Industrial category: 6894 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Most aviation accidents are attributed to human error, pilot error especially. Human error also greatly effects productivity and profitability. In his overview of this collection of papers, the editor points out that these facts are often misinterpreted as evidence of deficiency on the part of operators...
New Tools, Old Tasks
Safety Implications of New Technologies and Work Processes for Integrated Operations in the Petroleum Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
New Tools, Old Tasks explores how Integrated Operations (IO) will influence the safety of offshore drilling operations. The book is based on several years of practical experience combined with a research study on the safety of IO within the drilling domain. The overall objective of the book is to...
by BettyA. Foden
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Household Chemicals and Emergency First Aid is an essential manual that covers 386 household chemicals, discusses their hazards when mixed with other chemicals, describes the symptoms of overexposure, and provides instructions for emergency first aid treatment. The book is intended to be used in the...
Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics
Volume 4: Job Design, Product Design and Human-computer Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book is the fourth in the series and describes some of the most recent advances and examines emerging problems in engineering psychology and cognitive ergonomics. It bridges the gap between the academic theoreticians, who are developing models of human performance, and practitioners in the industrial...
Union Power
The United Electrical Workers in Erie, Pennsylvania
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
If you're lucky enough to be employed today in the United States, there's about a one-in-ten chance that you're in a labor union. And even if you’re part of that unionized 10 percent, chances are your union doesn't carry much economic or political clout. But this was not always the case, as historian...
The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System
A Worker-based Model for Community Investment
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System: A Worker-based Model for Community Investment articulates a new model for economic security based upon steelworkers’ pension provisions and labor politics after World War II. Labor’s collective bargaining agreements created interdependent commitments...
by Alexander B. Morgan, Charles A. Wilkie
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Due to the emphasis on replacing halogenated flame retardants with alternate technologies, this handbook contains in one place all of the current commercial non-halogenated flame retardant technologies, as well as experimental systems near commercialization.
This book focuses on non-halogenated...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Silicone is an important class of materials used in applications that range from industrial assembly to everyday consumer products. Silicones are often delivered and synthesized in dispersion forms, the most common being liquid-in-liquid (emulsion), solid-in-liquid (suspension), air-in-liquid (foam)...
by Michael Sagar-Fenton
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
From the granting of borough status in 1614 through to its development as an industrial port and then as a fashionable seaside resort, the west Cornwall town of Penzance has a proud and distinctive history. This is embodied in the many fine buildings that have survived to illustrate its fascinating...
Human and Nature Minding Automation
An Overview of Concepts, Methods, Tools and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
Man is the best thing in the World. Nature does nothing uselessly. Aristotle There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more. John Burroughs The...
Advances in Mechanical Design
Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Mechanical Design (ICMD2017)
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Focusing on innovation, these proceedings present recent advances in the field of mechanical design in China and offer researchers, scholars and scientists an international platform to present their research findings and exchange their ideas. In the context of the “Made in China 2025” development...
Integrated Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems and Smart Value Chain
Sustainable Infrastructure for the Factory of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
The book develops manufacturing concepts and applications beyond physical production and towards a wider manufacturing value chain incorporating external stakeholders that include suppliers of raw materials and parts, customers, collaborating manufacturing companies, manufacturing service providers,...
by Rajagopalan Srinivasan, Iftekhar A Karimi
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
While the PSE community continues its focus on understanding, synthesizing, modeling, designing, simulating, analyzing, diagnosing, operating, controlling, managing, and optimizing a host of chemical and related industries using the systems approach, the boundaries of PSE research have expanded considerably...
Supply Chain Configuration
Concepts, Solutions, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
This book discusses the models and tools available for solving configuration problems, emphasizes the value of model integration to obtain comprehensive and robust configuration decisions, proposes solutions for supply chain configuration in the presence of stochastic and dynamic factors, and illustrates...