Product Description: Effectively managing valves as an asset can have a significant impact both for the water utility and the customer. This revised manual covers valve selection and installation as well as the importance of location, condition, and frequency of operation...read more

Product Description: Maximizing reader insights into project management and handling complexity-driven risks, this book explores propagation effects, non-linear consequences, loops, and the emergence of positive properties that may occur over the course of a project...read more

Product Description: Manual de máquinas y equipos frigoríficos EQUIPOS Y MATERIALES Compresores Evaporadores Condensadores Dispositivos de seguridad Torres de refrigeración Elementos auxiliares Materiales Lubricantes Refrigerantes Mantenimiento y reparación de los equipos Glosario de términos Autoevaluació...read more

Product Description: Das Buch richtet sich an Dienstleistungsmanager und -planer und beinhaltet einKompendium von Modellen, Methoden und Werkzeugen zur Messung, Bewertung undSteuerung der Produktivität von wissensintensiven Dienstleistungen. Neben einermodellbasierten, ganzheitlichen Betrachtung der Produktivität von Dienstleistungenwerden die in empirischen Studien identifizierten Stellgrößen vorgestellt und derenWechselwirkungen in einem System-Dynamics-Modell veranschaulicht...read more

Product Description: This handbook compiles state-of-the-art empirical studies and applications using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). It includes a collection of 18 chapters written by DEA experts. Chapter 1 examines the performance of CEOs of U.S. banks and thrifts...read more

This handbook provides vital information on the effective design and use of systems requiring interaction between humans, machines, and the environment. Six broad areas of study are covered including intrapersonal relationships on the job, the application of ``analytical capability'', the scope and limitation of each methodology, the applications of present methodologies to specific work situations, and the manufacturing and service industries.

Product Description: Dust Explosions in the Process Industries: Identification, Assessment, Prevention and Mitigation, Fourth Edition, offers an up-to-date evaluation of prevalent activities, testing methods, design measures, and safe operating techniques...read more

Product Description: Performance management is at the top of agendas in most government and public organizations, as well as many not-for-profit organizations. In this follow up to his successful book, Strategic Performance Management, the author focuses on the unique challenges public sector organizations face when tackling the issues of strategic performance management...read more

Product Description: Giving you insight into real-world practice, INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS provides an introduction to the industry and basic understanding of the subjects needed for starting a career in industrial robotics. It begins with a background on the history and development of industrial automation, then moves into robot mechanical unit configurations, controller architecture, and general software structure...read more

Product Description: In the same way as the 4Ps of marketing are a fundamental principle of business theory, this book puts forward the 10Ps of Risk Management as a consistent and comprehensive approach to the subject. The 10Ps of Risk Management offers a holistic approach, bringing together all elements of risk management for managers, safety and environmental consultants, business advisers and students on occupational health and safety and environmental studies courses...read more

Product Description: Are projects a problem for you? Do your projects cost too much, take too long, or are just not quite right? If so, Project Management Simplified: A Step-by-Step Process is the book for you. It applies well-defined processes for managing projects to managing change in our lives...read more

Product Description: Dieses essential stellt das Selektive Lasersintern als Verfahren der additiven Fertigung im Kontext anderer 3D-Druck-Prozesse vor. Manfred Schmid erläutert verschiedene Technologien, die zu den additiven Verfahren gezählt werden, und gibt einen Einblick in die Prozessprinzipien und Werkstoffe...read more

Product Description: The pace of life in our high technology world has quickened. Industries that do not become more efficient, often by requiring a faster production turnaround with less slack, are superseded. Because of this, workers face an environment in which they must perform under more time pressure and under greater task load, in which stress is more prevalent, and in which consequences of poor performance are more critical than ever before...read more

e-Design is the first book to integrate discussion of computer design tools throughout the design process. Through this book, the reader will understand... Basic design principles and all-digital design paradigms.CAD/CAE/CAM tools available for various design related tasks.How to put an integrated system together to conduct All-Digital Design (ADD).Industrial practices in employing ADD and tools for product development. Provides a comprehensive and thorough coverage on essential elements for practicing all-digital design (ADD)Covers CAD/CAE methods throughout the design process, including solid modelling, performance simulation, reliability, manufacturing, cost estimates and rapid prototyping Discusses CAD/CAE/CAM/RP/CNC tools and data integration for support of the all-digital design processReviews off-the-shelf tools for support of modelling, simulations, manufacturing, and product data management Provides tutorial type projects using ProENGINEER and SolidWorks for readers to exercise design examples and gain hands-on experienceA series of running examples throughout the book illustrate the practical use of the ADD paradigm and tools

Product Description: This second volume moves beyond a general introduction to product lifecycle management (PLM) and its principal elements to provide a more in-depth analysis of the subjects introduced in Volume 1 (21st Century Paradigm for Product Realisation)...read more

Product Description: The digital economy is now expanding rapidly, and is starting to overturn the past achievements of the Industrial Revolution. Initially engaging in the world of services, it is now turning to the manufacture of objects. Just as microcomputing evolved from large scale computing to more personal use, and as the Internet left behind the world of armies and universities to become universal, industrial production is gradually becoming directly controlled by individuals...read more