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A handbook on modern manufacturing methods. It covers agile and lean manufacturing, Six Sigma and robust design, ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14000, process analysis and simulation, Constraints Management and TRIZ, supply chain management and manufacturing controls integration, and SQC/SPC and Design of Experiments, measurement systems analysis.

Melding traditional project management structure and advanced strategic planning techniques to the needs of environmental remediation, this book presents a planning process applicable to various types of remediation projects. It focuses directly on the management of environmental remediation projects.

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A guide and reference to mechanical conveyor systems that covers various types of mechanical conveyors, providing information on their design, function and applications. With more than 180 photographs and schematics, it also covers various types of bulk solids and the types of conveying systems most effective for each.

Presents major process units for wastewater treatment, addressing what the unit is and how it basically works. This book also presents concepts, such as information on process microbiology. It provides comprehensive and technically accurate wastewater information. It offers readers with a place to write in answers and work out problem solutions.

Sanitary landfills are the widely utilized method of solid waste disposal around the world. This book contains a literature review of various methodologies that have been developed for prediction, generation, characterization, containment, control, and treatment of leachate from sanitary landfills.

High-speed computers, scanners, and remote sensors constantly change the way mapping is done. This title highlights the significant changes in the equipment and techniques of aerial photography and photogrammetric mapping. It provides an information that includes other sensor technology and their respective uses in digital data capture.

Offering a practical guidance to biological monitoring for industrial chemical exposure assessment, this book summarizes what is known about biological monitoring for inorganic, organic, and organometallic substances. It explores the objectives of biological monitoring, the types of biological monitoring methods, their advantages and limitations.

Compiles observations on the properties of Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) and on the concentrations of its constituents in indoor air. This book focuses on natural indoor environments and environments associated with chronic exposure. It stress measurement methods and the competing sources of indoor air contaminants commonly attributed to ETS.

Explores various issues in biogeochemistry research. This book emphasizes the role of biological and chemical interactions and discusses the trends in research and their application to major environmental problems. It focuses on trace element issues in developing countries and various techniques such as stabilization and bioremediation.

Covers the performance and troubleshooting of water chemistry analysis and application of the results to the determination of water quality before and after treatment. This book provides the employee with an understanding of the analyses performed in the potable water lab.

Discusses air calculation and ventilation problems. This book contains the equations, constants, conversions, and formula that an industrial hygienist encounters in their day to day duties.

Offers an overview of ecosystem theory and the tools to manage these systems such as ecological engineering, ecological modeling, ecotoxicology, and ecological economics. This book provides a comprehensive treatment of ecosystem theory and application of theoretical tools, and the integration of classical theory and real world examples.

Challenging the Theory of Constraints, William Levinson suggests that variation in processing and material transfer times can be eliminated through traditional quality management techniques. The author begins with an overview of TOC and its impact on engineering and managerial economies. He illustrates the effect of variation in processing and material transfer times and shows why it prevents achievement of 100 percent utilization. The book describes methods for reducing variation in processing and material transfer times and discusses methods for increasing productivity and reducing cycle times. Readers learn how to identify and remove variations and maximize capacity to achieve bottom-line results.

Flow is a fundamental concept of lean manufacturing, and its improvement is a challenge to many organizations. After mastering basic visual tools, managers must concentrate on increasing flow. This work provides shopfloor and other lean professionals with what they need to know about how other companies are implementing and sustaining continuous flow improvement. Improving Flow: Collected Practices and Cases provides a variety of case studies taken from articles previously published in the newsletter Lean Manufacturer Advisor. The book demonstrates how to move products and services to the customer quicker while eliminating waste and improving profits.

The hard part of implementing a lean transformation, according to most experts, is dealing with the "soft" issues, such as culture change

Praise from Industry Week, January 2003"...In Henry Ford's Lean Vision...Levinson shows how the father of American mass production toiled to eliminate waste, instituted just-in-time delivery of inventory, and applied many other tools now identified with lean..."Japanese manufacturers have made concepts like kaizen (continuous improvement), poka-yoke (error-proofing), and just-in-time famous. When the Japanese began to adopt these techniques from the Ford Motor Company during the early twentieth century, they knew exactly what they were getting: proven methods for mass-producing any product or delivering any service cheaply but well.Henry Ford's methods, however, went well beyond the synergistic and mutually supporting techniques that constitute what we now call lean manufacturing. They included the "soft sciences," the organizational psychology that makes every employee a partner in the drive for success.In Henry Ford's Lean Vision, William A. Levinson draws from Henry Ford's writings, the procedures in his factories, and historical anecdotes about the birth of lean in Japan to show that the philosophy that revolutionized Japanese manufacturing was the same philosophy that grew the Ford Motor Company into a global powerhouse -- and made the United States the wealthiest and most powerful nation on earth. Levinson reveals how Ford was ahead of other modern visionaries and discusses why the very ideas that made his company such a success were abandoned in his own country, and why they finally found acceptance in Japan.Henry Ford's Lean Vision is a hands-on reference that provides the reader with proven principles and methods that can be applied in any business or service enterprise. It covers all aspects of building and running a successful enterprise, including Ford's principles for human relationships and the management of physical resources.

Portable ventilation systems provide an option for supplementing installed ventilation. This book discusses various types of portable ventilation systems in use, their advantages and disadvantages, and what systems works best for what function.

Offers an overview of sources of radioactive waste. This book provides an introduction to radioactive decay and radiation shielding calculations. It covers management and disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste; low-level waste; transuranic waste; Uranium mill tailings; mixed waste; and, transportation of radioactive waste.

This guide for professionals to aid adults with mental retardation in dealing with grief provides information on the universal grief process, addresses grief issues specific to the mentally retarded adult population, and offers practical guidelines for interacting and providing support.

A comprehensive resource for information on child-focused interviews. The authors differentiate between child and adult focused interviews, and offer techniques and suggestions for addressing developmental differences.

Designed for use with children in grades K-6, this book provides a review of support groups: their nature and value; the tripartite model of children's needs, behaviours they need to learn and environmental conditions that support learning; the Keystone Learning Model; and other topics.

Offers coverage of the modelling of the process of heat transfer embodied in regenerative devices. This book presents material on storage and thermal generators and gives emphasis to non-linear problems including the representation of temperature dependence of thermophysical properties involved.

Emphasises on linear and nonlinear partial differential equations focusing on the equations of viscous fluid motion. This book includes chapters that describe particular applications of the finite element method and illustrate the concepts through example problems.

Presents the policies, practices, conditions and terms related to soil and/or water conservation. Containing descriptions of more than 700 entries, this guide is useful as a reference for researchers, extension agents, policymakers, academics, and those concerned about soil and water conservation practices.

Presents background on the core concept of level production in a JIT, or lean, manufacturing system and the implementation techniques. This title discusses changeover and the rules and procedures for changeover improvement and covers quality assurance in the context of level production, including how to recognize structures that create defects.

Covering the techniques essential to setting up a flow production system in manufacturing, this title includes a basic introduction to the relationship between inventory and flow production and their roles in manufacturing. It provides discussion of multi-process operations and precautions and procedures for developing them.

Offers a comprehensive introduction to the just-in-time production system. This text provides a comprehensive manual for setting up a Just-in-Time manufacturing program from start to finish.