Design for Excellence

Design for Excellence

Author: Sangarappillai Sivaloganathan

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2005-02-18

Total Pages: 874

ISBN-13: 9781860582592

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Design for Excellence contains papers from a conference organised by Brunel University. This book will be useful for designers, engineers, software developers, and other technologists working in a wide variety of engineering applications. Both those working in industry and in the academic environment will want to have access to this valuble resource. CONTENTS INCLUDE: A strategic overview of UK product development Technology management – a methodology towards achieving design excellence within the pharmaceutical industry Designing safer systems – the application of human factors methods From environmental assessment results to DFE product changes – an evaluation of quantitative and qualitative methods Design determines 70 percent of cost? A review of implications for design evaluation Using correlation chains to link customer requirements and physical laws How to manage ‘3-GEN’ products and services Strain based shallow shell finite element for circular cylindrical shells Validation of manufacturing facilities in the pharmaceuticals industry The use of formal design techniques in the development of a model device Aesthetic intelligence – optimizing user-centred design Tendering for engineering contracts An investigation on specifications – component, source information areas, and contents


Process Automation Handbook

Process Automation Handbook

Author: Jonathan Love

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-12-22

Total Pages: 1064

ISBN-13: 1846282829

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This book distils into a single coherent handbook all the essentials of process automation at a depth sufficient for most practical purposes. The handbook focuses on the knowledge needed to cope with the vast majority of process control and automation situations. In doing so, a number of sensible balances have been carefully struck between breadth and depth, theory and practice, classical and modern, technology and technique, information and understanding. A thorough grounding is provided for every topic. No other book covers the gap between the theory and practice of control systems so comprehensively and at a level suitable for practicing engineers.


Swarm Robotics

Swarm Robotics

Author: Erol Sahin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-01-28

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 3540305521

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Swarm robotics can be defined as the study of how a swarm of relatively simple physically embodied agents can be constructed to collectively accomplish tasks that are beyond the capabilities of a single one. Unlike other studies on multi-robot systems, swarm robotics emphasizes self-organization and emergence, while keeping in mind the issues of scalability and robustness. These emphases promote the use of relatively simple robots, equipped with localized sensing ability, scalable communication mechanisms, and the exploration of decentralized control strategies. This state-of-the-art survey is the first book devoted to swarm robotics. It is based on the First International Workshop on Swarm Robotics held in Santa Monica, CA, USA in July 2004 as part of SAB 2004


NASA SP-7500

NASA SP-7500

Author: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Publisher:

Published:

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13:

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