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This book presents the proceedings of the first International
Upcycling Symposium 2020, held on 4th September 2020 at De Montfort
University (DMU) in Leicester, UK (online), as a joint effort
between DMU, Lund University, Nottingham Trent University and
Newcastle University. This book presents state of the art of
research and practice in "upcycling" at the international level.
The subject of this book, upcycling, is a term to describe the
processes of creating or modifying a product from used or waste
materials, components and products, which is of equal or higher
quality or value than the compositional elements. This book
describes new theories, approaches and scientific research findings
related to upcycling and presents examples of upcycling practice,
across multiple sectors, scales and contexts. Bringing together
research from over 35 multidisciplinary experts, the book discusses
state-of-the-art knowledge and practices on upcycling in different
geographical, economic, socio-cultural and technological contexts
at an international level. Readers will gain fundamental
understanding of upcycling with its varied definitions and forms
across sectors and scales, and to be informed of the latest
upcycling research and practices including valuable ideas,
theories, projects, experiences and insights by global experts.
Provides detailed introduction to Internet of Healthcare Things
(IoHT) and its applications Reviews underlying sensor and hardware
technologies Includes recent advances in the IoHT such as remote
healthcare monitoring and wearable devices Explores applications of
Data Analytics/Data Mining in IoHT, including data management and
data governance Focusses on regulatory and compliance issues in
IoHT
This book presents the proceedings of the first International
Upcycling Symposium 2020, held on 4th September 2020 at De Montfort
University (DMU) in Leicester, UK (online), as a joint effort
between DMU, Lund University, Nottingham Trent University and
Newcastle University. This book presents state of the art of
research and practice in "upcycling" at the international level.
The subject of this book, upcycling, is a term to describe the
processes of creating or modifying a product from used or waste
materials, components and products, which is of equal or higher
quality or value than the compositional elements. This book
describes new theories, approaches and scientific research findings
related to upcycling and presents examples of upcycling practice,
across multiple sectors, scales and contexts. Bringing together
research from over 35 multidisciplinary experts, the book discusses
state-of-the-art knowledge and practices on upcycling in different
geographical, economic, socio-cultural and technological contexts
at an international level. Readers will gain fundamental
understanding of upcycling with its varied definitions and forms
across sectors and scales, and to be informed of the latest
upcycling research and practices including valuable ideas,
theories, projects, experiences and insights by global experts.
In the contemporary automotive manufacturing industry, service
providers are continuously working to improve system optimization
in order to remain competitive in the market and deliver quality
products to satisfy their customers. With this comes the
possibility of failure, rejection and reworking of the components
or services in the system, which can incur high costs and impact
the reputation of an organization. This book uses Failure Mode and
Effect Analysis (FMEA) to assess, investigate and predict the Risk
Priority Number (RPN) of potential failures for three companies
within the manufacturing industry: A metal component supplier in
the automotive sector Part manufacturer for the automobile and
engineering industries Manufacturer of suspension components for
commercial vehicles Integrating human expertise and artificial
intelligence on a single platform, the authors use fuzzy logic as a
tool to overcome the vagueness associated with traditional methods
of assessing potential failures. The book also details the
procedure and scales of how to conduct FMEA, offering guidance on
how to input and rank each risk within manufacturing processes
across a range of sectors's. Each of the three real-world cases
offer suggested improvements for the companies themselves,
alongside takeaways for researchers and professionals within the
fields of manufacturing and supply chain management.
This book covers the strategic use of continuous improvement (CI)
techniques for manufacturing performance improvement. It focuses
primarily on strategies that can be adopted by small and
middle-sized enterprises in manufacturing in order to meet the
global challenges and competition. The book begins with an
introduction to CI (or Kaizen), explaining different CI approaches
and strategies. Chapter 2 offers a literature review of CI,
examining conceptual frameworks, case studies, and surveys. Next,
the book deals with the design of the study, detailing the work
done in each phase along with the tools, techniques and models.
Chapter 4 presents a detailed survey to determine the present
status of continuous improvement strategies in the Indian
manufacturing industry, to assess the important barriers that
effect the implementation of CI strategies, and to also assess the
role of key enablers leading to improve the performance of
manufacturing operations. Chapter 5 is comprised of detailed case
studies to further analyze the application of the discussed CI
strategies. The purpose of Chapter 6 is to develop the relationship
among the different identified most important barriers in
implementing CI approach using interpretive structural modeling
(ISM) and classify these barriers depending upon their driving and
dependence power. Finally Chapter 7 provides conclusions, addresses
potential limitations, and also looks to the future.
Volleyball has come a long way from the dusty-old YMCA gymnasium of
Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA, where the visionary William G. Morgan
invented the sport back in 1895. It has seen the start of two
centuries and the dawn of a new millennium. Volleyball is now one
of the big five international sports, and the FIVB, with its 220
affiliated national federations, is the largest international
sporting federation in the world. Volleyball has witnessed
unprecedented growth over the last decade. The present game of
Volleyball is highly skilful, interesting and demands high level of
fitness. Since founding of the FIVB (1947) until its premier as an
Olympic sport (1964), modern Volleyball was imprinted with many
technical & tactical innovations. Volleyball was introduced in
India by Dr. J.H. Grey in 1921. Volleyball was first introduced at
the Asian Games in 1958 at Tokyo were India get the Third Position.
Men's volleyball was included as an event in the Olympic Games in
1960. This book may contribute towards promotion of volleyball
performance by means of helping coaches and physical trainers to
develop sound training program.
This research work aimed to investigate the effect of shape factor,
slurry layers and pouring temperature in precision investment
casting. Three controllable factors of the precision investment
casting process (namely: shape factor, slurry layers (mould
thickness) and pouring temperature) were studied at three levels
each by Taguchi's parametric approach and single-response
optimization was conducted to identify the main factors controlling
surface hardness, dimensional accuracy ( d) and surface roughness
(Ra). Castings were produced using aluminium, mild steel and
stainless steel at recommended parameters through ceramic shell
investment casting process. The micro structure analysis has been
used to study the surface morphology. Cooling curve analysis was
done to analyse the surface hardness data."
The ultimate objective of the manufacturing organizations today is
to increase profitability through system simplification,
organizational potential and incremental improvements by using
modern techniques like Continuous Improvement, TPM and TQM etc.
Most of the manufacturing organizations are currently encountering
a necessity to respond to rapidly changing customer needs, desires
and tastes. In order for organization to remain competitive and
retain their market share in this global market, continuous
improvement of manufacturing system processes has become necessary.
Different strategies are involved in successful implementation of
Continuous Improvement approach in different organizations.
Research is still lacking to check the performance of such
managerial techniques in Manufacturing Industry. So an attempt has
been made to identify such strategies, to check the level of
importance and difficulties of these strategies and the important
benefits achieved after successful implementation of both
Continuous Improvement approach and its Strategies have been
identified.
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