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Despite the best preparation, the risk of natural disasters, catastrophic accidents, and terrorist attacks cannot be completely eliminated. A carefully prepared response is the best defense. This handbook presents comprehensive guidelines for researchers and practitioners for a coordinated execution of emergency response. An essential tool to mitigate logistical problems that often follow disasters or extreme events, the book emphasizes human factors in emergency project management that involve a systematic structure for communication, cooperation, and coordination. The book highlights what must be done and when, and identifies the resources required for each effort.

In the past, company success was typically measured by financial indicators. Lately though, non-financial measures such as employee morale have become popular. Although there are approaches that look into quantitative and qualitative performance measures affecting company success, none of them characterize it in a holistic way.

A contributed work covering advances in learning curve research theory and applications, this book draws a learning map to demonstrate where learning is involved within organizations and how it can be sustained, perfected, and accelerated. It reviews developments in research and explores the learning-quality relationship. The text explains how to improve learning curves using the Earned Value Method (EVM) and through the design of thinking systems. It also offers a chapter that reviews the Forgetting Curves.

Planning, measurement, and paying attending to details form the basis for all successful engineering operations. Using a systems framework, this handbook presents a comprehensive all-encompassing guide to measurements.

This book provides an introduction to industrial engineering and discusses the role of the industrial engineer. Its purpose is to lay out the broad scope of areas in which industrial engineers are engaged and to help new IE students understand the professional development pathways open to them and the direction in which to specialize. The book presents the major issues dealt with by industrial engineers, focusing on basic tools that require no in-depth knowledge of mathematics, statistics, psychology or sociology.

Planning, measurement, and paying attending to details form the basis for all successful engineering operations. Using a systems framework, this handbook presents a comprehensive all-encompassing guide to measurements.

Leading the industries in a particular market requires predicting processes before they fail. Understanding the art of Total Productive Maintenance, in a sense of predicting, correcting and communicating, ensures positive results. The art of effective communication in order to see positive results of TPM and continuous improvement requires the right set of tools from the right perspective. This book will demonstrate how to obtain a healthy balance of both, while being successful.

Development and execution of a successful ES&H program in today¿s profit-driven business climate is challenging and complex. The techniques outlined in this book provide guidance and aid in understanding the challenges that must be addressed by ES&H management and professionals. This book covers the primary areas of ES&H and key elements that should be considered in developing, managing, and implementing an effective, compliant and cost effective program. It to fulfills the need that exists in the workplace for guidance from a practical experience view point.

Due to a lack of appreciation of the true economic identity of projects, techniques and metrics that could hugely improve project selection and performance are not being used. This book provides insights and innovative techniques drawn from more than a quarter century of experience. These techniques have the potential to transform program and project management from the current haphazard application of various techniques and metrics to an incisive and integrated approach where programs and projects are managed for the crucial economic and financial implications that are at the essence of every project investment.

A new edition of the bestselling industrial and systems engineering text, this book provides students, researchers, and practitioners with easy access to a wide range of industrial engineering tools and techniques in a concise format. It expands the breadth and depth of coverage, emphasizing new systems engineering tools, techniques, and models. New coverage includes control charts, engineering economy, health operational efficiency, healthcare systems, human systems integration, lean systems, logistics transportation, manufacturing systems, material handling systems, process view of work, queuing systems, reliability systems and tools, and six sigma techniques.

Project management for oil and gas projects comes with a unique set of challenges that include the management of science, technology, and engineering aspects. Underlining the specific issues involved in projects in this field, Project Management for the Oil and Gas Industry: A World System Approach presents step-by-step application of project management techniques. Using the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) framework from the Project Management Institute (PMI) as the platform, the book provides an integrated approach that covers the concepts, tools, and techniques for managing oil and gas projects.The authors discuss specialized tools such as plan, do, check, act (PDCA); define, measure, analyze, improve, control (DMAIC); suppliers, inputs, process, outputs, customers (SIPOC); design, evaluate, justify, integrate (DEJI); quality function deployment (QFD); affinity diagrams; flowcharts; Pareto charts; and histograms. They also discuss the major activities in oil and gas risk assessment, such as feasibility studies, design, transportation, utility, survey works, construction, permanent structure works, mechanical and electrical installations, and maintenance.Strongly advocating a world systems approach to managing oil and gas projects and programs, the book covers quantitative and qualitative techniques. It addresses technical and managerial aspects of projects and illustrates the concepts with case examples of applications of project management tools and techniques to real-life project scenarios that can serve as lessons learned for best practices. An in-depth examination of project management for oil and gas projects, the book is a handbook for professionals in the field, a guidebook for technical consultants, and a resource for students.

The book presents the application of Six Sigma methodology as a viable path for achieving the goals of sustainability. Sustainability is a tool that helps companies gain true benefits off of their improvements. Many companies make improvements but cannot keep the results successful. This book not only shows how to use particular lean six sigma tools, but also how to sustain results for companies to be profitable with continuous improvement.

This book has been developed to provide significant information about usage and applications of various quality tools and techniques for managing a construction project as it moves through the different phases of the project life cycle.

This book provides a technical and practical guide to measure and minimize greenhouse gas emissions for any organization, from manufacturing to service facilities. It serves as an up-to-date source of technical information related to current and potential greenhouse gas emission minimization practices. Providing a detailed framework, it outlines an assessment procedure that has been refined over the past five years on more than 20 assessments. The text offers a step-by-step guide to conduct analyses and includes case studies demonstrating the application.

Thanks to Apple and smart phone phenomenon, almost everyone has realized the emerging trend of user experience in design. Kansei engineering is the method to achieve that. This book defines Kansei and Kansei Engineering, then describes in detail the application and development process. It provides 30 case studies than underscore the concepts and demonstrate their practical application. Also included are examples of manufacturing, implication of worker-oriented philosophy, improvement of working postures, and one-man assembly systems.

In todayΓÇÖs business world, competitiveness defines the industrial leading edge. Organizations and businesses of all sizes are adopting Lean manufacturing practices to increase efficiency and address worries about their bottom lines. In a detailed review of this staple of Lean manufacturing, Cellular Manufacturing: Mitigating Risk and Uncertainty outlines how cellular manufacturing can do just that. It demonstrates how this approach can help you and your teams build a variety of products with as little waste as possible.The book begins by presenting a survey of the current state of existing methods that can best be used in the handling of the bottleneck machines and parts problem, which results from the cellular manufacturing system design. It then explores how decision making under risk is used to help the designer select the best cell arrangement in case of probabilistic production volume and maximize the profit imposed by resource capacity constraints. The author then presents a method for the system design of a manufacturing cell that aims for profit maximization over a certain period of time. He also discusses robust design, illustrated with a real application.Put simply, cellular manufacturing integrates machinery and a small team of staff, directed by a team leader, so all the work on a product or part can be accomplished in the same cell eliminating resources that do not add value to the product. A concise yet unique reference, this book incorporates decision making under risk into cellular manufacturing. The text makes the link that ties cellular manufacturing to the bottom line. It helps you recognize savings opportunities from elimination of downtime between operations, decreased material handling costs, decreased work-in-progress inventory and associated costs, reduced opportunity for handling errors, decreased downtime spent waiting for supplies or materials, and reduced losses from defective or obsolete products.

A project can be simple or complex. In each case, proven project management processes must be followed. In all cases of project management implementation, control must be exercised in order to assure that project objectives are achieved. This book fills the void that exists in the application of statistical techniques to project control. Although designed as a practical guide for project management professionals, the book will also benefit students, researchers, and instructors.

This book presents the mathematical foundation for building and implementing industrial control systems. It contains mathematically rigorous models and techniques for control systems in general with specific orientation toward industrial systems. Industrial control encompasses several types of control systems. This book covers some common elements of industrial control systems, including supervisory control and data acquisition systems, distributed control systems, and other generic control system configurations such as programmable logic controllers, which are often found in industrial operations and engineering infrastructure.

Written by international contributors, Learning Curves: Theory, Models, and Applications first draws a learning map that shows where learning is involved within organizations, then examines how it can be sustained, perfected, and accelerated. The book reviews empirical findings in the literature in terms of different sources for learning and partial assessments of the steps that make up the actual learning process inside the learning curve. Traditionally, books on learning curves have focused either on cost accounting or production planning and control. In these books, the learning curve has been treated as a forecasting tool. This book synthesizes current research and presents a clear picture of organizational learning curves. It explores how organizations improve other measures of organizational performance including quality, inventory, and productivity, then looks inside the learning curve to determine the actual processes through which organizations learn.

Despite the best preparation, the risk of natural disasters, catastrophic accidents, and terrorist attacks cannot be completely eliminated. A carefully prepared response is the best defense. This handbook presents comprehensive guidelines for researchers and practitioners for a coordinated execution of emergency response. An essential tool to mitigate logistical problems that often follow disasters or extreme events, the book emphasizes human factors in emergency project management that involve a systematic structure for communication, cooperation, and coordination. The book highlights what must be done and when, and identifies the resources required for each effort.

Elucidates Kansei Engineering, a product development technology based on the customer's feelings and needs. This book defines the technology, its methods, and the developmental process related to designing a product. It shows how to construct the intelligent computer system to support product development using the neural network model.