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Age-Differentiated Work Systems Age-Differentiated Work Systems Christopher Marc Schlick The disproportionate aging of the population of working age in many nations around the world is a unique occurrence in the history of humankind. In the light of demographic change, it is becoming inc… OL19825039W
The Anticipation of Converging Industries The Anticipation of Converging Industries Clive-Steven Curran The blurring of boundaries between hitherto distinct scientific disciplines, technologies or markets is a common and powerful phenomenon. Subjects of this convergence often change consumer behaviours… OL19826915W
CIRP Design 2012 CIRP Design 2012 Amaresh Chakrabarti <p>During its life cycle, a product produces waste that is over 20 times its weight. As such it is critical to develop products that are sustainable. Currently product development processes lack high… OL19834620W
The Contribution of Technology to Added Value The Contribution of Technology to Added Value António S.C. Fernandes There is a wide consensus that introduction of technology to the production process contributes to an overall economic value, however, confusion between technology, knowledge and capital often makes … OL19837736W
Emotional Engineering vol. 2 Emotional Engineering vol. 2 Shuichi Fukuda In an age of increasing complexity, diversification and change, customers expect services that cater to their needs and to their tastes. Emotional Engineering vol 2. describes how their expectations … OL19847015W
Engineering Economics and Finance for Transportation Infrastructure Engineering Economics and Finance for Transportation Infrastructure Elena S. Prassas Transportation infrastructure is often referred to as society’s bloodstream. It allows for the movement of people and goods to provide the ability to optimize the production and distribution of good… OL19847507W
Exergy Exergy Silvio de Oliveira Júnior <p>Bridging the gap between concepts derived from Second Law of Thermodynamics and their application to Engineering practice, the property exergy and the exergy balance can be a tool for analyzing an… OL19848976W
LISS 2012 LISS 2012 Zhenji Zhang Information and communication technology has helped to provide a more effective network infrastructure and development platform for logistics and service operations. In order to meet the needs of con… OL19884303W
Mass Customization and Sustainability Mass Customization and Sustainability Claudio R. Boër To adapt to global competitive pressures, manufacturers must develop methods and enabling technologies towards a personalized, customer oriented and sustainable manufacturing. Mass Customization and … OL19885983W
Megacity Mobility Culture Megacity Mobility Culture Institute for Mobility Research <p>What determines how cities move on? The ever-increasing challenges to urban mobility come in many forms, and approaches to address them range from the technically ingenious to attempts to change t… OL19887307W
Multi-Agent Based Beam Search for Real-Time Production Scheduling and Control Multi-Agent Based Beam Search for Real-Time Production Scheduling and Control Shu Gang Kang <p>The Multi-Agent Based Beam Search (MABBS) method systematically integrates four major requirements of manufacturing production - <i>representation capability</i>, <i>solution quality</i>, <i>compu… OL19889399W
New Business Models and Value Creation: A Service Science Perspective New Business Models and Value Creation: A Service Science Perspective Lino Cinquini The contemporary economic landscape features the prevalence of the service sector in economic systems, the pervasive servitisation of manufacturing, innovations in traditional business models and new… OL19890561W
Online Scheduling in Manufacturing Online Scheduling in Manufacturing Haruhiko Suwa <p><p><p>Online scheduling is recognized as the crucial decision-making process of production control at a phase of “being in production" according to the released shop floor schedule. Online schedul… OL19892228W
Optimal Control and Optimization of Stochastic Supply Chain Systems Optimal Control and Optimization of Stochastic Supply Chain Systems Dong-Ping Song <body><p class="BodyFirst"><font size="2"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Optimal Control and Optimization of Stochastic Supply Chain Systems</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> examines its subject in the context o… OL19892565W
Profiting from Innovation in China Profiting from Innovation in China Oliver Gassmann China is dramatically catching up and is rapidly becoming a leading technological innovator on the global scale. The number of Chinese firms with global ambitions is growing fast, more and more techn… OL19897105W
Robust Manufacturing Control Robust Manufacturing Control Katja Windt <p>This contributed volume collects research papers, presented at the CIRP Sponsored Conference<b> Robust Manufacturing Control: Innovative and Interdisciplinary Approaches for Global Networks</b> (R… OL19900205W
Scheduling computer and manufacturing processes Scheduling computer and manufacturing processes Jacek Błażewicz This book provides a theoretical and application oriented analysis of deterministic scheduling problems arising in computer and manufacturing environments. In such systems processors (machines) and p… OL19900805W
Strategic Planning Decisions in the High Tech Industry Strategic Planning Decisions in the High Tech Industry Dilek Cetindamar The scale and complexity of research and practices of open innovation mandate a correspondingly sophisticated form of decision making. Strategic Planning Decisions brings together a number of tools t… OL19904335W
Supply Chain Collaboration Supply Chain Collaboration Mei Cao <p>To survive and thrive in the competition, firms have strived to achieve greater supply chain collaboration to leverage the resources and knowledge of suppliers and customers. Internet based techn… OL19905005W
Sustainable Logistics Sustainable Logistics Wolf-Rüdiger Bretzke Currently the notion of "sustainability" is used in an inflationary manner. Therefore the authors start with a definition which is stable to serve as an anchor for further research as well as for dis… OL19905174W
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