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Product and Process Design : Driving Sustainable Innovation.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harmsen, Jan.
- Series:
- De Gruyter Textbook Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable engineering.
- Product design.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (518 pages)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2024.
- Summary:
- This book, 'Product and Process Design: Driving Sustainable Innovation', is a comprehensive guide to innovative product and process design, emphasizing sustainable practices. The authors, Jan Harmsen, André B. de Haan, and Pieter L. J. Swinkels, leverage their extensive experience in academia and industry to cover design methods and heuristics for creating breakthrough as well as adapted innovations. The second edition includes updated chapters, examples, and exercises, making it suitable as a textbook for universities and industries. It is intended for product and process engineers, and it aims to accelerate industrial innovation by incorporating design activities throughout the innovation process. The book is structured to address various system levels relevant to design, from earth systems to microelements, and covers topics such as innovation management, project management, and sustainable development. Generated by AI.
- Contents:
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Contents
- Author’s biographies
- Part A: Innovation and industry
- 1 Introduction goal, scope, and structure
- 2 All system levels relevant to design for innovation
- 3 Managing innovation
- 4 Designing for innovation
- Part B: Design generation
- 5 General and sustainable design approaches
- 6 Scoping the design
- 7 Executing designs
- 8 Product modeling and optimization
- Part C: Design optimization
- 9 Process modeling and optimization
- 10 Evaluating economic performance
- 11 Evaluating for safety
- 12 Evaluating for sustainable development, environmental impact, social acceptance
- 13 Communicating
- Part D: Education
- 14 Education
- A3 Appendix to Chapter 3
- A4 Appendix belonging to Chapter 4
- A9 Appendix belonging to Chapter 9: Cases of process modeling for simulation and optimization
- A13 Appendix to Chapter 13: communicating
- Index Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 9783110782127
- 311078212X
- OCLC:
- 1432601958
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