Books in the Industrial Engineering: A Series of Reference Books and Textboo series

Discusses the functional design of products as well as the identification of failure systems that permit scheduled maintenance procedures. This book presents information on ISO 9000 requirements, utilities management, the use of bar-coding in maintenance efforts, plant re-arrangement and minor construction, and more.

This book covers the fundamentals of linear programming, extension of linear programming to discrete optimization methods, multi-objective functions, quadratic programming, geometric programming, and classical calculus methods for solving nonlinear programming problems.

This book provides guidelines for obtaining research and development (RD) results of a consistent and known quality. The approaches discussed here have been developed for an industrial research center engaged in RD to support operating divisions of the parent corporation.

This book is a manual for designing and operating a basic quality management program; a practical discussion of what is needed and how to fulfill those needs on a practical basis. It will be helpful to chemical engineers, plant laboratory managers and those interested in quality management.

Details various productivity and quality methodologies, principles and techniques. This title demonstrates how they interact in the three phases of the productivity and quality management triangle (PQMT): measurement, control and evaluation; planning and analysis; and, improvement and monitoring.