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This book promotes the idea of creative thinking to those working on qualitative and quantitative analysis for reinforcing engineering designs relating to industrial and manufacturing domains.
The book focuses on the development of the theoretical foundations and discusses the utility of integration of critical components and systems engineering for effective systems design. The book presents research directions and can be used as a tool to understand in-depth possible ways related to the management of industrial and manufacturing activities, processes, actions, benchmarks, and so on. The new ideas, theories, and methods related to qualitative and quantitative research will improve manufacturing knowledge linked to the manufacturing process.
Readers will find that the book:
Explains qualitative and quantitative research for exploiting system characteristics and attaining system efficiency, as well as what decision-making tools are available for attaining sustainability in industrial fields;
Discusses the utility of qualitative and quantitative models and analytical frameworks for enduring sustainability and the exploration of new ideas, critical theories, and methods related to qualitative and quantitative research;
Disseminates industrial and manufacturing knowledge and allied boundaries, including case studies and sustainable ways to retain excellence in industrial and manufacturing domains based on qualitative and quantitative analysis;
Presents critical aspects related to lean manufacturing and lean management tools, and demonstrates pure research and practical solutions to manufacturing problems;
Offers theoretical content and demonstrations of manufacturing applications, as well as critical thinking and methodological support for optimizing resources and consumption;
Reviews the development of supply chain network designs based on qualitative and quantitative aspects.