Industrial quality control Books

This book comprises select proceedings of the National Conference on Recent Advances in Traffic Engineering (RATE 2018) with technical papers on the themes of traffic operation control and management, traffic safety and vulnerable road users, and...

This book presents select peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Numerical Optimization in Engineering and Sciences (NOIEAS) 2019. The book covers a wide variety of numerical optimization techniques across all...

This thesis develops a systematic, data-based dynamic modeling framework for industrial processes in keeping with the slowness principle. Using said framework as a point of departure, it then proposes novel strategies for dealing with control monitoring...

This book highlights cutting-edge research into emergency early warning management and decision-making for severe accidents. Using toxic gas leakages as examples, it puts forward new design methods for emergency early warning systems, as well as a...

Safe and high-efficiency operation are two main issues in rail transportation. This book focuses on these two key issues, bringing together a wealth of research to offer theoretical and technical support for rail operations and maintenance. In addition,...

The proceedings of the 11th International Mine Ventilation Congress (11th IMVC), is focused on mine ventilation, health and safety and Earth science. The IMVC has become the most influential international mine ventilation event in the world, and has long...

This book presents the latest developments and breakthroughs in fuzzy theory and performance prediction of queuing and reliability models by using the stochastic modeling and optimization theory. The main focus is on analytics that use fuzzy logic,...

This book discusses environmental management and construction management approaches to the environmental problems that can emerge in construction projects. It sets a brand new standard for environmental management in mega construction projects in China...

This book discusses the application of quality and reliability engineering in Asian industries, and offers information for multinational companies (MNC) looking to transfer some of their operation and manufacturing capabilities to Asia and at the same...

The volume contains 75 papers presented at International Conference on Communication and Networks (COMNET 2015) held during February 19-20, 2016 at Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA), Ahmedabad, India and organized by Computer Society of India (CSI),...

Original de Taller del ingeLean Six Sigma se ha consolidado como una herramienta clave para mejorar la calidad, reducir los costos y aumentar la eficiencia en organizaciones de todo tipo. En este contexto, "todo sobre Lean Six Sigma" se presenta como una...

Ernst G. Frankel This book has its origin in lecture notes developed over several years for use in a course in Systems Reliability f~r engineers concerned with the design of physical systems such as civil structures, power...

This book presents models and methods for systems reliability assessment, human reliability analysis and uncertainty management. It includes fourteen contributions which are grouped into three sections. Section 1 deals with...

The Future of Electricity Systems: General Trends, Developments.- Dependency on Electricity and Telecommunications.- Critical Interrelations Between ICT and Electricity System.- ICT and Powers Systems: An Integrated Approach.- Governance: How to Deal...

vi of a large number of people due to the enormous quantities of radioactive material that would be required to reach high levels of contamination in mass-produced or distributed supplies. Although, based on data presented at the Workshop concerning the...

Structures that are essential for economy and security such as energy production, transportation and supply, water supply, buildings, are susceptible to failure, because of defects already present in the material, or created at fabrication, or appearing...

Complexity in automation- and safety systems in railway as well as automotive applications are dominated more and more by formal description means, methods and tools. Formal techniques provide next to correctness and integrity checkups - especially for...

Conjugate Direction Methods for Quadratic Problems.- Conjugate Gradient Methods for Nonconvex Problems.- Memoryless Quasi-Newton Methods.- Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Algorithms.- Limited Memory Quasi-Newton Algorithms.- The Method of Shortest...

Multi-Objective Control of Time-Discrete Systems and Dynamic Games on Networks.- Max-Min Control Problems and Solving Zero-Sum Games on Networks.- Extension and Generalization of Discrete Control Problems and Algorithmic Approaches for its Solving.-...

Higher-Order Statistics.- Higher-Order Statistics: Preliminaries.- Bispectrum and Bicoherence.- Data Quality - Compression and Quantization.- Impact of Data Compression and Quantization on Data-Driven Process Analyses.- Nonlinearity and Control...

Solidification Cracking Theory.- In Search of the Prediction of Hot Cracking in Aluminium Alloys.- Application of the Rappaz-Drezet-Gremaud Hot Tearing Criterion to Welding of Aluminium Alloys.- Weld Solidification Cracking: Critical Conditions for Crack...

Current issues and approaches in the reliability and safety analysis of dynamic process systems are the subject of this book. The authors of the chapters are experts from nuclear, chemical, mechanical, aerospace and defense...

Recent Advances in Optimal Reliability Allocation.- Multiobjective Metaheuristic Approaches to Reliability Optimization.- Genetic Algorithm Applications in Surveillance and Maintenance Optimization.- Genetic Algorithms and Monte Carlo Simulation for the...

This important new manual goes beyond the published NFPA standards on installation of standpipe systems to include the rules in the International Building Code, municipal fire codes, the National Fire Code of Canada, and information on inspection,...

The book provides readers with a snapshot of recent research and industrial trends in field of industrial acoustics and vibration. Each chapter, accepted after a rigorous peer-review process, reports on a selected, original piece of work presented and...

This book provides insights into important new developments in the area of statistical quality control and critically discusses methods used in on-line and off-line statistical quality control.The book is divided into three parts: Part I covers...

1. Prologue2. Motor Fault Detection and Diagnosis Based on Meta-cognitive Random Vector Functional Link Network3. Optimal Adaptive Threshold and Mode Fault Detection for Model-based Fault Diagnosis of Hybrid Dynamical Systems4. Diagnosing Hybrid...

These proceedings exchange ideas and knowledge among engineers, designers and managers on how to support real-world value chains by developing additive manufactured series products. The papers from the conference show a holistic, multidisciplinary view.

This book describes the prerequisites for the placing on themarket and the safe use of machinery in compliance with the relevant EUDirectives, especially the Machinery Directive 2006/42. It provides readerswith high-level knowledge concerning the...

"...a comprehensive and well written book, which...will be useful reading for both researchers entering the field and experienced specialists looking for new ideas....a valuable and long-lasting contribution to experimental mechanics." - Stepan Lomov, KU...

This book presents the latest key research into the performanceand reliability aspects of dependable fault-tolerant systems and featurescommentary on the fields studied by Prof. Kishor S. Trivedi during hisdistinguished career. Analyzing system...

This bookis devoted to the analysis of causal inference which  is one of the most difficult tasks in dataanalysis: when two phenomena are observed to be related, it is often difficultto decide whether one of them causally influences the other one,...

Containing selected papers from the ICRESH-ARMS 2015 conference in Lulea, Sweden, collected by editors with years of experiences in Reliability and maintenance modeling, risk assessment, and asset management, this work maximizes reader insights into the...

The book provides readers with a snapshot of recent research and technological trends in the field of condition monitoring of machinery working under a broad range of operating conditions. Each chapter, accepted after a rigorous peer-review process,...

This contributed book focuses on major aspects of statistical quality control, shares insights into important new developments in the field, and adapts established statistical quality control methods for use in e.g. big data, network analysis and medical...

This book provides, as simply as possible, sound foundations for an in-depth understanding of reliability engineering with regard to qualitative analysis, modelling, and probabilistic calculations of safety and production systems.Drawing on the authors'...

This book focuses on the latest scientific and technological advancements in the field of railway turnout engineering. It offers a holistic approach to the scientific investigation of the factors and mechanisms determining performance degradation of...

This book considers all aspects of performability engineering, providing a holistic view of the activities associated with a product throughout its entire life cycle of the product, as well as the cost of minimizing the environmental impact at each...

The book provides background information about technical solutions, processes and methodology to develop future automated mobility solutions. Beginning from the legal requirements as the minimum tolerable risk level of the society, the book provides...

This book discusses recent developments in dynamic reliability in multi-state systems (MSS), addressing such important issues as reliability and availability analysis of aging MSS, the impact of initial conditions on MSS reliability and availability,...

This proceedings of the 13th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management covers a range of topics that are timely, relevant and practically important in the modern digital era towards safer, cost effective, efficient, and secure engineered assets such...