Plastics End Use Applications is a SpringerBrief designed to keep professionals in the plastics industry abreast of key technical developments, business strategies and marketing initiatives in plastics and competitive materials that impact sales and usage. It is concisely focuse…
by Stépán, Gábor, IUTAM Symposium on Dynamics Modeling and Interaction Control in Virtual and Real Environments, Budapest, Hungary), Kovács, László L., Tóth, András
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As the main theme of Improving Complex Systems Today implies, this book is intended to provide readers with a new perspective on concurrent engineering from the standpoint of systems engineering. It can serve as a versatile tool to help readers to navigate the ever-changing stat…
Non-renewable materials can no longer be disposed once humankind's ever increasing needs cannot be fulfilled anymore due to limited resources. Reuse and recycling become inevitable requirements for product and process design. Renewable resources must not be consumed in quantitie…
Beginning in the late Middle Ages, and accelerating in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, there developed in many rural regions of Europe a domestic industry, mass-producing craft goods for distant markets. This book presents an analysis of this 'industrialization before i…
The assembly line—developed at the Ford Motor Company in 1913 for the mass production of Model Ts—first created and then served an expanding mass market. It transformed industrial labor and provoked strikes and union drives. During World War II and the Cold War, it was often see…
Rapid One-of-a-kind Product Development discusses research in the development of new enabling technologies for small and medium companies. Scientific advancements presented include a novel product data modelling scheme to model product design, manufacturability and knowledge und…
This current volume (Vol. 4) on ''Assembly'' addresses a central part in production engineering, namely the organizations in the manufacturing industry in which the product is finished or ''the gateway to the customer''. During assembly all the mistakes being made up…
When and how did Japanese industrialization begin? Why did industrialization begin much earlier in Japan than in other non-Western nations? What does the Japanese case add to our understanding of modern economic growth generally? This book address these questions by focusing sha…
by International Academy for Production Engineering, CIRP International Seminar on Manufacturing Systems, Tokyo, Japan), Mitsuishi, Mamoru, Ueda, Kanji, Kimura, F., (Fumihiko)
Manufacturing systems and technology stand on a new frontier, facing up to the challenges posed by the ever-evolving requirements of global sustainability. Value-creation is taking its place alongside more traditional production-process priorities. Collected here are over a hund…
"Food is difficult to handle in long supply chains because it has limited storage and handling time and spoils easily with incorrect handling, leading to logistical problems which severely affect product quality and freshness. Simultaneously, the end consumer expects to purchase…
