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Books in Industrial engineering

The Industrial Engineering portfolio covers operations research, process optimization, supply chain management, quality control, and human factors engineering. It delivers advanced methodologies and practical strategies to enhance efficiency, productivity, and sustainability in manufacturing and service industries. Focused on innovation and data-driven decision-making, this collection equips engineers and researchers to optimize complex systems and workflows.

  • Principles of Modern Grinding Technology

    • 3rd Edition
    • January 23, 2026
    • W. Brian Rowe + 1 more
    • English
    Structured as a comprehensive teaching aid, the third edition of Principles of Modern Grinding Technology caters to a wide range of professionals and students, including application engineers, manufacturing engineers, technicians, researchers, teachers, and students. It expertly guides the reader through every aspect of the grinding process, incorporating the latest advancements in high-speed grinding, cost reduction techniques, vibration troubleshooting, and productivity optimization. Moreover, it demonstrates how to simultaneously enhance grinding precision, improve result quality, and increase output. The third edition represents an expanded and revised version, encompassing cutting-edge developments such as ultra-precision grinding. It offers thorough analyses of the factors influencing grinding behavior and showcases practical applications through numerous worked examples. The book extensively references leading research to substantiate the advancements in the field. Advanced grinding exemplifies the core principles of manufacturing science. It initially introduces the fundamentals of material removal by grinding, followed by an in-depth examination of grinding tools and their preparation. This book delves into the intricacies of grinding mechanics, including thermal performance and quality-related concerns. Finally, it explores practical grinding applications while considering economic factors to highlight worthwhile investments and potential cost reductions. In this edition, several new chapters have been added to enhance the book's relevance and coverage. These include discussions on real contact in grinding, grinding energy, thermal damage, grinding machine developments, vibrations in grinding, and grinding process control.

  • Advances in Technical Nonwovens

    • 2nd Edition
    • November 27, 2025
    • George Kellie
    • English
    Advances in Technical Nonwovens, Second Edition provides an up-to-date accounting of the nonwoven industry's journey in a time of significant transformation. The book delves into the latest advancements in technology and showcases a wide array of innovative applications that have emerged in recent years. In summary, it offers an enriched and detailed exploration of nonwovens, introducing new chapters that cover Sustainable Developments, Nonwovens in Sports Apparel and Footwear, and Medical and Hygiene Nonwoven developments. With its extensive updates and comprehensive content, this edition is a must-have resource for anyone seeking to deepen their knowledge of the evolving world of nonwovens.Nonwovens, a versatile class of materials, have experienced continuous growth for over five decades, evolving from being predominantly used in hygiene products such as baby diapers, to becoming indispensable and technologically intricate components across various industries. Despite their modest nature, nonwovens play a crucial role in our daily lives.

  • Small Sample Modelling Based on Deep and Broad Forest Regression

    Theory and Industrial Application
    • 1st Edition
    • October 31, 2025
    • Wen Yu + 2 more
    • English
    Small Sample Modelling Based on Deep and Broad Forest Regression: Theory and Industrial Application delves into tree-structured methods in the industrial sector, encompassing classical ensemble learning, tree-structured deep forest classification, and broad learning systems with neural networks. It introduces an innovative deep/broad learning algorithm for small-sample industrial modeling tasks. The book is divided into two parts: methodology and practical application in dioxin emission modeling. Methodology sections include Preliminaries, Deep Forest Regression, Broad Forest Regression, and Fuzzy Forest Regression. The application part focuses on modeling dioxin emissions in municipal solid waste incineration. Throughout, various tree-structured strategies are presented, and the authors provide software systems for validating these methods. This book is suitable for advanced undergraduates, graduate engineering students, and practicing engineers looking for self-study resources.

  • Successful User Experience

    Strategies and Roadmaps
    • 2nd Edition
    • October 27, 2025
    • Elizabeth Rosenzweig
    • English
    Successful User Experience: Strategy and Roadmaps, Second Edition provides a hands-on guide for pulling all of the User Experience (UX) pieces together to create a strategy that includes tactics, tools, and methodologies. Leveraging material honed in user experience courses and over 35 years in the field, the author explains the value of strategic models to refine goals against available data and resources. You will learn how to think about UX from a high level, design the UX while setting goals for a product or project, and how to turn that into concrete actionable steps.This book demonstrates how to translate high-level planning into concrete, actionable steps. It explains the connection between Design Thinking and creating a great user experience, and guides the reader in setting effective UX goals for their product or project You’ll learn how to choose the right tools and methodologies at each stage of the product lifecycle. Starting with UX acceptance as a foundation, the book builds on this with practical steps and real-world case studies, helping you develop a comprehensive strategy-from the big picture of product design, development, and commercialization, to leveraging UX for stronger, more successful products.

  • Internet of Things (IoT) - An Engineering Approach

    From Principles to Practice
    • 1st Edition
    • September 24, 2025
    • Xicai Yue
    • English
    Internet of Things (IoT) – An Engineering Approach: From Principles to Practice provides clear engineering practice guides on developing intelligent sensor/actuator nodes and then forming an IoT system, without the confusion of network/communicatio... protocols.IoT will be widely used in smart homes, smart cities, digital health, and digital manufacturers. However, the development of an IoT system can be complicated since it combines technologies in networking and security, wireless communication, broadband cellular networks, sensors and actuators, data acquisition and real-time embedded systems, edge computing with artificial intelligence, and low-power electronics technologies.All engineering practice topics come with examples mostly from the first-hand materials of the author’s research projects, e.g. digital switching, powering indoor IoT sensor nodes by photovoltaic energy harvesting, laser sensors for greenhouse plant, low-power electronics for implantable neural recording for blowfly, zero-power passive sensing, MEMs capacitor for ultrasound imaging/digital speaker, contactless electrode for physiological measurements, EoG based gaze tracking for augmented reality. Therefore, this book can be used for teaching or used as a reference for relevant research.

  • Reliable and Resilient Logistics Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • May 19, 2025
    • Agnieszka Tubis + 1 more
    • English
    Reliable and Resilient Logistic Systems signposts the risks associated with common logistics systems and provides cutting-edge preventive and rapid response strategies to counter them. Today’s dynamically changing market conditions create an unstable and unpredictable environment for enterprises to operate in, which is not catered to by traditional approaches to logistics planning and organization. In response, this ground-breaking book explains how to create resilient logistic networks that can adapt quickly to changes in operational conditions, thus leading to more reliable supply. Adopting a process orientation, the authors consider a range of issues related to continuous improvement and sidestep the organizational boundaries that can stand in the way of process optimization. Their interdisciplinary approach addresses both technical and management aspects of logistics system performance, thus reflecting the complexity of the challenges targeted.

  • Control of Underactuated Mechanical Systems

    Stabilisation and Limit Cycle Generation
    • 1st Edition
    • March 21, 2025
    • Afef Hfaiedh + 1 more
    • English
    Control of Underactuated Mechanical Systems: Stabilization and Limit Cycle Generation clearly explains stabilization and limit cycle generation in underactuated mechanical systems (UMS),addressing control design challenges and demonstrating concepts through real-time experiments.The book begins with advancements in UMS, introducing key concepts such as stabilization and limit cycle generation, supported by literature examples. It then focuses on the inertia wheel inverted pendulum, presenting a detailed discussion. The second part tackles stabilization, offering various control solutions validated through numerical simulations and real-time experiments. The final part addresses stable limit cycle generation, detailing three proposed control solutions and their validation through different case studies.This book is a valuable resource for PhD and Master students, engineers, researchers, and educators. It provides guidance in robotics and automatic control, utilizing a simplified methodology for controlling underactuated mechanical systems.

  • Sampling of Injection Molds

    Structured and Analytical Process
    • 1st Edition
    • January 31, 2025
    • Andreas Schötz + 1 more
    • English
    This is the first book focusing on the subject of injection mold sampling. A standardized, structured, and systematic procedure for sampling injection molds is essential for a successful injection molding process. This work provides everything you need to know, guiding you from the placing of an order for a mold sampling to the transfer to series production. With the complete sequence of the individual sampling steps, lots of background information, notes, practical examples and tips, and a colorful, well-illustrated design, the sampling procedure is conveyed in a reader-friendly way. The main topics covered are the structured procedure of a mold sampling, taking into account energy efficiency, documentation, and communication; a mold sampling analysis; optimum machine setup using strategic procedures and methods on the injection molding machine; process optimization with subsequent investigation of process capability; and a Run@Rate process. This book is ideally suited for practical users working at the injection molding machine as well as serving as a textbook at vocational schools, further education institutions, and universities.

  • Nanocomposite Manufacturing Technologies

    Fundamental Principles, Mechanisms, and Processing
    • 1st Edition
    • January 24, 2025
    • Alokesh Pramanik + 4 more
    • English
    Nanocomposite Manufacturing Technologies provides the latest research in innovative manufacturing methods to produce nanocomposite materials for a range of applications. Nanocomposite material research has advanced rapidly in the past decade, revealing important insights into the nature of fiber or particle reinforcements on a nanoscale, unique properties, and specific new-generation uses. Emerging techniques such as additive manufacturing, friction stir processing, and rapid prototyping are opening a new era for nanocomposite manufacturing, and this comes with certain challenges. This book collates the most important of related research findings into a single volume and presents them alongside the latest advances in manufacturing technology to provide a coherent resource for students, researchers, and industrial R&D staff to navigate this field. Detailed descriptions of nanocomposite manufacturing processes help readers to understand the differences between them and to choose which process or combination of processes will lead to the material that solves a specific design challenge and advances product development.

  • Modeling and Simulation of Dynamical Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • November 27, 2024
    • Payam Zarafshan
    • English
    Modeling and Simulation of Dynamical Systems explores the common methods used in the modeling and simulation of dynamic systems, providing foundational information that is essential for further research. A key feature of this title is its systematic separation and classification of various modeling methods, enabling readers to select their preferred approach after studying the initial chapter and becoming familiar with fundamental definitions. Another unique feature is the use of numerous examples and solved problems throughout the book to support a basic understanding of a system’s behavior.This title is highly recommended for researchers, professionals, and students in mechanical, biosystems, and mechatronic engineering.

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