Technical design

SCM is one of the hottest topics in manufacturing and distribution, and like JIT and TQC it requires a corporate commitment.

The application of computational electromagnetics to practical EMI/EMC engineering is an emerging technology.

Micromachined Mirrors provides an overview of the performance enhancements that will be realized by miniaturizing scanning mirrors like those used for laser printers and barcode scanners, and the newly enabled applications, including raster-scanning projection video displays and compact, high-speed fiber-optic components.

Mechanical engineering, an engineering discipline born of the needs of the Industrial Revolution, is once again asked to do its substantial share in the call for industrial renewal.

Microfluidics and BioMEMS Applications central idea is on microfluidics, a relatively new research field which finds its niche in biomedical devices, especially on lab-on-a-chip and related products.

The Compact Disc (CD), as a standardized information carrier, has become one of the most successful consumer products ever marketed.

This volume, Mechanical Design: Theory and Methodology, has been put together over the past four years.

This book is the most comprehensive treatment yet of the problems faced by the engineer caused by static electricity.

Written for students and practising engineers working in automotive engineering, this book provides a fundamental yet comprehensive understanding of chassis systems and requires little prior knowledge on the part of the reader.

The aim of this book is to provide "e;human engineering"e; for workplaces, tools, machinery, computers, shift work, lighting, sound, climate, work demands, offices, vehicles, healthcare, and the home - and everything else that we can produce - to suit the human body and mind.

Contained within this book is a comprehensive guide to patent drafting, originally intended for the use of students, draftsmen, and inventors.

Principles of Yacht Design has established itself as the standard book on the subject for practising designers, naval architecture students, discerning boat owners as well as the boatbuilding industry as a whole.

Principles of Yacht Design has established itself as the standard book on the subject for practising designers, naval architecture students, discerning boat owners as well as the boatbuilding industry as a whole.

This book provides a critical examination of structure and form in design, covering a range of topics of great value to students and practitioners engaged in any of the specialist decorative arts and design disciplines.

It is universally recognised and accepted that overall ship vibration as an important measure to ensure the habitability, safety and functionality of marine vessels.

This book discusses the latest advances in manufacturing  and process control, with a special emphasis on digital manufacturing and intelligent technologies for manufacturing and industrial processes control.

The topic of this book is homogenization theory and its applications to optimal design in the conductivity and elasticity settings.

Reflecting the enhance role of materials/logistics management in today's competitive business environment, this new edition provides a fundamental understanding of the subject and its fuction in all sectors of the economy.

When the present symposium was first conceived, it was decided that more emphasis be given to contributions from biological laboratories than has typically appeared in previous bionics meetings.

The aim of this book is to impart a sound understanding, both physical and mathematical, of the fundamentals of the theory of vibration and its applications.

Mechanical engineering, an engineering discipline borne of the needs of the industrial revolution, is once again asked to do its substantial share in the call for industrial renewal.

It has been said that every generation of historians seeks to rewrite what a previous generation had established as the standard interpretations of the motives and circumstances shaping the fabric of historical events.

Even with today's mobile technology, most work is still undertaken in a physical workplace.

With an updated edition including new material in additional chapters, this one-of-a-kind handbook covers not only current standardization efforts, but also anthropometry and optimal working postures, ergonomic human computer interactions, legal protection, occupational health and safety, and military human factor principles.

Packed with illustrations and practical examples, Guide to Methodology in Ergonomics: Designing for Human Use, Second Edition provides a concise introduction to ergonomics methods in a straightforward manner that helps you conduct an ergonomics analysis of a product in development.

With a practical, applied orientation, this book presents and integrates in a single source important methods and tools used in the fields of industrial engineering, human factors and ergonomics to design and improve jobs, tasks and products.

During the last 60 years the discipline of human factors (HF) has evolved alongside progress in engineering, technology, and business.

The experience of the past decade since the publication of the first edition of The Rules of Work: A Practical Engineering Guide to Ergonomics proves just how central ergonomics is for effective production.

Written by experts with real-world experience in applying ergonomics methodology in a range of contexts, Evaluation of Human Work, Fourth Edition explores ergonomics and human factors from a "e;doing it"e; perspective.

This book focuses exclusively on ergonomics in the design and use of hand tools.

We all know that safety should be an integral part of the systems that we build and operate.

With large amounts of revenue at stake, process industries are focusing more on turnaround management as they strive to lengthen the interval between turnarounds.

Completely revised and updated, Hazardous Materials Compliance for Public Research Organizations: A Case Study, Second Edition presents a case study of one university's policies and practices with regard to the procurement, use, storage and disposal of HAZMAT in the context of a changing internal structure and regulatory environment.

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Industry 4.

The need exists in the private sector and government manufacturing sites to reduce product development time, production lead times, inventory, and non-value added activities.

Recently, many new technologies have been developed for engineers to reduce the time required to design and manufacture products in response to rapidly fluctuating market demands.

Crandall's Power Supply Testing Handbook comes into the marketplace at an optimum time.

The importance of proper geometric dimensioning and tolerancing as a means of expressing the designer's functional intent and controlling the inevitable geometric and dimensional variations of mechanical parts and assemblies, is becoming well recognized.

In order to compete in the current commercial environment companies must produce greater product variety, at lower cost, all within a reduced product life cycle.

Sculptured Surface Machining (SSM) plays a vital role in the process of bringing new products to the market place.

Direct Engineering (DE) is the creation of a product development cycle into a single, unified process.

At first glance, a book on "e;Design by Composition for Rapid Prototyping"e; may seem out of place in a series on Robotics.

Analysis of Manufacturing Enterprises presents a unified and systematic treatment of manufacturing enterprises.

MRP II explores the principles of MRP II systems, and how the manufacturer can utilize and institute them effectively for maximum profit.

Within the past twenty years, the field of robotics has been finding many areas of applications ranging from space to underwater explo- rations.

Feedback Control Systems: A Fast Track Guide for Scientists and Engineers is an essential reference tool for: Electrical, mechanical and aerospace engineers who are developing or improving products, with a need to use feedback control systems.

Darwin2K: An Evolutionary Approach to Automated Design for Robotics is an essential reference tool for researchers, professionals, and students involved in robot design or in evolutionary synthesis, design, and optimization.