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Sustainability enables the development of products with minimal environmental impact coupled with economical and societal benefits. This book provides an understanding of theoretical and practical perspectives pertaining to sustainable manufacturing. The book offers theoretical concepts and practical descriptions of sustainable manufacturing. It provides insights from research and practical applications, as well as industrial case studies, and several illustrations and examples. The book goes on to discuss design strategies that support sustainable manufacturing and includes ISO 14001 and PAS 2050 standards. The book addresses the needs of undergraduate and postgraduate engineering students, academic researchers and industry practitioners.

Industry 4.0 promises tremendous opportunities for industries to go green by leveraging virtual physical systems and internet-driven technologies for a competitive advantage and setting the platform for the factory of the future and smart manufacturing. The book provides measures that can be adopted by practising design engineers to develop products that will be sustainable in all stages of their life-cycles. It helps organisations in the implementation of sustainable manufacturing practices and the formulation of critical strategies in their transition towards Industry 4.0., and the book will provide insights into ways of deploying these practices in correlation with the environmental benefits mapped to support the practising managers and stakeholders. Features Assists in the understanding of the shifting paradigm in the manufacturing sector towards smart and sustainable practices Showcases contemporary technologies and their increased use in existing industries Focuses on the need, applications and implementation frameworks for Industry 4.0 Encapsulates all that one has to learn about sustainability and its transformation in Industry 4.0 Real-time case studies are presented

Modern Fisheries Engineering: Realizing a Healthy and Sustainable Marine Ecosystem is a compendium of the latest and most cutting-edge information on the diversity of technical aspects associated with Fisheries Engineering. Expanding on presentations given at the International Conference on Fisheries Engineering (ICFE) held in Nagasaki in 2019, it aims to encourage and inspire future generations of young researchers in the field. Topics include artificial reefs, ocean ranching, fishing gear developments, modern monitoring technologies, and other subjects related to the latest practices for conducting efficient, sustainable fishing. This volume brings together world authorities to address a critically important topic, with a fresh and modern approach that includes the latest development in environmental and fisheries science.

Industry 4.0 - Challenges in Management and Engineering, and consequently the way how to manage competitive organizations between academics/researchers, managers and engineers. It also looks to, share knowledge and insights about Industry 4.0 on an international and transnational scale, keep at the forefront of innovative theories, models, processes and strategies, as well as the most recent research activities relating to industry 4.0. Industry 4.0 - Challenges in Management and Engineering is evident for many types of organizations, namely, important institutes and universities all over the world.

This book is an essential supplement for MOST (Maynard Operation Sequence Technique) certification training. An excellent resource for practicing professionals and newcomers in the fields of industrial engineering and management, it provides a detailed explanation of each of the three MOST Systems. This edition is updated with relevant examples using today's technology to develop engineered standards. Content includes refreshed charts and guidelines to selecting a MOST System and completing a MOST analysis based on the application rules for BasicMOST, MiniMOST and MaxiMOST. A new informative chapter highlights the use of standards to improve workforce performance and increase productivity. A must for MOST certification for engineers, productivity improvement specialists, staffing and costing professionals. Certification training can be completed online and worldwide through authorized partners.

Machining is one of the eight basic manufacturing processes. This textbook covers the fundamentals and engineering analysis of both conventional and advanced/non-traditional material removal processes along with gear cutting/manufacturing and computer numerically controlled (CNC) machining. The text provides a holistic understanding of machining processes and machines in manufacturing; it enables critical thinking through mathematical modeling and problem solving and offers 200 worked examples/calculations and 70 multiple choice questions on machining operations as well as on CNC machining, with the eBook version offered in color. This unique book is equally useful to both engineering-degree students and production engineers practicing in manufacturing industry.

This book provides a key understanding of CATIA which is a solid modeling software. By using screen shots of step-by-step training, the reader will obtain comprehensive knowledge of all tools provided in CATIA for use in a variety of engineering fields. The book introduces CATIA basics, covers part design, discusses sheet metal design, talks about assembly, presents drawings and shows modeling an engineered component. The primary aim of this book is to assist in learning the use of CATIA software through examples taken from various areas of engineering. The content and treatment of the subject matter is most appropriate for university students studying engineering and practicing engineers who wish to learn the use of CATIA.

Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) came to existence as an approach for solving complex learning, planning, and decision-making problems. When we talk about decision making, there may be some metaheuristic methods in which problem solving may resemble operation research, but it is not exactly related to management research. The text examines representing and using organizational knowledge in DAI systems, dynamics of computational ecosystems, and communication-free interactions among rational agents. This book looks at conflict-resolution strategies for nonhierarchical distributed agents, constraint-directed negotiation of resource allocations, and plans for multiple agents. Topics include plan verification, generation and execution, negotiation operators, representation, network management problem, and conflict-resolution paradigms. The book also discusses negotiating task decomposition and allocation using partial global planning and mechanisms for assessing nonlocal impact of local decisions in distributed planning. This book will attract researchers and practitioners who are working in management and computer science as well as people looking for a book that explains basic and advanced concepts.

This book is for those interested in number systems, abstract algebra, and analysis. It provides an understanding of negative and fractional numbers with theoretical background and explains rationale of irrational and complex numbers in an easy to understand format.