Industrial Technology category: 2665 books
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)...
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...
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...
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’...
Training and Assessing Non-Technical Skills
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Providing a practical guide to the training and assessment of non-technical skills within high-risk industries, this book will be of direct interest to safety and training professionals working within aviation, healthcare, rail, maritime, and other high-risk industries. Currently, each of these industries...
Biopharmaceutical Processing
Development, Design, and Implementation of Manufacturing Processes
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Biopharmaceutical Processing: Development, Design, and Implementation of Manufacturing Processes covers bioprocessing from cell line development to bulk drug substances. The methods and strategies described are essential learning for every scientist, engineer or manager in the biopharmaceutical and...
by Tim South
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
New EU Physical Agents Directives on Noise and Vibration will be incorporated into UK law by February 2006. Explicit action levels for vibration will be introduced, while the action levels for noise will be drastically cut. In order to comply with these Directives, companies need to assess noise and...
Dynamic Risk Analysis in the Chemical and Petroleum Industry
Evolution and Interaction with Parallel Disciplines in the Perspective of Industrial Application
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
Dynamic Risk Analysis in the Chemical and Petroleum Industry focuses on bridging the gap between research and industry by responding to the following questions:
What are the most relevant developments of risk analysis?
How can these studies help industry in the prevention of major accidents?
Paltrinieri...
Resilience Engineering Perspectives, Volume 2
Preparation and Restoration
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Preparation and Restoration is the second volume of Resilience Engineering Perspectives within the Ashgate Studies in Resilience Engineering series. In four sections, it broadens participation of the field to include policy and organization studies, and articulates aspects of resilience beyond initial...
The ETTO Principle: Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade-Off
Why Things That Go Right Sometimes Go Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Accident investigation and risk assessment have for decades focused on the human factor, particularly 'human error'. Countless books and papers have been written about how to identify, classify, eliminate, prevent and compensate for it. This bias towards the study of performance failures, leads to...
by Anthony Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1997
Devising optimal strategy for maintaining industrial plant can be a difficult task of daunting complexity. This book aims to provide the plant engineer with a comprehensive and systematic approach, a framework of guidelines, for tackling this problem, i.e. for deciding maintenance objectives, formulating...