Industrial Technology category: 2665 books
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...
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,...
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...
Fitting the Human
Introduction to Ergonomics / Human Factors Engineering, Seventh Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
This new edition undergraduate introductory textbook follows the motto of the previous versions: "Solid information, easy-to-read, easy to understand, easy to apply." The aim remains the same: "Human engineering" workplaces, tools, machinery, computers, lighting, shiftwork, work...
by Robert Bridger
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Building on the success of previous editions, the 4th edition of ‘Introduction to Human Factors and Ergonomics’ provides a comprehensive and up to date introduction to the field. The new edition places the subject matter into a system context using a human-machine model to structure the chapters...
Distributed Situation Awareness
Theory, Measurement and Application to Teamwork
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Having an accurate understanding of what is going on is a key commodity for teams working within military systems. 'Situation awareness' (SA) is the term that is used within human factors circles to describe the level of awareness that operators have of the situation that they are engaged in; it focuses...
Modelling Command and Control
Event Analysis of Systemic Teamwork
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Since its inception, just after the Second World War, Human Factors research has paid special attention to the issues surrounding human control of systems. Command and control environments continue to represent a challenging domain for human factors research. Modelling Command and Control takes a...
by Stian Antonsen
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The aim of this book is to show how a cultural approach can contribute to the assessment, description and improvement of safety conditions in organizations. The relationship between organizational culture and safety, epitomized through the concept of 'safety culture', has undoubtedly become one of...
Risky Work Environments
Reappraising Human Work Within Fallible Systems
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Risky Work Environments provides new insights into the multiple and dynamic trajectories of both near misses and mistakes in complex work environments, based on actual case examples. It also studies the interactions between various activity systems or work practices (design, maintenance, incident...
by Daniel P. Jenkins, Neville A. Stanton, Guy H. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
'Complex sociotechnical systems' are systems made up of numerous interacting parts, both human and non-human, operating in dynamic, ambiguous and safety critical domains. Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) is a structured framework specifically developed for considering the development and analysis of...
Just Culture
Restoring Trust and Accountability in Your Organization, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
A just culture is a culture of trust, learning and accountability. It is particularly important when an incident has occurred; when something has gone wrong. How do you respond to the people involved? What do you do to minimize the negative impact, and maximize learning? This third edition of Sidney...