Product design

This volume discusses pleasurable design- a part of the traditional usability design and evaluation methodologies.

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

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.

Narrative Fiction and Death: Dying Imagined offers a new perspective on the study of death in literature.

Today's radically complex problems require people to lead with design.

Although a useful and important tool, the potential of mathematical modelling for decision making is often neglected.

Visual Ergonomics for Communication Design reveals the application of ergonomics principles in visual communication design.

The majority of the cost-savings for any oil production facility is the prevention of failure in the production equipment such as pressure vessels.

Originally published in 1991.

This text identifies and discusses different technology innovation initiatives (TIIs) such as entrepreneurial capability, technology infrastructure capability, organizational culture and climate, and government initiatives.

Since John Bosch edited and published the first version of this book in 1995, the world of manufacturing and coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) and coordinate measuring systems (CMSs) has changed considerably.

This book compiles the experiences of over 150 companies that have embraced the theories of Lean product development.

This volume of the Handbook of Usability and User Experience (UX) presents research and case studies used to design products, systems and environments with good usability and consequent acceptance, pleasure in use, good user experience, and understanding of human interaction issues with products and systems for their improvement.

As markets become more dynamic and competitive, companies must reconsider how they view inventory and make changes to their production and inventory systems.

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.

Customer experiences are increasingly complicatedwith multiple channels, touchpoints, contexts, and moving partsall delivered by fragmented organizations.

Business Anthropology: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introductory text organized around key issues in the field.

The application of a novel correlation coefficient of linguistic intuitionistic fuzzy sets to medical diagnosis problems provides the topic for Strategic Fuzzy Extensions and Decision-making Techniques.

This book is aimed at both experts and non-experts with an interest in getting acquainted with sequence spaces, matrix transformations and their applications.

Every organizational endeavor is based on project management.

The term "e;Human Engineering"e; was first used in America at the beginning of the twentieth century and was renamed "e;Human Factors"e; after World War II.

The City of Manchester, once the birthplace of the 1st Industrial Revolution, is today a pioneering hub of the 4th Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.

Welcome to the future, where you can talk with the digital things around you: voice assistants, chatbots, and more.

Synesthetic design strives to develop products that systematically incorporate all five senses.

Marine accidents can occur at any time and everywhere in the world, resulting in loss of life, property, environment and reputation of the companies involved.

Set your students on track to achieve the best grade possible with My Revision Notes: Level 1 / Level 2 Cambridge National in Engineering Design.

Lean is about building and improving stable and predictable systems and processes to deliver to customers high-quality products/services on time by engaging everyone in the organization.

Recent technological advances have created a testing crisis in the electronics industry--smaller, more highly integrated electronic circuits and new packaging techniques make it increasingly difficult to physically access test nodes.

This book is a refreshingly practical yet theoretically sound roadmap to leveraging data analytics and data science.

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

This text provides an in-depth overview of sustainability in machining processes, challenges during machining of difficult-to-cut materials and different ways of green machining in achieving sustainability.

This book highlights authentication and trust evaluation models in the Industrial Internet of Things.

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.

The Digital Age in Agriculture presents information related to the digital age in the agriculture sector.

Sustainable Procurement is an emerging concept in supply chain and operations management.

Transforming Management Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques redefines management practices using artificial intelligence (AI) by providing a new approach.

This interesting book offers an analysis of man-made catastrophes and asks why they continue to occur.

The growing importance of projects in organizations, combined with difficulties in their implementation, is accompanied by the need for professional knowledge in the field of project management.

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

The past two decades have seen rapid development of micro-/nanotechnologies with the integration of chemical engineering, biomedical engineering, chemistry, and life sciences to form bio-MEMS or lab-on-chip devices that help us perform cellular analysis in a complex micro-/nanoflluidic environment with minimum sample consumption and have potential biomedical applications.

Everyone in business today has heard of the Theory of Constraints (TOC), developed by Eli Goldratt in his groundbreaking book The Goal.

In today's ultra-competitive global business environment, it is becoming increasingly important for companies to reduce spending while simultaneously improving their efficiency and productivity.

Providing guidance on a broad range of issues for young children and adolescents, Ergonomics for Children: Designing Products and Places for Toddlers to Teens give you a deep understanding of how children develop and how these developmental changes can influence the design of products and places for children.

What should every airline and manufacturer know about comfort?

Graph Theory is a branch of discrete mathematics.

This book shows how the people carrying out industrial commercial development perform the vital functions and deals with the organization and structure of commercial development.

This concise and flexible core textbook integrates a design thinking approach, rhetorical strategies, and a global perspective to help students succeed as technical and professional communicators in today's multimodal, mobile, and global community.