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Comprehensive, detailed, and organized for speedyreference--everything you need to know about modern manufacturingtechnology. From concurrent engineering to fixture design formachining systems, from robotics and artificial intelligence tofacility layout planning and automated CAD-based inspection, thishandbook provides all the information you need to design, plan, andimplement a modern, efficient manufacturing system tailored to yourcompany's special needs and requirements. Handbook of Design,Manufacturing and Automation does more than simply present thecharacteristics and specifications of each technology--much more.Each technology is discussed both in terms of its own capabilitiesand in terms of its compatibility with other technologies, and thetrade-offs involved in choosing one option over another areexplored at length. An entire section is devoted to the businessaspects of converting to the new technologies, includingacquisition of automation, managing advanced manufacturingtechnology, and issues of cost and financing. The focus is onincorporating these technologies into a cohesive whole--anefficient, cost-effective manufacturing system. Other importanttopics include: * Design for automated manufacturing * Nontraditional manufacturing processes * Machine tool programming techniques and trends * Precision engineering and micromanufacturing * Computer-integrated product planning and control * Image processing for manufacturing * And much more

Product Description: Despite the large volume of publications devoted to neural networks, fuzzy logic, and evolutionary programming, few address the applications of computational intelligence in design and manufacturing. Computational Intelligence in Manufacturing Handbook fills this void as it covers the most recent advances in this area and state-of-the-art applications...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Take the next step in Integrated Product and Process Development This pioneering book is the first to apply state-of-the-art computational intelligence techniques to all phases of manufacturing system design and operations. It equips engineers with a superior array of new tools for optimizing their work in Integrated Product and Process Development...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Written by a world class expert in design engineering, this book introduces the reader to models, frameworks, methodologies, and algorithms that have been applied with great success in industry. These approaches have significantly reduced product development cycle time and improved product and process quality and reliability...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Designing Innovations in Industrial Logistics Modelling describes practical methods for approaching the task of designing industrial logistics systems. It surveys the development of logistics models and their application in manufacturing to designing, planning, and implementing the movement of supplies, equipment, and products...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Increasing global competition in a product-oriented industry has required manufacturing enterprises to continuously improve product quality, functionality and features, as well as implementing a reduction in product cost and time to market...read more

Product Description: Presents a top-down approach to the design, development, testing and recyclability of products, components and systems across a wide range of industries. Starting with the desired result and working back through the details, it shows how to produce goods, taking into account the challenges of actual manufacture, what the reliability requirements should be, quality control, associated costs, customer needs and more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Fifteen papers represent recent advances by workers in America, Europe and Japan. They cover: symbolic reasoning techniques, knowledge representation schemes, application of machine learning, techniques, off-line configuration design and process planning and control, scheduling, storage and retrie...read more