Smart Manufacturing

Research efforts in the past decade have led to considerable advances in the concepts and methods of smart manufacturing. Smart Manufacturing: Applications and Case Studies includes information about the key applications of these new methods, as well as practitioners' accounts of real-life applications and case studies. Written by thought leaders in the field from around the world, Smart Manufacturing: Applications and Case Studies is essential reading for graduate students, researchers, process engineers and managers. It is complemented by a companion book titled Smart Manufacturing: Concepts and Methods, which describes smart manufacturing methods in detail.

1. Smart Manufacturing in the Food Industry 2. Advancing Smart Manufacturing in the Pharmaceutical Industry 3. Smart Manufacturing in the Semiconductor Industry: An Evolving Nexus of Business Drivers, Technologies, and Standards 4. Smart Reservoir Management in the Oil and Gas Industry 5. Smart Manufacturing in Fine/Specialty Chemical Industries 6. Smart Manufacturing in the Paints and Coatings Industry 7. Smart Manufacturing in Additive Manufacturing 8. Smart Manufacturing Enabled by Continuous Monitoring and Control of Polymer Characteristics 9. Application of Smart Manufacturing Methods to Steam-Methane Reformers 10. Smart Manufacturing in Industrial Gas Production: A Digital Transformation 11. Advanced Decision-Support Technologies for the Design and Management of Industrial Gas Supply Chains 12. Smart Manufacturing: A Sustainable Energy Perspective 13. Smart Manufacturing and Smart Grids 14. Smart Manufacturing: Machine Learning-Based Economic MPC and Preventive Maintenance