Production and industrial engineering Books

Smart Sensor Networks (WSNs) using AI has left a mark on the lives of all by aiding in various sectors such as manufacturing, education, healthcare, and monitoring of the environment and industries. This book covers recent AI applications and explores...

This book focuses on the key technologies, challenges, and research directions of IIoT. It provides a basis for discussing open principles, methods, and research problems and provides a systematic overview of the state-of-the-art research efforts,...

This book provides an overview of distributed control and distributed optimization theory with specific details on industrial applications to smart grid systems. It discusses the fundamental analysis and design schemes for developing actual working smart...

This book focuses on automated analytical techniques for healthcare applications used to extract knowledge from a large amount of data. It brings together a variety of different aspects of the healthcare system and aids in the decision-making processes...

This book provides a detailed insight on how to reap the benefits of blockchain technology in healthcare, as the healthcare sector faces several challenges associated with privacy and security issues. It also provides in-depth knowledge regarding...

This book provides insight into the recent advances of applications, statistical methods, and mathematical modeling for the healthcare industry.

This book addresses the reliability, risk, and safety issues of real industrial systems with application of the latest reliability and riskbased modelling. Related topics such as maintenance decision-making, risk and safety modelling are also addressed...

This book captures deploying Industry 4.0 technologies for business excellence and moving towards Society 5.0. It addresses applications of Industry 4.0 in the areas of marketing, operations, supply chain, finance, and HR to achieve business excellence...

While there are many quality assurance books on the market, very few address the application of the concept to the seafood industry. In addition, many of the books that are available take a theoretical approach and there­ fore...

The role of human factors in product design has, in the past, pertained almost exclusively to product usability, but increased recognition is being given to "pleasure-based" human factors. This emphasizes the holistic nature of the experience of...

For many years production management has no longer been confined to individual production facilities. Intensive cooperation with suppliers has become an integral part of production management. In recent years two further...

This handbook of formal analysis in cryptography is very important for secure communication and processing of information. It introduces readers to several formal verification methods and software used to analyse cryptographic protocols. The chapters...

This book provides insight for researchers and decision-makers on the application of data in the entrepreneurship and sustainable development sector. This book covers how Big Data for Industry 4.0 and Entrepreneurship are effective in resolving business,...

This book offers a survey of successful attributes of the systems engineer. It focuses on the key positive attributes of what today's systems engineer should be and puts a model in place for achievement and behavior for future systems engineers. The...

This book provides details concerning the relevance of all aspects of attention. Topic application areas run from the design of warning systems to capture attention, to the attention distractions in the workplace, to the failures of dividing attention...

Overall theme of the book is analysis and interpretation of the textile data for improving the quality of textile process and product using various statistical techniques. This volume covers statistical techniques, design of experiments and stochastic...

Ths book represents and offers an understanding of specific fields of practice that are discovered using different methodological approaches, innovative aspects of computing and technology, and coupled with data/information science products, show how...

Any activity is aimed at solving certain problems, which means transferring a system from an existing unsatisfactory problematic state, to a desired state. This book covers the theory and experience of successfully solving problems in a practical and...

This book focuses on RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), IoT (Internet of Things), and WSN (Wireless Sensor Network). It includes contributions that discuss the security and privacy issues as well as the opportunities and applications that are tightly...

This book is intended for engineers, computer scientists, managers and all those concerned with computer graphics, computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacture. While it is primarily intended for students, lecturers and...

An Aspen Food Science Text Series Book. All of the essential information that you have come to rely on in the widely-acclaimed 'Principles of Food Sanitation' by Norman G. Marriott is now available to you in a simplified,...

Looks at quality management in a new way; Offers a very different mathematical tool set than traditionally employed for quality control problems; Yao is a leading researcher in the area of stochastic modeling and the author of...

Since the introduction of system signatures in Francisco Samaniego's 1985 paper, the properties of this technical concept have been examined, tested and proven in a wide variety of systems applications. Based on the practical...

The Integrated Circuit (IC) industry has gone without a standardized verification approach for decades. This book defines a uniform, standardizable methodology for verifying the logical behavior of an integrated circuit, whether an I/O controller, a...

This book details timing analysis and optimization techniques for circuits with level-sensitive memory elements. It contains a linear programming formulation applicable to the timing analysis of large scale circuits and includes a delay insertion...

This book discusses the process of "Lot Streaming" and how it can significantly improve the overall performance of a production process, and thereby, make the operation of a manufacturing system lean. It provides a complete introduction to the Flow Shop...

This superb study offers insights into the methods and techniques that enable the implementation of a Collaborative Engineering concept on product design. It does so by integrating capabilities for intelligent information...

Internet of Things (IoT) is an ecosystem comprised of heterogeneous connected devices that communicate to deliver capabilities making our living, cities, transport, energy, and other areas more intelligent. This book delves into the different...

This book gives reader a brief idea about the principles involved in fabric formation methods, namely weaving and knitting covering various mechanisms involved starting from primitive handlooms to the latest shuttleless loom and from hand knitting to...

This book provides insights into contemporary issues and challenges in multi-criteria decision models. It is a useful guide for identifying, understanding and categorising multi-criteria decision models, and ultimately implementing the analysis for...

This book brings together researchers in ergonomics and posture with industrial designers, to review and assess the current state of chair design, with implications for cultural, behavioural and occupational aspects of health. The contributions are a...

Discusses the requirements for establishing, maintaining and revitalizing an efficient engineering documentation control system for use by technical and manufacturing personnel in private industry. The book stresses simplicity and common sense in the...

The Art of Safety Auditing: A Tutorial for Regulators provides the theory and practice of auditing safety management systems implemented by the companies in risk industries. With his extensive knowledge and experiences in quality and safety, Sasho...

In this global society, manufacturers compete in many ways, and information infrastructures play a critical role in ensuring the right information is available at the right time and the right place to support informed decision...

This state-of-the-art text explores developments in geometric modeling, product modeling and their applications. In particular, it looks at the means by which product geometry emerges from the conceptual stages of design,...

In the past few decades Computer Hardware Description Languages (CHDLs) have been a rapidly expanding subject area due to a number of factors, including the advancing complexity of digital electronics, the increasing...

Recently, many new technologies have been developed for engineers to reduce the time required to design and manufacture products in response to rapidly fluctuating market demands. This book addresses a variety of ...

This book is aimed at advanced students and practising engineers. It provides step by step instructions in the use of MicroSim PSpice, industry-standard software that simulates power-electronics circuits. Computer-aided...

Architectures for Enterprise Integration describes the latest methods to guide enterprises and consultants, managers and technical personnel through a complete life-cycle of enterprise development. This book is based on the...

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...

Lecturers and researchers in the areas of industrial engineering, quality management and business development, and middle and higher management in business or technology- oriented positions, will find this book invaluable.

This book is structured in a practical, example-driven, manner. The use of VHDL for constructing logic synthesisers is one of the aims of the book; the second is the application of the tools to the design process. Worked...