Books in the Systems Innovation Book Series series

Providing a guided tour through each stage of process, this book explores how to apply Kansei/Affective Engineering. It describes the psychological survey and psycho-physiological measurement of consumer feelings and the multivariate statistical analysis of this survey data, including rough set models.

Additive Manufacturing Handbook focuses on product design for the defense industry, which affects virtually every other industry. Thus, the handbook provides a wide range of benefits to all segments of business, industry, and government. Manufacturing has undergone a major advancement and technology shift in recent years.

This book identifies principles developed to help companies and businesses succeed with projects. It simplifies the use of these methodologies and processes so the everyday person can apply these approaches to be successful with projects. The book guides you to define project scope and to complete projects with quality, on time, and on budget. It explains project concepts in easy to understand terms, provides examples, and offers you the opportunity to develop your own project plan.

In an age when most business plans extend only to the next quarterly reporting period, the authors propose an audaciously longer view of future planning. The authors of this book take a cue from Kongo Gumi, a Japanese construction company that managed to thrive as a family-owned business for nearly 1500 years. The book explains and demonstrates the meaning of CISR® - continual improvement for social responsibility - and illustrates the rigorous six-step SOFAIR methodology with many examples. Based on decades of experience, the book explains how existing organizational continual improvement efforts can be adapted to also focus on sustainability.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Provides various computational resources needed by industrial engineers. This book focuses on particular specialization areas of industrial engineering, such as basic and engineering math, production engineering, engineering economics, ergonomics, systems and data engineering, project engineering, and simulation and statistical calculations.

For managers to truly excel into a position of leadership they must increase efficiency and develop the soft skills necessary to inspire people to do more with less. Providing a series of practical and tested lessons, this book offers a clear, coherent, and effective way of tactfully directing project managers. Written by a highly successful author, it gives real world examples, survey materials including a high performing team questionnaire, and exercises in conflict resolution, conflict continuum, and team effectiveness. It also provides a website with downloadable documents and a podcast to continually reinforce the material.

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.

Presenting a step-by-step approach to managing projects in science, technology, and engineering, this book uses time-tested concepts of the Project Management Body of Knowledge. It combines managerial, organizational, and quantitative techniques into a logical sequence of project implementation steps.

A comprehensive guide to the implementation of the Triple C Model of project management. It presents the soft side of project management. It deals with the fuzzy, ambiguous people issues subject to emotional nuances and sentimental knee-jerk reactions. It offers coverage of techniques for tracking, managing, and controlling project costs.

Addressing seemingly intractable systems problems in our society, this book focuses on the inherent opportunities and difficulties of a systems approach. It highlights the use of systemigrams and system of systems and contains examples from a range of domains, including technology development, engineering, and business management.

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.

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.