Industrial Engineering

How did the ancient Egyptians build the pyramids? What makes a suspension bridge so strong? An why do some machines revolutionize society while others fade into obscurity? Exploring all of the most important ideas and groundbreaking developments that have shaped the world of engineering in a...

Conquer the Industrial Engineering Field: Your Guide to a Career as an Industrial Engineering Technologist and Technician Helping Engineers Solve Problems Affecting Manufacturing Layout or Production is an essential resource for those aspiring to work in industrial engineering technology. This guide delves into the versatile role of technologists and technicians who collaborate with engineers to optimize workflows, enhance production efficiency, and ensure product quality. The book provides a comprehensive overview of industrial engineering concepts, from conducting time and motion studies ...

Unlock the secrets to solving industrial challenges efficiently with Industrial Problem-Solving: Practical Tools and AI-Driven Methods for Engineers and Managers. This comprehensive guide equips professionals with actionable strategies, structured methodologies, and modern AI-powered techniques to identify, analyze, and eliminate process inefficiencies. Inside this handbook, you'll discover: Structured Problem-Solving Approaches: DMAIC (Six Sigma), A3 Problem Solving (Toyota), Design of Experiments (DOE), Kaizen, and more. Root Cause Analysis Tools: 5 Whys, Pareto Analysis, Fault Tree ...

Factories create massive amounts of data from IoT sensors, MES, SCADA, quality systems, supply chain, maintenance, and others. Yet most organizations can’t turn it into decisions fast enough. The result is reactive firefighting and AI pilots that stall. The Unified Manufacturing Data Architecture (UMDA) is a practical framework built for industry, not adapted from IT. It shows you how to handle real-time streams, integrate legacy systems, enforce security, and scale AI across sites.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power addresses the ongoing energy crisis. Now with an epilogue that...

Unlock the power of Lean thinking to transform your maintenance operations into a streamlined, value-driven system that delivers maximum uptime, reduced costs, and sustainable results. Lean Maintenance is your comprehensive guide to applying Lean principles in the maintenance environment. Whether you manage a manufacturing plant, utilities network, transport fleet, or healthcare facility, this book provides practical strategies, tools, and real-world examples to help you: Standardize and Simplify — Develop clear, repeatable maintenance procedures that eliminate waste and ensure ...

Introductory technical guidance for civil engineers, environmental engineers and other professional engineers and construction managers interested in industrial water treatment. Here is what is discussed: 1. CHEMICAL CLEANING OF INDUSTRIAL WATER SYSTEMS, 2. COOLING TOWER WATER TREATMENT, 3. MAKEUP WATER FOR INDUSTRIAL WATER SYSTEMS, 4. OILY WASTEWATER COLLECTION AND TREATMENT, 5. PRETREATMENT CONSIDERATIONS FOR WATER DESALINATION, 6. TREATMENT OF CLOSED INDUSTRIAL WATER SYSTEMS, 7. WATER SAMPLING AND TESTING, 8. TREATMENT OF STEAM BOILER WATER.

Learn how to successfully emerge from complex crisis conditions with this practical, comprehensive guide. "A book I wish I’d had in difficult times.” —General Stanley McChrystal, US Army (Ret) & Co-Founder and CEO, McChrystal Group When the system breaks, what do you do? You're in the...

Jacobson provides a comprehensive overview of the space industry, allowing everyone to understand the role space plays in our lives and how it will continue to transform the world. Over 100 industry experts and leaders share insights, presenting a 360-degree view of the wide-ranging space industry, its emerging opportunities, investment potential, and benefits.

Industrial/organizational psychologists are employed in organizations all over the world. They use principles and practices from their field to conduct the research required to improve workforces in terms of attitude and productivity. Their goal is to help employees find motivation and job satisfaction as their organizations grow, change, and evolve. This book focuses on the basic skills, knowledge, methodology, responsibilities, and benefits of I/O psychologists. It also examines their future potential as the field continues to grow and expand. The text is informational and educational, ...

What is engineering for: private profit or the public good? In this incisive essay from *Civilization in the United States*, mechanical engineer O. S. Beyer, Jr. examines the transformation of American engineering and the economic forces reshaping the profession. Beyer traces the field from its...

Treatment of industrial makeup water is a process of external water treatment. External treatment involves the treatment, by various processes, of makeup water to remove or reduce hardness, alkalinity, dissolved gases, or other impurities before the water enters the water system (as in steam boiler, cooling tower, closed hot water system or chilled water system). This process of external treatment is often referred to as “pre-treatment.” In contrast, internal treatment involves the treatment of water directly within the water system. Both external and internal treatment methods may be ...

In The Origins of Efficiency, Brian Potter argues that improving production efficiency—finding ways to produce goods and services in less time, with less labor, using fewer resources—is the force behind some of the biggest and most consequential changes in human history.

Interweaving a grand historical narrative with cutting-edge climate science and genetic discoveries, Kyle Harper traces how the fate of Rome was decided not just by emperors, soldiers, and barbarians but also by volcanic eruptions, solar cycles, climate instability, and devastating viruses and bacteria. He takes listeners from Rome's pinnacle in the second century, when the empire seemed an invincible superpower, to its unraveling by the seventh century, when Rome was politically fragmented and materially depleted.

A New York Times Bestseller From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty years and transform our lives Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends...

Control is a book about what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls “a defining idea of the twentieth century.” Inspired by Darwin’s ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for improving the British population, and quickly spread to America. With disarming wit and scientific precision, Rutherford explains why eugenics still figures prominently in the twenty-first century, despite its genocidal past. And he confronts insidious recurring questions, revealing the intellectual bankruptcy of the idea, and the scientific impossibility of its realization.

2015 saw the worst American maritime disaster in decades. The captain of the SS El Faro commanded his crew to sail straight into a hurricane. The ship sank and all 33 crew members died. The sinking raised troubling questions: Why did the captain choose to sail into the hurricane? Why did no one on board or on shore stop him? And why was such an old and heavily loaded ship even allowed on the water? The crew of the SS El Faro is gone, but their haunting final hours were preserved by the ship’s black box.

In The Patient Will See You Now, Eric Topol, one of the nation's top physicians, examines what he calls medicine's "Gutenberg moment". Much as the printing press liberated knowledge from the control of an elite class, new technology is poised to democratize medicine. In this new era, patients will control their data and be emancipated from a paternalistic medical regime in which "the doctor knows best."

Pandora's Lab takes us from opium's heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids as a major cause of death in the United States; from the rise of trans fats as the golden ingredient for tastier, cheaper food to the heart disease epidemic that followed; and from the cries to ban DDT for the sake of the environment to an epidemic-level rise in world malaria.

Despite advances in health care, infectious microbes continue to be a formidable adversary to scientists and doctors. Vaccines and antibiotics, the mainstays of modern medicine, have not been able to conquer infectious microbes because of their amazing ability to adapt, evolve, and spread to new places. Terrorism aside, one of the greatest dangers from infectious disease we face today is from a massive outbreak of drug-resistant microbes.