Category - "Production Engineering"

Statistical design of experiments is useful in virtually every quantitative field. Two-level factorial designs, which are the focus of this book, provide the most efficient plans for exploring the effects of many factors at once. Engineers, physical scientists, and all who conduct experiments will find this book indispensible. The analysis of 50 published experiments from diverse fields gives the book broad appeal.

Reliability Testing is expensive and engineers and managers require new techniques and equipment to rapidly determine the reasons of product degradation and failure as well as to design products that do not fail.

An in–depth examination of intelligent approaches to increasing the accuracy of a variety of system components.

This book presents the concepts and algorithms of advanced industrial process control and on-line optimization within the framework of a multilayer structure. It describes the interaction of three separate layers of process control: direct control, set-point control, and economic optimization. The book features illustrations of the methodologies and algorithms by worked examples and by results of simulations based on industrial process models.

This book contains the most relevant papers presented in the International Conference on Materials Forming, ESAFORM 2005. It gathers selected plenary and keynote papers presented in the conference, offering an up-to-date synthesis of the academic and industrial research in the fields of physical and numerical modeling of materials forming processes.