From the Foreword by Marshall Fisher, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania: As generation of academics and practitioners follows generation, it is worthwhile to compile long views of the research and practice in the past to shed light on research and practice going forward. This collection of peer-reviewed articles is intended to provide such a long view. This book contains a collection of chapters written by leading scholars/practitioners who have continued their efforts in developin...
The author describes the evolution of the first practical stationary engines and illustrates some of the many designs, with notes on their important features and information on the better-known manufacturers.
A practical, non-theoretical treatment covering legal, financial, tax, accounting, and business knowledge necessary for successful lease management. Distributed to libraries by Gale. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
A Perspective on Two Decades of Rapid Modeling It is an honor for me to be asked to write a foreword to the Proceedings of the 1st Rapid Modeling Conference. In 1987, when I coined the term "Rapid Modeling" to denote queuing modeling of manufacturing systems, I never imagined that two decades later there would be an international conference devoted to this topic! I am delighted to see that there will be around 40 presentations at the conference by leading researchers from aroundthe world, and ab...
Reducing Operational Costs in Composites Manufacturing
by Karen Snyder Travis
Reducing Operational Costs in Composites Manufacturing provides organization-specific principles for managers working in the composites industry. It utilizes a "how to" format for reducing operational costs and provides examples for each principle. In the first two sections, readers learn how to evaluate the existing environment to determine the best course of action when developing a plan to achieve goals. This is followed by a deeper understanding of why character strengths are important, and...
Cold Rolling of Steel (Manufacturing Engineering and Materials Processing, #2)
by Roberts
With the publication of this book, newcomers to the field of steel rolling have a complete introductionto the cold rolling process, including the history of cold rolling, the equipment currentlyin use, the behavior of the rolling lubricant, the thermal and metallurgical aspects of the subject,mathematical models relating to rolling force and power requirements, strip shape, and thefurth er processing of cold-rolled steel. The first book in print to examine in detail the three componentsof the co...
Applied Statistics and Probability for Engineers, 7th Edition EPUB Reg Card
by Douglas C Montgomery and George C. Runger
Industrial research has come under pressure. Will recent budget cuts reduce competitiveness? Based on interviews in Japanese and European high-tech firms it is shown that research supports important potentials. These can be used for project funding, location decisions, and an analysis of sufficient conditions for research success. Careful management of the potentials should improve future competitiveness, and it should help to understand why industrial firms benefit from research and how.
The main focus of the book is to convey modern techniques applied within the range of computational mechanics of beams, plates and shells. The topics of interest are wide ranging and include computational aspects of nonlinear theories of shells and beams including dynamics, advanced discretization methods for thin shells and membranes, shear-deformable shell finite elements for SMA composite devices, optimization and design of shells and membranes, fluid-structure interaction with thin-walled st...
Safety is not easy, it is a full time effort, and is equally important whether people are on the job or on personal time. If an organization is serious about mission success, it must take 'risk' seriously as well. Leaders need to be involved in the risk game at every turn, and understand the key elements (discussed throughout this book) that help them to win. Winning the risk game is what safety is all about. As in operational success, risk management requires the best human faculties to achi...
Lead Ingot Molder Work Log (Key Work Logs/Work Log)
by Key Work Logs
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.It discusses important topics including green and sustainable machining, dry machining, textured cutting coated tools for machining, solid lubricants-based machining, gas-cooled machining, cryogenic cooling for intelligent machining, artificial neural network for machining, big data based mach...
Engineering Management and Industrial Engineering
Engineering Management and Industrial Engineering endeavors to provide a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of recent advances in management industrial engineering. The book is divided in the sections below: Modeling, Simulation and Engineering Application Manufacturing Systems and Industrial Design Information Processing and Engineering
Artificial Immune Systems for Job Shop Scheduling Problems
by Xueni Qiu
Fuzzy Engineering Expert Systems with Neural Network Applications (Engineering Design and Automation, #14)
by Adedeji Bodunde Badiru and John Cheung
Provides an up-to-date integration of expert systems with fuzzy logic and neural networks. Includes coverage of simulation models not present in other books.Presents cases and examples taken from the authors' experience in research and applying the technology to real-world situations.
Groundwater Resources Assessment (Developments in Water Science)
by Jaroslav Balek and J Balek
The development of environmentally sound groundwater resources has recently become a high priority throughout the world. Many countries are currently developing comprehensive regulations for the management of groundwater resources. Within this framework an assessment of renewable groundwater resources is one of the most important factors. This book is based on the author's many years of experience in the assessment of surface and subsurface water resources, field experiments and computer oriente...