New appoaches in the process industries : the manufacturing plant of the future / Jean-Pierre Dal Pont, Catherine Azzaro-Pantel.

New appoaches in the process industries : the manufacturing plant of the future /

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Main Author: Dal Pont, Jean-Pierre
Other Authors: Azzaro-Pantel, Catherine
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2014.
Series:Control, systems and industrial engineering series.
Subjects:
Manufacturing industries.
Manufacturing processes > Automation.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Title Page; Copyright; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Project Management
  • Systems Engineering
  • the Industrialization Process; 1.1. Projects and project management; 1.2. Systems engineering; 1.3. The industrialization process; 1.4. Project engineering; 1.5. Bibliography; 2: Metrics for Sustainability Assessment of Chemical Processes; 2.1. Sustainable development in chemical process engineering; 2.2. Indicators, indices and metrics for sustainability; 2.3. Frontiers of the system; 2.4. Metrics; 2.5. Design methods for sustainable processes and systems; 2.6. Conclusions.
  • 2.7. Bibliography3: From Preliminary Projects to Projects; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Process design: an interactive and multiple-step activity; 3.3. Process flowsheeting; 3.4. Optimization methods; 3.5. Literature review in process modeling/optimization techniques and tools based on LCA; 3.6. Case study: eco-designing a biodiesel production process; 3.7. Conclusions and suggestions; 3.8. Bibliography; 4: Analysis of the Strategy of the Enterprise and the Enterprise Strategic Plan; 4.1. The industrial enterprise: basic main features; 4.2. The couple "product/market."
  • 4.3. Product profitability: turnover and margins4.4. Company and industrial processes evaluation; 4.5. Enterprise industrial strategic analysis; 4.6. Enterprise industrial strategic action plan; 4.7. Bibliography; 5: Excellence in Manufacturing and Operations Control; 5.1. Importance of manufacturing; 5.2. The manufacturing facility
  • the heart of the industrial enterprise; 5.3. Typology of industrial facilities and technology considerations; 5.4. Operations management; 5.5. Excellence in manufacturing
  • Toyota system
  • World Class Manufacturing; 5.6. Bibiliography.
  • 6: Innovation and Change Management6.1. Innovation; 6.2. Change management; 6.3. Looking for breakthroughs
  • process improvement team (PTI); 6.4. Re-engineering, the American way; 6.5. Bibliography; 7: Water and Energy Challenges; 7.1. The energy challenge; 7.2. The water-energy nexus in process industries; 7.3. The key role of process systems engineering; 7.4. Conclusions; 7.5. Bibliography; 8: Engineers as Key Players for Sustainability: The Role of PSE Academia; 8.1. The path to sustainability education for engineers; 8.2. Process systems engineering as the cornerstone of sustainability.
  • 8.3. Reinforcing engineering ethics8.4. Implementing sustainability in engineering education; 8.5. Conclusions; 8.6. Bibliography; 9: Plant of the Future; 9.1. The enterprise, its manufacturing plants and society; 9.2. Engineering revisited; 9.3. Equipment manufacturers and project engineering; 9.4. Modular process systems
  • skid mounted systems; 9.5. Designing for flexibility; 9.6. Manufacturing and process industries toward the 4.0 plant; 9.7. Operations abroad; 9.8. The manufacturing plant of the future; 9.9. Bibliography; Appendix; Index.

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