Industrial category: 6894 books
Individual and Team Skill Decay
The Science and Implications for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Skill and knowledge retention is a major issue and concern in learning and skill acquisition, especially when trained or acquired skills (or knowledge) are needed after long periods of nonuse. The goal of this book is to summarize and advance the thinking of critical issues related to skill retention...
by S W Field, K G Swift
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Providing an understanding of what is meant by quality and its unique position in a manufacturing environment to improve competitive business performance, this text defines all the fundamental ingredients required to introduce an improvement in quality. Concise and easy to read, the theory is backed...
Design and Modeling of Mechanical Systems—III
Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Design and Modeling of Mechanical Systems, CMSM'2017, March 27–29, Hammamet, Tunisia
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
This book offers a collection of original peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 7th International Congress on Design and Modeling of Mechanical Systems (CMSM’2017), held in Hammamet, Tunisia, from the 27th to the 29th of March 2017. It reports on both research findings, innovative industrial...
Advances in Condition Monitoring of Machinery in Non-Stationary Operations
Proceedings of the third International Conference on Condition Monitoring of Machinery in Non-Stationary Operations CMMNO 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013
This book presents the processing of the third edition of the Condition Monitoring of Machinery in Non-Stationary Operations (CMMNO13), which was held in Ferrara, Italy. This yearly event merges an international community of researchers who met – in 2011 in Wroclaw (Poland) and in 2012 in Hammamet...
Environmental Health and Safety Audits
A Compendium of Thoughts and Trends
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Environmental health and safety (EHS) audit programs have become an established and essential component of corporate governance in most every major organization whose activities could affect public health and the environment. While many of the audit programs in existence are quite mature there continues...
Environmental Health and Safety Audits
A Compendium of Thoughts and Trends
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
EHS auditing has been around since the mid-1970’s when the Securities and Exchange Commission launched enforcement actions against three U.S. Fortune 500 companies that the Commission believed were misleading their shareholders about environmental liabilities. Since then the profession has continued...
Mass Customized Manufacturing
Theoretical Concepts and Practical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This book brings several original contributions to research and practical applications in the field of mass customization from the designer, manufacturer, and customer perspectives respectively. It presents advancements in product design for mass customization, design of assembly and supply chain...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This stimulating book surveys the research on the challenges and opportunities encountered when working within culturally and geographically diverse organizational settings. Expert contributors pose and address complex questions regarding cultural competence and leadership in today’s rich landscape...
Leading Global Teams
Translating Multidisciplinary Science to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
This breakthrough volume details the psychological and interpersonal skills needed to meet the practical challenges of building, developing, adapting, training, and managing multicultural global teams. Its self-regulation approach offers cognitive keys to understanding and embracing difference and...
Social Life Cycle Assessment
An Insight
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
This book details the primary concepts of Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA), integration of social aspects in product life cycles, quantification of social impacts in S-LCA, impact categorization in S-LCA, methodological aspects of S-LCA, and detailed case studies. As the societal implications...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This second edition of the Handbook of Employee Selection has been revised and updated throughout to reflect current thinking on the state of science and practice in employee selection. In this volume, a diverse group of recognized scholars inside and outside the United States balance theory, research,...
Biomass, Biofuels, Biochemicals
Biofuels from Algae
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Biomass, Biofuels and Biochemicals: Biofuels from Algae, Second Edition provides information on strategies for commercial microalgae based biofuel production, including their cultivation, pre-treatment and conversion methods. The book discusses methods for producing microalgal biomass in large scale...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Traditionally, organizations and researchers have focused on learning that occurs through formal training and development programs. However, the realities of today’s workplace suggest that it is difficult, if not impossible, for organizations to rely mainly on formal programs for developing human...
Transactions on Engineering Technologies
International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
This volume contains selected revised and extended research articles written by prominent researchers who participated in the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2016, held in Hong Kong, 16-18 March 2016. Topics covered include engineering physics, communications systems,...