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During the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain (SC) mapping appeared as
one of the critical SC capabilities that could make a striking
difference in organizationsâ SC performance and improve
sustainable operations. Despite its crucial role in responding to
SC disruptions, there is a void in the literature on this topic.
This book aims to address this gap demonstrating the importance of
SC mapping, sustainability in the Industry 4.0 era. The book
explores how SC mapping contributes to sustainability from social,
economic, and environmental perspectives, the role of SC mapping in
upstream, midstream, and downstream SC sustainability, as well as
the role of technology advancement and the impact of blockchain and
Industry 4.0 in SC mapping. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach,
this edited collection features international authors from a
diverse range of disciplines including SC management, operations
management, technology and innovation management, and
sustainability. The book will be a valuable resource for global
scholars, researchers, and upper-level students across operations,
SC management, and logistics, as well as engineering and technology
management.
The purpose of this book is to develop capacity building in
strategic and non-strategic machine tool technology. The book
contains chapters on how to functionally reverse engineer strategic
and non-strategic computer numerical control machinery. Numerous
engineering areas, such as mechanical engineering, electrical
engineering, control engineering, and computer hardware and
software engineering, are covered. The book offers guidelines and
covers design for machine tools, prototyping, augmented reality for
machine tools, modern communication strategies, and enterprises of
functional reverse engineering, along with case studies. Features
Presents capacity building in machine tool development Discusses
engineering design for machine tools Covers prototyping of
strategic and non-strategic machine tools Illustrates augmented
reality for machine tools Includes Internet of Things (IoT) for
machine tools
This book describes capacity building in strategic and
non-strategic machine tool technology. It includes machine building
in sectors such as machine tools, automobiles, home appliances,
energy, and biomedical engineering, along with case studies. The
book offers guidelines for capacity building in academia, covering
how to promote enterprises of functional reverse engineering
enterprises. It also discusses machine tool development,
engineering design, prototyping of strategic, and non-strategies
machine tools, as well as presenting communication strategies and
IoT, along with case studies. Professionals from the CNC (Computer
Numeric Control) machine tools industry, industrial and
manufacturing engineers, and students and faculty in engineering
disciplines will find interest in this book.
Most books on standardization describe the impact of ISO and
related organizations on many industries. While this is great for
managing an organization, it leaves engineers asking questions such
as "what are the effects of standards on my designs?" and "how can
I use standardization to benefit my work?" Standards for
Engineering Design and Manufacturing provides hands-on knowledge
for incorporating standards into the entire process from design
bench to factory floor. The book's five self-contained sections
consider the scope of design and manufacturing, standards for the
design of discrete products, standards for the manufacture of
discrete products, standards for the use of discrete products, as
well as support standards. The authors survey in detail the major
standards-setting organizations and outline the procedure for
developing standards. They consider standards from the perspective
of product, equipment, and end-user, using this as a platform to
explain the economic benefits of standardization. Case studies in
every section illustrate the concepts and offer practical insight
for using standards in CAD/CAM, selection of components, process
planning, human/machine interaction, and computer interfacing. With
its modular approach and practical wisdom based on the authors'
years of broad experience, Standards for Engineering Design and
Manufacturing supplies the tools to incorporate standards into
every stage of design and manufacturing. For a summary of chapters,
as well as illustrations and tools from the book, visit
Published in 1998. An International monograph publishing series
covering new research into the 'green' issues such as government,
corporate and public responses to environmental hazards, the
economics of green policies and the effectiveness of environmental
protection programmes.
This book highlights the importance of non-wood forest products
(NWFPs) and their crucial role in sustaining the livelihood of
rural and indigenous communities in Asia. The authors depict how
the preservation of forests and the associated major non-wood
resources may provide an important avenue to reduce poverty. The
local practices and knowledge on harvesting NWFPs are often rooted
in tradition, and vary from one region to the other. This made it
difficult to develop and establish research focus on a greater
scale in the past. Readers of this volume will gain an
often-missed, broader perspective from these new studies. The
authors put a special emphasis on the nexus between conservation
and livelihood from an Asian point of view. This addresses a
knowledge gap in the current literature and offers important clues
on conducting similar research around the world. The volume
provides a useful reference guide for the relevant researchers,
practitioners and policy makers.
Published in 1998. An International monograph publishing series
covering new research into the 'green' issues such as government,
corporate and public responses to environmental hazards, the
economics of green policies and the effectiveness of environmental
protection programmes.
Wireless network security research is multidisciplinary in nature,
including data analysis, economics, mathematics, forensics,
information technology, and computer science. This text covers
cutting-edge research in computational intelligence systems from
diverse fields on the complex subject of wireless communication
security. It discusses important topics including computational
intelligence in wireless network and communications, artificial
intelligence and wireless communication security, security risk
scenarios in communications, security/resilience metrics and their
measurements, data analytics of cyber-crimes, modeling of wireless
communication security risks, advances in cyber threats and
computer crimes, adaptive and learning techniques for secure
estimation and control, decision support systems, fault tolerance
and diagnosis, cloud forensics and information systems, and
intelligent information retrieval. The book: Discusses
computational algorithms for system modeling and optimization in
security perspective Focuses on error prediction and fault
diagnosis through intelligent information retrieval via wireless
technologies Explores a group of practical research problems where
security experts can help develop new data-driven methodologies
Covers application on artificial intelligence and wireless
communication security risk perspective The text is primarily
written for senior undergraduate, graduate students, and
researchers in the fields of electrical engineering, electronics
and communication engineering, and computer engineering. The text
comprehensively discusses wide range of wireless communication
techniques with emerging computational intelligent trends, to help
readers understand the role of wireless technologies in
applications touching various spheres of human life with the help
of hesitant fuzzy sets based computational modeling. It will be a
valuable resource for senior undergraduate, graduate students, and
researchers in the fields of electrical engineering, electronics
and communication engineering, and computer engineering.
This book introduces the applications of Industry 4.0 in machine
tools through an overview of the latest available digital
technologies. It focuses on digital twining, communication between
industrial controls, motion, and input/output devices, along with
sustainability in SMEs. Machine Tools: An Industry 4.0 Perspective
focuses on the digital twining of machine tools, which improves the
life of the machines and provides a method of operating a factory
during times of complete lockdown resulting from various
conditions. It presents an overview of the communication between
industrial controls, motion, and input/output devices through
standardized digital interfaces such as SERCOS and USB. The book
goes on to discuss industrial cybersecurity systems applicable to
discrete manufacturing, which includes cyberattacks and human
errors, and address the security aspects related to software,
hardware, and data. The book also explores the application of big
data for different stages of production and illustrates the uses
such as predictive maintenance, product quality, product life cycle
management (PLM), and more. This book is an ideal reference for
undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students of industrial,
mechanical, and mechatronics engineering, along with professionals,
and general readers.
This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the existing nature
of India's groundwater laws. In the backdrop of the gravity of
groundwater crisis that threatens to engulf the country, the book
examines the correlation between the imperfections in the law and
water crisis and advocates a reform agenda to overhaul the legal
framework. It accomplishes this objective by examining how some of
the States and Union Territories regulate and manage groundwater
through the legal instrumentality against the backdrop of the two
conflicting paradigms: the "elitist" and the "egalitarian." The
book's fundamental premise is that despite being an extraordinarily
critical resource that supports India's burgeoning population's
ever-increasing water demands, groundwater is abused and
mismanaged. The key argument that it posits is that the elitist
paradigm must give way to an egalitarian one where groundwater is
treated as a common property resource. To place this message in
perspective, the book's introduction explains the dichotomy between
the two paradigms in the context of groundwater. This sets the
stage, after which the book is divided thematically into three
parts. The first part deals with some of the general groundwater
management concerns brought to the fore by the operation of the
elitist paradigm. Since water is constitutionally a State subject,
the second part analyses the groundwater legislations of different
States and Union Territories set against their unique
circumstances. As these laws do not dismantle the elitist paradigm
that interlocks groundwater rights to land rights, the next part
articulates the legal reform agenda where a case is made to
re-engineer groundwater laws to reflect a more sustainable basis.
The findings and arguments resonate with the situation in many
developing countries around the world due to which the book is a
valuable resource for researchers across disciplines studying this
area, and also for policy makers, think tanks, and NGOs.
Groundwater Management-Inter-state Water Conflicts-Aquifers-Water
Markets-Water Security-Water Law Reform-Groundwater Law-Water
Law-Sustainable Development-Hydrology
This book provides an overview of eco-friendly resins and their
composite materials covering their synthesis, sources, structures
and properties for different industrial applications to support the
ongoing research and development in eco-friendly and renewable
commercial products. It provides comparative discussions on the
properties of eco-friendly resins with other polymer composites. It
is a useful reference on bio-based eco-friendly polymer resins,
wood-based composites, natural fibers and biomass materials for the
polymer scientists, engineers and material scientists.
This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the existing nature
of India's groundwater laws. In the backdrop of the gravity of
groundwater crisis that threatens to engulf the country, the book
examines the correlation between the imperfections in the law and
water crisis and advocates a reform agenda to overhaul the legal
framework. It accomplishes this objective by examining how some of
the States and Union Territories regulate and manage groundwater
through the legal instrumentality against the backdrop of the two
conflicting paradigms: the "elitist" and the "egalitarian." The
book's fundamental premise is that despite being an extraordinarily
critical resource that supports India's burgeoning population's
ever-increasing water demands, groundwater is abused and
mismanaged. The key argument that it posits is that the elitist
paradigm must give way to an egalitarian one where groundwater is
treated as a common property resource. To place this message in
perspective, the book's introduction explains the dichotomy between
the two paradigms in the context of groundwater. This sets the
stage, after which the book is divided thematically into three
parts. The first part deals with some of the general groundwater
management concerns brought to the fore by the operation of the
elitist paradigm. Since water is constitutionally a State subject,
the second part analyses the groundwater legislations of different
States and Union Territories set against their unique
circumstances. As these laws do not dismantle the elitist paradigm
that interlocks groundwater rights to land rights, the next part
articulates the legal reform agenda where a case is made to
re-engineer groundwater laws to reflect a more sustainable basis.
The findings and arguments resonate with the situation in many
developing countries around the world due to which the book is a
valuable resource for researchers across disciplines studying this
area, and also for policy makers, think tanks, and NGOs.
Groundwater Management-Inter-state Water Conflicts-Aquifers-Water
Markets-Water Security-Water Law Reform-Groundwater Law-Water
Law-Sustainable Development-Hydrology
This book provides an overview of eco-friendly resins and their
composite materials covering their synthesis, sources, structures
and properties for different industrial applications to support the
ongoing research and development in eco-friendly and renewable
commercial products. It provides comparative discussions on the
properties of eco-friendly resins with other polymer composites. It
is a useful reference on bio-based eco-friendly polymer resins,
wood-based composites, natural fibers and biomass materials for the
polymer scientists, engineers and material scientists.
Sugarcane exhibits all the major characteristics of a promising
bioenergy crop including high biomass yield, C4 photosynthetic
system, perennial nature, and ratooning ability. Being the largest
agricultural commodity of the world with respect to total
production, sugarcane biomass is abundantly available. Brazil has
already become a sugarcane biofuels centered economy while
Thailand, Colombia, and South Africa are also significantly
exploiting this energy source. Other major cane producers include
India, China, Pakistan, Mexico, Australia, Indonesia, and the
United States. It has been projected that sugarcane biofuels will
be playing extremely important role in world's energy matrix in
recent future. This book analyzes the significance, applications,
achievements, and future avenues of biofuels and bioenergy
production from sugarcane, in top cane growing countries around the
globe. Moreover, we also evaluate the barriers and areas of
improvement for targeting efficient, sustainable, and
cost-effective biofuels from sugarcane to meet the world's energy
needs and combat the climate change.
This book discusses various dimensions of Indian fiscal federalism,
focusing on the current fiscal imbalances - both vertical and
horizontal - and their correction. Throwing light on different
angles of this subject, it presents well-researched papers, which
are divided into three sections. The first section, 'Fiscal
federalism and resolving the fiscal imbalances', includes five
chapters that discuss this theme and also explain the various
strategies to remove the existing imbalances in India. 'Fiscal
decentralization for high growth' which is the second section,
explains how decentralisation leads to high economic growth and
showcases empirical evidence from a few Indian states that are
flourishing due to this policy. The third section, 'Emerging
issues' offers six chapters describing several existing key
concerns in fiscal federalism that have a major impact on achieving
India's development goals. Including contributions from leading
academics in this field, the book will be of great interest to
research scholars and policy makers alike. "Besides addressing the
core issue of fiscal imbalances and ways to correct them, the
[chapters] touch on several issues confronting the Indian fiscal
system at the centre , state and local levels. The [chapters] are
well researched and well argued. The book is a valuable addition to
the literature on Fiscal Federalism." - Dr. C. Rangarajan,
Ex-Governor of Reserve Bank of India; Chairman, Madras School of
Economics, Chennai, India.
Virtual Manufacturing presents a novel concept of combining human
computer interfaces with virtual reality for discrete and
continuous manufacturing systems. The authors address the relevant
concepts of manufacturing engineering, virtual reality, and
computer science and engineering, before embarking on a description
of the methodology for building augmented reality for manufacturing
processes and manufacturing systems. Virtual Manufacturing is
centered on the description of the development of augmented reality
models for a range of processes based on CNC, PLC, SCADA,
mechatronics and on embedded systems. Further discussions address
the use of augmented reality for developing augmented reality
models to control contemporary manufacturing systems and to acquire
micro- and macro-level decision parameters for managers to boost
profitability of their manufacturing systems. Guiding readers
through the building of their own virtual factory software, Virtual
Manufacturing comes with access to online files and software that
will enable readers to create a virtual factory, operate it and
experiment with it. This is a valuable source of information with a
useful toolkit for anyone interested in virtual manufacturing,
including advanced undergraduate students, postgraduate students
and researchers.
The purpose of this book is to develop capacity building in
strategic and non-strategic machine tool technology. The book
contains chapters on how to functionally reverse engineer strategic
and non-strategic computer numerical control machinery. Numerous
engineering areas, such as mechanical engineering, electrical
engineering, control engineering, and computer hardware and
software engineering, are covered. The book offers guidelines and
covers design for machine tools, prototyping, augmented reality for
machine tools, modern communication strategies, and enterprises of
functional reverse engineering, along with case studies. Features
Presents capacity building in machine tool development Discusses
engineering design for machine tools Covers prototyping of
strategic and non-strategic machine tools Illustrates augmented
reality for machine tools Includes Internet of Things (IoT) for
machine tools
Classical Charged Particle Beam Optics used in the design and
operation of all present-day charged particle beam devices, from
low energy electron microscopes to high energy particle
accelerators, is entirely based on classical mechanics. A question
of curiosity is: How is classical charged particle beam optics so
successful in practice though the particles of the beam, like
electrons, are quantum mechanical? Quantum Mechanics of Charged
Particle Beam Optics answers this question with a comprehensive
formulation of 'Quantum Charged Particle Beam Optics' applicable to
any charged particle beam device.
This book highlights the importance of non-wood forest products
(NWFPs) and their crucial role in sustaining the livelihood of
rural and indigenous communities in Asia. The authors depict how
the preservation of forests and the associated major non-wood
resources may provide an important avenue to reduce poverty. The
local practices and knowledge on harvesting NWFPs are often rooted
in tradition, and vary from one region to the other. This made it
difficult to develop and establish research focus on a greater
scale in the past. Readers of this volume will gain an
often-missed, broader perspective from these new studies. The
authors put a special emphasis on the nexus between conservation
and livelihood from an Asian point of view. This addresses a
knowledge gap in the current literature and offers important clues
on conducting similar research around the world. The volume
provides a useful reference guide for the relevant researchers,
practitioners and policy makers.
This book brings together in English translation for the first time
the two editions of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan's classic account of the
monuments and environs of the pre-colonial city of Delhi, titled in
Urdu Asar-us-Sanadid (The Remnants of Ancient Heroes). The
translator provides a commentary in the form of annotations and
appendices that demonstrates the historical development of the text
between 1847 and 1854, also reflecting the life of its subject,
Delhi, which was to be irreversibly transformed by the cataclysmic
events of 1857. The volume includes sketches based on the
lithographs in the first Urdu edition. The translation fills a
crucial lacuna in the historical archive for nineteenth-century
Delhi and will be a valuable resource for urban historians and
students of Delhi's monumental history.
Sugarcane exhibits all the major characteristics of a promising
bioenergy crop including high biomass yield, C4 photosynthetic
system, perennial nature, and ratooning ability. Being the largest
agricultural commodity of the world with respect to total
production, sugarcane biomass is abundantly available. Brazil has
already become a sugarcane biofuels centered economy while
Thailand, Colombia, and South Africa are also significantly
exploiting this energy source. Other major cane producers include
India, China, Pakistan, Mexico, Australia, Indonesia, and the
United States. It has been projected that sugarcane biofuels will
be playing extremely important role in world's energy matrix in
recent future. This book analyzes the significance, applications,
achievements, and future avenues of biofuels and bioenergy
production from sugarcane, in top cane growing countries around the
globe. Moreover, we also evaluate the barriers and areas of
improvement for targeting efficient, sustainable, and
cost-effective biofuels from sugarcane to meet the world's energy
needs and combat the climate change.
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