Engineering: general

Henry Ford's industrial innovations were directly responsible for the transformation of the United States into the most productive, affluent, and powerful nation on Earth.

Introduction to Optimum Design, Fourth Edition, carries on the tradition of the most widely used textbook in engineering optimization and optimum design courses.

Supply Chain Simulation allows readers to practice modeling and simulating a multi-level supply chain.

This book offers readers a holistic understanding of intelligent environments, encompassingtheir definition, design, interaction paradigms, the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and theassociated broader philosophical and procedural aspects.

With continuous improvement (kaizen) and Total Quality Control (TQC) becoming increasingly important to world class companies, there's an urgent need to build quality into every management decision.

This book addresses current international practices applied for dam safety assessments by looking at a portfolio of dam safety projects in various developing countries (Armenia, Georgia, Tajikistan, Mauritius, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Vietnam) spread across three continents (Europe, Africa and Asia).

As multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) continues to grow and evolve, machine learning (ML) techniques have become increasingly important in finding efficient and effective solutions to complex problems.

This book highlights cutting-edge ecodesign research, covering product and service design, smart manufacturing, and social perspectives in ecodesign.

Construction Cost Estimating equips a new generation of students and early-career professionals with the skills they need to bid successfully on projects.

In order to ensure environmentally responsible production and disposal of products, local governments are imposing stricter environmental regulations, some of which even require manufacturers to take back their products at the end of the product's useful life.

Project Management:Planning and Scheduling Techniques is a highly readable guide to the essentials of project planning, scheduling, and control aimed at readers looking for an introduction to the core concepts of planning and scheduling, including the 'Critical Path Method', but also the 'Precedence Diagramming Method', the 'Line of Balance' technique, and the 'Programme Evaluation and Review Technique'.

The book treats the C -hydrocarbons and their secondary products as a contribution 4 to chemical engineering economics, applying this field of teaching and research to the technical processes for making and processing this group of products, so important to the chemical industry.

This book focuses on developing a holistic sustainability assessment model for built environment that can help in identifying sustainability issues and parameters for the built environment.

This lecture presents a first compendium of established and emerging standards in pervasive computing systems.

An Emerging Tool for Pioneering Engineers Co-published by the International Federation of Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Leadership is a risky business.

This textbook supplement deconstructs some of the most commonly-encountered and challenging problems arising within engineering domains such as thermodynamics, separation processes, chemical kinetics, fluid dynamics, and engineering mathematics that are foundational to most engineering programs, as well as many courses in STEM disciplines.

"e;Copper Flashings And Weatherings"e; is a handbook containing practical details of the manner in which copper sheet and strip are used for flashings and weatherings.

This book examines China, the world's largest auto market since 2008 and the story of how Chinese auto-makers developed is the story of the Chinese economy in microcosm.

This book attempts to encompass in-process measurement and control holistically as opposed to dealing with the bits and pieces.

This informative volume reflects the state of art in the science of color-changeable materials and provides an abundance of in-depth knowledge about the field of colorimetry.

Reflecting the rapid advances in new materials development, this work offers up-to-date information on the properties and applications of various classes of metals, polymers, ceramics and composites.

Although software development is one of the most complex activities carried out by man, sound development processes and proper project management can help ensure your software projects are delivered on time and under budget.

Functionally Graded Materials: Analysis and Applications to FGM, FG-CNTRC and FG Porous Structures aims to disseminates knowledge between users, manufacturers, designers, and researchers involved in structures or structural components manufactured using functionally graded materials.

Progress in International Research on Thermodynamic and Transport Properties covers the proceedings of the 1962 Second Symposium by the same title, held at Purdue University and the Thermophysical Properties Research Center.

Während im Teil 1 der "Vermessungskunde" die Längen-und Höhenmessung mit dem dazugehörigen Instrumentarium sowie Erdmassenberechnungen und einfache Bauabsteckungen behandelt werden, hat der Teil 2 die Winkelmessung und Tachy­ metrie mit den einzusetzenden Instrumenten sowie die Koordinatenberechnung und Ingenieur-Vermessung zum Inhalt.

"Gebranntes Kind scheut das Feuer", und zwar scheut es jedes Feuer, obgleich es sich nur an einem ganz bestimmten gebrannt hat: es hat seine Erfahrungen verallgemeinert.

This book is a reference for continuous improvement project (CIP) leaders/facilitators in manufacturing and service organizations, students (undergraduate and graduate), academics responsible for managing senior projects (Capstone Projects) and teaching quality courses, and researchers interested in how organizations could produce more effective and efficient continuous improvement initiatives and projects.

LEAD Safety concentrates on self-development and education in safety leadership.

A Relaxation Based Approach to Optimal Control of Hybrid and Switched Systems proposes a unified approach to effective and numerically tractable relaxation schemes for optimal control problems of hybrid and switched systems.

This book deals with the safety assessment of structures and structural components, possibly operating beyond the elastic limits under variable repeated thermo-mechanical loads.

Das vorliegende Buch entstand aus einem Manuskript zu einer vier­ stündigen Vorlesung, die ich im SS 1976 an der Universität Dortmund gehalten habe.

Digital Technology in Public Health and Rehabilitation Care: COVID Era provides an in-depth examination on how digital technology has impacted public health and rehabilitation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

A large and growing number of manufacturers are realizing the substantial financial and environmental benefits of sustainable business practices.

This important new book covers recent advancements, innovations, and technologies in industrial biotechnology, specifically addressing the application of various biomolecules in industrial production and in cleaning and environmental remediation sectors.

This book evolved from a one-year sequence of courses offered by the authors at Iowa State University.

This new edition of Spon's Irish Construction Price Book, edited by Franklin + Andrews, is the only complete, tailored and up-to-date source of cost data for the Irish construction industry.

This book is a result of many years' interest in the economic theory of pro- duction, first aroused by the reading of Professor ERICH SCHNEIDER'S classic Theorie der Produktion.