This volumes consists of 59 peer-reviewed papers, presented at the International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (SDM-16) held in Chania, Crete Greece in April 2016. Leading-edge research into sustainable design and manufacturing aims to enable the manufacturing industry to grow by adopting more advanced technologies, and at the same time improve its sustainability by reducing its environmental impact. SDM-16 covers a wide range of topics from sustainable product design and service innovation, sustainable process and technology for the manufacturing of sustainable products, sustainable manufacturing systems and enterprises, decision support for sustainability, and the study of societal impact of sustainability including research for circular economy. Application areas are wide and varied. The book will provide an excellent overview of the latest research and development in the area of Sustainable Design and Manufacturing.

Two of the most important factors contributing to national and international economy are processing of information for accurate financial forecasting and decision making as well as processing of information for efficient control of manufacturing systems for increased productivity. The associated problems are very complex and conventional methods often fail to produce acceptable solutions. Moreover, businesses and industries always look for superior solutions to boost profitability and productivity. In recent times, artificial neural networks have demonstrated promising results in solving many real-world problems in these domains, and these techniques are increasingly gaining business and industry acceptance among the practitioners. ""Artificial Neural Networks in Finance and Manufacturing"" presents many state-of-the-art and diverse applications to finance and manufacturing, along with underlying neural network theories and architectures. It offers researchers and practitioners the opportunity to access exciting and cutting-edge research focusing on neural network applications, combining two aspects of economic domain in a single and consolidated volume.

Membrane techniques provide a broad science and technology base. Although there are several books in the traditional membrane field, there is a great need for a highly comprehensive book. This refereed book covers materials from highly respected researchers. This title is highly multidisciplinary in nature and should be extremely valuable to scientists and engineers involved in a variety of activities. Students and faculty members around the world will find this title to be an excellent reference book.
- Invited contributions from leading researchers in the field.
- Coverage of topic is of value to scientists/engineers working in a variety of related fields [separations/reactions, advanced biofunctional materials, contactor designs].
- Aims to fill market gap for a highly comprehensive book containing advances in both synthetic and biofunctional/bimimetic membranes.

"Industrialution, the Experience Principles" is a 'how to book' for plant level management teams on what it takes to sustain a long lasting manufacturing operation in today's environment of global competition.

Author Dennis Lex has over 35 years of hands-on manufacturing experience in metal stamping, injection molding, electronic processing, steel making, casting, welding and industrial engineering. What is unique about this book versus other books on manufacturing is the author addresses all the popular subjects on manufacturing necessary to run a successful operation and how all the theories are interrelated. The author presents his concepts based on real manufacturing experience. His key conclusions are:

Plant level management has the ability control a plants future existence Time is the major resource problem The experience principles do not change with technology, mergers, , acquisitions, etc.

This book provides a comprehensive review of industry 4.0 and its applications, discussing the history of industry evaluation, including industry 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0, and the future structure of industry evaluation. It also examines the effects and impact of various technologies in industry and presents new interdisciplinary business models based on advanced technologies with the help of use cases. Lastly, it highlights the benefits of technological implementation in industry using examples of real-world applications, providing a robust and reliable technological conceptual framework and roadmap for decision-makers in all areas of industry involved transformation.

Modern Manufacturing Technology & Cost Estimation offers a systematic coverage of essential advanced manufacturing processes. Throughout the book authors stress practical approach to near-net-shape and non-traditional (EDM, ECM) processes. Technological developments have recently advanced along with materials, tooling and machines. This book serves as the concise resource related to: .Electrophysical and electrochemical methods and principles .Near-net-shape processes and applications .Technological Knowledge systems developments .material - process: cost relationships .technology-oriented published, Internet and periodical information This book enables a practitioner: . efficiently perform feasibility study .develop a basis for cost-oriented decision support. .acquire new knowledge or to refresh knowledge related to manufacturing analysis and characteristics. This on-the-job book will support cost justification studies, reduce decision time which is critical for busy professionals. Furthermore, it offers common engineering vision for the cross-functional team of manufacturing engineer, product designer, purchasing specialist, sales and marketing professionals. It is written for a practitioner who does not have time to undertake the long hours needed to research the subject The cost reduction course presented in this book can become a model for a set of training courses. Additionally, the book contains useful visual models and templates, examples and diagrams. If technologies described in this book can replace several traditional operations, consolidate product features and improve quality, that means, based on Modern Manufacturing Technology & Cost Estimation a practitioner will be able: . generate more creative and cost saving ideas, concepts . correctly diagnose a manufacturing problem . optimize material and process selection . improve mold and die manufacturing processes . eliminate expensive materials and machines in production . identify and recognize cost avoidance ideas . better control material procurement process . improve production processes in terms of economical efficiency and engineering integrity .support effective product change control process The book will guide a team in efforts of uncovering less costly designs, materials and processes. Modern Manufacturing Technology & Cost Estimation will help to better understand the role of advanced technologies and to achieve superior process efficiency and financial performance.

This book aims to provide recent information on advances in drilling technology. The use of advanced machines, appropriate strategies and special drilling tools can signifi cantly reduce the machining time required for drilling operations, and consequently the production costs, and improve the quality of the holes produced. For these reasons an improvement of the drilling technology is very important for the modern manufacturing industries. This book can be used as a research book for fi nal undergraduate engineering course or at postgraduate level. It can also serve as a useful reference for academics, researchers, mechanical, industrial, production, manufacturing and materials engineers, professionals in drilling technology and related matters.

This excellent volume combines a great deal of data only previously available from many different sources into a single, informative volume. It presents evaporation technology as it exists today. Although evaporation is one of the oldest unit operations, it is also an area with dramatic changes in the last quarter century. Although other methods of separation are available, evaporation remains the best process for many applications. All factors must be evaluated in order to select the best evaporator type. This book will be extremely useful in evaluating and deciding which evaporation technology will meet a particular set of requirements.

Accurate chemical water treatment and skillful maintenance are key elements to attain optimal boiler operation.

"Boiler Water Treatment: Principles and Practice" analyzes the fundamentals of the mechanical operation of boilers, together with the applied chemistry required to achieve waterside cleanliness and costeffective and optimal boiler operation.

The book describes the methods and procedures to optimally applying lubricant to all kinds of general purpose machines. These include process pumps, electric motors and other equipment incorporating rolling element bearing where traditional methods are usually very much out of step with best available practices. Failure analysis, reliability strategies, remedial steps or desirable substitute approaches are also explained.

This standard reference serves the industrial community as an authoritative source on cooling water problems. The problems of corrosion measurement and control are intensively examined and the more recently developed cooling water additives are reviewed. Advances in treatment chemicals and chemical cleaning are thoroughly explored.

Hardbound. The apatites and related calcium phosphates have been of considerable interest to biologists, mineralogists, and inorganic and industrial chemists for many years. This book contains a detailed description of the structures and structural interrelationships of the calcium orthophosphates, including the apatites. Their preparation, crystal growth and dissolution, chemical reactions including thermal decomposition, IR, Raman and NMR spectra and various physical properties are discussed. Apatites other than those containing calcium and phosphorus are included. Synthetic, mineral and biological carbonate apatites are also considered. A wide, but critical coverage of the literature is given, which includes a substantial amount not written in English. Research from many disciplines is included which results in a comprehensive compilation of recent work.

Arc welding is one of the key processes in industrial manufacturing, with welders using two types of processes - gas metal arc welding (GMAW) and gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW). This new book provides a survey-oriented account of the modeling, sensing, and automatic control of the GMAW process.
Researchers are presented with the most recent information in the areas of modeling, sensing and automatic control of the GMAW process, collecting a number of original research results on the topic from the authors and colleagues.

Providing an overview of a variety of topics, this book looks at the classification of various welding processes; the modeling aspects of GMAW; physics of welding; metal transfer characteristics; weld pool geometry; process voltages and variables; power supplies; sensing (sensors for arc length, weld penetration control, weld pool geometry, using optical and intelligent sensors); control techniques of PI, PID, multivariable control, adaptive control, and intelligent control. Finally, the book illustrates a case study presented by the authors and their students at Idaho State University, in collaboration with researchers at the Idaho National Engineering and Environment Laboratory.

Part A: Heat and Mass Transfer in Helium II: A Brief History of Cryogenics; R.G. Scurlock. Applications of Helium II: A Liquid/Gas Phase Separator for HeI and HeII; P.J. Shirron, et al. Heat Transfer in Cryogenc Fluids; Heat Exchangers; Thermoacoustic Oscillations. Insulation. Applications of Superconductivity: Magnet Stability; Coil Protection. Applications of Superconductivity: Magnets and Other Devices. Applications of Superconductivity: Cryogenic Techniques. Refrigeration for Electronics. Refrigeration of Superconducting Systems. Part B: Compressors, Expanders, Pumps for Liquid Helium. Magnetic Refrigerators. Pulse Tube Refrigerators. Cryocoolers. Properties of Cryogenic Fluids. Cryogenic Applications: Transportation. Cryogenic Applications: Space Science and Technology. Cryogenic Applications: Equipment for Space. Cryogenic Instrumentation. Miscellaneous Cryogenic Techniques and Applications. 170 additional articles. Index.