Product design

Our modern view of quality is a multifaceted conglomeration of probability, planning, and perception.

This book sheds light on the role and impact of sustainability mediation, an effective tool for political authorities and business enterprises to persuade consumers of the integrity of their actions, products, and services.

This handbook is an endeavour to cover many current, relevant, and essential topics related to decision sciences in a scientific manner.

Safety in the Process Industries aims to ensure the safety of people involved in process plants, especially those who face its immediate hazards and dangers.

While aviation fatalities have thankfully fallen dramatically in recent years, the phenomena of complexity and cognitive bias have been shown to be factors in many accidents.

Businesses operate amid a digital age, and unsurprisingly, technology has engendered tools that now predominate all corners of the workplace.

Addressing the rising prevalence of interactive systems in our daily lives, this book focuses on the essential aspects of usability, user experience (UX), and inclusive design.

This handbook contributes to the advanced knowledge of talent management and learning organizations in the post-pandemic era.

This book explains the concept of man-machine systems by using the mining industry.

Interior Interruptions examines the role of the 'palimpsest' and its relationship to narrative, sustainability, renovation and adaptive reuse.

The use of simulation modeling and analysis is becoming increasingly more popular as a technique for improving or investigating process performance.

The goal of this book is to provide a reference for applications of mathematical modelling in social media and related network analysis and offer a theoretically sound background with adequate suggestions for better decision-making.

Handbook of Usability and User Experience: Methods and Techniques is concerned with emerging usability and user experience in design concepts, theories and applications of human factors knowledge focusing on the discovery, design and understanding of human interaction and usability issues with products and systems for their improvement.

Engineering analytics is becoming a necessary skill for every engineer.

Responsible Manufacturing has become an obligation to the environment and to society itself, enforced primarily by customer perspective and governmental regulations on environmental issues.

This book focuses on the design of displays and user interfaces for the older user.

Coding, Shaping, Making combines inspiration from architecture, mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics and computation to look towards the future of architecture, design and art.

This book addresses the various forms of deviance and criminality found within the conventional food system.

Closed loop supply chains and their management have become mandatory for firms to stay competitive and profitable.

If you have designs for wonderful machines in mind, but arent sure how to turn your ideas into real, engineered products that can be manufactured, marketed, and used, this book is for you.

This is a comprehensive, but accessible text that introduces students to the fields of human factors and ergonomics.

For decades, outsourcing has been a major international phenomenon in business.

The 2014 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Manufacturing Technology (ICIEMT 2014) was held July 10-11, 2014 in Shanghai, China.

This handbook begins with the history of Supply Chain (SC) Engineering, it goes on to explain how the SC is connected today, and rounds out with future trends.

Reporting on cutting-edge research in production, distribution, and transportation, The Supply Chain in Manufacturing, Distribution, and Transportation: Modeling, Optimization, and Applications provides the understanding needed to tackle key problems within the supply chain.

Designing Liners: A History of Interior Design Afloat covers the interior design of these floating palaces from the mid-nineteenth century to the twenty-first century.

Drawing on contributions from various manufacturing fields, this book offers a comprehensive perspective by combining theoretical concepts with practical applications.

Design for Emotion introduces you to the why, what, when, where and how of designing for emotion.

A thoroughly revised third edition of this widely praised, bestselling textbook presents a comprehensive systems-level perspective of electric and hybrid vehicles with emphasis on technical aspects, mathematical relationships and basic design guidelines.

Expand your existing portfolio by using the creative luxury process to elevate specific products and provide greater value to customers.

Filling the need for an introductory book on linear programming that discusses the important ways to mitigate parameter uncertainty, Introduction to Linear Optimization and Extensions with MATLAB provides a concrete and intuitive yet rigorous introduction to modern linear optimization.

This book provides a roadmap for implementing a powerful technique will reduce waste and accelerate flow within a process -- The TLS Continuum methodology.

Recognized as a "e;Recommended"e; title by Choice for their October 2020 issue.

Sustainable Design for the Built Environment marks the transition of sustainable design from a specialty service to the mainstream approach for creating a healthy and resilient built environment.

Design History Beyond the Canon subverts hierarchies of taste which have dominated traditional narratives of design history.

Global competition is forcing reliability and other professionals to work closely during the product design and manufacturing phase.

The late 1980s saw the beginning of the PM brushless machine era, with the invention of high-energy density permanent magnets (PM) and the development of power electronics.

Life cycle design is a proactive approach for integrating pollution prevention and resource conservation strategies into the development of more ecologically and economically sustainable product systems.

Interaktive Anwendungen nehmen in der Innenarchitektur durch fortschreitende Technik und Digitalisierung eine immer wichtigere Rolle ein.

Sustainable Design for the Built Environment marks the transition of sustainable design from a specialty service to the mainstream approach for creating a healthy and resilient built environment.

This book describes how TRIZ can help you find better, more innovative solutions to your design problems.

This book introduces the step-by-step processes involved in using MCDM methods, starting from problem formulation, model development, and criteria weighting to the final ranking of the alternatives.

In modern manufacturing, it is not simply the equipment that is increasingly complex but rather the entire business system in which a company operates.

Introduction to Design Theory introduces a comprehensive, systematic, and didactic outline of the discourse of design.

This book examines how safety failings during the use of any designed product or system-be it a car, a building, or a chemical plant-can be mitigated through effective understanding of the conditions and controls surrounding its use.

This book aims to provide theoretical and empirical frameworks and highlights the challenges and solutions with using Big Data for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability in the field of digital transformation and tourism.

Craig Martin addresses the transgressive or deviant aspects of design: design that straddles the divide between the licit and illicit, the legal and illegal, in a variety of ways.

Today, in this smart era, data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) play an important role in predictive maintenance (PdM) within the manufacturing industry.

With 50 years of experience as an inventor and well over 60 U.