Product design

Hidden in Plain Sight by global innovation consultant Jan Chipchase with Simon Steinhardt is a fascinating look at how consumers think and behave.

Studying (bio)degradable polymers value chain can help one understand the importance of these to the environment and human health.

A much-needed reference to the latest thinking in universal designUniversal Design: Creating Inclusive Environments offers a comprehensive survey of best practices and innovative solutions in universal design.

Undesign brings together leading artists, designers and theorists working at the intersection of art and design.

Thanks to recent advancements, optimization is now recognized as a crucial component in research and decision-making across a number of fields.

Analysis of queues is used in a variety of domains including call centers, web servers, internet routers, manufacturing and production, telecommunications, transportation, hospitals and clinics, restaurants, and theme parks.

This book explains the concept of wearable computing, need for wearable technology, its advantages, application areas, state of art developments in this area, required material and technology, possible future applications including cyborg developments and the need for this sphere of influence in the future.

This book focuses on industrial development, design, implementation, and transformation using technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data Analysis, and Blockchain.

The multicore revolution has reached the deployment stage in embedded systems ranging from small ultramobile devices to large telecommunication servers.

Integer Programming: Theory and Practice contains refereed articles that explore both theoretical aspects of integer programming as well as major applications.

Exam board: Edexcel Level: A-levelSubject: Design and TechnologyFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summer 2019Target success in Edexcel A-level Design and Technology (Product Design) with our proven formula for effective, structured revision.

The current global economic downturn and considerable shifting in industrial and manufacturing activities have disturbed the industrial order.

A stylish and informative guide to the best of Midcentury Modern chair design.

Observar la naturaleza y aprender de ella es una cualidad humana, pero lo que realmente importa es identificar cómo hace para permanecer armónica, bella, funcional, práctica, eficiente y adaptable.

This collection of essays brings together discussions arguing that the circular economy must be linked to society and culture in order to create a viable concept for remodelling the economy.

Design Thinking, a method widely used in design business and management, has changed the landscape of contemporary design.

This book offers a survey of successful attributes of the systems engineer.

This introduction to descriptive geometry and contemporary drafting guides the student through the essential principles to create engineering drawings that comply with international standards of technical product specification.

A guided tour through the each stages of process, Kansei/Affective Engineering explores how to apply Kansei/Affective Engineering.

Optimality Conditions in Convex Optimization explores an important and central issue in the field of convex optimization: optimality conditions.

The problem with the way the safety industry functions is three-fold: (1) the dysfunctional relationship between business and safety leaders, (2) the practice of Results-Based Safety, and (3) the creation of a false reality.

This book discusses a new process mining method along with a detailed comparison between different techniques that provide a complete vision of the process of data acquisition, data analysis, and data prediction.

Efficient Energy Utilization and Emission Reduction Strategies in Plant Operations summarizes technological advancements in effective energy utilization in plant operations.

Manufacturing plays a vital role in European economy and society, and is expected to continue as a major generator of wealth in the foreseeable future.

Organizations value insights from reflexive, iterative processes of designing interactive environments that reflect user experience.

This book includes recent theoretical and practical advancements in green composite materials and advanced manufacturing technology.

Jobs To Be Done is key to building successful products, and this book masterfully gives a stepbystep guide on how to put it into practice.

As quality becomes an increasingly essential factor for achieving business success, building quality improvement into all stages-product planning, product design, and process design-instead of just manufacturing has also become essential.

The reason that good interfaces are few and far between is really quite simple: they are extremely difficult to design and build properly.

In companies that produce goods and services, productivity and efficiency improvements are a constant challenge.

Vehicle, road, sign, and signal lighting are provided to enable drivers to reach their destinations quickly and safely.

The book explores a range of mathematical topics essential for application in engineering and applied sciences.

Lack of materials or goods to satisfy customer orders under current market conditions represents an extremely costly and important problem facing businesses today.

The systematic approach to innovation development today is one of the world's most prominent scientific fields, and with good reason.

This book covers the fundamentals of linear programming, extension of linear programming to discrete optimization methods, multi-objective functions, quadratic programming, geometric programming, and classical calculus methods for solving nonlinear programming problems.

Provides a thorough introduction to the development, operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of mobile communications systems Mobile Communications Systems Development: A Practical Introduction for System Understanding, Implementation, and Deployment is a comprehensive how to manual for mobile communications system design, deployment, and support.

This book comprehensively outlines what a holistic and effective Root Cause Analysis (RCA) system looks like.

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.

As the world becomes increasingly globalized, today's companies expect to hire engineers who are effective in a global business environment.

Over the last ten years there has been a huge growth in the area of materials for design, but most books on this subject deal with advanced, semi-formed materials (that is, materials sold as sheet, rod, tube, etc.

Urban Freight Analytics examines the key concepts associated with the development and application of decision support tools for evaluating and implementing city logistics solutions.

Offering a unique perspective on vehicle design and on new developments in vehicle technology, this book seeks to bridge the gap between engineers, who design and build cars, and human factors, as a body of knowledge with considerable value in this domain.

More and more the most traditional and typical applied ergonomics issues of the activities related to sea shipping, vehicle driving, and flying are required to deal with some emerging topics related to the growing automatism and manning reduction, the ICT's advances and pervasiveness, and the new demographic and social phenomena, such as aging or multiculturalism.

From concept development to final production, this comprehensive text thoroughly examines the design, prototyping, and fabrication of engineering products and emphasizes modern developments in system modeling, analysis, and automatic control.

Designing an Innovative Pedagogy for Sustainable Development in Higher EducationThis book develops a "e;green pedagogy"e; and an innovation mindset in higher education by using approaches based on innovative design thinking, arts-based practices, digital transformation, and entrepreneurship for sustainable development.

This Handbook serves as a single source for theories, models, and methods related to cognitive task design.

Strategic success of industry depends upon manufacturing competencies (i.

This publication is a collection of selected papers from the 3rd International Symposium on Work Ability Promotion of Work Ability Towards a Productive Aging.

Behavior change design creates entrancing—and effective—products and experiences.