Network Design with Applications to Transportation and Logistics

This book explores the methodological and application developments of network design in transportation and logistics. It identifies trends, challenges and research perspectives in network design for these areas. Network design is a major class of problems in operations research where network flow, combinatorial and mixed integer optimization meet. The analysis and planning of transportation and…

Hannah West in Deep Water: A Mystery

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-

ISBN/ISSN

0-14-240700-3

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151 p.; 23 cm.

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-

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823 Joh h

Simulation-based Optimization of Energy Efficiency in Production

The importance of the energy and commodity markets has steadily increased since the first oil crisis. The sustained use of energy and other resources has become a basic requirement for a company to competitively perform on the market. The modeling, analysis and assessment of dynamic production processes is often performed using simulation software. While existing approaches mainly focus on the …

ANIMAL MODELS AND HUMAN REPRODUCTION

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-

ISBN/ISSN

9781118881606

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xviii, 578p.; ill.; 26cm

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-

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571.8 Ani a

Servitization in Industry

This book summarizes the “interim result” of the servitization activities in manufacturing industries. While the early literature on servitization tended to stress only its advantages, more recently, scholars have also started to refer to the challenges associated with servitization. This book attempts to give a balanced picture of servitization. The book is structured in four parts: Part I…

Proceedings of the International Congress of Industrial Engineering (ICIE2019)

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-030-49370-7

Collation

XI, 186p.:Ill

Series Title

-

Call Number

670 Pro

Artificial Intelligence in Industry 4.0

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-030-61045-6

Collation

xxv 236p.:Ill

Series Title

-

Call Number

006.3 Art

11th World Conference “Intelligent System for Industrial Automation” (WCI…

This book presents the proceedings of the 11th Scientific Conference “Intelligent systems for industrial automation,” WCIS-2020, held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on November 26–28, 2020. It includes contributions from diverse areas of intelligent industrial systems design as hybrid control systems, intelligent information systems, decision making under imperfect information and others. T…

Reliability and Risk Modeling of Engineering Systems

This book addresses reliability, maintenance, risk, and safety issues of industrial systems with applications of the latest decision-making techniques. Thus, this book presents chapters that apply advanced tools, techniques, and computing models for optimizing the performance of industrial and manufacturing systems, along with other complex engineering equipment. Computing techniques like data …

Technical Drawing for Product Design

This book is intended for students, academics, designers, process engineers and CMM operators, and presents the ISO GPS and the ASME GD&T rules and concepts. The Geometric Product Specification (GPS) and Geometrical Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) languages are in fact the most powerful tools available to link the perfect geometrical world of models and drawings to the imperfect world of ma…

Operations Management and Systems Engineering

This book comprises select peer-reviewed contributions from the 6th International Conference on Production and Industrial Engineering (CPIE – 2019). The volume focuses on latest research in the field of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and its allied areas. Articles on variety of topics such as Human Factors Engineering, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Logistics and Supply Chain Management,…

Futuristic Trends in Intelligent Manufacturing

This book shows how Industry 4.0 is a strategic approach for integrating advanced control systems with Internet technology enabling communication between people, products and complex systems. It includes processes such as machining features, machining knowledge, execution control, operation planning, machine tool selection and cutting tool. This book focuses on different articles related to adv…

Environmental and Financial Performance Evaluation in 3D Printing Using MFCA …

This book presents the methodology of environmental and financial performance evaluation in 3D printing processes using the MFCA and LCA. This methodology is divided into 7 main steps, which are: a) identification of the analysis problem (for example, comparison of different types of 3D printer for use in a given purpose, comparison of different printing materials for the same 3D printer techno…

Quality Management Practices in MSME Sectors

The book explains the importance of and investigates the quality management aspects in micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) sectors. It emphasizes on the need of quality management practice and explores the applicability of various quality tools in MSMEs and stages in company where quality management practices are applied. Various topics covered in this book include control charts, Pareto…

Multi-Criteria Decision Making

The book covers the domain of multi-criteria decision making, a topic which has gained significant attention of researchers and practitioners spanning a variety of disciplines for enhancing their decision making in real life situation. The topics in this volume help readers understand the techniques in the model building and analysis stage. The chapters cover a variety of techniques and their a…

Additive Manufacturing Technologies

This textbook covers in detail digitally-driven methods for adding materials together to form parts. A conceptual overview of additive manufacturing is given, beginning with the fundamentals so that readers can get up to speed quickly. Well-established and emerging applications such as rapid prototyping, micro-scale manufacturing, medical applications, aerospace manufacturing, rapid tooling and…

Production at the leading edge of technology

This congress proceedings provides recent research on leading-edge manufacturing processes. The aim of this scientific congress is to work out diverse individual solutions of "production in the border area" and transferable methodological approaches. In addition, guest speakers with different backgrounds will give the congress participants food for thoughts, interpretations, views and suggestio…

Wireless Networks and Industrial IoT

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the most relevant research and standardization results in the area of wireless networking for Industrial IoT, covering both critical and massive connectivity. Most chapters in this book are intended to serve as short tutorials of particular topics, highlighting the main developments and ideas, as well as giving an outlook of the upcoming research c…

The Future of Transdisciplinary Design

This book presents the state-of-the-art research in the field of transdisciplinary design, and highlights the challenges and issues from the perspectives of processes, people and products in transdisciplinary product design and development. It collates research papers resulting from the ‘Workshop on the Future of Transdisciplinary Design’ written by leading researchers in engineering design…

Engineering Digital Transformation

This book outlining the latest developments in engineering digital transformation gathers a selection of the best papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management (CIO 2017), held in Valencia, Spain, from July 5th to 6th, 2017. The papers discuss topics in the following areas: strategy and entrepreneurship, OR, modelling and simulation, p…

Solving Large-Scale Production Scheduling and Planning in the Process Industries

This book presents a number of efficient techniques for solving large-scale production scheduling and planning problems in process industries. The main content is supplemented by a wealth of illustrations, while case studies on large-scale industrial applications, ranging from continuous to semicontinuous and batch processes, round out the coverage.

Operations Management and Systems Engineering

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Production and Industrial Engineering (CPIE) 2018. The book focuses on the latest developments in the domain of operations management and systems engineering, and presents analytical models, case studies, and simulation approaches relevant to a wide variety of systems engineering problems. Topics such as decision sciences…

Advances in Manufacturing II

This book covers a variety of topics in manufacturing, with a special emphasis on product design, production planning, and implementation of both resources and production processes. The content is based on papers presented at the 6th International Scientific Technical Conference MANUFACTURING 2019, held in Poznan, Poland on May 19-22, 2019. The main focus is on showing best practices to use too…

Nitrogen Management in Crop Production

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-4822-2285-2

Collation

436 p.; 26 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

631 Fag n

Manufacturing Scheduling Systems: An Integrated View on Models, Methods and T…

The book is devoted to the problem of manufacturing scheduling, which is the efficient allocation of jobs (orders) over machines (resources) in a manufacturing facility. It offers a comprehensive and integrated perspective on the different aspects required to design and implement systems to efficiently and effectively support manufacturing scheduling decisions. Obtaining economic and reliable s…

Microirrigation for Crop Production: Design, Operation, and Management

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-

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-444-50607-8

Collation

vi, 618 p.; 26 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

633.8 Mic m

PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT, THIRD EDITION

Edition

3

ISBN/ISSN

0-205-14048-3

Collation

xxiv, 859 p. ; 30 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

658.5 Hei p

CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering

This high quality reference work has been written and reviewed by members of The International Academy for Production Engineering, also known as CIRP. This Academy is recognized worldwide to represent the highest standards in research on production engineering, which includes design, optimization, control, management of processes, machines, and systems. One key concept behind this Encyclopedia …

Advances in Production Research

The papers in this volume present recent and highly relevant topics in the fields of production research as 3D printing, additive manufacturing processes, agile product development, change dynamics in companies, configurable material systems, data analysis in process optimization, future technologies with high potential in value creation, global production, learning production systems, producti…

Nutrition and Lactation in the Dairy Cow

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-408-00717-6

Collation

vii, 425 p.; 23 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

636.2142 Gar n