Technical design

This book reports on cutting-edge research and developments in manufacturing, giving a special emphasis to solutions for the Changing World Order.

Published more than ten years ago, the first edition of Accident/Incident Prevention Techniques provided clear, comprehensive guidance on how to mitigate the cost, in personnel and to the bottom line, of accidents/incidents in the workplace.

Since its inception, just after the Second World War, Human Factors research has paid special attention to the issues surrounding human control of systems.

Hailed on first publication as a compendium of foundational principles and cutting-edge research, The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook has become the gold standard reference in this field.

This handbook addresses how smart operations, management, and healthcare can be used to detect and analyze supply chain problems, business problems, and diseases.

In the past few years the topic of work and ageing has received much public and professional interest.

This book, the first full-length text on the subject, explores the everyday use of music listening while driving a car.

This Brief introduces engineers to the main principles in ethics, research design, statistics, and publishing of human subject research.

This text introduces bad events (incidents and accidents) named as metaphors.

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.

This book provides a detailed general overview of the human factors and performance limitations associated with flying fast jets, integrating all the latest available research literature on the demanding operational tasks faced by such pilots and aircrews.

This book explores systems-based, co-design, introducing a "e;Decision-Based, Co-Design"e; (DBCD) approach for the co-design of materials, products, and processes.

Computer systems have become an important element of the world economy, with billions of dollars spent each year on development, manufacture, operation, and maintenance.

The twenty-one contributions to About: Designing draw on a rich variety of methodological positions, research backgrounds and design disciplines including architecture, product design, engineering, applied linguistics, communication studies, cognitive psychology, and discourse studies.

PROCESS OPTIMIZATION: A Statistical Approach is a textbook for a course in experimental optimization techniques for industrial production processes and other "e;noisy"e; systems where the main emphasis is process optimization.

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

This book offers a global perspective on healthcare reform and its relationship with efforts to improve quality and safety.

High speed catamaran and multihull high speed marine vessel have become very popular in the last two decades.

Presenting the Proceedings of the Ergonomics Society's annual conference, the series embraces the wide range of topics covered by ergonomics.

With unintended harm during hospital care costing billions of dollars to the world economy, not to mention millions of deaths each year, it's no wonder the issue is equally front and center in the minds of healthcare providers and the public.

Railway systems have a long history of train protection and control, as to reduce the risk of train accidents.

This book is devoted to the examination of emerging practical issues related to automated and autonomous systems.

To mark the 25th anniversary of Contemporary Ergonomics, the current and past editors have selected 4 papers from each of the years that they oversaw its publication.

This text introduces industrial and organisational psychologists to the discipline of human factors.

Plastics Product Design Provides the reader with access to lessons learned in the author s 40 years of plastics product design experiencePart 1 of the book provides the reader with an introduction to plastics as a design material and a discussion of materials commonly in use today.

Thanks to advances in computer technology in the last twenty years, navigation system, cabin environment control, ACC, advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) and automated driving have become a part of the automobile experience.

Architecture's Disability Problem explores the intersection of architecture and disability in the United States from the perspective of professional practice.

Understand the wide range of lightweight structures for civil and aerospace engineering applications with this in-depth introductory textbook.

Bridging the gap between human-computer engineering and control engineering, Human Behavior Learning and Transfer delineates how to abstract human action and reaction skills into computational models.

There has been some solid work done in the area of User-Centered Design (UCD) over the last few years.

In a comprehensive yet easy-to-follow manner, Discrete Mathematics for New Technology follows the progression from the basic mathematical concepts covered by the GCSE in the UK and by high-school algebra in the USA to the more sophisticated mathematical concepts examined in the latter stages of the book.

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Why would highly skilled, well-trained pilots make errors that lead to accidents when they had safely completed many thousands of previous flights?

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.

Bond graphs are especially well-suited for mechatronic systems, as engineering system modeling is best handled using a multidisciplinary approach.

This edited collection of articles addresses aspects of medical care in which human error is associated with unanticipated adverse outcomes.

Brain-Computer Interfaces Handbook: Technological and Theoretical Advances provides a tutorial and an overview of the rich and multi-faceted world of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs).

"e;Engineering Design and Rapid Prototyping"e; offers insight into the methods and techniques that allow for easily implementing engineering designs by incorporating advanced methodologies and technologies.

Crew Resource Management (CRM) training was first introduced in the late 1970s as a means to combating an increased number of accidents in which poor teamwork in the cockpit was a significant contributing factor.

New product design and development is often the result of personal vision.

Incident Command: Tales From the Hot Seat presents a unique examination of the skills of the on-scene or incident commander who is in charge of an emergency or major incident.

In recent years, the safety management field has placed leadership and commitment at the center of effective workplace health and safety programs.

The design of today's semiconductor chips for various applications, such as telecommunications, poses various challenges due to the complexity of these systems.

This book covers a wealth of knowledge from experts and informed stakeholders on the best ways to understand, prevent, and control fall-related risk exposures.

Originally published in 1943, The Place of Glass in Building is a comprehensive and compact survey of the structural uses of glass in 20th Century architecture.

Overview The fifth edition features one completely new chapter coveringThe Measurement of Geometric Dimensions and Tolerances, while providing comprehensive state-of-the-art treatment of all known dimensional measurement devices and techniques.

Corporate Risk and Governance addresses corporate risk management and governance requirements affecting large organizations in all industry sectors and countries.

Explaining principles underlying the main micromachining practices currently being used and developed in industrial countries around the world, Micromachining of Engineering Materials outlines advances in material removal that have led to micromachining, discusses procedures for precise measurement, includes molecular-level theories, describes vapo