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Minshall T: How Things Are Made / LF

How Things Are Made

A Journey Through the Hidden World of Manufacturing, from Toilet Paper to Airplanes and Everything in Between

As data is the most important asset for any organization, it is essential to apply analytics to fulfill the sustainability needs of any organization. This book aims to provide a context for data analytics for the sustainability of organizations demonstrating innovation across a few specific subject areas with detailed coverage. It highlights how data analytics enables organizations to create intelligence by exploring opportunities and overcoming challenges, both present and future.Data Science: Semantic Technology, Intelligent Data Analytics, and Sustainability Practice is packed with up-to-date examples and data, ensuring it's both meaningful and practical for a diverse audience. It begins with an introduction to data analytics in the context of sustainable development. Each chapter explores the different aspects of data analytics for sustainability, utilizing a state-of-the-art context that is easy to grasp. Key concepts are presented through clear explanations, making them accessible to all readers. At the end of each chapter, is a summary of the main points, allowing for quick reviews of the essential ideas. It provides practical insights into applying data analytics concepts towards sustainable development, empowering readers to enhance their decision-making abilities, and discusses a strategic approach aligned with the vision for 2030 and beyond while addressing the anticipated challenges.This resource provides support to researchers, scholars, technology practitioners, business analysts, data scientists, and industry professionals worldwide, promoting globalization and enabling real-life application of findings in their organizations.

Semantic Technology, Intelligent Data Analytics, and Sustainability Practices

Data Science

The events of the last few years, including the Covid pandemic, the energy crisis and increasing global tension, have contributed to new challenges facing the global supply of temperature-sensitive products. This book reviews the basic structure of the air cargo cool supply chain, featuring contributions from industry experts and case studies to provide readers with a well-rounded and practical understanding.This book presents a multitude of cool chain activities with insights and case histories, such as the handling of delicate time sensitive air cargo and trends in technology to improve the integrity of shipments, geo-political challenges and world climatic crisis, medical pharma, food products, flowers and plants, containers and packaging. It examines trade lanes, regulations and quality standards, such as IATA's CEIV standard, and considers security issues, especially theft of valuable products through fraud and insider criminal gangs. Responses to emergencies such as the Covid pandemic, disaster relief, seasonal fluctuations of growers and climate, as well as larger environmental issues and sustainability. Innovations in equipment, such as smart containers, aircraft design, drones, alternative fuels, electric vehicles and e-processing, are comprehensively but accessibly covered. Political actions affecting agricultural production and the impacts on transportation needs are also discussed.The Air Logistics Cool Supply Chain will be directly relevant to professionals within the global supply, transport, international and air logistics, retail, food, pharmaceutical and packaging industries. It will also prove valuable to students and graduates seeking careers within these sectors.

Flying Fresh

The Air Logistics Cool Supply Chain

Based on years of teaching experience, this book provides a clearly structured and accessible introduction to the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics, tailored for undergraduate students.The text builds a strong conceptual and mathematical foundation while promoting intuitive understanding and critical thinking. Students progress from basic concepts such as wave mechanics to more advanced topics within matrix mechanics. Complex concepts are presented in a diligent and understandable way, achieving a balance between conceptual insight and mathematical rigor without oversimplifying the subject.Thoroughly class-tested, this book is designed to support both classroom instruction and independent study. It will serve as a great tool for undergraduates studying introductory and intermediate quantum mechanics, as well as modern physics and quantum systems for engineers.

Nonrelativistic Theory

A First Course in Quantum Mechanics

Strategic guide for implementing and developing digital twin products, with real-world case studies from different industries Infrastructure Digital Twins is an instructive and practical guide that offers tools on incorporating digital twins into existing processes, illustrated by real-world case studies across diverse sectors. Emphasizing the intersections of digital twin technology, sustainability, and cutting-edge software inventions, this book uncovers the potential to accelerate the global journey toward carbon neutrality and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Written by a an esteemed author, Infrastructure Digital Twins approaches the topic by discussing: <ul> <li>Ground-breaking applications of digital twin technology demonstrated through real-world examples in transportation, construction, aviation, manufacturing, and healthcare sectors, bringing to light the transformative potential of emerging tech in these industries. </li> <li>Advantages offered by the confluence of digital twin technology and modern software engineering tools, including generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), enhanced interoperability and sophisticated relationship mapping between static and dynamic entities. </li> <li>Advanced semantics to leverage AI and data analytics, thus enabling accurate predictions of future scenarios, illuminating the path towards smarter, sustainable cities and infrastructure.</li> <li>Current challenges and future solutions for digital twin adoption in sustainable asset maintenance and management, focusing on innovative strategies to seamlessly develop digital twin products </li></ul>Diving into a subject of growing significance across industries, Infrastructure Digital Twins serves as an essential guide for practicing professionals and executive engineering leaders. It is also applicable for technologists and entrepreneurs, as well as it can serve as a textbook for graduate-level courses focusing on digital twin applications, machine learning, and the emerging landscape of tech innovation in infrastructure sustainability.

Applications in Engineering, Aviation, and Facilities Management

Infrastructure Digital Twins

Smart Innovations and Technological Advancements in Mechanical and Materials Engineering

The field of biomaterials and bio-manufacturing is undergoing rapid transformation, driven by advancements in material science, additive manufacturing, artificial intelligence, and biomedical engineering. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of cutting-edge developments in biomaterials, bioimplants, and emerging manufacturing techniques that are revolutionizing the healthcare and medical device industries. It explores the latest trends in biomaterials, recent innovations in composite materials, classification and characterization of multifunctional biomaterials, and their impact on biomedical applications. It further explores the role of robotics in surgical planning, the evolution of 2D, 3D, and 4D bioimplant technologies, and the customization of biomaterials for tissue regeneration. Advanced manufacturing approaches such as electrochemical micro-manufacturing and incremental sheet forming are also highlighted, along with their applications in next-generation biomedical implants.This book:<ul> <li>Provides in-depth analysis of novel biomaterials and their medical applications.</li> <li>Discusses advanced bio-manufacturing techniques including additive and electrochemical manufacturing.</li> <li>Highlights the role of AI, IoT, and smart technologies in personalized healthcare solutions.</li> <li>Examines sustainable and environmental considerations in biomaterial development.</li> <li>Incorporates contributions from leading experts in academia and industry.</li> </ul>Whether you are a researcher exploring biomaterial innovations, a medical professional interested in cutting-edge bioimplants, or an engineer working in biomedical manufacturing, this book provides essential insights into the next generation of biomaterials and healthcare solutions.

Technology, and Applications

Digital Manufacturing of Bioimplants

Engineering Materials for 3D Printing

A Design Oriented Approach using MATLAB

Elements of Mechatronic Systems

Applied and Computational Mechanics

This second edition is an introductory book on the subject of Mechanics of Materials with a focus on integrating the basics of Finite Element Analysis. Mechanics of Materials provides the basis for understanding structural mechanics in engineering systems such as buildings, bridges, vehicles, and machines.This new edition incorporates the fundamentals of the subject into analytical methods, modeling approaches, numerical methods, experimental procedures, numerical evaluation procedures, and design techniques. It introduces the fundamentals, and then moves on to more advanced concepts and applications. It discusses analytical methods using simple mathematics, examples and experimental techniques, and it includes a large number of worked examples and case studies that illustrate practical and real-world usage.Mechanics of Materials serves as both a textbook and a reference book for engineering students and practicing professionals.A solutions manual and figures slides are valuable for all qualified textbook adoptions.

Basics and Finite Elements

Mechanics of Materials

Designing for Kids helps design students and professionals dive deeply into building a child-centered design practice, providing them with the knowledge, skills and tools to create products with a positive impact on child development, learning, play, and well-being.This fully updated second edition incorporates current and emerging childhood research and analysis that impacts the design process. It includes topics such as digital technology and AI, mental health, identity, climate change, sustainability, and children with disabilities. It supports college classes, company onboarding, and professional settings where young people are the end users of products and designed experiences. In addition to insights from professional designers, this edition also includes interviews with child psychologists, and diverse case studies from North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia and New Zealand from various industries and contexts. From these, readers will learn updated design approaches and how incorporate them into their work to create products and services for a global market. This textbook offer readers more than 150 color images, helpful discussion questions, practical frameworks, skill-building assignments, and debate questions that have been tested in conference workshops, colleges, nonprofits, and corporations.It is written for product designers who want to build more play value into toys, furniture, or schools; architects designing regenerative playgrounds, museum exhibits or children's hospitals; and technologists seeking ethical and educational approaches to interactive games and learning systems. Readers will build a strong foundation in designing for and with children, learning how to create developmentally appropriate and culturally relevant designs. This book will provide the skills and foundational understanding of how to design impactful products, services, and experiences that spark joy and support young people to thrive.

Creating for Playing, Learning and Growing

Designing for Kids

A new edition of the definitive guide to value sensitive design—chock full of theory, design methods, and hands-on studios and applications for practice. In the midst of technological, environmental, and social turmoil, engineers, policymakers, and designers of all kinds seek approaches to responsible innovation, approaches that foreground human values. How do we make good on responsible AI and social media? On sustainable agriculture, energy, healthcare, and transportation systems? How do we develop inclusive and constructive tech policy? Value sensitive design offers a comprehensive approach for making progress on society’s toughest engineering and technical design problems, including practical methods for catalyzing and strengthening designers’ moral and technical imaginations. The second edition of Value Sensitive Design: Shaping Technology with Moral Imagination by Batya Friedman and David Hendry expands upon the first and includes 40% new material, including: <ul><li>8 new hands-on instructional studios: for professional development and classroom use that provide practical experience with value sensitive design methods and skills</li><li>16 Envisioning Cards from the full toolkit: used throughout the instructional studios</li><li>5 new methods: Data statements; Diverse voices; Values hierarchy; Metaphor Cards; and Security Cards (22 total methods)</li><li>3 new application domains: Bias in computing and information systems; Materials and imagination; and Tech policy (13 total application domains)</li><li>New theory about value sensitive design as a formative theory and new explication of the tripartite methodology in terms of robots in healthcare</li></ul>

Shaping Technology with Moral Imagination

Value Sensitive Design, second edition

At the intersection of reverse innovation and design thinking, you can find opportunities to create innovations that are Global by Design.We are living in an era when innovators must turn their sights to the global stage as never before, to both solve wicked problems facing the world and capture the economic opportunities presented by emerging markets. Thoughtful, innovative solutions can be truly global in scope, providing the value necessary for large-scale adoption in developing countries and disrupting equivalent products in wealthy markets by offering high performance at low cost.But it will require a diligent, targeted design process to make these innovation growth opportunities a reality, and Winter and Govindarajan deliver the practical approach you need in Global by Design.A book born from the mutual appreciation, and interdependence, of their backgrounds--Winter is a rock star in engineering design and Govindarajan a longtime leading expert on strategy and innovation--Global by Design provides what you need to get started, whether you work in a C-suite, an engineering cubicle, the workshop floor, a classroom, the halls of government, or an NGO field office.No matter your discipline, level of training, or location in the world, you have valuable knowledge and perspective that can be leveraged to spot consequential problems, leverage innovation to solve them, and create an ecosystem for driving the creation of high-value, low-cost solutions that have global appeal--that are Global by Design.

How to Create Innovations That Scale, Travel, and Transform

Global by Design

A Systems Thinking Approach

Engineering Principles, Methods, and Applicationsin the Age of AI

How Things Are Made

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