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Handbook of Industrial Engineering, 2nd Edition
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About the editor GAVRIEL SALVENDY is the NEC Professor of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering "for fundamental contributions to and professional leadership in human, physical, and cognitive aspects of engineering systems." In 1991, he received the Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov Medal of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Science. Dr. Salvendy is the author of over 130 publications and 10 books and served as editor of the Handbook of Human Factors (Wiley) which won the Joint Publishers Book of the Year Award of IIE. His publications have been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and Serbo-Croatian. He has lectured in over 30 countries and consulted on the design and implementation of advanced technologies and methods for increasing productivity, quality, and competitiveness. Dr. Salvendy is a fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, the Ergonomics Society, the American Psychological Association, and the Human Factors Society. He is the founder and chairman of the International Commission on Human Aspects in Computing, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. He is the editor of the International Journal of Human Factors in Manufacturing (Wiley) and the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. Dr. Salvendy earned his PhD in engineering production at the University of Birmingham, U.K.
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Partial table of contents:

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING FUNCTION.

The Role and Scope of Industrial Engineering (G. Nadler).

TECHNOLOGY.

Tools for Building Information Systems (B. Dos Santos, et al.).

Office Automation (A.-M.

Chang, et al.).

Design for Manufacturing (B. Niebel & C. Liu).

Service Technology (J. Spechler & M. Spechler).

HUMAN DIMENSIONS.

Organizational Design and Span of Support (J. Pilitsis & E. Coringrato).

Management Theories and Practices (M. Badawy).

Job Design (M. Campion & G. Medsker).

Design for Health and Safety (M. Smith).

PLANNING, DESIGN AND CONTROL.

Product Development Management and Time Compression (L. Hein).

Methods Analysis and Design (T. Kadota & S. Sakamoto).

Measuring and Controlling Machine Performance (D. Van Zile & I. Otis).

Finished Goods Inventory Planning (S. Masri).

QUANTITATIVE METHODS FOR DECISION MAKING.

Concepts of Probability (Y.-C.

Yeh).

Statistical Inference and Hypothesis Testing (D. Phillips & A. Garcia-Diaz).

Simulation Languages (R. Schwab & I. Nisanci).

Network Optimization (R. Wong).

Index.

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