Engineering: general

Luna 2, launched by the USSR in 1959, was the first spacecraft from Earth to land on the moon.

Gathering the proceedings of the 12th CHAOS2019 International Conference, this book highlights recent developments in nonlinear, dynamical and complex systems.

This book offers meaningful insights into an impending challenge for the energy industry, namely the increasing role of asset management amongst the utilities' core operations.

This book describes Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and the significant factors which affect its adoption, such as governance, strategy, complexity, Return on Investment (ROI), business and IT alignment, culture and communication, costs, and security.

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

This book proposes essential methods, models, and case studies for Sustainable Logistics and Production in Industry 4.

Since 1950, the Highway Capacity Manual has been a standard used in the planning, design, analysis, and operation of virtually any highway traffic facility in the United States.

Vladimir Babitsky was born before the Second World War and migrated West after Perestroika.

Cyber CISO Marksmanship is the only book of its kind authored by multiple highly experienced individuals to collectively bring together the "e;best of the best"e; on what works and what doesn't, as a CISO, in a unique storytelling format.

This book goes beyond searching for Muda by Gemba walk; the aim is to industrialize the office environment in view of the new digitalization challenge by applying the same principles of Lean industry.

Learning to tell a compelling research story can have a significant impact on your career.

This book presents the fundamental concepts of organizational learning (OL) and related topics.

The book describes state-of-the-art product service systems, and provides a framework to categorize the knowledge surrounding these systems.

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

This book gathers extended versions of the best papers presented at the Global Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Its Application Areas (GJCIE), held in Nevsehir, Turkey, on June 21-22, 2018.

This book is designed to offer a comprehensive high-level introduction to transhumanism, an international political and cultural movement that aims to produce a "e;paradigm shift"e; in our ethical and political understanding of human evolution.

This book analyzes new theories and practical approaches for promoting excellence in human resource management and leadership.

The conference proceedings contains contributions to the Logistics Management conference 2019.

This book discusses the rapidly growing interest in economic diversification through partnerships between industry, university and government (IUGP), with a focus on the economic diversification of the state of Qatar.

This book gathers the proceedings of the I-ESA'18 Conference, which was organised by the Fraunhofer IPK, on behalf of the European Virtual Laboratory for Enterprise Interoperability (INTEROP-VLab) and the DFI, and was held in Berlin, Germany in March 2018.

This book provides support to academics and researchers, as well as those operating in the management and engineering fields that need to deal with policies and strategies that allow to move towards a more sustainable paradigm, a greener economy that guarantees economic development and the improvement of living and working conditions.

This book provides a wide-range exploration on the ongoing research and developmental events in environmental nanotechnology.

Prepare yourselves for the coming Cyber Revolution!

This book provides the fundamental aspects of the diverse ranges of nanostructured materials (0D, 1D, 2D and 3D) for energy and environmental applications in a comprehensive manner written by specialists who are at the forefront of research in the field of energy and environmental science.

In the wake of an international pandemic, Healthy Decisions: Critical Thinking Skills for Healthcare Executives emerges as a crucial guide for leaders navigating the complex world of healthcare management.

This book provides a systemic view on the digital future from the perspectives of various socio-humanitarian sciences: economics, social sciences, pedagogics and law.

This book analyzes the process-oriented and organizational changes related to the digital transformation of multidisciplinary design firms.

This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective on perceived safety.

The European Space Agency has a long history of human spaceflight, working with both NASA and the Soviet/Russian space agencies over the years.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to the use of neutrosophic sets in multiple criteria decision making problems.

In this controversial essay, Carlos Elias addresses the worldwide phenomenon that is threatening the scientific and economic progress of Western countries.

In 2019, China astonished the world by landing a spacecraft and rover on the far side of the Moon, something never achieved by any country before.

This book contains the papers presented at the International Joint Conference on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing (JCM 2018), held on 20-22 June 2018 in Cartagena, Spain.

This volume outlines a progressively staged process focused on fostering a more effective, more efficient, and greener global construction industry.

The work contains selected and thoroughly reviewed research papers of the topics Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Digitalization, Sustainability, Transportation Management, Process Management, Risk Management, Corporate Social Responsibility and Governance.

This book explains the requirements of ISO 9001 for establishing quality management system (QMS) for an organization.

This book explains how the achievements of the Space Shuttle, the world's first reusable manned spacecraft, were built on the foundation of countless technical challenges.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Joint 2018 National Conferences of the Australian Society for Operations Research (ASOR) and the Defence Operations Research Symposium (DORS).

The field of risk science continues to learn from the long history of events to develop principles and practices that enable individuals, organizations, and societies to understand and manage future risk.

Find the Fault in the Machines- Drawing on the author's more than two decades of experience with machinery condition monitoring and consulting for industries in India and abroad, Machinery Condition Monitoring: Principles and Practices introduces the practicing engineer to the techniques used to effectively detect and diagnose faults in machines.

The creation and utilization of the International Space Station (ISS) is a milestone in space exploration.

This book reports on cutting-edge research and technology aimed at increasing the efficiency of production processes and to foster the implementation of Industry 4.

This book focuses on strategic and operational human resources, giving the reader the core curriculum of subjects usually presented in an MBA program specialized in organizational behaviour and human resource management.

This book contributes a basic framework for and specific insights into interdisciplinary connections between production, logistics, and traffic subsystems.

This book reports on the latest scientific achievements on robot kinematics provided by the prominent researchers participating in the 18th International Symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics ARK2022, organized in the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain.

This book tells the fascinating stories of the valiant women who broke down barriers to join the space program.

This contributed volume brings together research papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Dynamics in Logistics, held in Bremen, Germany in February 2014.

This book examines inventory and production strategies that can reduce unexpected breakdown costs.

This book discusses digitalization trends and their concrete applications in business and societal contexts.

This book gathers papers from the 11th Construction Industry Development Board (cidb) Postgraduate Research Conference, held on 28-30 July 2019 in Johannesburg, South Africa.