important topics that people working as process control engineers and plant operators will encounter.

Innerstädtische Schienenverkehrssysteme stoßen bei steigender Verkehrsnachfrage zunehmend an ihre Grenzen.

This textbook introduces the reader to the development and qualification of arc welding procedures and personnel to industry codes and standards.

Removing the barriers to the Global Optimization of Plant Utility Systems by providing practical tools and techniques to deal with these unique challenges is the purpose of this book.

Das Fachbuch greift das Konzept Industrie 4.

This book covers the strategic use of continuous improvement (CI) techniques for manufacturing performance improvement.

This book gathers timely contributions on metrology and measurement and control systems, across different disciplines and fields of applications.