Product design

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

With the growing trend of licensing apparel, accessories, and home fashions under a single logo, today's students must expand their portfolios to include concepts with broader applications.

Cracking the Whip is a collection of 69 essays that looks at just about everything in design: clothes, hardware, posters, cars, airports, chairs, lighting, vending machines, cities and bathrooms.

This comprehensive study of womens and mens fashion accessories provides fashion merchandising students with a detailed analysis of the fashion accessory categories.

Energy management training and solutions are not one size fits all.

Today's organizations find themselves in a race to adopt new technologies in order to keep up with their competition.

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

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

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

Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) is introduced to students, academics, researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and others in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

Operations Research: A Practical Introduction is just that: a hands-on approach to the field of operations research (OR) and a useful guide for using OR techniques in scientific decision making, design, analysis and management.

Operations Research: A Practical Introduction is just that: a hands-on approach to the field of operations research (OR) and a useful guide for using OR techniques in scientific decision making, design, analysis and management.

A proven approach used by today's best professional service partners to win, retain, and grow client relationships.

An eternal dilemma for all organizations, and one that a considerable portion of management schools are set up to address, is how to become and stay competitive.

There is a resurgence of interest in mental models due to advances in our understanding of how they can be used to help design and due to the development of practical methods to elicit them.

Currently people deal with various entities (such as hardware, software, buildings, spaces, communities and other people), to meet specific goals while going about their everyday activities in work and leisure environments.

Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) is a subfield of Operations Research, dealing with decision making problems.

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.

Presenting a strong and clear relationship between theory and practice, Linear and Integer Optimization: Theory and Practice is divided into two main parts.

This book will provide a quick reference on Work Measurement.

This textbook presents methodologies and applications associated with multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA), especially for those students with an interest in industrial engineering.

This textbook presents methodologies and applications associated with multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA), especially for those students with an interest in industrial engineering.

This book is the first in the literature to present the state of the art and some interesting and relevant applications of the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP).

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.

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.

Choose the Correct Solution Method for Your Optimization ProblemOptimization: Algorithms and Applications presents a variety of solution techniques for optimization problems, emphasizing concepts rather than rigorous mathematical details and proofs.

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.

Textiles and Human Thermophysiological Comfort in the Indoor Environment delivers a methodical assessment of textile structures for various applications in the indoor environment with respect to the thermophysiological comfort of the inhabitants.

Healthcare operations, in hospitals and home healthcare settings, are inundated with complex fuzzy features that impose difficulties in the creation of work schedules.

Developed in the early 70s in Japan, the Kansei Engineering (KE) method gives you the tools to develop profitable and well-received products and services.

There is often a deep disconnect between the project team's goals and those of the organization.

Medical Device Use Error: Root Cause Analysis offers practical guidance on how to methodically discover and explain the root cause of a use error-a mistake-that occurs when someone uses a medical device.

Supply chain management decisions are made under the conflicting criteria of maximizing profit and customer responsiveness while minimizing supply chain risk.

Designing new products and improving existing ones is a continual process.

This book provides guidelines for obtaining research and development (RD) results of a consistent and known quality.

Analysis with Ultrasmall Numbers presents an intuitive treatment of mathematics using ultrasmall numbers.

In order to ensure environmentally responsible production and disposal of products, local governments are imposing stricter environmental regulations, some of which even require manufacturers to take back their products at the end of the product's useful life.

Manufacturers are becoming more aware of human factors in product design as a major competitive issue.

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Digital product research doesn't have to be difficult, take a long time, or cost a lot of money.

Digital product research doesn't have to be difficult, take a long time, or cost a lot of money.

As technology becomes deeply integrated into every aspect of our lives, weve begun to expect more emotionally intelligent interactions.

As technology becomes deeply integrated into every aspect of our lives, weve begun to expect more emotionally intelligent interactions.

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.

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.

How can you create products that successfully find customers?

How can you create products that successfully find customers?

Note for ebook customers: The design and layout of this book play a key role in conveying the author's message.

This book focuses on the impact of digitalization on supply chains and how it is affecting every aspect of people's lives.

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