Technical design

No other book covers CNC control setup in such practical detail.

Designed to help the instructor to present concepts in human factors, this guide is presented in lecture-note format with each unit outlining performance objectives, questions and answers, references to pages in the main text and large-print summaries for overhead projection.

When accidents occur in the oil and gas industry, the impacts can be profound.

The book explodes the myths that currently drive society's view of traffic safety and limit progress in reducing death and serious injury.

This book presents a co-design detailed methodology that will enable the reader to develop human-centered product designs, considering the user's needs, skills, and limitations.

Instructional design theory and practice has evolved over the past 30 years from an initial narrow focus on programmed instruction to a multidimensional field of study integrating psychology, technology, evaluation, measurement, and management.

This book presents a novel method of engineering to create advanced frugal products from scratch.

Agile is a mindset and a culture that has evolved beyond software development to encompass all forms of project management, business organizations, defense, and society.

Engineering systems are an important element of world economy.

Influencing the Quality, Risk and Safety Movement in Healthcare explores the inner workings of some of the most influential minds in healthcare quality, risk and safety.

This book describes the theoretical framework of parallel manipulators and presents examples of their application.

Improving your craft is a key skill for product and user experience professionals working in the digital era.

The rail human factors/ergonomics community has grown quickly and extensively, and there is much increased recognition of the vital importance of ergonomics/human factors by rail infrastructure owners, rail operating companies, system developers, regulators and national and trans-national government.

To predict loading limits for structures and structural elements is one of the oldest and most important tasks of engineers.

The world is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by radical technological changes and an accelerated globalisation process.

Diagnostic Expertise in Organizational Environments provides a state-of-the-art foundation for a new paradigm in expertise research and practice.

This book presents simple design paradigms related to lightweight design, that are derived from an in-depth and theoretically sound analysis based on Pareto theory.

This book provides plant managers, supervisors, safety professionals, and industrial hygienists with recommended procedures and guidance for safe entry into confined spaces.

Computer systems based on the notion of the computer as assistant have recently become the focus of intense interest.

Every day we interact with thousands of consumer products.

Bullying is an increasing problem in the workplace.

Occupational Risk Control contains a practical theory of risk based on the principles of the physical sciences.

In the era of big data and real-time monitoring, vast amounts of information are generated every second through sensors and advanced tracking systems.

The construction industry is vital to any national economy; it is also one of the industries most susceptible to workplace incidents.

"e;Focuses on functional, aesthetically pleasing, mechanically reliable, and easily made products that improve profitability for manufacturers and provide long-term satisfaction for customers.

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.

This first volume of the textbook Hydraulic and Thermal Machines introduces readers to all necessary fundamentals to understand and operate hydraulic and thermal machines.

With contributions from a collection of authors consisting of many recognizable experts in the field of virtual and adaptive environments, as well as many up and coming young researchers, this book illustrates the many ways in which psychological science contributes to and benefits from the increased development and application of these nascent systems.

Providing detailed analysis of the thermal comfort assessment of clothing as the basis for developing standards, this book discusses the thermal protective role of clothing as a way of modelling heat transfer from the body, general thermal regulation of humans, and the importance of globally accepted test methods and standards to improve quality.

The work is a context-oriented analysis and synthesis of complex engineered systems to ensure continuous and safe operations under conditions of uncertainty.

Airline pilots often have to face sudden, unexpected situations that can become potentially dangerous.

Professionals and students in the field of industrial hygiene need a concise guide that thoroughly covers the practical methods of evaluating health threats in the workplace.

History and Development of Airline Cabin Safety offers an understanding of how cabin safety evolved over time.

Ergonomics is a human-centered discipline.

III European Conference on Computational Mechanics: Solids, Structures and Coupled Problem in EngineeringComputational Mechanics in Solid, Structures and Coupled Problems in Engineering is today a mature science with applications to major industrial projects.

Defect-oriented testing methods have come a long way from a mere interesting academic exercise to a hard industrial reality.

This book presents the case for Project-Based Learning within Socio-Technical Systems in Engineering Education.

This book provides engineers with the necessary information to design sustainable processes, products and value chains.

Offers designers and users of mechanical systems an overview of structural stiffness and damping and their critical roles in mechanical design.

Originally published in 1944, The Missing Technician shows how Industrial Design must begin at the very first stages of planning a product.

The design process has always been central to construction, but recent years have seen its significance increase, and the ways of approaching it multiply.

In the resilience engineering approach to safety, failures and successes are seen as two different outcomes of the same underlying process, namely how people and organizations cope with complex, underspecified and therefore partly unpredictable work environments.

This book presents a complete overview of the main EEG-based Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) paradigms and the related practical solutions for their design, prototyping, and testing.

This book statistically confirms that complexity and changing technologies that affect the way operators interact within the systems of the nuclear facili-ties exacerbate the severity of incidents caused by human error and details the application of the systems engineering process to reduce human error given industries' rapidly advancing technology.

Organizational change is often insider-led and supported by internal consultants and change agents.

Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment provides a surprising projection of a much greener planet, based on long-range analysis of trends in the efficient use of energy, materials, and land.

This book investigates the world of leading indicators and explores how they can be used effectively, providing 21st-century safety professionals with alternative metrics and guidance, which will enable them to make a difference in managing risk within an organization.

Modern system-on-chip (SoC) design shows a clear trend toward integration of multiple processor cores on a single chip.