Quality Control category: 855 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
This comprehensive monograph addresses crucial issues in the protection of railway systems, with the objective of enhancing the understanding of railway infrastructure security. Based on analyses by academics, technology providers and railway operators, it explains how to assess terrorist and criminal...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
A vital tool for researchers, engineers, and students, New Sensors and Processing Chain focuses on the processing chain to set up in order to extract relevant information on various systems. Highlighting the design of new microsensors and various applications, the authors present recent progress in...
How Safe is Safe Enough?
Technological Risks, Real and Perceived
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Every time an airplane crashes, a gas line explodes, a bridge collapses, or a contaminant escapes the public questions whether the benefits that technology brings are worth its risks. Written in laymen’s language, How Safe Is Safe Enough? explores the realities of the risks that technology presents...
by Yulin Wu, Shengcai Li, Shuhong Liu
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Vibration of Hydraulic Machinery deals with the vibration problem which has significant influence on the safety and reliable operation of hydraulic machinery. It provides new achievements and the latest developments in these areas, even in the basic areas of this subject.
The present book covers the...
by S. P. Venkateshan
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The first edition of this book was co-published by Ane Books India, and CRC Press in 2008. This second edition is an enlarged version of the web course developed by the author at IIT Madras, and also a modified and augmented version of the earlier book. Major additions/modifications presented are...
Synthetic Biology
the technoscience and its societal consequences
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
Synthetic biology is becoming one of the most dynamic new fields of biology, with the potential to revolutionize the way we do biotechnology today. By applying the toolbox of engineering disciplines to biology, a whole set of potential applications become possible ranging very widely across scientific...
A History of Occupational Health and Safety
From 1905 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The United States has a long and unfortunate history of exposing employees, the public, and the environment to dangerous work. But in April 2009, the spotlight was on Las Vegas when the Pulitzer committee awarded its public service prize to the Las Vegas Sun for its coverage of the high fatalities...
Kaizen Teian 2
Guiding Continuous Improvement Through Employee Suggestions
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
More than a guide to establishing a proposal system, this volume presents methods for teaching know-how. It gives each reader the principles for thinking creatively about improving his or her own work.This highly practical book is filled with easily understood explanations and examples of how to teach...
Building Organizational Fitness
Management Methodology for Transformation and Strategic Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Undoubtedly, the most urgent task for companies today is to take a hard look at the future. To remain competitive, management must nurture a strong capability for self development and a strong corporate culture, both of which form part of the foundation for improvement. But simply understanding management...
Strategic Excellence in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Industries
How AEC Firms Can Develop and Execute Strategy Using Lean Six Sigma
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Strategic Excellence in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Industries is a process of applied strategic thinking designed to develop a strategy empowered with the agility to adapt to changing circumstances and to drive a high performing culture of ideal behaviors. It is infused with the...
The Lean IT Field Guide
A Roadmap for Your Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
How many IT books have you read that are long on theory and short on practical application? They are interesting, but not very impactful. They provide a framework from which to think and understand, but lack a process from which to act. Addressing this urgent need for the IT community, The Lean IT...
Remaining Issues in the Decommissioning of Nuclear Powered Vessels
Including Issues Related to the Environmental Remediation of the Supporting Infrastructure
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Russian NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Scientific Problems and Unresolved Issues Remaining in the Decommissioning of Nuclear Powered Vessels and in the Environmental Remediation ofTheir Supporting Infrastructure," was held in Moscow, Russia at the Presidium of the Russian Academy...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This book presents original studies describing the latest research and developments in the area of reliability and systems engineering. It helps the reader identifying gaps in the current knowledge and presents fruitful areas for further research in the field. Among others, this book covers reliability...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
The goal of this book is to publish the latest mathematical techniques, research, and developments in engineering. This book includes a comprehensive range of mathematics applied in engineering areas for different tasks. Various mathematical tools, techniques, strategies, and methods in engineering...