Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing

The book delineates five new techniques and all the manufacturing functions described have been successfully solved by Genetic Algorithm...

Comprehensive and practical this guide and reference to today's mechanical conveyor systems covers all types of mechanical conveyors, providing in-depth information on their design, function and applications. More than 180 photographs and schematics illustrate details of design and system layout. Th..

This book enables those working in modeling and simulation, to look at best practices from various disciplines, so that project leaders, managers, and engineers, can apply the non-technical and technical best practices to their work...

Modeling, Identification and Simulation of Dynamical Systems..

Finishing is the final operation after a part is sized and shaped. Currently in high tech industries, there is a demand for nano level surface finishing of components. This process is done to improve the surface finish, to remove the recast layer, or to remove surface and sub-surface defects. The re..

Discussing fundamental modeling tools, queuing theory, and discrete event simulation for evaluating production systems, this book presents a development environment for discrete event simulation in a language easy enough to use but flexible enough to facilitate modeling complex systems. Incorporatin..

Includes the full French text, accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context...

This book will serve a unique purpose within the world of production engineering. It will cover the economics of modern manufacturing and focus on examining the techniques and methods from a cost perspective. Additionally, it will deal with the computation of direct and indirect cost for manufacturi..

The basic attributes of industrial machines and systems are the productivity rates and quality of products. This book presents the mathematical models for optimization of machining regimes and optimization of the numbers of working stations for production lines of different structures by the criteri..

This book identifies principles developed to help companies and businesses succeed with projects. It simplifies the use of these methodologies and processes so the everyday person can apply these approaches to be successful with projects. The book guides you to define project scope and to complete p..

This multiauthored book covers all aspects of the systems integration process. It addresses critical success factors and underlying pitfalls of systems integration. Packed with features and benefits, Reengineering Systems Integration Success is the key to success in your organization...

Many of the product recalls that we see daily are due to unexpected failures resulting from poor reliability analysis during the product design stage. Minitab is a statistical software package that has a highly useful set of "Reliability/Survival" tools, but those tools are barely explored or explai..