Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Rights Guide Spring/Summer 2012

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Rights Guide Spring/Summer 2012

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Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Rights Guide: Spring/Summer 2012

Aeronautic & Aerospace Engineering ............................... 3

The Argumentative Aerodynamicist/Mclean ..................................................................................... 3

Applied Rocket Propulsion/Hartfield, Jr. ............................................................................................ 3

Theory of Lift: Introductory Computational Aerodynamics with MATLAB and Octave/McBain ... 4

Systems Integration of Air-launched Weapons/Rigby ..................................................................... 4

Introduction to UAV Systems 4e/Fahlstrom ....................................................................................... 5

Automotive Engineering ..................................................... 5

Kinematic Geometry of Gearing 2e/Dooner ....................................................................................... 5

Industrial Engineering ......................................................... 6

Introduction to Humans in Engineered Systems/Remington ........................................................... 6

Making Effective Business Decisions Using Microsoft Project 2010/Advisicon ............................. 6

Mechanical Engineering...................................................... 7

Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Solids and Structures 2e/Crisfield ....................................... 7

XFEM - The Extended Finite Element Method/Bordas ...................................................................... 7

Acoustical Imaging: Techniques and Applications for Engineers/Gan.......................................... 8

Structural Health Monitoring: A Machine Learning Perspective/Farrar .......................................... 8

Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction: Methods and Applications/Bazilevs .......................... 9

XFEM Fracture Analysis of Composites/Mohammadi ...................................................................... 9

Thermodynamics ............................................................... 10

Heat Conduction 3e/Hahn ................................................................................................................. 10

Engineering Statistics ....................................................... 10

Statistics for Scientists and Engineers/Chattamvelli ...................................................................... 10

Quality & Reliability ........................................................... 11

Reliability Engineering/Elsayed ........................................................................................................ 11

Importance Measures in Reliability, Risk, and Optimization: Principles and Applications/Kuo 11

Effective FMEAs: Achieving Safe, Reliable, and Economical Products and Processes using Failure Mode and Effects Analysis/Carlson..................................................................................... 12

Systems Engineering & Management ............................. 12

Decisions: Finding Your Way Through the Maze/Gaynor .............................................................. 12

Computer Aided Product Design Using Six Sigma for Greatest Value/El-Haik ........................... 13

Design for Reliability/Raheja ............................................................................................................ 13

S p r i n g / S u m m e r 2 0 1 2 2 C o n t a c t : j a t t r i l l @ w i l e y . c o m

Systems Engineering Cost Estimation with COSYSMO/Valerdi .................................................... 14

Strategies to the Prediction, Mitigation and Management of Product Obsolescence/Bartels .... 14

Information Overload: An International Challenge to Professional Engineers and Technical Communicators/Strother ................................................................................................................... 15


Aeronautic & Aerospace Engineering

The Argumentative Aerodynamicist

J. Douglas Mclean

978-1-119-96751-4 / 1-119-96751-1

600 pp. Pub: 07/09/12


Based on the author's decades of industrial experience with Boeing, this book helps students and practicing engineers to gain a greater physical understanding of aerodynamics. Relying on clear physical arguments and examples, Mcleanprovides a much-needed, fresh approach to this sometimes contentious subject without shying away from addressing "real" aerodynamic situations as opposed to the oversimplified ones frequently used for mathematical convenience. Motivated by the belief that engineering practice is enhanced in the long run by a robust understanding of the basics as well as real cause-and-effect relationships that lie behind the theory, he provides intuitive physical interpretations and explanations, debunking commonly-held misconceptions and misinterpretations, and building upon the contrasts provided by wrong explanations to strengthen understanding of the right ones.

• Provides a refreshing view of aerodynamics that is based on the author's decades of industrial experience yet is always tied to basic fundamentals.

• Provides intuitive physical interpretations and explanations, debunking commonly-held misconceptions and misinterpretations

• Offers new insights to some familiar topics, for example, what the Biot-Savart law really means and why it causes so much confusion, what "Reynolds number" and "incompressible flow" really mean, and a real physical explanation for how an airfoil produces lift.

• Addresses "real" aerodynamic situations as opposed to the oversimplified ones frequently used for mathematical convenience, and omits mathematical details whenever the physical understanding can be conveyed without them.

Aerodynamics engineers and designers. Graduate and senior undergraduate students on aircraft design/ aerodynamics/ fluid & structural dynamics courses.

Applied Rocket Propulsion

Prof Roy James Hartfield, Jr.

978-0-470-97760-6/ 0-470-97760-4

640 pp. Pub: 22/02/13


Addresses the need for a comprehensive professional book at a level sufficient to enable the engineering design of a complete rocket propulsion system

• Examines fundamental concepts based on the conservation equations with rigor, building up to and including a complete performance analysis.

• Addresses critical topics including nozzle design, solid rocket motor grain design, turbopump analysis, thermochemical analysis

• Includes 3 chapters on non-chemical propulsion and an approach to rocket propelled vehicle design and design optimisation.

• Based on industry-focused short courses taught by the author at the Missile and Space Intelligence Center, Huntsville, AL; the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL; the CIA, Washington, DC; and the University of Kansas short course program on the topics of Solid Propellant Rocket Propulsion, and Liquid Propellant Rocket Propulsion

• Accompanied by a range of software applications for the analysis of the performance of a rocket, providing an implementation of the principles described in the book including nozzle design, combustion chamber analysis, nozzle expansion theory with both equilibrium and frozen flow options, and other applications involving performance.

Researchers and practicing engineers in the rocket propulsion field. Graduate and postgraduate students studying rocket propulsion


Theory of Lift: Introductory Computational Aerodynamics with MATLAB and Octave

Geordie McBain

978-1-119-95228-2 / 1-119-95228-X

338 pp. Pub: 03/08/12


Accessible introduction to aerodynamics using a unique computational approach based on widely available MATLAB

® software tools.

Based on the author's years of experience teaching aerodynamics to students, he has developed an approach combining the use of widely available MATLAB commercial code (also compatible with Octave GNU open source code) with clear narrative explanations of the concepts that simplifies the understanding of aerodynamics without sacrificing the mathematical underpinnings or leaving the reader overwhelmed with complex formulas. The ability of the reader to download and run the code examples makes this an ideal self-learning tool, as well as a valuable course text.

The choice of compatible MATLAB/Octave code ensures anyone can run the examples -- either using open-source GNU Octave software as many consultancies and small firms do, or using the MATLAB commercial application (including the student edition) which is used widely in industry and is almost ubiquitous in academia. The code has been carefully compiled and checked for compatibility with both applications.

• Unique approach clearly explains aerodynamic concepts with less emphasis on complex mathematical explanations, instead using pre-coded MATLAB

®/Octave examples to demonstrate concepts

and illustrate the maths behind them.

• Provides a clear introduction to aerodynamics based on a line and panel methods.

• Associated website includes downloadable code for all examples in the book.

Graduate and senior undergraduate students on aeronautical and aerospace engineering courses. Aerodynamics engineers and designers.

Systems Integration of Air-launched Weapons

Keith Antony Rigby

978-0-470-97118-5 / 0-470-97118-5

250 pp. Pub: 14/09/12


Tackles all of the fundamental issues pertaining to the complex, multi-disciplinary field of weapons integration that is not currently covered by published literature

• Collates a wide range of topics on weapons integration not yet in the public domain, providing essential reading for aircraft systems engineers.

• Covers all of the fundamental issues including the use of GPS to extend the effectiveness of older airframes (eg B-52), interoperability within NATO countries, and the challenge of the design of autonomous platforms carrying weapons as part of unmanned aircraft systems

• Builds knowledge and experience quicker than would be gained on a real integration programme as well as serving as a useful reference for experienced engineers in the field.

Weapons Engineers and researchers/ graduate students in weapons engineering project managers, concepts designers and systems engineers. Project managers, concepts designers and systems engineers


Introduction to UAV Systems 4e

Paul Fahlstrom, Dr. Thomas Gleason

978-1-119-97866-4 / 1-119-97866-1

288 pp. Pub: 31/08/12


An excellent, broad-based technical introduction to UAV systems notable for its extensive coverage of data links and aerodynamics.

• Includes new material on systems integration, autonomy and UCAVs.

• Excellent coverage of data link design and operation.

• Covers aerodynamics for non-aerospace engineers.

Practising engineers, researchers and consultants in mechanical and aerospace engineering. Graduate students and short courses.

Automotive Engineering

Kinematic Geometry of Gearing 2e

David B. Dooner

978-1-119-95094-3 / 1-119-95094-5

504 pp. Pub: 04/05/12

Automotive Engineering

Building on the first edition published in 1995 this new edition of Kinematic Geometry of Gearing has been extensively revised and updated with new and original material. This includes the methodology for general tooth forms, radius of torsure', cylinder of osculation, and cylindroid of torsure; the author has also completely reworked the ‘3 laws of gearing', the first law re-written to better parallel the existing ‘Law of Gearing" as pioneered by Leonard Euler, expanded from Euler's original law to encompass non-circular gears and hypoid gears, the 2nd law of gearing describing a unique relation between gear sizes, and the 3rd law completely reworked from its original form to uniquely describe a limiting condition on curvature between gear teeth, with new relations for gear efficiency are presented based on the kinematics of general toothed wheels in mesh. There is also a completely new chapter on gear vibration load factor and impact.

Progressing from the fundamentals of geometry to construction of gear geometry and application, Kinematic Geometry of Gearing presents a generalised approach for the integrated design and manufacture of gear pairs, cams and all other types of toothed/motion/force transmission mechanisms using computer implementation based on algebraic geometry.

• Presents a generalised approach for the integrated design and manufacture of gear pairs, cams and all other types of toothed/motion/force transmission mechanisms using computer implementation

• Progresses from the fundamentals of geometry to construction of gear geometry and application.

• Includes many original ideas, in particular the treatment of spatial gearing, as well as addressing other recent development in the field

R&D engineers in industry, academics and researchers working in mechanics and kinematics, in particular in gearing. Senior/ post grad students in mechanical engineering.


Industrial Engineering

Introduction to Humans in Engineered Systems

Roger Remington, Charles L. Folk, Deborah A. Boehm-Davis

978-0-470-54875-2 / 0-470-54875-4

208 pp. Pub: 19/09/12

Industrial Engineering / Manufacturing

New coverage of human factors engineering that includes access to a web-based archive of real-world cases, examples, and problems.

• Book and website package designed to introduce students to the concepts and reinforce them using cases and examples on the website.

• The contents are organised around the flow of information in control-theoretic diagrams that link the various system elements, including the human element, to guide the analysis of real-world situations.

• The website will allow customisation for each course and professor so that content can be both uploaded and redesigned for specific classes.

This book will be used in courses on Human Factors, Human-Systems Integration, Engineering Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction, or Applied Psychology taught in schools of engineering, computer science, and psychology. Professionals will be interested in the content as well and especially the web-based articles and cases.

Making Effective Business Decisions Using Microsoft Project 2010

Advisicon, Tim Runcie

978-1-118-09739-7 / 1-118-09739-4

464 pp. Pub: 20/06/12

Industrial Engineering / Project Management

A guide to Microsoft Project 2010 that focuses on developing a successful project management strategy across the organisation to drive better decisions.

• Guide to managing work using Microsoft Project 2010 from the PMO to the individual project manager.

• Focus on using Microsoft Project 2010 to integrate and support overall organisational strategies.

• Loaded with graphics, screen shots, and annotations that will make this the most accessible and usable book available on the subject

The estimated 6 million project managers and others who use Microsoft Project. Specific market segments include: 1) the 300,000 members of PMI, 2) PMI's "REPs" (such as Advisicon) and other training businesses that teach courses on project management using Microsoft Project. It is projected that over 80% of all companies use Microsoft Project at some level within their organisation.


Mechanical Engineering

Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Solids and Structures 2e

Mike Crisfield, René De Borst, Joris Remmers, Clemens Verhoosel

978-0-470-66644-9 / 0-470-66644-7

600 pp. Pub: 28/09/12

Mechanical Engineering - Design

Long awaited update to Mike Crisfield's (deceased) landmark computational mechanics text. Thoroughly updated, revised and condensed by a world leading researcher and his team, this new edition retains and builds upon the book's reputation and appeal amongst students and engineers alike.

• Combines the two previous volumes into one heavily revised text with obsolete material removed, an improved layout and updated references and notations.

• Extensive new material on more recent ideas and developments based on René De Borst's lecture notes.

• Easily readable, engineering oriented, with no more details in the main text than necessary to understand the concepts; eg concepts from continuum mechanics are only introduced if and where necessary.

• Pseudo-code throughout makes the link between theory and algorithms, and the actual implementation.

• Accompanied by a website with a Python code, based on the pseudo-code within the book and suitable for solving small-size problems.

• Enhanced throughout by boxes giving additional details so as not to disturb the main line of the argument.

Senior and graduate students & researchers within computational mechanics. Practicing engineers who either want to write non-linear FEA routines, or who want a better understanding of those in commercial FEA packages

XFEM - The Extended Finite Element Method

Stéphane Bordas, Alexander Menk

978-0-470-66708-8 / 0-470-66708-7

288 pp. Pub: 19/10/12


First book to offer a guide to the foundations of the XFEM and its implementation.

A revolution similar to that initiated by the FEM is taking place through the XFEM, which is already implemented in leading commercial packages (ABAQUS, ANSYS, etc.) that are taught at undergraduate and post-graduate levels and to industrial end-users.

XFEM provides a detailed overview of the basics around the newly introduced extended finite element method for applications in solving moving boundary problems. XFEM is introduced naturally as an extension of FEM, through simple one dimensional examples which then allow the introduction of higher-dimensional problems. Throughout the book, each key concept is highlighted by the corresponding piece of MATLAB code which is provided via an accompanying web portal. Uniquely, this portal allows readers to obtain real-time feedback and help from an existing community of more than 130 researchers and industrialists.

• Demystifies the theory behind XFEM and makes it accessible to all with previous knowledge of the FEM.

• Provides a simple introduction to XFEM but also provides a range of tools which the reader can build upon to take on a large breadth of more complex problems.

• Presents each key theoretical concept in parallel with its implementational aspects in the form of simple MATLAB routines provided along with the book via an interactive companion website and portal.

• Provides a detailed account of applications of XFEM to fracture mechanics, including techniques absent from current literature.

Researchers and post docs working in computational mechanics Finite element and CFD analysts and developers in industry working on commercial codes. Senior/graduate students in computational mechanics.

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Acoustical Imaging: Techniques and Applications for Engineers

Woon Siong Gan

978-0-470-66160-4 / 0-470-66160-7

448 pp. Pub: 29/06/12


Following an overview of fundamental background theory, draws together a wide range of applications and special advanced topics of acoustical imaging

Acoustical Imaging starts with an introduction to the basic theories and principles of acoustics and acoustical imaging, then progresses to discuss its varied applications: nondestructive testing, medical imaging, underwater imaging and SONAR and geophysical exploration. The author draws together the different technologies, highlighting the similarities between topic areas and their common underlying theory. Some advanced topics are also described such as nonlinear acoustical imaging and its application in nondestructive testing, application of chaos theory to acoustical imaging, statistical treatment of acoustical imaging and negative refraction.

• Introduces the basic theories and principles of acoustics and acoustical imaging.

• Covers a wide range of core engineering applications, drawing together the different technologies & highlighting the similarities between topic areas and their common underlying theory.

• Applications include non-destructive testing, underwater imaging and SONAR and geophysical exploration.

• Summarises cutting edge research into new & advanced topics including nonlinear acoustical imaging and its application in non-destructive testing, application of chaos theory to acoustical imaging, statistical treatment of acoustical imaging and negative refraction.

Academic researchers and R&D personnel in industries associated with the applications; aerospace, automotive, civil/ structural and defence. Senior and graduate level students on sound, vibration or acoustics courses.

Structural Health Monitoring: A Machine Learning Perspective

Charles R. Farrar, Keith Worden

978-1-119-99433-6 / 1-119-99433-0

384 pp. Pub: 05/10/12


Written by global leaders and pioneers in the field, this book is a must-have read for researchers, practicing engineers and university faculty working in SHM.

Structural Health Monitoring: A Machine Learning Perspective is the first comprehensive book on the general problem of structural health monitoring. The authors, renowned experts in the field, consider structural health monitoring in a new manner by casting the problem in the context of a machine learning/statistical pattern recognition paradigm, first explaining the paradigm in general terms then explaining the process in detail with further insight provided via numerical and experimental studies of laboratory test specimens and in-situ structures. This paradigm provides a comprehensive framework for developing SHM solutions.

The book makes extensive use of the authors' detailed surveys of the technical literature, the experience they have gained from teaching numerous courses on this subject, and the results of performing numerous analytical and experimental structural health monitoring studies.

• Considers structural health monitoring in a new manner by casting the problem in the context of a machine learning/statistical pattern recognition paradigm.

• Emphasises an integrated approach to the development of structural health monitoring solutions by coupling the measurement hardware portion of the problem directly with the data interrogation algorithms.

• Benefits from extensive use of the authors' detailed surveys of 800 papers in the technical literature and the experience they have gained from teaching numerous short courses on this subject.

Practising engineers in aerospace, civil and mechanical engineering that are developing damage detection methodologies for their company's manufactured products or their manufacturing infrastructure. University researchers, lecturers and graduate students in these same fields, employees of government agencies that manage the procurement and maintenance of high-capital expenditure hardware such as military aircraft.


Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction: Methods and Applications

Yuri Bazilevs

978-0-470-97877-1 / 0-470-97877-5

288 pp. Pub: 31/08/12


Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction is a complete, self-contained reference that takes the reader from the fundamentals of computational fluid and solid mechanics all the way to the state-of-the-art in CFSI research. Leading expert researchers in the field present the subject using the modern language of computational mechanics and a unique approach that combines both advanced theory and applications.

Coverage includes differential equations governing the mechanical behavior of fluids and solids, and the coupling conditions at the fluid-solid interface, the basics of the Finite Element Method (FEM) and its applications to fluid and solid mechanics problems, discretisation and time integration strategies for the coupled FSI problem, linearisation of the FSI equations and their solution strategies, and selected applications of CFSI, which include vascular blood flow, wind turbines and parachute aerodynamics. The book is ideal for teaching graduate courses or short courses for academia, government labs, and industry.

• First book to address the state-of-the-art in CFSI, an area that is rapidly expanding and receiving considerable attention from both academia and industry.

• Combines classical material with the state-of-the-art research results.

• Authored by leading global experts in the field of CFSI.

• Features colour plates with diagrams and photographs illustrating the complexity of the underlying geometrical and physical features of the phenomena that the proposed methods are able to predict.

Researchers, academics and graduate students specialising in computational methods. Professionals working in engineering firms, and specialising in computational mechanics

XFEM Fracture Analysis of Composites

Soheil Mohammadi

978-1-119-97406-2 / 1-119-97406-2

352 pp. Pub: 17/08/12

Solid Mechanics

As the first book publication for the state of the art XFEM field, this book acts as introduction to this new area of research, and includes basic theory, worked numerical problems, and MATLAB examples

• The first reference text for the extended finite element method (XFEM) for fracture analysis of structures and materials.

• Includes theory and applications, with worked numerical problems and solutions, and MATLAB examples on an accompanying website with further XFEM resources.

• Provides a comprehensive overview of this new area of research, including a review of Fracture Mechanics, basic through to advanced XFEM theory, as well as current problems and applications.

• Includes a chapter on the future developments in the field, new research areas and possible future applications of the method.

Postgraduate students, researchers and experts working on problems involving cracking and fracture mechanics, problems involving computational mechanics, meshless methods, and fracture mechanics. It can be extended to a variety of engineering applications in aerospace industry, civil engineering, solid mechanics and mechanics of materials.

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Thermodynamics

Heat Conduction 3e

David W. Hahn, M. Necati Ozisik

978-0-470-90293-6 / 0-470-90293-0

800 pp. Pub: 19/09/12

Thermodynamics

Long awaited revision of the best-selling book by Ozisik limiting the coverage of numerical methods and adding needed content on micro- and nano-scale heat transfer.

Coverage of numerical aspects will be reduced and replaced with expanded coverage of micro- and nano-scale heat transfer.

Extensive problems, cases, and examples will be thoroughly updated and a solutions manual will be available.

Senior level undergraduate or graduate level students in main stream courses of conduction heat transfer or conduction in schools of mechanical engineering, as well as engineers in research and design functions throughout industry.

Engineering Statistics

Statistics for Scientists and Engineers

R. Chattamvelli

978-1-118-22896-8 / 1-118-22896-0

800 pp. Pub: 27/08/12

Engineering Statistics

This comprehensive book covers descriptive statistics with an emphasis on scientific and engineering applications. The book brings to light new programming ideas, algorithms and equations, and unlike nearly all available books in the field, deals exclusively with descriptive statistics.

• Includes end-of-chapter exercises and recommended reading lists for each chapter.

• Includes data sets and illustrative examples.

• New algorithms and equations which are not available anywhere else.

• Includes section on dynamic data dependent systems like industrial robots, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and pilot-less machines.

• Provides insight on coding complex algorithms using the "loop unrolling technique".

Professionals and researchers in software development for engineering applications. Graduate and advanced undergraduate students in engineering, computer and information sciences. Professionals in astronomical sciences, medical sciences, statistics, management and physical sciences.

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Quality & Reliability

Reliability Engineering

Elsayed A. Elsayed

978-1-118-13719-2 / 1-118-13719-1

850 pp. Pub: 15/06/12


This book lays out both theoretical foundations and practical applications of reliability engineering, describing the theory followed by real-world examples, problems for readers to solve, and description of the theory's practical use. The book is accompanied by Reliability Analysis Software„¢, which provides useful tools for reliability estimation, failure time distributions, and a wide range of accelerated life models.

• Accompanied by computer software Reliability Analysis Software providing useful tools for reliability estimation, failure time distributions, and a wide range of accelerated life models.

• Provides engineering examples to illustrate its application and offers problems at the end of each chapter.

• Class-tested material at world-reknowned reliability engineering program at Rutgers University

This book is a comprehensive reference for practitioners and professionals in the quality and reliability engineering area.

This book also has great adoption potential and may be used for either a one or two semester course on reliability engineering geared towards senior undergraduates or graduate students in industrial and systems, mechanical, and electrical engineering programs. It can also be adapted for use in a life data analysis course offered in many graduate programs in statistics. The book presumes a background in statistics and probability theory and differential calculus.

Importance Measures in Reliability, Risk, and Optimization: Principles and Applications

Way Kuo, Xiaoyan Zhu

978-1-119-99344-5 / 1-119-99344-X

384 pp. Pub: 29/06/12


Provides a comprehensive introduction to importance measures in reliability and optimisation, allowing readers to address real, large-scale problems within various fields effectively

The book is divided into five main parts, the first containing background information on the fundamentals of system reliability. The second part introduces importance measures, including: the Birnbaum importance measure; the Barlow-Proschan importance measure; the Fussell-Vesely importance measure; and the Natvig time-dependent lifetime importance measure. This part also covers structure importance measures, importance measures of pairs of components, and generalisations of importance measures. Part three looks at applications. Importance measures in redundancy allocation and fault diagnosis are discussed, along with importance measures in upgrading systems and in operations research. The fourth part covers comparisons of importance measures and importance measures for con/k/n systems. The final part to the book discusses components assignment problems (CAP), including sections on CAP in coherent systems, CAP in con/k/n/ and its variant systems, and heuristics based on the Birnbaum reliability importance for CAP. A full appendix contains acronyms and notation, errors and ambiguities found in the literature.

• First book to systematically interpret various importance measures in the field of reliability engineering, to investigate the precise relationships among various importance measures, and to present their applications in the areas of reliability, operations research, and optimisation

• Contains many case studies, examples, illustrations and tables

Postgraduate students, researchers and engineers practicing in the areas of: reliability; risk; optimisation; probability; systems; maintenance; design; prognostics and operations research. Software developers; IT analysts; reliability engineers in nuclear, telecommunications, offshore and civil industries


Effective FMEAs: Achieving Safe, Reliable, and Economical Products and Processes using Failure Mode and Effects Analysis

Carl Carlson

978-1-118-00743-3 / 1-118-00743-3

496 pp. Pub: 08/06/12


This book defines the correct procedures for doing FMEAs and outlines how to successfully apply the FMEA procedure in design, development, manufacturing and service applications.

This book recognises that correctly done FMEAs are essential to achieving high quality and reliability in products and processes, and are the central core of Design for Six Sigma, Design for Reliability and other Quality and Reliability programs. The Objective of the book is to define the correct procedure for doing FMEAs and to outline specifically how to successfully apply the FMEA procedure in design, development, manufacturing, and service applications. The book will also share the most common mistakes in doing FMEAs and how to turn these into quality objectives, as well as how to implement effective FMEA processes in companies. It is a practical book showing both the practitioner and manager the key elements of successful FMEA systems. It is based upon the author's extensive experience with thousands of FMEAs, and a many dozen of companies. The reader will understand how to do FMEA correctly, and how to implement effective FMEA programs.

• The basics of FMEAs and risk assessment.

• How to apply key factors for effective FMEAs.

• What is need to provide excellent FMEA facilitation.

• How to implement a "best practice" FMEA process.

• Detailed case studies.

• Common errors and how to prevent them.

This book is usable by quality and reliability professionals, as well as design and manufacturing engineers, and all level so management. It can also be used for undergraduate and graduate level course, as well as courses given within companies or organisations.

Systems Engineering & Management

Decisions: Finding Your Way Through the Maze

Gerard H. Gaynor

978-0-470-16759-5 / 0-470-16759-9

300 pp. Pub: 11/05/12

Engineering Management

Takes the reader on a tour of turning macro decisions into positive outcomes.

• A management book from a new perspective: making the decisions actually work.

• Written by a man with more than 50 years' experience managing technological decisions.

• Takes the reader on a tour of what is required to turn the macro decisions to positive outcomes to bridge the gap between the macro- and second-level decisions into achievable results.


Computer Aided Product Design Using Six Sigma for Greatest Value

Basem S. El-Haik, Agus Sudjianto

978-0-470-89082-0 / 0-470-89082-7

450 pp. Pub: 13/07/12


As more and more companies struggle with in-house product improvement in today's competitive market, this book, coupled with Design for Six Sigma initiatives, will be invaluable as a guideline and reference book to ensure a synergistic approach is followed.

• Define measurable critical parameters that reflect customer requirements.

• Helps readers assess business case risk and opportunity in the context of product roadmaps and portfolios.

• Uses computer-aided predictive engineering and advanced optimisation to help readers build products that robustly handle variations in manufacturing and usage.

• Teaches new statistical techniques for ensuring delivery on time.

• Finds the appropriate DFSS tools for readers from varied business backgrounds using the authors' step-by-step roadmap.

• Includes new case studies.

This book is useful for all engineering oriented practitioners: design engineers, industrial black belts and green belts, design owners and champions, chief officers, CEO's, VP's of engineering, CAD/CAM professionals, modelers, or anyone involved in the development process. After reading this book, the reader will understand the value add of using Six Sigma and DFSS in a computer application to design or re-design engineered products. This book can also be used for training material for DFSS courses.

Design for Reliability

Dev G. Raheja

978-0-470-48675-7 / 0-470-48675-9

220 pp. Pub: 17/08/12


Design for Reliability offers a fresh approach to good design practices that are equally applicable to not only reliability but also to safety, maintainability, system integration and logistics engineering. The book has a "think out of the box" look and feel to it which will add interest and stimulate creative thinking from readers.

• The goal of this book is to make every engineer, chief engineer, and engineering manager aware of good design practices for aiming at zero product failures which results in enormous savings in life cycle costs for producers and users. The techniques dramatically improve the ability to compete in the global markets.

• The book will help managers to better understand reliability as an integral part of design and to address high failure rate problems and associated high costs with systems that are not properly designed for reliability.

• This book will help readers to understand the best-of-breed methods, technologies, and tools for incorporating reliability into the complex systems design process.

The primary audience is engineers, chief engineers and managers in design and reliability professions. Typical buyers of this book would be graduate students in engineering (mechanical, civil, systems), professionals such as aerospace engineers, automotive engineers, and system engineers. IEEE Reliability Society and its publications would be a primary target for marketing purposes. The book will be attractive to practitioners and students at all levels because it is written by multiple authors who are leaders in the field.


Systems Engineering Cost Estimation with COSYSMO

R. Valerdi

978-0-470-19549-9 / 0-470-19549-5

390 pp. Pub: 28/09/12


This book introduces the only systems engineering parametric cost model available an industry-calibrated model known as the Constructive Systems Engineering Cost Model (COSYSMO). Lack of such a model in the past has caused systems engineering costs to be bundled with other program management costs. Its use will allow for sufficiently quantifiable justification for properly assigning systems engineering costs.

• COSYSMO (Constructive Systems Engineering Cost Model) is the only systems engineering parametric cost model available.

• Three commercial tool vendors have incorporated the COSYSMO algorithm in their product suite. The three vendors are Galorath Inc., PRICE Systems and Softstar Systems.

• The author of this book is the originator of COSYSMO.

• The book includes a case study.

Well-known software engineering author Capers Jones1 indicates that the U.S. market for software project management tools is approximately $1 billion annually, and that about 19% of these tools are cost estimation tools (about $200 million). Project management tools for hardware projects probably represent a smaller market since they are more predictable development activities. Considering only the software cost estimation tool market of $200 million, it is reasonable to assume that the market for systems engineering cost estimation tools can approach a similar market size in the next 10 years. Since COSYSMO is the only parametric cost estimation model currently available, there is an obvious opportunity for this book to be at the forefront of this growth.

Strategies to the Prediction, Mitigation and Management of Product Obsolescence

Bjoern Bartels, Ulrich Ermel, Peter Sandborn, Michael G. Pecht

978-1-118-14064-2 / 1-118-14064-8

304 pp. Pub: 28/05/12


This book describes the fundamental issues associated with the occurrence of obsolescence and its management in order to build a consistent basis for its management, including prediction, life cycle forecasting, reactive and proactive mitigations, and strategic treatments.

Supply chains for electronic products are primarily driven by consumer electronics. Every year new mobile phones, computers and gaming consoles are introduced, driving the continued applicability of Moore's law. The semiconductor manufacturing industry is highly dynamic and releases new, better and cheaper products day by day. But what happens to long-field life products like airplanes or ships, which need the same components for decades? How do electronic and also non-electronic systems that need to be manufactured and supported of decades manage to continue operation using parts that were available for a few years at most? This book attempts to answer these questions.

This is the only book on the market that covers obsolescence forecasting methodologies, including forecasting tactics for hardware and software that enable cost-effective proactive product life-cycle management. This book describes how to implement a comprehensive obsolescence management system within diverse companies. Strategies to the Prediction, Mitigation and Management of Product Obsolescence is a must-have work for all professionals in product/project management, sustainment engineering and purchasing.

• Offers all known strategies for both reactive management of obsolescence and proactive counteraction.

Manufacturing (OEMs/OCMs), Defense Industry, Transportation Industry (e.g., railway control and avionics), Medical Equipment Manufacturers, Aviation Industry, Industrial controls, and Critical infrastructure (e.g., power generation). Part Suppliers, Contract manufacturers, Universities.


Information Overload: An International Challenge to Professional Engineers and Technical Communicators

Paul Strother

978-1-118-23013-8 / 1-118-23013-2

350 pp. Pub: 08/06/12

Technical Communication

This book covers information overload from both academic and professional perspectives. The book is especially needed by technical/professional communicators, who often both suffer from and contribute to information overload. Few books have covered this very important topic.

• Unique in that it considers information overload from an academic as well as an industry perspective.

• Draws together an international group of authors, which provides a truly global point of view.

• Addresses the causes and cost of information overload.

• Introduces techniques that can be used to reduce information overload and minimise its effects.

Practicing engineers, managers, educators, students

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Rights Guide Spring/Summer 2012

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