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Books in Industrial engineering

Developments in Reliability Engineering

  • 1st Edition
  • August 9, 2024
  • Mangey Ram
  • English
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Modern systems have become increasingly complex to design and build, while the demand for reliability and cost-effective enhancement continues. Robust international competition has further intensified the need for all designers, managers, practitioners, scientists, and engineers to ensure a level of reliability of their products and processes before release at the lowest cost.Developments in Reliability Engineering equips its audience with the necessary information to keep up with the latest original research and state-of-the-art advances in reliability engineering. The volume offers an excursus from historical theories and methods to the present-world practical utility of these concepts with worked-out examples.

Smart Materials in Additive Manufacturing, Volume 3

  • 1st Edition
  • July 25, 2024
  • Ali Zolfagharian + 1 more
  • English
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Smart Materials in Additive Manufacturing, Volume Three: 4D-Printed Robotic Materials, Sensors, and Actuators covers the principles, real-world use, and advances in the cutting-edge field of 4D printed smart robotic materials. It discusses the mechanics of these materials, techniques by which to manufacture them, and different applications. Detailed modeling and control techniques are outlined, illustrating their use in real-world settings. Shape memory polymers, hydrogels, shape memory alloys, biomaterials, natural fibers, dielectric elastomers, liquid crystal elastomers, electroactive polymers, and more materials are covered, featuring in-depth discussion of their responses to stimuli, fabrication, multi-physics modeling, control techniques, and applications.

Artificial Intelligence in Production Engineering and Management

  • 1st Edition
  • July 2, 2024
  • Carolina Machado + 1 more
  • English
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Artificial intelligence (AI) plays a crucial role in production engineering and management, revolutionizing operation optimization, data analysis, forecasting, and task automation. In production engineering, AI contributes to operational efficiency by identifying patterns, predicting failures, and optimizing supply chains. In management, it offers predictive and prescriptive insights, allowing quick adaptations to changes in market conditions. However, it is essential to address ethical challenges, such as data security and workforce impacts, to ensure responsible and sustainable implementation of AI in these contexts.Among the different topics covered in Artificial Intelligence in Production Engineering and Management, the reader can find: living in the age of AI; machine learning and large language models; AI and people management; nudging financial behavior with AI; the European Union narrative on AI; multidimensional transhuman influence; and AI, emotional intelligence, and ethics. This topical book will be of great value for those working and researching in the production engineering and management fields who are seeking to understand and capitalize on the revolutionary shift that artificial intelligence brings to modern engineering and management.

Manufacturing from Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0

  • 1st Edition
  • June 26, 2024
  • Dimitris Mourtzis
  • English
  • Paperback
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Manufacturing from Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0: Advances and Applications unfolds establishing three main pillars: (i) it investigates the theoretical background of the current industrial practice within the framework of industry 4.0 by presenting its key definitions and backbone technologies; (ii) it discusses the methods and state-of-the-art developments employed in the ongoing digital transformation of companies worldwide to promote more resilient, sustainable, and human-centric smart manufacturing and production networks; and (iii) it outlines a strategic plan for the transition from industry 4.0 to industry 5.0.Written by an international group of expert scientists, this volume offers an overview of the most recent research in the field and provides actionable insights to benefit audiences in both academia and industry.

Circular Economy and Manufacturing

  • 1st Edition
  • June 19, 2024
  • Carolina Machado + 1 more
  • English
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Circular economy can serve as a key building block for the sustainability targets of manufacturing companies. Although the term itself has long been established, we see that proper implementation of a circular economy model across entire manufacturing value chains is still lacking and remains a challenge. However, there are clearly visible and good examples of circular economy standards which have already been applied and are generating value among multiple layers. Circular Economy and Manufacturing presents these and more, providing a roadmap of optimized, flexible, efficient, effective, and competitive green production strategies for the manufacturing industry and its multiple stakeholders.The volume proves to be an excellent springboard for further discussion and research into new frameworks of best practices in view of achieving more socially responsible and sustainable organizations in a not-so-distant future.

Comprehensive Materials Processing

  • 2nd Edition
  • May 24, 2024
  • M.S.J. Hashmi
  • English
  • eBook
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Comprehensive Materials Processing, Second Edition, 13 Volume Set consolidates and enhances the most up-to-date literature of the materials processing and manufacturing universe. The book provides authoritative analysis of all processes, technologies, and techniques for converting industrial materials from a raw state into finished parts or products. Coverage encompasses solidification, powder, deposition, and deformation processing. Additional discussion includes plant and tool design, analysis and characterization of processing techniques, high-temperatures studies, and the influence of process scale on component characteristics and behavior.Building and expanding on the previous edition, it includes recent developments and advances in the field, such as updated processing technologies, costs and characterizations. This new edition will also explore sustainability and environmental impact of materials processing in greater detail. This book will serve as a valuable, one-stop resource to students, academics, and researchers in the fields of engineering and materials science, as well as those in adjacent fields. Industry professionals will also benefit from this comprehensive resource.

Control and Game Theoretic Methods for Cyber-Physical Security

  • 1st Edition
  • May 24, 2024
  • Aris Kanellopoulos + 3 more
  • English
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Control-Theoretic Methods for Cyber-Physical Security presents novel results on security and defense methodologies applied to cyber-physical systems. This book takes a control and game theory perspective, treating autonomous platforms as dynamic systems. It introduces algorithmic frameworks designed to proactively and reactively safeguard these systems against catastrophic failures. The algorithms showcased encompass a wide spectrum of security techniques, from model-free detection mechanisms to unpredictability-based defense strategies, combining both model-based and data-driven approaches.

Proactive Human-Robot Collaboration Toward Human-Centric Smart Manufacturing

  • 1st Edition
  • May 15, 2024
  • Shufei Li + 2 more
  • English
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Proactive Human–Robot Collaboration Toward Human-Centric Smart Manufacturing is driven by an appreciation of manufacturing scenarios where human and robotic agents can understand each other’s actions and conduct mutual-cognitive, predictable, and self-organizing teamwork. Modern factories’ smart manufacturing transformation and the evolution of relationships between humans and robots in manufacturing tasks set the scene for a discussion on the technical fundamentals of state-of-the-art proactive human–robot collaboration; these are further elaborated into the three main steps (i.e., mutual-cognitive and empathic coworking; predictable spatio-temporal collaboration; self-organizing multiagent teamwork) to achieve an advanced form of symbiotic HRC with high-level, dynamic-reasoning teamwork skills. The authors then present a deployment roadmap and several case studies, providing step-by-step guidance for real-world application of these ground-breaking methods which crucially contribute to the maturing of human-centric, sustainable, and resilient production systems. The volume proves to be an invaluable resource that supports understanding and learning for users ranging from upper undergraduate/graduate students and academic researchers to engineering professionals in a variety of industry contexts.

Advances in Plasma Treatment of Textile Surfaces

  • 1st Edition
  • January 24, 2024
  • Shahid Ul Islam + 1 more
  • English
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Advances in Plasma Treatment of Textile Surfaces offers a detailed overview on the use of plasma in natural and synthetic textiles and explores applications in technical textiles, including composites, ballistic performance, functionalization, and textile wastewater treatment. This promising technology can alter the surface properties of textiles without having a significant effect on their bulk properties, leading to potential improvements to the scouring, de-sizing, dyeing, finishing, printing, and laminating processes among others. Drawing on an international team of contributors from industry as well as academia, this important book brings these innovative sustainable plasma treatments to textile and polymer scientists working in textile functionalization.

Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing

  • 1st Edition
  • January 22, 2024
  • Masoud Soroush + 1 more
  • English
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Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing: Concepts and Methods explains the most successful emerging techniques for applying AI to engineering problems. Artificial intelligence is increasingly being applied to all engineering disciplines, producing more insights into how we understand the world and allowing us to create products in new ways. This book unlocks the advantages of this technology for manufacturing by drawing on work by leading researchers who have successfully developed methods that can apply to a range of engineering applications. The book addresses educational challenges needed for widespread implementation of AI and also provides detailed technical instructions for the implementation of AI methods. Drawing on research in computer science, physics and a range of engineering disciplines, this book tackles the interdisciplinary challenges of the subject to introduce new thinking to important manufacturing problems.