Quality Control category: 855 books
The Grow or Die Ultimatum
Creating Value Through Acquisition and Blended, Long-Term Improvement Formulas
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Mergers and acquisitions require diligent planning and are extremely hard work -- you can’t get better just by getting bigger! Businesses must run effectively before they are expanded through acquisition.
Using a compelling story format featuring a cast of characters, The "Grow or Die"...
So You're the Safety Director!
An Introduction to Loss Control and Safety Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
This time-proven favorite provides new safety managers with both the guidelines and the tools they need to understand their responsibilities and establish an effective safety program. So You're the Safety Director is considered indispensable by people who have been given safety-management responsibilities...
Advances in Human Factors in Energy: Oil, Gas, Nuclear and Electric Power Industries
Proceedings of the AHFE 2017 International Conference on Human Factors in Energy: Oil, Gas, Nuclear and Electric Power Industries, July 17–21, 2017, The Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017
This book addresses human factors research in energy, an emphasis on human factors applications in design, construction, and operation of nuclear, electrical power generation, and oil and gas assets. It discusses advanced strategies in the optimization of human and environmental performance, as well...
by B. S. Dhillon
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Human reliability, error, and human factors in the area of power generation have been receiving increasing attention in recent years. Each year billions of dollars are spent in the area of power generation to design, construct/manufacture, operate, and maintain various types of power systems around...
Maintenance Management in Network Utilities
Framework and Practical Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
In order to satisfy the needs of their customers, network utilities require specially developed maintenance management capabilities. Maintenance Management information systems are essential to ensure control, gain knowledge and improve-decision making in companies dealing with network infrastructure,...
The Operations Manager's Toolbox
Using the Best Project Management Techniques to Improve Processes and Maximize Efficiency
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Operations managers: use project management (PM) tools and techniques to supercharge efficiency, free up resources, eliminate unnecessary meetings, and get more done faster! Long-time operations manager and PMP-certified project manager Randal Wilson shows how to apply PM to complete the crucial "smaller"...
by Godfrey K. Kwan, Henri Bourlès
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Linear systems have all the necessary elements (modeling, identification, analysis and control), from an educational point of view, to help us understand the discipline of automation and apply it efficiently. This book is progressive and organized in such a way that different levels of readership...
Handbook of Technical Diagnostics
Fundamentals and Application to Structures and Systems
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This book presents concepts, methods and techniques to examine symptoms of faults and failures of structures, systems and components and to monitor functional performance and structural integrity. The book is organized in five parts. Part A introduces the scope and application of technical diagnostics...
by Chee Khiang Pang, Frank L. Lewis, Tong Heng Lee
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
In an era of intense competition where plant operating efficiencies must be maximized, downtime due to machinery failure has become more costly. To cut operating costs and increase revenues, industries have an urgent need to predict fault progression and remaining lifespan of industrial machines,...
Offshore Risk Assessment vol 2.
Principles, Modelling and Applications of QRA Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 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...
by Haukur Ingason, Ying Zhen Li, Anders Lönnermark
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
This book covers a wide range of issues in fire safety engineering in tunnels, describes the phenomena related to tunnel fire dynamics, presents state-of-the-art research, and gives detailed solutions to these major issues. Examples for calculations are provided. The aim is to significantly improve...
by Rosalie Faith Wills, André Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
This SpringerBrief presents cutting-edge research on an important aspect of smart firefighting which will improve performance, safety, prediction, and resilience. It demonstrates the viability of real-time decision support for smart firefighting and provides validation data for continued cyber-physical...
Building a Lean Service Enterprise
Reflections of a Lean Management Practitioner
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
This book provides an assorted set of reflections/lessons from the "trenches" of Lean service and brings to fore leadership challenges, new tools, and the known-unknowns (insights that very few know but many in journey of Lean transformation need to know). Lean has the ability to address...
HACCP
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
HACCP: A Practical Approach, 3rd edition has been updatedto include the current best practice and new developments in HACCP application since the last edition was published in 1998. This book is intended to be a compendium of up-to-date thinking and best practice approaches to the development, implementation,...