Bücher der Reihe Industrial Engineering: A Series of Reference Books and Textboo

Discusses the functional design of products as well as the identification of failure systems that permit scheduled maintenance procedures. This book presents information on ISO 9000 requirements, utilities management, the use of bar-coding in maintenance efforts, plant re-arrangement and minor construction, and more.

This book covers the fundamentals of linear programming, extension of linear programming to discrete optimization methods, multi-objective functions, quadratic programming, geometric programming, and classical calculus methods for solving nonlinear programming problems.

This book is a manual for designing and operating a basic quality management program; a practical discussion of what is needed and how to fulfill those needs on a practical basis. It will be helpful to chemical engineers, plant laboratory managers and those interested in quality management.