The Wiley engineer's desk reference

Sample

Benjamin S. Blanchard

System Engineering Management is a complete, hands-on guide to making system engineering tools and principles an integral part of the design and development process in your organization. Professor Benjamin Blanchard arms you with a comprehensive, top-down, life-cycle approach that has been proven to reduce cost, speed up the design and development process, improve reliability, and win customers. Fully revised and updated, this Second Edition features new and expanded coverage of such timely topics as requirements analysis; the open architecture approach to functional analysis and allocation; rapid prototyping, simulation modeling, and software support systems; technical performance measures (TPMs); international aspects of supplier selection and management; Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD); and Integrated Process Team (IPT).

Sample

Herbert Fischer, Josef Schneeberger

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Subject-Oriented Business Process Management, S-BPM ONE 2013, held in Deggendorf, Germany, in March 2013. The papers are organized in topical sections on running concepts; running business process management types; running applications; running ideas; running solutions; running projects.

Sample

Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest

The Internet puts a wealth of information at your fingertips, and all you have to know is how to find it. Google is your ultimate research tool--a search engine that indexes more than 2.4 billion web pages, in more than 30 languages, conducting more than 150 million searches a day. The more you know about Google, the better you are at pulling data off the Web. You've got a cadre of techniques up your sleeve--tricks you've learned from practice, from exchanging ideas with others, and from plain old trial and error--but you're always looking for better ways to search. It's the "hacker" in you: not the troublemaking kind, but the kind who really drives innovation by trying new ways to get things done. If this is you, then you'll find new inspiration (and valuable tools, too) in Google Hacks from O'Reilly's new Hacks Series. Google Hacks is a collection of industrial-strength, real-world, tested solutions to practical problems. The book offers a variety of interesting ways for power users to mine the enormous amount of information that Google has access to, and helps you have fun while doing it. You'll learn clever and powerful methods for using the advanced search interface and the new Google API, including how to build and modify scripts that can become custom business applications based on Google. Google Hacks contains 100 tips, tricks and scripts that you can use to become instantly more effective in your research. Each hack can be read in just a few minutes, but can save hours of searching for the right answers. Written by experts for intelligent, advanced users, O'Reilly's new Hacks Series have begun to reclaim the term "hacking" for the good guys. In recent years the term "hacker" has come to be associated with those nefarious black hats who break into other people's computers to snoop, steal information, or disrupt Internet traffic. But the term originally had a much more benign meaning, and you'll still hear it used this way whenever developers get together. Our new Hacks Series is written in the spirit of true hackers--the people who drive innovation. If you're a Google power user, you'll find the technical edge you're looking for in Google Hacks.

Sample

John R. Wilson and E. Nigel Corlett

This bestselling textbook has now been fully revised and updated from its original 1990 edition. Comprising a compendium of ergonomics methods and techniques which is both broad and deep, it covers every aspect of human work and is carefully designed and written to accompany and complement other texts on ergonomics and human factors principles and theory. New and old readers alike will be delighted by the revision of chapters on the framework and context of methodology, the observation of performance, task analysis, experimental and study design, data collection, product assessment, environmental assessment, measurement of work and the evaluation of work systems (human-computer interface, computer-aided design and work stress). There are five entirely new chapters on control room ergonomics, psychophysiological functions, ergonomics risk assessment, fieldwork and participatory work design. The editors have once again brought together a team of world-renowned experts and created a forum for them to introduce their most valued techniques and methods. Readers of Evaluation of Human Work will be as diverse as its contents. They may be students seeking an introduction for ergonomics investigantion; industrial, business, or human-service-oriented professionals seeking an understanding of what ergonomics can offer; or qualified ergonomists seeking to inform their practice. All will find it interesting: to many it will become an invaluable resource.