Engineering: general

Modelling for Business Improvement contains the proceedings of the First International Conference on Process Modelling and Process Management (MMEP 2010) held in Cambridge, England, in March 2010.

Definitions, Concepts and Scope of Engineering Asset Management, the first volume in this new review series, seeks to minimise ambiguities in the subject matter.

Digital factory is a comprehensive approach providing methodologies, models and tools that support manufacturing enterprises in the rearrangement of their organizational structures to deal with expected changes in manufacturing processes and markets.

Supply Chain Engineering considers how modern production and operations management techniques can respond to the pressures of the competitive global marketplace.

Readers of System Design Optimization for Product Manufacturing will learn about detailed concepts and practical technologies that enable successful product design and manufacture.

Lean production, has long been regarded as critical to business success in many industries.

In an age of increasing complexity, diversification and change, customers expect services that cater to their needs and to their tastes.

Projects and programmes are approved and funded to generate benefits.

Shipping and Logistics Management serves to consolidate the knowledge its authors have acquired from being educators and observers of the shipping industry.

We think we have scientific knowledge when we know the cause.

In the industrial design and engineering field, product lifecycle, product development, design process, Design for X, etc.

Physical asset management is the management of fixed or non-current assets such as equipment and plant.

A Perspective on Two Decades of Rapid Modeling It is an honor for me to be asked to write a foreword to the Proceedings of the 1st Rapid Modeling Conference.

"e;Dynamic Modelling for Supply Chain Management"e; discusses how to streamline complex supply chain management by making the most of the growing number of tools available.

Managing Supply Chain Risk and Vulnerability, a book that both practitioners and students can use to better understand and manage supply chain risk, presents topics on decision making related to supply chain risk.

Innovating in Product/Process Development demonstrates how to achieve true innovation in product development, and how to launch a new product in the quickest and cheapest way.

Imagine algebra class meets The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Production development is about improving existing production systems and developing new ones.

Dispersed Manufacturing Networks provides new perspectives of dispersed manufacturing systems from three points of view.

As I write, the financial systems of the world are collapsing with still no clear indication of what the consequences will be and which measures should be taken to avoid such a crisis in the future.

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Around the turn of the millennium, a young woman with outstanding academic achievements in science and mathematics applied to study engineering at a Eu- pean university.

"e;Simulation-based Case Studies in Logistics"e; presents an intensive learning course on the application of simulation as a decision support tool to tackle complex logistic problems.

"e;Changeable and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems"e; discusses key strategies for success in the changing manufacturing environment.

In general, image processing texts are intended for students of engineering and computer science, and there is little written at all on the specific requirements of medical image processing.

"e;Teamology: The Construction and Organization of Effective Teams"e; demonstrates how psychiatrist C.

Thecontentofthisbookismotivatedbytherecentchangesinglobalmarketsandthe availability of new transportation services.

Machine tools are the main production factor for many industrial applications in many important sectors.

Safety is a paradoxical system property.

Recent European Commission studies recall the urgency of promoting new and more robust Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), due to the rise of enormous global markets and the emergence of a new industrial system originating from the distinctly different business culture of the Far East.

Overview The objective of this book is to provide an introduction into some of the key topics in the history of computing.

Distributed production networks are organizational structures considered able to meet the agility and efficiency necessary to compete in the global market.

Engineering solutions and financial decisions are intimately tied together.

Modern societies depend on the smooth operation of many complex systems (designed and built by humans) that provide a variety of outputs (products and services).

Numbers have fascinated people for centuries.

"e;Hydrogen-based Autonomous Power Systems"e; analyses the introduction of hydrogen energy technologies in autonomous power systems based on renewable energy sources (RES).

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.

Semi-active Suspension Control provides an overview of vehicle ride control employing smart semi-active damping systems.

Over the past 100 years the European Automotive Industry has been repeatedly challenged by best practice.

Machining is one of the most important manufacturing processes.

This book Innovations and the Environment aims to review the state of knowledge and to provide an empirical basis for the development and use of new technologies, products and services to reduce the impact of human activities on environmental quality.

Network models are critical tools in business, management, science and industry.

This book is a tribute to Prof.

The aim of this book is to help enable the use of the technique of simulation modelling in the organisation.

"e;ERP Systems and Organisational Change"e; considers both the social and technical perspectives on ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems, which are now the backbone of the information systems in public and private sector organisations.

Designed as an introduction to higher-education mathematics, Bridging the Gap is the only book of this sort written for students by students.

Currently, reliability issues are not addressed effectively in new product development.

Collected here are 112 papers concerned with all manner of new directions in manufacturing systems given at the 41st CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems.

This book presents up-to-date descriptions of smart service innovations in industry, supported by new scientific approaches.

Life cycle engineering deals with technologies for shifting the industry from mass production and mass consumption paradigm to closed loop manufacturing paradigm, in which required functions are provided for customers with the minimum amount of production.