Presents fresh insights and successful solutions to the operational problems of automated container terminals and cargo systems. This book comprises reports on the advanced applications of quantitative methods, as well as case studies and simulation results.
Provides an introduction to the workshop environment for students ready to embark on a career in engineering, or anyone who will be making use of an engineering workshop. This illustrated book presents workshop techniques and technology, features end of chapter review questions to aid student learning and more.
Presents information on the technology, equipment and applications, and core economic issues of micromanufacturing. This work explains micro-engineering issues (design, systems, materials, market and industrial development), technologies, facilities, organization, competitiveness, and innovation with an analysis of future potential.
Provides various computational resources needed by industrial engineers. This book focuses on particular specialization areas of industrial engineering, such as basic and engineering math, production engineering, engineering economics, ergonomics, systems and data engineering, project engineering, and simulation and statistical calculations.
Control engineering seeks to understand physical systems, using mathematical modeling, in terms of inputs, outputs and various components with different behaviors. This book provides a view of the technologies that are implemented in most varieties of modern industrial control engineering.
* This book Provides more equations and numerical problem exercises than other books in the field. * Groover introduces more modern topics, including new materials, processes and systems. * The new edition offers thoroughly revised end of chapter problems.
This book explores sustainable products and processes that conserve energy and natural resources, have minimal negative enviromnental impact and consider the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Product Lifecycle Management (2nd edition) explains what Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is, and why it's needed. It describes the environment in which products are developed, realised and supported, and looks at the basic components and implementation of PLM.
Geometrical tolerancing is used to specify and control the form, location and orientation of the features of components and manufactured parts. This book presents the state of the art of geometrical tolerancing, covers the latest ISO and ANSI/ASME standards and is a guide for engineers, designers, CAD users, quality managers and others.
The purpose of this book is to show engineering management how to add value to their organization by understanding and applying Design of Experiments (DoE) in a comprehensive, unified approach to all functions. The primary emphasis is on how to manage the use of DoE to add value.
This concise and readable handbook for practitioners who are trying to implement sustainability strategies for packaging deploys industry case studies throughout to illustrate possible applications and scenarios in a sector under growing regulatory pressure.
Abrasive machining is key to obtaining the desired geometry and surface quality in manufacturing. This book discusses the fundamentals and advances in the abrasive machining processes. It provides a complete overview of developing areas in the field.
Presenting a comprehensive treatment of grinding theory and its practical utilization, this edition focuses on grinding as a machining process using bonded abrasive grinding wheels as the cutting medium. It provides a description of abrasives and bonded abrasive cutting tools.
In many machining operations burrs cannot be avoided. They can affect the functionality and the safe handling of the workpiece in the subsequent processing, and have to be removed by a special deburring process. This title presents the research results on burrs, with a focus on burr analysis and control as well as on cleanability and burr removal.
Modern manufacturing requires information systems that integrate process design and costing data, allowing rapid assessment of 'what if' scenarios. This book details the development of such systems with a focus on the data schema and user interface design.
ZQC is based on the principle that defects are prevented by controlling the performance of a process so that it can not produce defects, even when a mistake is made by the operator. This book introduces front line workers to the basic methodology of ZQC.
Rapid prototyping (RP) has revolutionized how prototypes are made and small batch manufacturing is carried out. This textbook covers the key RP processes, the models and specifications, and their principles, materials, advantages and disadvantages. It includes examples of application areas in design, planning, and biomedical engineering.
Covers an implementation programme to demonstrate how to put the methodology into practice. Suitable for employees in a Six Sigma programme, this title provides a better understanding of basic tools and techniques to help them to support a quality improvement initiative and sustain a strong competitive position.
Using the principal tools of prediction and optimisation, this work gives the examples of how to deal with constraints, placing emphasis on model predictive control. It contains results that combine a number of methods, enabling you to build on your background in estimation theory, linear control, stability theory and state-space methods.
To meet and adapt to the current and future trends and issues in technology and society, the science committee of The German Academic Society for Production Engineering (WGP) continues to define future topics for production technology. This title includes the papers presented at the first annual conference in June 2011.
Presents research in the study of manufacturing engineering, including the theory and practice of virtual manufacturing; adapting local economies to market changes; conveyor systems balancing; optimisation of manufacturing conditions of brake friction materials; the impact of sanctions on the buyer-supplier relationship; and, more.
Companies are being forced to process and manage increasingly differentiated products with shorter life cycles, low volumes and reduced customer delivery times. This book introduces an original and integrated idea of maintenance: maintenance for productivity.
Offers a systematic exposition of the approach to stability analysis based on estimates for matrix-valued and operator-valued functions. This book helps us to investigate various classes of finite and infinite dimensional systems from a unified viewpoint. It is intended for specialists in stability theory.
This publication recognizes the critical role that schedules play in transportation systems. It examines new theoretical and practical approaches for all transportation levels, and the focus goes beyond public transport to include freight transportation.
Presents 'machine and process' approach that is based on stability lobe diagrams for designing large-volume milling machines bearing in mind their productivity, reliability and accuracy as well as their eco-efficiency. This book introduces a global modelling of the dynamics of milling machines.
Covers research issues within systems theory, optimization, modelling, and computing. This book includes contributions to structural mechanics, integer programming, nonlinear programming, interior point methods, dynamical systems, stability analysis, stochastic optimization, bilevel optimization, and semidefinite programming.
Looks at manufacturing planning and control from the manufacturing company's perspective and focuses on the intra-organisational system and on the supply chain as a whole. This book offers knowledge on how to develop planning environment, and how to design and use planning processes and methods efficiently and effectively in operational practice.
New directives in the European Union forced the national governments to release new laws on the collection and recycling of electronic waste. This book gives a structured recipe how this complicated procedure can be done in the corresponding country. It is suitable for the electrics industry, in particular for international companies.
Contains the theory, practice, and example projects of international project management. This book examines the different dimensions and responsibilities of international projects, and outlines what a project manager must know to lead global projects successfully. It explores the professional best practices of international projects.
Through nine highly successful editions and now a new Tenth Edition, DeGarmo, Black, and Kohser's MATERIALS AND PROCESSES IN MANUFACTURING has built a strong reputation for its exceedingly clear presentation and highly practical approach to materials and processes.