Quality Control category: 855 books
Offshore Risk Assessment vol 1.
Principles, Modelling and Applications of QRA Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
Offshore Risk Assessment was the first book to deal with quantified risk assessment (QRA) as applied specifically to offshore installations and operations. Risk assessment techniques have been used for more than three decades in the offshore oil and gas industry, and their use is set to expand increasingly...
ATEX—Explosive Atmospheres
Risk Assessment, Control and Compliance
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
This book details how safety (i.e. the absence of unacceptable risks) is ensured in areas where potentially explosive atmospheres (ATEX) can arise. The book also offers readers essential information on how to comply with the newest (April 2016) EU legislation when the presence of ATEX cannot be avoided.
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Leading Holistic Improvement with Lean Six Sigma 2.0
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
A Holistic Approach to Performance Improvement That Reflects 30 Years of Six Sigma Learning
Leading Holistic Improvement with Lean Six Sigma 2.0 distills all that’s been learned about Six Sigma over the past three decades, helping you build and execute on modern holistic strategies to radically...
by Gianpaolo Ghiani, Gilbert Laporte, Roberto Musmanno
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Introduction to Logistics Systems Management is the fully revised and enhanced version of the 2004 prize-winning textbook Introduction to Logistics Systems Planning and Control, used in universities around the world.
This textbook offers an introduction to the methodological aspects of logistics...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are characterized as a combination of physical (physical plant, process, network) and cyber (software, algorithm, computation) components whose operations are monitored, controlled, coordinated, and integrated by a computing and communicating core. The interaction between...
The Management and Employee Development Review
Competitive Advantage through Transformative Teamwork and Evolved Mindsets
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
New, and experienced managers alike, typically repeat behaviors they observed or were subjected to when they were employees, which perpetuates unhealthy and unproductive management methods.
The Management and Employee Development Review: Competitive Advantage through Transformative Teamwork...
by Matthew E. Benfer, Joseph L. Scheffey
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2015
This SpringerBrief offers careful assessments of the appropriateness and effectiveness of currently available methodologies for fire flow. It explains the water supply requirements for firefighting including rate of flow, the residual pressure required at that flow, and the duration that is necessary...
Fuzzy Multicriteria Decision-Making
Models, Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Fuzzy Multicriteria Decision-Making: Models, Algorithms and Applications addresses theoretical and practical gaps in considering uncertainty and multicriteria factors encountered in the design, planning, and control of complex systems. Including all prerequisite knowledge and augmenting some parts...
by Kailash C. Kapur, Michael Pecht
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
An Integrated Approach to Product Development
Reliability Engineering presents an integrated approach to the design, engineering, and management of reliability activities throughout the life cycle of a product, including concept, research and development, design, manufacturing, assembly, sales,...
Industrial Neuroscience in Aviation
Evaluation of Mental States in Aviation Personnel
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
This book discusses the emerging field of industrial neuroscience, and reports on the authors’ cutting-edge findings in the evaluation of mental states, including mental workload, cognitive control and training of personnel involved either in the piloting of aircraft and helicopters, or in managing...
by Salvador Hernandez-Gonzalez, Manuel Dario Hernandez Ripalda
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
To promote fast and accessible service, many organizations and businesses utilize technological or structured systems to create efficient waiting times and receptions. Managerial Approaches Toward Queuing Systems and Simulations provides emerging research on the various aspects of line management...
Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
Applications and Techniques for Use in Design: Manufacturing, and Inspection
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Explaining the symbology of dimensioning and tolerancing and introducing a step-by-step system for geometric definition, this book provides examples for the application of geometric controls. The author breaks down the language of geometric product definition into a series of steps that consist of...
The 7 Kata
Toyota Kata, TWI, and Lean Training
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
The biggest competitive advantage an organization can achieve comes from the synergies created by employees skilled in enhancing organizational dynamics. The Seven Kata: Toyota Kata, TWI, and Lean Training supplies time-tested tools and advice to help readers adapt to changing conditions and outcompete...
by Jeffrey Liker, David Meier
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2005
The Toyota Way Fieldbook is a companion to the international bestseller The Toyota Way. The Toyota Way Fieldbook builds on the philosophical aspects of Toyota's operating systems by detailing the concepts and providing practical examples for application that leaders need to bring Toyota's success-proven...