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Critical Design is becoming an increasingly influential discipline, affecting policy and practice in a range of fields.

This book provides a first-of-its-kind approach for using blockchain to enhance resilience in disaster supply chain and logistics management, especially when dealing with dynamic communication, relief operations, prioritization, coordination, and distribution of scarce resources - these are elements of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) describing a dynamic environment that now form the "e;new norm"e; for many leaders.

Surface is one of the most intensely debated topics in recent arts, humanities and social science scholarship.

This book introduces fundamental, advanced, and future-oriented scientific quality management methods for the engineering and manufacturing industries.

Multi-objective programming (MOP) can simultaneously optimize multi-objectives in mathematical programming models, but the optimization of multi-objectives triggers the issue of Pareto solutions and complicates the derived answers.

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.

This reference text discusses models and analyzes cases that are useful for material requirements planning (MRP), just-in-time (JIT) environments and supply chain environments, as well as traditional production-inventory systems.

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This book introduces Vision Zero, a commitment to create workplaces free from serious accidents, harm and work- related diseases while delivering excellence in Safety, Health and Wellbeing (SHW).

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

The book presents a detailed discussion of nanomaterials, nanofluids and application of nanofluids as a coolant to reduce heat transfer.

Wide aspects of a university education address design: the conceptualization, planning and implementation of man-made artifacts.

There currently is no in-depth book dedicated to the challenge of the Internet of Everything and Big Data technologies in smart cities.

This book highlights the problems and hazards of manual materials handling and provides ergonomic and engineering solutions for alleviating them.

This handbook covers smart manufacturing development, processing, modifications, and applications.

The offsite and modular market is continuing to grow.

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).

Artificial intelligence (AI) and mechatronics are booming areas where most of the industrial sectors are becoming smart nowadays.

With the boom of big data and machine learning and the subsequent need for parallel processing technologies, fork-join queues are more relevant now than ever before.

Thermal Engineering of Nuclear Power Stations: Balance-of-Plant Systems serves as a ready reference to better analyze common engineering challenges in the areas of turbine cycle analysis, thermodynamics, and heat transfer.

3D Printing for Product Designers closes the gap between the rhetoric of 3D printing in manufacturing and the reality for product designers.

What makes the Apple iPhone cool?

This book provides an extended overview and fundamental knowledge in industrial automation, while building the necessary knowledge level for further specialization in advanced concepts of industrial automation.

This book explores recent research in intuitive interaction worldwide by a range of leading academics and practitioners in the field.

This book focuses on the theory, practice, and concepts of process mining techniques in detail, especially pattern recognition in diverse society, science, medicine, engineering, and business.

This book aims to provide theoretical and empirical frameworks and highlights the challenges and solutions with using Big Data for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability in the field of digital transformation and tourism.

Design Roots provides a comprehensive review of culturally significant designs, products and practices which are rooted to particular communities through making tradition and a sense of place.

How do you prevent a critical care nurse from accidentally delivering a morphine overdose to an ill patient?

Artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of machine learning and nature-inspired optimization algorithms are vastly used in material science.

Industrial Design: Materials and Manufacturing Guide, Second Edition provides the detailed coverage of materials and manufacturing processes that industrial designers need without the in-depth and overly technical discussions commonly directed toward engineers.

Efficiency and productivity improvement are imperative for businesses to remain competitive in an increasingly dynamic marketplace.

Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) came to existence as an approach for solving complex learning, planning, and decision-making problems.

Although work furniture has had so much more attention recently there is a long way to go before this is translated into action in the wider world.

In the context of an ever-changing technological world, it is crucial to prioritize the cultivation of sustainability and environmental consciousness.

The book offers insight into the healthcare system by exploring emerging technologies and AI-based applications and implementation strategies.

Teach kids the concepts of coding in easy-to-understand language and help them develop games of their own with The Everything Kids' Scratch Coding Book!

In real-life scenarios, service management involves complex decision-making processes usually affected by random or stochastic variables.

Introduction to Design Theory introduces a comprehensive, systematic, and didactic outline of the discourse of design.

The book primarily focuses on the process of industrial transformation in the era of digitalization.

Accurate estimation, diagnosis, and prevention of COVID-19 is a global challenge for healthcare organizations.

Although we now have sophisticated algorithms and techniques for determining the shapes and sizes and for matching the fit between shoes and feet, few, if any, of the books currently available cover these new technologies until now.

There currently is no in-depth book dedicated to the challenge of the Internet of Everything and Big Data technologies in smart cities.

Learn to make a bottle submarine, a smartphone boombox, a weather vane and more with this brilliant book of simple projects to do at home using everyday materials!

A John Heskett Reader brings together a selection of the celebrated design historian John Heskett's key works, introduced and edited by Clive Dilnot of Parsons, the New School, USA.

The idea of creating artificial humans can be found at the beginning of the human culture.

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

Materials are the stuff of design.

As more companies go digital and conduct their business online, this book provides practical examples of how they can better manage their data and use it to generate maximum value.