Container terminals are constantly being challenged to adjust their throughput capacity to match fluctuating demand. Examining the optimization problems encountered in today's container terminals, Vehicle Scheduling in Port Automation: Advanced Algorithms for Minimum Cost Flow P…
Do you remember the first time you drove a car? To prepare for this you probably read the drivers manual, watched movies, practiced in your driveway, and endlessly discussed the impending event with your friends. The result - you knew a lot about the theory of driving, you just …
"Manufacturing deals with the transformation of materials into marketable products. A number of individual processes unique to the product being manufactured are generally grouped into systems which accomplish specific manufacturing operations. Systems that respond to temperatur…
Advanced Manufacturing for Optical Fibers and Integrated Photonic Devices explores the theoretical principles and industrial practices of high-technology manufacturing. Focusing on fiber optic, semiconductor, and laser products, this book: Explains the fundamentals of standard, …
CONTROL, INSTRUMENTATION, AND DESIGNIntroductionControl EngineeringControl System ArchitecturesOrganization of the BookProblemsCOMPONENT INTERCONNECTION AND SIGNAL CONDITIONINGComponent InterconnectionImpedance CharacteristicsAmplifiersAnalog FiltersModulators and DemodulatorsAn…
This research monograph aims at presenting an integrated assessment approach to describe, model, evaluate and improve the eco-efficiency of existing and new grinding processes and systems. Various combinations of grinding process parameters and system configurations can be evalu…
Presents Polymer-based fibre reinforced composite materials and addresses the characteristics like low density and coefficient of thermal expansion, specific strength with better fatigue resistance and modulus. The authors attend to the application problematic given that the str…
"Scheduling is a broad research area and scheduling problems arise from several application domains (production systems, logistic, computer science, etc.). Solving scheduling problems requires tools of combinatorial optimization, exact or approximated algorithms. Flexibility is …
Examining recent innovations in manufacturing technologies techniques and philosophies and how these affect work design research and practice, 'Job and Work Design' looks at wider trends and describes possible implications for the whole organization.
The tools and techniques used in Design of Experiments (DoE) have been proven successful in meeting the challenge of continuous improvement in many manufacturing organisations over the last two decades. However research has shown that application of this powerful technique in ma…
This book looks at a selection of important business management techniques from a variety of countries and types of businesses. It discusses interorganizational information systems development, organizational performance management, activity-based cost systems, financial decisio…
"Preface This book is designed to walk companies through the implementation of lean manufacturing within their companies. We start with the fundamentals and build upon them to teach all the tools and processes needed to implement lean manufacturing and the Toyota Production Syst…
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Presenting case studies on QRM implementation, this book illustrates how QRM can not only reduce lead time but also improve quality, reduce operating costs, and enable companies to gain substantial market share. It explains how factories in advanced nations can use QRM strategy …
