Product design

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.

Materials Under Extreme Conditions: Recent Trends and Future Prospects analyzes the chemical transformation and decomposition of materials exposed to extreme conditions, such as high temperature, high pressure, hostile chemical environments, high radiation fields, high vacuum, high magnetic and electric fields, wear and abrasion related to chemical bonding, special crystallographic features, and microstructures.

This book highlights various evolutionary algorithm techniques for various medical conditions and introduces medical applications of evolutionary computation for real-time diagnosis.

Given that engineering flexibility can potentially provide a competitive advantage, the question then becomes: Precisely how valuable is this flexibility?

The development of a new book about Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and the challenges to managers and engineers is essential because it introduces new lines of research in management and production.

The field of operations research provides a scientific approach to managerial decision making.

The topic of project management is truly an evolution of art seeking science.

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.

User experience designers and researchers are wrestling with product managementas a peer discipline, a job title, a future careeror simply wondering exactly what it entails.

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.

The industry is currently facing a multitude of challenges on production lines that must be systematically addressed in order to improve quality and productivity.

Useful and resourceful - this book is ideal for trainees, NQTs and experienced teachers alike.

Dedicated to the proper design, layout, and location of facilities, this definitive textbook outlines the main design and operational problems that occur in manufacturing and service systems, explains the significance of facility design and planning problems, and describes how mathematical models can be used to help analyze and solve them.

Design History Beyond the Canon subverts hierarchies of taste which have dominated traditional narratives of design history.

In an era dominated by mathematical and statistical models, this book unravels the profound significance of these tools in decoding uncertainties within numerical, observational, and calculation-based data.

The ability to imagine different possible futures and the will to influence the course of events are deeply human.

Introduction to Stochastic Level Crossing Techniques describes stochastic models and their analysis using the System Point Level Crossing method (abbreviated SPLC or LC).

The Material Culture of Basketry celebrates basketry as a culturally significant skilled practice and as a theoretically rich discipline which has much to offer contemporary society.

This book presents an integrated approach to project management for oil and gas projects.

The text begins by discussing the sustainable buildings, energy efficient technologies, advanced materials, advances in renewable energy for building sector, green intelligent infrastructure, policies on sustainable infrastructure, and life cycle assessment.

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 volume is concerned with digital human modeling.

Due to a lack of appreciation of the true economic identity of projects, techniques and metrics that could hugely improve project selection and performance are not being used.

With the rapidly advancing fields of Data Analytics and Computational Statistics, it's important to keep up with current trends, methodologies, and applications.

Designed Experiments for Science and Engineering is a versatile and overarching toolkit that explores various methods of designing experiments for over 20 disciplines in science and engineering.

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 monograph presents the state-of-the-art developments in the design of behaviorally and structurally optimal livenessen-forcing Petri net supervisors with computationally tractable approaches.

Just as the term design has been going through change, growth and expansion of meaning, and interpretation in practice and education - the same can be said for design research.

The 50 Fantastic Ideas series is packed full of fun, original, skills-based activities for Early Years practitioners to use with children aged 0-5.

Developments in deep learning in the past decade have led to phenomenal growth in AI-based automated medical diagnosis, opening a door to a new era of both medical research and medical industry.

In this dynamic review and synthesis of empirical research and theoretical discussion of design as cognitive activity, Willemien Visser reconciles and integrates the classical view of design, as conceptualized by Herbert Simon's symbolic information processing approach, with modern views of design such as the situativity approach, as formulated by Donald Schon.

For all courses in experimental foods, food science, and related topics.

This book covers using R for doing optimization, a key area of operations research, which has been applied to virtually every industry.

Traditionally, the three most important manufacturing functions are process planning, scheduling, and due-date assignment, which are handled sequentially and separately.

Digital Transformations for Lighting in the Workplace: A Systematic Approach Used in Ergonomics offers a practical concept for the implementation of digital transformation in ergonomics in work settings.

This edited collection explores disease transmission and the ways that the designed environment has promoted or limited its spread.

For students in industrial and systems engineering (ISE) and operations research (OR) to understand optimization at an advanced level, they must first grasp the analysis of algorithms, computational complexity, and other concepts and modern developments in numerical methods.

Advances in Metaheuristics: Applications in Engineering Systems provides details on current approaches utilized in engineering optimization.

The application of futures thinking in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has become increasingly important in recent years.

In the last 20 years, technological developments have set new standards in driver-vehicle interaction.

Structured with a practical approach, Engineering Capstone Design guides engineering students to successfully manage capstone design projects.

This book sheds new light on the role businesses can play in contributing to sustainability objectives, and how governance actors can better encourage their contributions.

Ensure your students navigate the MYP framework with confidence using a concept-driven and assessment-focused approach to Design, presented in global contexts.

This book deals with an often-neglected feature of location problems, namely uncertainty, by combining two related fields: location theory and optimization.

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

This book presents soft computing techniques and applications used in healthcare systems, along with the latest advancements.

EMC for Product Designers, Fifth Edition, provides all the key information needed to meet the requirements of the EMC compliance standards.

As a cultivated form of invention, product design is a deeply human phenomenon that enables us to shape, modify and alter the world around us - for better or worse.

Sketching Working Experience: The Workbook provides information about the step-by-step process of the different sketching techniques.

Written by international contributors, Learning Curves: Theory, Models, and Applications first draws a learning map that shows where learning is involved within organizations, then examines how it can be sustained, perfected, and accelerated.