Production and industrial engineering

This book uses case studies to discuss consumer awareness of and education on sustainable fashion.

This book presents the fundamentals of arc phenomena, various arc welding power sources, their control strategies, welding data acquisition, and welding optimization.

This book is intended as a text for upper undergraduate and graduate courses on kinetics of metallurgical processes for students of materials science, metallurgical engineering, and chemical engineering.

This book investigates the utilization of harmonics in the permanent magnet (PM) or rotor shape to improve the torque density of PM brushless AC machines including three-phase inner rotor and outer rotor machines, five-phase machines, dual three-phase machines, linear machines, by means of analytical, finite element analyses, and as well as experimental validation.

This book offers a systematic overview of polymer joining and highlights the experimental and numerical work currently being pursued to devise possible strategies to overcome the technical issues.

This book highlights ten cases of entrepreneurship that - in the context of circular economy - have redefined the paradigm of luxury and the notion of exclusivity that it requires.

This book mainly addresses the applications of lasers in the manufacture of various industrial components.

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

This book presents a selection of papers on advanced technologies for 3D printing and additive manufacturing, and demonstrates how these technologies have changed the face of direct, digital technologies for the rapid production of models, prototypes and patterns.

This proceedings volume gathers selected papers presented at the Chinese Materials Conference 2017 (CMC2017), held in Yinchuan City, Ningxia, China, on July 06-12, 2017.

This book provides an overview of current issues and challenges in the fashion industry and an update on data-driven artificial intelligence (AI) techniques and their potential implementation in response to those challenges.

Today, a prosperous technology company can be disrupted and put out of business in a blink of an eye.

This book focuses on numerical simulations of manufacturing processes, discussing the use of numerical simulation techniques for design and analysis of the components and the manufacturing systems.

This book highlights the environmental and economic benefits of recycling in textiles and fashion; vis-a-vis virgin textiles.

This book brings out the innovations in textile wet or chemical processing to alleviate the environmental impacts arising from this sector.

This book presents articles from the International Conference on Improved Oil Recovery, CIOR 2017, held in Bandung, Indonesia.

This book provides essential insights into Chinese consumer behaviors in the growing and dynamic fashion market.

This book highlights the models developed to create a sustainable framework suitable for luxury in the textile sector and the innovative attempts in the luxury fashion and fabrics industry.

This volume presents selected papers from the 3rd International Conference on Mechanical, Manufacturing and Process Plant Engineering (ICMMPE 2017) which was in Penang, Malaysia, 22nd-23rd November 2017.

This book explores new approaches and strategies that luxury fashion brands could adopt in their operations toward sustainability goals.

This book highlights the traditional boundaries of the textile industry and discusses to what extent organic cotton is sustainable.

This book introduces readers to various tools and techniques for the design of precision, miniature products, assemblies and associated manufacturing processes.

The primary aim of this volume is to provide researchers and engineers from both academia and industry with up-to-date coverage of recent advances in the fields of robotic welding, intelligent systems and automation.

This book details two elements of textile chemistry namely- sustainable/eco-friendly dyes and green chemistry.

There have been a lot of innovations in making the garment or apparel production sector sustainable.

This book highlights the innovations in textile fibres, that is the starting point of the supply chain.

The primary aim of this volume is to provide researchers and engineers from both academia and industry with up-to-date coverage of recent advances in the fields of robotic welding, intelligent systems and automation.

This book focuses on understanding the status quo of sustainable practices in industry operations from an emerging economy perspective, presenting various practices in India.

This volume comprises select proceedings of the AHSS 2017 conference.

This volume contains a selection of revised and extended research articles written by prominent researchers participating in the 25th International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS 2017) which was held in Hong Kong, 15-17 March, 2017.

This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Health, Safety, Fire, Environment, and Allied Sciences (HSFEA 2016).

The primary aim of this volume is to provide researchers and engineers from both academia and industry with up-to-date coverage of recent advances in the fields of robotic welding, intelligent systems and automation.

This book adopts a case study based research approach to examine the contemporary issues in the fashion industry.

This book highlights different roles in entrepreneurship and innovation, based on the act of setting up a new venture in the area of sustainable luxury and fashion, which also involves cognitive and motivational characteristics.

As the sequel to the proceedings of the International Conference of Continuum Mechanics Focusing on Singularities (CoMFoS15), the proceedings of CoMFoS16 present further advances and new topics in mathematical theory and numerical simulations related to various aspects of continuum mechanics.

This book addresses a perennial challenge for product planners and designers alike: how to objectively specify and quantify the aesthetics of products.

This book describes the current state of the art in the retrofit of existing distillation processes using advanced distillation techniques.

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.

This book provides background and guidance on the use of the structural hot-spot stress approach to fatigue analysis.

This book describes load modeling approaches for complex work pieces and batch forgings, and demonstrates analytical modeling and data-driven modeling approaches for known and unknown complex forging processes.

The primary aim of this volume is to provide researchers and engineers from both academia and industry with up-to-date coverage of recent advances in the fields of robotic welding, intelligent systems and automation.

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

This book presents a comprehensive overview of non-ferrous metallurgy, especially its core principles and fundamental aspects, in a concise form.

This book introduces state-of-the-art models and methods based on the matrix in the field of product design and change management.

This second volume on detox fashion covers five key aspects relevant to the topic sustainable chemistry and wet processes: Sustainable Chemicals: A Model for Practical Substitution; Sustainable Wet Processing; Coloration and Functional Finishing of Cotton with Plant Extracts; Call for an Environmental Impact Assessment of Bio-based Dyeing-an Overview; and Enzymes: Biocatalysts for Cleaning Up the Textile and Apparel Sector.

This volume comprises the select proceedings of FiMPART 2015.

This fourth volume on detox fashion focuses on case studies, which are essential to showcase how practical applications have been accomplished, and provide an opportunity for others to (learn about and) adopt the best practices, challenges and practical implications.

This third volume on detox fashion highlights sustainable wastewater treatment methods, as well as techniques used by and the adoption of detox strategies by different brands in the textile sector.

This first volume on detox fashion discusses various interesting topics including a Toxic-Free Supply Chain for Textiles and Clothing; Environmental Issues in Textiles; Global Regulations, Restrictions & Research; Making the Change: Consumer Adoption of Sustainable Fashion; and Strategies for Detoxing Your Wardrobe.

This book provides an overview of essential research on and developments in the electrohydrodynamic (EHD) direct-writing technique and its applications.