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6 produkter
Industry 5.0
Design, standards, techniques and applications for manufacturing
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
1 769 kr
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We are on the brink of another industrial transformation - one that builds upon the digital foundations of Industry 4.0 and reaches new heights with the emergence of Industry 5.0. Unlike its predecessor, which focused heavily on automation, cyber-physical systems, and the Internet of Things, Industry 5.0 shifts the paradigm toward human-centered solutions, blending the power of cutting-edge technologies with human creativity, expertise, and ethical considerations. This evolution is not merely technological; it is social and economic, reshaping how we live, work, and interact with our environment.The convergence of advanced artificial intelligence, robotics, 3D printing, and the Internet of Things is now being augmented with a renewed focus on collaboration between humans and machines. This human-machine synergy unlocks new potential in industries ranging from manufacturing to healthcare, from energy to education, as intelligent systems learn to complement, rather than replace, human ingenuity. The aim of Industry 5.0 is not only to enhance productivity but to create a more sustainable, ethical, and personalized approach to industrial processes.Industry 5.0: Design, standards, techniques and applications for manufacturing provides a comprehensive exploration of the key components that define this new industrial era. It is designed to serve as a foundational guide for engineers, designers, researchers, and policymakers who seek to understand and contribute to the future of Industry 5.0. Through an examination of its applications, innovative designs, emerging standards, and the latest techniques, this work offers a critical resource for those striving to navigate the complex yet exciting landscape of this revolution.
ESG Innovation for Sustainable Manufacturing Technology
Applications, designs and standards
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
1 667 kr
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In an era defined by unprecedented environmental challenges, social inequalities, and corporate responsibility, the concept of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) has emerged as a transformative force. It is a set of practices used to evaluate the operational performance of a company or industry sector as it relates to social and environmental impact.Manufacturing plays a key role in many areas of human living, and it is both part of the problem and of the solution. As manufacturing organizations grapple with the imperative to foster sustainability, ESG principles have evolved into a guiding framework. At the heart of this evolution lies technology, acting as a catalyst for ESG innovation and driving systemic change across manufacturing. This book seeks to explore the intersection of ESG and manufacturing technology.The environmental criterion looks at whether a company pollutes or implements sustainable practices. The social criterion considers how the company works with and impacts its employees, customers, suppliers and the community as a whole. Finally, the governance criterion looks at the company's leadership, its internal controls and audits, board governance oversight and executive pay.This ground-breaking collection will be a comprehensive educational tool, promoting awareness, guiding investment strategies, helping to manage risks, facilitating stakeholder engagement, ensuring regulatory compliance, measuring impacts, driving innovation, and promoting ethical leadership - all of which are essential for addressing pressing global challenges and building a more sustainable future.ESG Innovation for Sustainable Manufacturing Technology: Applications, designs and standards offers insights and diverse perspectives on this cross-disciplinary topic for an audience of researchers, advanced students and professionals in sustainable manufacturing.
Creating Smart and Safe Manufacturing Environments
The role of innovation and safety management
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 616 kr
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Creating Smart and Safe Manufacturing Environments: The role of innovation and safety management is a comprehensive volume that bridges engineering, data science, occupational safety, and industrial automation to provide a structured blueprint for transforming conventional production systems into intelligent, resilient, and human-centric manufacturing ecosystems.The book addresses the critical convergence of cyber-physical systems (CPS), industrial internet of things (IIoT), artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and digital twins, all designed to align with the requirements of industry 4.0 and the emerging ethos of industry 5.0. It emphasizes the integration of automation and safety as co-dependent design objectives, detailing the frameworks, standards, and architectures required to engineer environments that are not only efficient but fundamentally safe for human workers and autonomous systems.The book is a highly technical and application-driven reference for industrial engineers, plant designers, HSE professionals, and researchers. It combines state-of-the-art technology with regulatory insight and strategic vision to guide the creation of intelligent, ethical, and safe production systems.
1 796 kr
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Composites Assembly for High Performance Fastener-less Structures provides a broad and balanced span of information, covering both fundamentals and applications across academic and industrial state-of-the-art research and development on assembly, joining, inspection and repair of high-performance structures made from fibre-reinforced polymer composites and multifunctional nanocomposites. This knowledge is essential for the realisation of critical features in assembly and joining evolving procedures (across their design, development and performance analysis) in such multi-material systems, but also for the through-life maintenance of composite components used in a range of engineering applications such as those composite structures utilised for wind turbine blades, automotive parts, aircraft wings and fuselage. The book also addresses the non-destructive testing methods used to detect damage occurring in composite joints, which are essential to decide if the repair is needed.The book begins by providing a fundamental description of the requirements for composite joining, assembly and repair. It goes on to address a variety of joining and repair procedures in composite structures from thermoset adhesive bonding to thermoplastic hybridisation, through-the-thickness reinforcement and sandwich structures. Further chapters cover the reliable assessment of structure's damage tolerance and failure assessment procedures, including non-destructive inspections and image processing based structural health monitoring, and provide understanding of the most likely deterioration mechanisms occurring in processing and assembly of composite materials and structures. The book is wrapped up with the ongoing state-of-the-arts in multifunctional nanocomposites with application for high-performance structures for self-sensing, energy harvesting and properties tailoring.Composites Assembly for High Performance Fastener-less Structures brings together state-of-the-art practices for assembly, in-service damage and repair procedures along with the existing certification and repair regulations, followed by the futuristic opportunities for enabling and emerging polymer nanocomposites for smart structures, for an audience of academic researchers, advanced students, engineers and manufacturing professionals.
1 667 kr
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The key theme of this book is an exploration of how recent advances across three related scientific fields are intertwined - the developments in metamaterials, the automated optimal design of innovative electronic, electromagnetic and mechatronic devices, and 3D printing.Developments in the field of automated optimal design have enabled the design of innovative electronic, electromagnetic and mechatronic devices, but there is a risk that design uncertainties and fabrication tolerances dictated by conventional manufacturing techniques will limit the practical synthesis and industrial realisation of these novel designs. The solution might be found in new manufacturing possibilities offered by 3D printing technologies and techniques for the fabrication of conductive layers in low and high frequency applications.The book approaches the topic from several perspectives, including the design of 3D fields, advances in shape synthesis, the role of additive manufacturing in synthesising metamaterials and manipulating ferromagnetic materials, and the steps from numerical models to printed mechatronic devices. A final chapter discusses design challenges and opportunities in industrial settings.Led by two expert editors, with contributions from authors with a range of backgrounds across academia and industrial research, this book provides key information for researchers, advanced students and industry professionals in advanced manufacturing, mechatronics, and electrical and electronic engineering.
1 489 kr
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The core of engineering learning is the ability to solve problems in specific fields; thus, engineering courses emerge as places where design thinking is a useful tool in training future engineers.Design Thinking for Engineering: A practical guide provides support for master's level courses based on design thinking, as well as describing the experience of applying this approach to related and different branches of engineering. The book takes the reader through the various stages of design thinking and includes case studies and tools for readers to use in practice. The chapter contributors have all participated in educational projects in cooperation with the editors, and this collaborative approach is extended through discussions to real world experiences and projects.The book targets advanced engineering students who will gain insight to applied design thinking approaches that will be invaluable in their progression towards a successful engineering career. Engineers and students from a wide range of fields, including mechanical engineering, electronics, aerospace, telecommunication and computer science, amongst others, will find this book to be a valuable resource.