Industrial Systems Technology: eBooks

How to manage the cybersecurity of industrial systems is a crucial question. To implement relevant solutions, the industrial manager must have a clear understanding of IT systems, of communication networks and of control-command systems. They must also have some knowledge of the methods used by attackers, of the standards and regulations involved and of the available security solutions. Cybersecurity of Industrial Systems presents these different subjects in order to give an in-depth overview and to help the reader manage the cybersecurity of their installation. The book addresses these issues for both classic SCADA architecture systems and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems.

Distributed Control and Filtering for Industrial Systems provides an introduction to the control and filtering algorithms devised for distributed environments, with a particular emphasis on industrial applications.

In Made in the USA, Vaclav Smil powerfully rebuts the notion that manufacturing is a relic of predigital history and that the loss of American manufacturing is a desirable evolutionary step toward a pure service economy. Smil argues that no advanced economy can prosper without a strong, innovative manufacturing sector and the jobs it creates. Smil explains how manufacturing became a fundamental force behind America's economic, strategic, and social dominance. He describes American manufacturing's rapid rise at the end of the nineteenth century, its consolidation and modernization between the two world wars, its role as an enabler of mass consumption after 1945, and its recent decline. Some economists argue that shipping low-value jobs overseas matters little because the high-value work remains in the United States. But, asks Smil, do we want a society that consists of a small population of workers doing high-value-added work and masses of unemployed? Smil assesses various suggestions for solving America's manufacturing crisis, including lowering corporate tax rates, promoting research and development, and improving public education. Will America act to preserve and reinvigorate its manufacturing? It is crucial to our social and economic well-being; but, Smil warns, the odds are no better than even.

Sustainable Manufacturing takes into account the process of sustainable manufacturing along with modeling and tactics. It includes the application of nanotechnology for sustainable manufacturing and the severe challenges involved in sustainable manufacturing. It provides the reader with insights of sustainable manufacturing in order to understand the importance of sustainable manufacturing for global value creation, to analyze the issues and challenges involved in manufacturing and the future prospects of the sustainable manufacturing. This book also discusses about solution and execution perspective of sustainable manufacturing, sustainable manufacturing for global value creation, improvements in technology used for sustainable manufacturing and future aspects of sustainable manufacturing.

The main aim of this Special Topics Volume is to present state of the research on the topics of characterization the modern structural materials for mechanical engineering and other areas of manufacture, latest technologies and manufacturing systems for materials processing.