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Medical Device Design
Innovation from Concept to Market
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
This book provides the bridge between engineering design and medical device development. There is no single text that addresses the plethora of design issues a medical devices designer meets when developing new products or improving older ones. It addresses medical devices' regulatory (FDA and EU)...
Computerized Maintenance Management Systems Made Easy
How to Evaluate, Select, and Manage CMMS
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Computerized Maintenance Management Systems Software programs are increasingly being used to manage and control plant and equipment maintenance in modern manufacturing and service industries. However, 60% to 80% of all programs fail because of poor planning, costing millions of dollars. Written by...
by Oz Shy
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2001
This book introduces upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers to the latest developments in network economics, one of the fastest-growing fields in all industrial organization. Network industries include the Internet, e-mail, telephony, computer hardware and software, music and...
by Heinz P. Bloch, Fred K. Geitner
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Practical techniques for optimizing compressor performance
Written by experts with more than 100 combined years of industry experience in machinery failure avoidance, Compressors: How to Achieve High Reliability & Availability offers proven solutions to a pervasive and expensive problem in modern...
Lean Implementation
Applications and Hidden Costs
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
This book will address key organizational issues that must be considered and addressed when implementing Lean business practices. The book offers solutions for many of the challenges, provides a resource that leaders can use in addressing cultural and regulatory issues, provides means to address the...
Materials and Design
The Art and Science of Material Selection in Product Design
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
Materials are the stuff of design. From the very beginning of human history, materials have been taken from the natural world and shaped, modified, and adapted for everything from primitive tools to modern electronics. This renowned book by noted materials engineering author Mike Ashby and Industrial...
Materials and Design
The Art and Science of Material Selection in Product Design
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Materials are the stuff of design. From the very beginning of human history, materials have been taken from the natural world and shaped, modified, and adapted for everything from primitive tools to modern electronics. This renowned book by noted materials engineering author Mike Ashby and industrial...
Safety Culture and High-Risk Environments
A Leadership Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book provides leaders in high risk industries a better understanding of how their values and behaviors can influence the organization's safety culture and improve its capacity to bounce back from failure. Examples are illustrated through case studies and practical tools are provided to evaluate...
The Pillars of the Italian Economy
Manufacturing, Food & Wine, Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
This book offers a detailed analysis of the key sectors in the Italian economy, with the focus especially on areas in which the economy excels, such as the automatic packaging machinery sector, pharmaceutical production, the food and wine industry, and tourism. The book explains how, contrary to widespread...
Power in Coalition
Strategies for Strong Unions and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The labor movement sees coalitions as a key tool for union revitalization and social change, but there is little analysis of what makes them successful or the factors that make them fail. Amanda Tattersall—an organizer and labor scholar—addresses this gap in the first internationally comparative...
Control System Design Guide
Using Your Computer to Understand and Diagnose Feedback Controllers
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2004
Control System Design Guide, 3E will help engineers to apply control theory to practical systems using their PC. This book provides an intuitive approach to controls, avoiding unnecessary mathematics and emphasizing key concepts with more than a dozen control system models. Whether readers are just...
by John Graf
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Chicago is known throughout the world for its architecture. Although many people are familiar with the city�s skyscrapers and public buildings, they often overlook or are unaware of Chicago�s mansions that are located throughout the city. These mansions represent Chicago�s past and its future,...
by Albert D. Wittman
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Buildings, bridges, and much more�these are the treasures in or near Minneapolis parks that are rarely given attention. This book diverts the reader from the traditional park elements of lakes, woods, streams, and playfields and focuses instead on the rich architectural components they offer. Buildings...
Pre-Accident Investigations
An Introduction to Organizational Safety
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Time-pressed, professionals looking for practical guidance to shape their current or future safety programs should use this book. Pre-Accident Investigations: An Introduction to Organizational Safety helps to identify complex potential incidents before they take place. Based around the ’New View’...