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From the automotive industry to the semiconductor industry, manufacturers are suffering from an overabundance of automation methods that they cannot fully comprehend or afford, and glamorous leadership techniques that are simply not sustainable. In this respect, management has lost its way. Beyond World-Class Productivity shows why a return to traditional tools and the power of people can help companies meet today's challenges in the manufacturing sector. Beyond World-Class Productivity gives readers a balance of essential information, theory and case studies. Readers can expect to gain new insights into engineering approaches to productivity, profitability and real or non-real gain, including: useful tools for industrial engineering effectiveness in unit labor costs; feasibility studies work simplification; and developing mind innovation. Practical examples and their accompanying commentary come from the author's 40 years of real-world experience on the shop floor and in the boardroom. Figures are also provided to illustrate actual productivity results from real companies. Both managers and engineers can appreciate Beyond World-Class Productivity as an enlightening guide to the improvement of productivity and profitability within the manufacturing sector.

Sociology --- Methodology of economics --- Industrial economics --- Applied physical engineering --- Organization theory --- Production management --- Business management --- Business economics --- financieel management --- management --- planning --- informatietechnologie --- industriële marketing --- ingenieurswetenschappen --- Industrial engineering --- Industrial productivity --- Labor productivity --- 338.00 --- 658.50 --- AA / International- internationaal --- Labor output --- Productivity of labor --- Capital productivity --- Hours of labor --- Labor time --- Productivity bargaining --- Productivity, Industrial --- TFP (Total factor productivity) --- Total factor productivity --- Industrial efficiency --- Production (Economic theory) --- Management engineering --- Simplification in industry --- Engineering --- Value analysis (Cost control) --- Management --- Theorie van de productie --- Technisch beheer van de ondernemingen: algemeenheden

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The 33 papers presented in this book were selected from amongst the 97 papers presented during the sixth edition of the International Conference on Integrated Design and Manufacturing in Mechanical Engineering during 28 sessions. Two keynote papers, one presented by Professor Stephen Lu, from the IMPACT Research Laboratory, University of Southern California, USA, on “Supporting participative joint decisions in integrated design and manufacturing teams”, and one written by Professor Stefan Rudolph from Stuttgart University about “Know-How Reuse in the conceptual design phase of complex engineering products or: ‘Are you still constructing manually or do you generate already automatically”, introduce the subject of the Conference and are followed by the different themes highlighted during the conference: The design/manufacturing interface; Integrated design of manufacturing processes; Life cycle design and manufacturing approaches; Agility in design and manufacture; Knowledge in engineering; and Management in production systems.

Engineering. --- Mechanical Engineering. --- Industrial Design. --- Industrial and Production Engineering. --- Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design. --- Computational Intelligence. --- Computer aided design. --- Architectural design. --- Mechanical engineering. --- Industrial engineering. --- Ingénierie --- Conception assistée par ordinateur --- Design architectural --- Génie mécanique --- Génie industriel --- Architecture and society. --- Mechanical Engineering - General --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Mechanical engineering --- Engineering design --- Manufacturing processes --- Computer-aided engineering. --- Industrial design. --- Computational intelligence. --- Production engineering. --- Manufacturing engineering --- Process engineering --- Industrial engineering --- Management engineering --- Simplification in industry --- Engineering --- Value analysis (Cost control) --- Engineering, Mechanical --- Machinery --- Steam engineering --- Intelligence, Computational --- Artificial intelligence --- Soft computing --- Design, Industrial --- Mechanical drawing --- New products --- Design --- CAE --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Data processing --- CAD (Computer-aided design) --- Computer-assisted design --- Computer-aided engineering --- Structural design

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This book explores knowledge and skill chains in engineering and manufacturing in the age of global communications. Information infrastructure involves a range of activities from product planning, engineering, and manufacturing trough transportation, marketing, and repair/upgrade to returns and recycling/disposal. Distinct from the traditional engineering database, life-cycle support information has its own characteristic requirements, -- flexible extensibility, distributed architecture, multiple viewpoints, long-time archiving, and product usage information. Several authors address the architecture of the information infrastructure, its services and its requirements. Other papers focus on the knowledge and skill chains that develop in a variety of situations: the supply chain, the factory floor, the man-system interaction, etc. For each of these, state-of-the-art and state-of-research scenarios for various industrial sectors address both engineering and operations requirements in the current socio-economic environment. The editors’ introductory essay provides a unifying framework for these expert and wide-ranging studies in the modeling, design and development, and applications of information infrastructures in global enterprises and business networks. This book will be essential reading and reference for all researchers, engineers and managers concerned with business models of, and IT support for virtual enterprises and manufacturing networks. It presents a comprehensive text on information infrastructure for manufacturing and enterprise integration, modeling methodologies, and applications of information and telecommunication technologies.

Production engineering --- Production, Technique de la --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Mechanical Engineering --- Industrial & Management Engineering --- Computer Science --- Industrial engineering --- Business. --- Leadership. --- Computer organization. --- E-commerce. --- Industrial engineering. --- Production engineering. --- Business and Management. --- Business Strategy/Leadership. --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). --- Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks. --- Industrial and Production Engineering. --- e-Commerce/e-business. --- Computer network architectures. --- Management engineering --- Simplification in industry --- Engineering --- Value analysis (Cost control) --- Architectures, Computer network --- Network architectures, Computer --- Computer architecture --- Ability --- Command of troops --- Followership --- Application software. --- Cybercommerce --- E-business --- E-commerce --- E-tailing --- eBusiness --- eCommerce --- Electronic business --- Internet commerce --- Internet retailing --- Online commerce --- Web retailing --- Commerce --- Information superhighway --- Manufacturing engineering --- Process engineering --- Mechanical engineering --- Organization, Computer --- Electronic digital computers --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software

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Operations Research began with the mathematical scheduling of a massive project—logistically supplying Europe with military equipment and goods during the WWII. Today project scheduling research continues growing in a variety of its theoretical models, in its magnitude and application. As the world becomes more interrelated and complex, the wider its research is applied to an increasing number of project scheduling problems. Project Scheduling: Surveying the State-of-the-Art surveys the current state-of-the-art in operations research with chapters written by the respective leading experts on each topic. It covers the range of the key models in the field, including deterministic, probabilistic, single- and multi-mode, single- and multi-objective, and a general model on discrete-continuous resources. Recent solution algorithms are systematical examined. The book summarize sthe current developments and theoretical achievements in the field, including project uncertainty and grid resource management.

Industrial economics --- Production management --- Business management --- operationeel onderzoek --- bedrijfsplanning --- speltheorie --- Operational research. Game theory --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- management --- bedrijfsorganisatie --- projectmanagement --- industriële marketing --- ingenieurswetenschappen --- Organization. --- Operations research. --- Engineering economy. --- Management. --- Industrial engineering. --- Operations Research/Decision Theory. --- Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing. --- Operations Research, Management Science. --- Industrial and Production Engineering. --- Management engineering --- Simplification in industry --- Engineering --- Value analysis (Cost control) --- Economy, Engineering --- Engineering economics --- Industrial engineering --- Operational analysis --- Operational research --- Management science --- Research --- System theory --- Organisation --- Management --- Administration --- Industrial relations --- Organization --- Planning. --- Decision making. --- Engineering economics. --- Management science. --- Production engineering. --- Quantitative business analysis --- Problem solving --- Operations research --- Statistical decision --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management decisions --- Choice (Psychology) --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Executive ability --- Manufacturing engineering --- Process engineering --- Mechanical engineering --- Decision making --- Production scheduling. --- Project management.

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Sampling-based computational methods have become a fundamental part of the numerical toolset of practitioners and researchers across an enormous number of different applied domains and academic disciplines. This book provides a broad treatment of such sampling-based methods, as well as accompanying mathematical analysis of the convergence properties of the methods discussed. The reach of the ideas is illustrated by discussing a wide range of applications and the models that have found wide usage. The first half of the book focuses on general methods, whereas the second half discusses model-specific algorithms. Given the wide range of examples, exercises and applications students, practitioners and researchers in probability, statistics, operations research, economics, finance, engineering as well as biology and chemistry and physics will find the book of value. Søren Asmussen is a professor of Applied Probability at Aarhus University, Denmark and Peter Glynn is the Thomas Ford professor of Engineering at Stanford University.

Simulation methods --- Stochastic analysis --- 519.2 --- 519.245 --- 681.3*G3 --- Simulation techniques --- System simulation --- Operations research --- Systems engineering --- Models and modelmaking --- Analysis, Stochastic --- Mathematical analysis --- Stochastic processes --- 681.3*G3 Probability and statistics: probabilistic algorithms (including Monte Carlo);random number generation; statistical computing; statistical software (Mathematics of computing) --- Probability and statistics: probabilistic algorithms (including Monte Carlo);random number generation; statistical computing; statistical software (Mathematics of computing) --- 519.245 Stochastic approximation. Monte Carlo methods --- Stochastic approximation. Monte Carlo methods --- Analyse stochastique --- Méthodes de simulation --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVMATHE SPRINGER-B --- Stochastic analysis. --- Simulation methods. --- Distribution (Probability theory. --- Mathematical statistics. --- Operations research. --- Industrial engineering. --- Finance. --- Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes. --- Statistical Theory and Methods. --- Operations Research/Decision Theory. --- Industrial and Production Engineering. --- Operations Research, Management Science. --- Quantitative Finance. --- Funding --- Funds --- Economics --- Currency question --- Management engineering --- Simplification in industry --- Engineering --- Value analysis (Cost control) --- Operational analysis --- Operational research --- Industrial engineering --- Management science --- Research --- System theory --- Mathematics --- Statistical inference --- Statistics, Mathematical --- Statistics --- Probabilities --- Sampling (Statistics) --- Distribution functions --- Frequency distribution --- Characteristic functions --- Statistical methods --- Probabilities. --- Statistics . --- Decision making. --- Production engineering. --- Management science. --- Economics, Mathematical . --- Mathematical economics --- Econometrics --- Quantitative business analysis --- Management --- Problem solving --- Statistical decision --- Manufacturing engineering --- Process engineering --- Mechanical engineering --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management decisions --- Choice (Psychology) --- Statistical analysis --- Statistical data --- Statistical science --- Probability --- Combinations --- Chance --- Least squares --- Mathematical statistics --- Risk --- Methodology --- Decision making --- Statistics. --- Economics, Mathematical.