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Thousands of workers labored at Kennedy Space Center around the clock, seven days a week, for half a year to prepare a mission for the liftoff of Apollo 11. This is the story of what went on during those hectic six months. Countdown to a Moon Launch provides an in-depth look at the carefully choreographed workflow for an Apollo mission at KSC. Using the Apollo 11 mission as an example, readers will learn what went on day by day to transform partially completed stages and crates of parts into a...

This versatile text provides a hands-on, guided tutorial through Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2005. Tool Palettes are presented in the order in which they are commonly used, which provides a logical organization to the text. Numerous walk-throughs and hands-on activities are used throughout the text to teach commands and routines in relation to the production of architectural drawings. The organization of topics and the presentation of commands in context of applications make this text appropr...

In today's business environment, reliability and maintenance drastically affect the three key elements of competitiveness - quality, cost, and product lead time. Well-maintained machines hold tolerances better, help reduce scrap and rework, and raise consistency and quality of the part in addition to cutting total production costs. Today, many factories are still performing maintenance on equipment in a reactive manner due to a lack of understanding about machine performance behaviour. To...

The use of cyber warfare as a prelude or substitute for conventional attacks has gone from conjecture to reality. The obvious targets of such assaults are a nation's defence establishment, critical infrastructure, and production capabilities. Contrary to popular opinion, there are effective, structured defences against such aggression, if they are conscientiously and properly implemented and maintained. This text merges the fundamentals of information system security and the unique requirements...

Der Einsatz von flexibel automatisierten Fertigungskonzepten in den Produktionsbereichen der Unternehmen des Maschinenbaus hat sich in den letzten Jahren durchgesetzt. Dies gilt speziell auch für Flexible Fertigungssysteme (FFS), die die komplexeste Ausführungsform der unter dem Begriff der flexiblen Automatisierung zusammengefaßten Konzepte darstellen. Die unterschiedlichen Ausführungsformen von FFS setzen spezielle Gestaltungen der Produktionsplanung und -steuerung (PPS) für die Auftragsabwick...

This book describes the state-of-the-art in RF, analog, and mixed-signal circuit design for Software Defined Radio (SDR). It synthesizes for analog/RF circuit designers the most important general design approaches to take advantage of the most recent CMOS technology, which can integrate millions of transistors, as well as several real examples from the most recent research results.

For courses in Engineering Design and Computations, Introduction to Civil Engineering, and Autodesk Civil 3D. Unique in approach, Autodesk Civil 3D offers an innovative blend of core civil engineering concepts and thorough Autodesk Civil 3D instruction. It moves beyond a how-to manual, to explain why the software produces specific results and how it can be used to solve specific civil engineering problems. Flexible in design, the book begins with an overview of the software and its interface...

Modeling in Analog Design highlights some of the most pressing issues in the use of modeling techniques for design of analogue circuits. Using models for circuit design gives designers the power to express directly the behaviour of parts of a circuit in addition to using other pre-defined components. There are numerous advantages to this new category of analog behavioral language. In the short term, by favouring the top-down design and raising the level of description abstraction, this ap...

A hands-on introduction to more than seventy AutoCad commands relating to 3D space and 3D modelling, with concise and easy-to-understand instructions helping users get the most out of every 3D feature of AutoCad.

******Text Available as of 5/21/2004!****** Zeid's Mastering CAD/CAM, first edition covers an in-depth, comprehensive assembly of modern topics, including feature-based modeling, parametrics, NURBS, collaborative design, PDM, and PLM. The text integrates theory, practice and the use of CAD/CAM systems by presenting examples, tutorials, discussions, hands-on exercises, and end-of-chapter problems. Zeid provides readers with a large selection of topics, abundant activities for in-class discussi...

This guide to computer assisted drafting and design employs simple tutorials, and is well illustrated and extensively referenced. The book provides a comprehensive overview of CADD commands.

This is the right book for you if you're new to AutoCAD or want to brush up on the basics, you're looking for a clear, no nonsense, easy-to-follow text, or you want to learn AutoCAD quickly and easily. For use with the PC version of AutoCAD 2016 only. New features include: Start Tab page, containing two sliding content frames called Learn and Create, enabling you to quickly access recent drawing files, templates, product updates, and online resources. DIM command, allowing you to create dimensio...

Based on the latest version of the software, Autodesk Inventor from the Top uses realistic examples, exercises, tutorials, plus more than 500 screen captures to guide readers, step-by-step, through basic sketching and solid modeling to the application of more advanced modeling techniques. Ideal for mechanical engineering professionals and students, this how-to and reference manual begins with an overview of part creation. Subsequent chapters, each building on information presented previously, le...