Product design

Understanding Interaction explores the interaction between people and technology in the broader context of the relations between the human-made and the natural environments.

During periods of environmental and societal upheaval, design has the potential to be a formidable catalyst towards a sustainable future.

Every day we interact with thousands of consumer products.

The idea behind this book is to simplify the journey of aspiring readers and researchers to understand Big Data, IoT and Machine Learning.

Usability Testing of Medical Devices covers the nitty-gritty of usability test planning, conducting, and results reporting.

This book comprehensively discusses the modeling of real-world industrial problems and innovative optimization techniques such as heuristics, finite methods, operation research techniques, intelligent algorithms, and agent- based methods.

Covers product innovation from an Integrated Product Development (IPD) perspective, using leading edge methods and techniques.

Creativity in Product Innovation describes a remarkable technique for improving creativity in product design.

Structured with a practical approach, Engineering Capstone Design guides engineering students to successfully manage capstone design projects.

Heady draws on both participant observation and interviews with older informants to trace the effects of recent exogenous technological and institutional changes, and the way local people have responded to them.

The Material Culture of Tableware is a fascinating and authoritative study of patterned tableware in the US.

Combining theory and practice, this updated new edition provides a complete overview of how to create deep and meaningful quests for games.

Organizations need to stay competitive and transition from a linear make-use-dispose supply chain model to a sustainable one.

Through a combination of theory, practice, and a range of interdisciplinary case studies, this book expands how we define and think about the critical role and relationship between design and emergencies.

How do you navigate a career as an entertainment designer while maintaining a sense of self-worth and value in the various off-ramps and sidestreets you may choose to take on the journey?

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.

There is considerable interest in and growing recognition of the emotional domain in product development.

This insightful reference demonstrates a system of measurement, inspection, gaging, geometric tolerancing, and fixturing of products in full compliance with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) approved standards.

This book deals with the fundamentals of specification writing and management.

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Two of the most important yet often overlooked aspects of a medical device are its usability and accessibility.

This text describes how the design, analyzing capacity, and optimization criteria of mechatronics systems can be improved using numerical, experimental, and computational approaches, and how it helps in data sensing, fault detection, and diagnosis.

Tricky Design responds to the burgeoning of scholarly interest in the cultural meanings of objects, by addressing the moral complexity of certain designed objects and systems.

The text comprehensively highlights the latest methodologies, models, techniques, and applications along with a description of modeling, optimization, and experimental works in the energy sector.

In industrial or business cases, purchasing and procurement are significant functions.

The systems thinking philosophy has become popular in human factors and ergonomics and safety science.

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.

This book discusses smart technologies and their influence in the field of manufacturing and industrial systems engineering, in the context of performability enhancement, and explores the development of the workforce for the execution of such smart and advanced technologies.

Materials are the stuff of design.

This text takes the student from the very basics of digital electronics to an introduction of state-of-the-art techniques used in the field.

"e;This book responds to the expression 'all you always wanted to know about design representation but didn't know where to ask'.

Modeling of Combustion Systems provides accessible instruction for the operator or engineer to model combustion responses such as NOx, CO, flame dimensions, or heat flux as a function of input factors, such as excess oxygen, firing rate, furnace temperature, and fuel type.

Participatory Design and Social Transformation introduces theories and methodologies for using image-oriented narratives as modes of inquiry and proposition toward greater justice and equity for society and the environment.

This book will change the way you think about problems.

Why do winning brands appear to be more creative and authentic than less successful ones?

Following on from the incredible Invented by Animals andBuilt by Animals, Powered by Plantsintroduces us to the wondrous plants whose ingenious features have inspired innovations in human technology.

This fully updated new edition of a respected text retains the original's comprehensive and practical approach to food supply chain management, and introduces a global perspective and a wide range of new material.

This volume presents for the first time a curated selection of essays written over the last 30 years by leading design thinker and educator, Tevfik Balcioglu.

This book shows how to identify potential design errors and modify procedures in the design process to mitigate design-induced error.

We are told from a young age that we should strive to make the right decisions, but we aren't taught exactly how to do this.

Your customer has five senses and a small universe of devices.

This new edition textbook continues down the path that the first edition, winner of the 2013 IISE/Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award, successfully carved out.

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.

Product longevity is one of the cornerstones in the transition towards a more sustainable society and a key driver for the circular economy model.

The rapid technological development of new products, coupled with the growing consumer desire for the latest technology, has led to a new environmental problem: products that are discarded prematurely.

Solving Critical Design Problems demonstrates both how design is increasingly used to solve large, complex, modern-day problems and, as a result, how the role of the designer continues to develop in response.

Recipient of the 2019 IISE Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award This is a comprehensive textbook on service systems engineering and management.

This book highlights the importance of data-driven technologies and artificial intelligence in supply chain management.

This practical reference provides in-depth information required to understand and properly estimate compressor capabilities and to select the proper designs.