Product design

Understand the Strategic Behavior in Queueing SystemsRational Queueing provides one of the first unified accounts of the dynamic aspects involved in the strategic behavior in queues.

Taking a new product from the design stage to large-scale production in a profitable, efficient manner can challenge the processes of even the most advanced companies.

Moving Objects deals with emotive design: designed objects that demand to be engaged with rather than simply used.

This book provides an introduction to the Human Centred Design of autonomous vehicles for professionals and students.

Responding to cultural demands for meaning, user-friendliness, and fun as well as the opportunities of the emerging information society, The Semantic Turn boldly outlines a new science for design that gives designers previously unavailable grounds on which to state their claims and validate their designs.

While Lean principles have been around for decades, the practices have yet to keep current with the growing area of Sustainability.

This book investigates human-machine systems through the use of case studies such as crankshaft maintenance, liner piston maintenance, and biodiesel blend performance.

At present, both Industry 4.

Rooted in the places, cultures, histories, and wisdom of the diverse Asia-Pacific region, this book gathers heterogeneous practices of designing social innovation that address various social, political, and environmental challenges.

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

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

After years of building the same interface elements, some designers and developers get wise and try to create reusable, common solutions to help everyone stop reinventing the wheel every time.

Three-dimensional (3D) printing has evolved as an emerging tool for the design of customized or personalized medication that provides the maximum therapeutic benefits to patients.

Organisations are now focused on total customer satisfaction.

Emergencieslanding a malfunctioning plane, resuscitating a heart attack victim, or avoiding a head-on car crashall require split-second decisions that can mean life or death.

Focusing on the application of human factors and ergonomics in the design of alarm systems, this book brings together all the disparate areas in a single volume.

Meeting the needs of the manufacturing and service sectors of contemporary industry, this volume is concerned with the human factors, ergonomics, and safety issues related to the design of products, processes, and systems, as well as the operation and management of business enterprises.

Interior Design Concept combines a comprehensive introduction to design concept, with a reflective examination upon the various ways it can be understood, harnessed, and implemented.

The processes of manufacture and assembly are based on the communication of engineering information via drawing.

The fourth edition of this widely used textbook offers a new perspective.

With a bias for action, this book offers valuable insights into the origins of the much-celebrated Danish design tradition and how it can be employed to create design solutions to address today's environmental crisis using the planetary boundaries as positive creative constraints.

With the advancements in sensor and computation technologies, connected autonomous vehicle (CAV) services are being tested and deployed on public roads, sharing the road with human- driven vehicles (HVs).

Artificial Intelligence in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering offers a unified platform for the dissemination of basic and applied knowledge on the integration of artificial intelligence within the realm of mechanical and industrial engineering.

Linking comfort and design, this book is the first reference to explore the comfort/discomfort paradigm.

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

Designed by practitioners for practitioners, Supply Chain Management and Logistics: Innovative Strategies and Practical Solutions provides a wide-spectrum resource on many different aspects involved in supply chain management, including contemporary applications.

The management of design has emerged as central to the operational and strategic options of any successful organization.

This book presents an overview of operations research and systems engineering and takes a look into both fields on content, histories, contributions, and future directions so a sound career choice can be made for those who might be deciding on a career path.

Exploring Operations Research with R shows how the R programming language can be a valuable tool - and way of thinking - which can be successfully applied to the field of operations research (OR).

Airline operations are large, complex, and expensive.

This book is based on the lecture notes of the author delivered to the students at the Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, India.

Entfesseln Sie das kreative Potenzial Ihres Teams und navigieren Sie sicher durch die spannenden Herausforderungen des Design Thinking.

Critical Steps happen every day at work and at home, purposefully.

Practical Guides in Chemical Engineering are a cluster of short texts that each provides a focused introductory view on a single subject.

Social Media Analytics and Practical Applications: The Change to the Competition Landscape provides a framework that allows you to understand and analyze the impact of social media in various industries.

All over the world, vast research is in progress on the domain of Industry 4.

Interior Design on Edge explores ways that interiors both constitute and upset our edges, whether physical, conceptual or psychological, imagined, implied, necessary or discriminatory.

With contributions from some of the top academics and scientists in the field, Advanced Studies in Multi-Criteria Decision Making presents an updated view of the landscape of Decision Sciences, current research topics, the interaction with other sciences and fields, as well as the prospects and challenges at an international level.

When it comes to discovering glitches inherent in complex systems-be it a railway or banking, chemical production, medical, manufacturing, or inventory control system-developing a simulation of a system can identify problems with less time, effort, and disruption than it would take to employ the original.

In this incessantly readable, groundbreaking work, Vincente makes vividly clear how we can bridge the widening gap between people and technology.

This new edition continues on its journey of being an introduction to the wide variety of conveyor types and application methods available.

Project risk management is regarded as a necessary dimension of effective project delivery.

The aim of this book is to cover various aspects of the Production and Operations Analysis.

Focusing on the importance of the application of statistical techniques, this book covers the design of experiments and stochastic modeling in textile engineering.

The field of information technology continues to advance at a brisk pace, including the use of Remote Laboratory (RL) systems in education and research.

Through theory and case studies, this book details how uncertainty and flexibility can be evaluated to assist in making better investment decisions in companies.

Today, human factors and ergonomics professionals worldwide contribute to the design and evaluation of tasks, jobs, products, environments, and systems in order to make them compatible with the needs, abilities, and limitations of people.

This book provides an overview of, and practical guidance on, the range of human factors (HF) methods that can be used for the purposes of accident analysis and investigation in complex sociotechnical systems.