Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Production & Operations Management

The blurring of boundaries between hitherto distinct scientific disciplines, technologies or markets is a common and powerful phenomenon. Subjects of this convergence often change consumer behaviours, favouring products and platforms with multiple functions. The Anticipation of Converging Industries provides a detailed focus on the triggers, drivers and consequences of convergence to create a more concise definition of convergence.

This detailed analysis includes a specifically developed toolbox for convergence foresight, creating a forecasting method for convergence...

This edited book offers further advances, new perspectives, and developments from world leaders in the field of through-life engineering services (TES). It builds up on the earlier book by the same authors entitled: "Through-life Engineering Services: Motivation, Theory and Practice."

This compendium introduces and discusses further, the developments in workshop-based and 'in situ' maintenance and support of high-value engineering products, as well as the application of drone technology for autonomous and self-healing product support. The links between 'integrated planning' and...

This book details the design and technology of the on-line electric vehicle (OLEV) system and its enabling wireless power-transfer technology, the -shaped magnetic field in resonance- (SMFIR). The text shows how OLEV systems can achieve their three linked important goals:

• reduction of CO₂ produced by ground transportation;
• improved energy efficiency of ground transportation; and
• contribution to the amelioration or prevention of climate change and global warming.

SMFIR provides power to the OLEV by wireless transmission from...

This book teaches readers the fundamentals of innovation and reduces them to practice. It is a new, fresh look at learning and practicing innovation at the individual level, based on scientific knowledge and in the context of the 21^st century. The book begins with an overview of "human-centered engineering," and how understanding a client's needs plays a direct part in both innovation and success. The second chapter focuses on an engineer's training and education, entry level jobs, lab research, and finally overcoming corporate stagnation. A separate chapter on Innovation...