Author: Matthews, Cliff Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A multidisciplinary introduction to engineering design using real-life case studies.Case Studies in Engineering Design provides students and practising engineers with many practical and accessible cas...
Author: Hanson, Margaret Publisher: CRC Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The latest edition of this long running and highly respected series provides insight into current practice, presents new research findings, and forms an invaluable reference source.
Author: Antony, Jiju Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The tools and technique used in the Design of Experiments (DOE) have been proved successful in meeting the challenge of continuous improvement over the last 15 years. However, research has shown that ...
Author: Booker, J. D. / Raines, M. / Swift, K G Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Designing Capable and Reliable Products offers an introduction to the importance of capability, quality and reliability in product development. It introduces the concept of capable design, focusing on...
Author: Noyes, Jan Publisher: Psychology Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this book, Jan Noyes provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of human-machine interaction and the design of environments at work. Focusing on topics relevant to user-centred design, she in...
Author: Randall, Julian Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Photovoltaic technology - or the direct conversion of light into electricity - is the fastest growing means of electricity generation today, however it is generally used outdoors. Relatively little at...
Author: Hurst, Ken Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Good design is the key to the manufacture of successful commercial products. It encompasses creativity, technical ability, communication at all levels, good management and the abiltity to mould these...
Author: McKeen, Laurence W Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Part of a series of core databooks within the William Andrew 'Plastics Design Library', Fatigue and Tribological Properties of Plastics and Elastomers provides a comprehensive collection of graphical ...
Author: Hamit, Francis Publisher: Francis Hamit Electronic Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Gentle Giant Studios, of Burbank, California, is a unique firm that makes three dimensional prototypes for toys and action figures based upon major motion pictures and childrem's television series us...
Author: Shepherd, Andrew Publisher: CRC Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Although it is a powerful tool, hierarchical task analysis(HTA) is often applied unsystematically or in ways that fail to unleash its full potential. An in-depth presentation of a core technique in hu...
Author: N/A Publisher: Taylor & Francis Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The text aims to provide a comprehensive and informative view of how human factors are applied successfully to the design and evaluation of consumer products.
Author: Stanton, Neville Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Human Factors Methods offers a 'howto' text on a substantial range of ergonomics methods that can be used in the design and evaluation of products and systems, it is a comprehensive point of reference...
Author: Kroll, Ehud / Condoor, Sridhar S. / Jansson, David G. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Conceptual design, along with need identification and analysis, make up the initial stage of the design process. Need analysis transforms the often vague statement of a design task into a set of desig...
Author: Samuel, Andrew / Weir, John Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Introduction to Engineering Design is a completely novel text covering the basic elements of engineering design for structural integrity. Some of the most important concepts that students must grasp ...
Author: Hendrick, Hal W. Publisher: CRC Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This macroergonomics book is concerned with the analysis, design and evaluation of work systems. The goal of macroergonomics is to optimize the work design, organization and performance.
Author: Ashby, Michael F. / Johnson, Kara Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The history of man is recorded, recovered and remembered through the designs he created and the materials he used. Materials are the stuff of design, and today is not the age of just one material, bu...
Author: Kroemer, Karl Publisher: Taylor & Francis Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Office workers form a large and growing proportion of the workforce, especially with the growth of the service sector. Almost all work in computerised offices, and have become strngly attached to thes...
Author: Parisher, Roy A. / Rhea, Robert A. Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Pipe designers and drafters provide thousands of piping drawings used in the layout of industrial and other facilities. The layouts must comply with safety codes, government standards, client specifi...
Author: Boothroyd, Geoffrey Publisher: CRC Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Containing more than 300 equations and the extensive data necessary to estimate manufacturing and assembly cost during product design, benchmarking, and "should cost" analysis, this book presents up-t...
Author: Barkley, Bruce T. Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Turn Innovative Ideas into Products and Services—and Manage and Control Them Using Project Management Tools The first book to integrate project management and product development, Project Man...
Author: Hamit, Francis Publisher: Francis Hamit Electronic Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This 1994 article discusses how computer aided design and stereo lithography are used to speed up the product development process for manufacturing. Also includes a critique related to spacecraft dev...
Description: The Handbook of Human-Machine Interaction features 20 original chapters and a conclusion focusing on human-machine interaction (HMI) from analysis, design and evaluation perspectives. It offers a comp...
Author: Meister, David Publisher: CRC Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Human factors/ergonomics (HFE) as a discipline has grown by accretions rather than having been developed systematically and deliberately. Therefore, this book's goal creates a formal conceptual struct...
Author: Staff, PDL Publisher: Plastics Design Library Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Chemical Resistance series is the world's largest compilation of chemical resistance data that explains the effect of thousands of reagents, the environment and other exposure media on the propert...
Author: Staff, PDL Publisher: Plastics Design Library Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Chemical Resistance series is the world's largest compilation of chemical resistance data that explains the effect of thousands of reagents, the environment and other exposure media on the propert...
Author: Cheremisinoff, Nicholas P. Publisher: Plastics Design Library Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The handbook provides ready information on the fire and chemical reactivity of commonly used chemicals. Its purpose is to provide basic information important to the safe handling of chemicals and to h...
Author: Stanton, Neville A. Publisher: Taylor & Francis Format: Adobe PDF
Description: <P>The evaluation and assessment of appropriate design approaches for usable human-machine interfaces is at the heart of ergonomics. A Guide to Methodology in Ergonomics arises from work, carrie...
Author: Nemeth, Christopher Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Human Factors Methods for Design: Making Systems Human-Centered is an in-depth field guide to solving human factors challenges in the development process. It provides design and human factors professi...
Author: Ashby, Michael F. / Johnson, Kara Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Materials are the stuff of design. From the very beginning of human history, materials have been taken from the natural world and shaped, modified, and adapted for everything from primitive tools to m...
Author: N/A Publisher: Marcel Dekker Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Explains how Design for the Environment (SFE) and Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) processes may be integrated into business an dmanufacturing practices. Examines major environmental laws and regulations...
Author: Campos, Jose / Balland, Jean-Claude Publisher: Multi-Media Publications Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "If you are not managing risk, you are not managing your project." This is most applicable when it comes to managing risk in product development. Risk is the probability of something going wrong with ...
Author: Campos, Jose / Balland, Jean-Claude Publisher: Multi-Media Publications Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Voice of the Customer for Product Development is a downloadable and interactive guide to allow product teams to effectively capture and use customer requirements. Developed by product development ...
Description: Universal Design offers every organization, whether a provider of services or of products, a clear understanding of the role and value of Design for All/Universal Design. It provides a model for asses...
