Industrial Production offers a broad and thorough introduction to the multidisciplinary field of production engineering, with a focus on the production of mechanical products. The book covers design and machining processes, as well as topics such as materials behaviour, manufacturing, assembly and manufacturing machines. It also looks at quality, costs, important aspects of product and production development (including design for production) as well as technical and organisational management.

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Addresses the main systems necessary for the successful operation of a maintenance organization, such as performance control, work control and documentation. This work shows how they can be modelled, their function and operating principles, and the main problems encountered in operation.

Materials: Engineering, Science, Processing and Design is the essential materials engineering text and resource for students developing skills and understanding of materials properties and selection for engineering applications. Taking a unique design-led approach that is broader in scope than other texts, Materials meets the curriculum needs of a wide variety of courses in the materials and design field, including introduction to materials science and engineering, engineering materials, mate...

Handbook Organisation and Management, A Practical Approach is de Engelstalige editie van Handboek Organisatie en Management, een praktische benadering.

• Praktijkgerichte inleiding op het vakgebied;

• behandelt actuele thema’s zoals digitale business transformatie en maatschappelijk verantwoord ondernemen;

• met uitgebreide online ondersteuning, talrijke opdrachten en actuele cases.

In deze interactieve inleiding op het vakgebied wordt de theorie van management en organisatie door J...

For undergraduate and graduate principles of management and management skills courses Skills development for tomorrow's managers Whetten's Developing Management Skills has become the standard text in learning hands-on management. Designed for students of all skill levels and learning styles, the text allows students to apply knowledge to real-world situations, connect concepts to their own lives, and experience management theory in a tactile and engaging way. Updated for tomorrow's managers, ...

Strategic Maintenance Planning deals with the concepts, principles and techniques of preventive maintenance, and shows how the complexity of maintenance strategic planning can be resolved by a systematic 'Top-Down-Bottom-Up' approach. It explains how to establish objectives for physical assets and maintenance resources, and how to formulate an appropriate life plan for plant. It then shows how to use the life plans to formulate a preventive maintenance schedule for the plant as a whole, along...

Creativity Today - the management book on applied creativity and written by Ramon Vullings & Igor Byttebier - has inspired tens of thousands of managers, teachers and students around the world. Now this book is made available again in a revised version, under a new title, new subtitle and with a new cover design. All intended to focus this creativity classic more on education and to emphasize its attractiveness as a basic guide for businesses, schooling institutions and organizations that wis...