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Industrial engineering

Here are entered works on the application of engineering principles and techniques to the design, installation and improvement of integrated systems employing persons, materials, and equipment for a high level of productivity at an optimum cost. Works on the planning and control of the mechanical means of changing the shape, condition, and relationship of materials for greater effectiveness and value are entered under Production engineering.

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• Engineering

• Value analysis (Cost control)

• Industrial engineering -- Congresses
• Industrial engineering -- Periodicals
• Computer integrated manufacturing systems
• Engineering economy
• Human engineering
• Methods engineering
• Operations research
• Plant layout
• Production engineering
• Psychology, Industrial
• Systems engineering
• Work environment
• Work measurement

• Management engineering
• Simplification in industry

• The Principles of Scientific Management, by Frederick Winslow Taylor (Gutenberg text)

• Human Factors in Automated and Robotic Space Systems, ed. by Thomas B. Sheridan, Dana S. Kruser, and Stanley Deutsch (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Human Factors in Automated and Robotic Space Systems, ed. by Thomas B. Sheridan, Dana S. Kruser, and Stanley Deutsch (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Artificial Life IX: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2004), ed. by Jordan B. Pollack, Mark Bedau, Phil Husbands, Richard A. Watson, and Takashi Ikegami (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Artificial Life VII: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Life (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2000), ed. by Mark Bedau, John S. McCaskill, Norman H. Packard, and Steen Rasmussen (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Artificial Life VI: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Artificial Life (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c1998), ed. by Christoph Adami, Richard K. Belew, Hiroaki Kitano, and Charles E. Taylor (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Database Needs for Modeling and Simulation of Plasma Processing, by National Research Council Board on Physics and Astronomy (HTML and page images at NAP)

• Artificial Life VII: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Life (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2000), ed. by Mark Bedau, John S. McCaskill, Norman H. Packard, and Steen Rasmussen (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Artificial Life VI: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Artificial Life (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c1998), ed. by Christoph Adami, Richard K. Belew, Hiroaki Kitano, and Charles E. Taylor (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Workshop on Production and Uses of Simulated Lunar Materials (LPI technical report 91-01; Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1991), ed. by David S. McKay and James D. Blacic (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• Workshop on Production and Uses of Simulated Lunar Materials (LPI technical report 91-01; Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1991), ed. by David S. McKay and James D. Blacic (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• Workshop on Production and Uses of Simulated Lunar Materials (LPI technical report 91-01; Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1991), ed. by David S. McKay and James D. Blacic (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• Education for the Manufacturing World of the Future (1985), by National Academy of Engineering (page images with commentary at NAP)

• "The Leading Journal in the Field": Destabilizing Authority in the Social Sciences of Management (London: MayFlyBooks, 2010), ed. by Peter Armstrong and Geoffrey Lightfoot (PDF and HTML with commentary at MayFlyBooks)

• Linguistics, Language, and the Real World: Discourse and Beyond (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2001; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2003), ed. by Deborah Tannen and James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)
• Language in Public Life (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1979; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1979), ed. by James E. Alatis and G. Richard Tucker (PDF at Georgetown)

• Weave: Journal of Library User Experience (2014-) (full serial archives)

• U&lc: Upper and Lower Case, The International Journal of Typographics (New York: International Typeface Corp., 1973-) (partial serial archives)

• Latin American Applied Research (partial serial archives)

• The Illustrated Wood Worker (1879) (full serial archives)

• The Furniture Gazette (partial serial archives)

• Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior (partial serial archives)
• The Journal of the National Institute of Industrial Psychology (partial serial archives)

• Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior (partial serial archives)

• Information Technology for Manufacturing: A Research Agenda (1995), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Human Resource Practices for Implementing Advanced Manufacturing Technology, by National Research Council Committee on the Effective Implementation of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Computer Integration of Engineering Design and Production: A National Opportunity, by National Research Council Committee on the CAD/CAM Interface (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Engineering and the Advancement of Human Welfare: 10 Outstanding Achievements, 1964-1989, by National Academy of Engineering (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Shape Interrogation for Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing (hyperbook edition, 2009), by N. M. Patrikalakis, Takashi Maekawa, and Wonjoon Cho (illustrated HTML at MIT)

• Techniques of Value Analysis and Engineering (third edition, c1989), by Lawrence D. Miles (PDF files at Wisconsin)

• Valuing Health Risks, Costs, and Benefits for Environmental Decision Making: Report of a Conference (1990), ed. by P. Brett Hammond and Rob Coppock (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Green Book: Appraisal and Evaluation in Central Government (2003 edition, updated partially in 2011), by Great Britain Treasury (PDF with commentary in the UK)

• The Cost Effectiveness of Digital Subtraction Angiography in the Diagnosis of Cerebrovascular Disease (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Production Ergonomics: Designing Work Systems to Support Optimal Human Performance (London: Ubiquity Press, c2017), by Cecilia Berlin and Caroline Adams (multiple formats with commentary at Ubiquity Press)
• Ergonomic Models of Anthropometry, Human Biomechanics, and Operator-Equipment Interfaces, by National Research Council Committee on Human Factors (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Research Needs for Human Factors, by National Research Council Committee on Human Factors (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Living Aloft: Human Requirements for Extended Spaceflight, by Mary M. Connors, Albert A. Harrison, and Faren R. Akens (illustrated HTML at NASA)

• The Heart of the Home (picture edition; New York: American Heart Association, ca. 1949), by New York Heart Association (page images at HathiTrust)

• Urban Operations Research (online edition, 1999), by Richard C. Larson and Amedeo R. Odoni (illustrated HTML at MIT)
• Studies in Process Analysis: Economy-Wide Production Capabilities (Cowles Foundation monograph #18; New York and London: John Wiley and Sons, c1963), ed. by Alan Sussmann Manne and Harry M. Markowitz (PDF at Yale)
• Sharpening the Combat Edge: The Use of Analysis to Reinforce Military Judgment (1995), by Julian J. Ewell and Ira Augustus Hunt (PDF at US Army CMH)
• Optimal Location of Facilities (Wentworth, NH: COMPress, c1979), by Gerard Rushton (PDF at wvu.edu)

• Plant Layout: Planning and Practice (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1951), by Randolph W. Mallick and Armand T. Gaudreau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Process Engineering Economics (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1955), by Herbert E. Schweyer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Practical Business Psychology (first edition; New York et al.: Gregg Pub. Co., c1951), by Donald Anderson Laird and Eleanor C. Laird (page images at HathiTrust)
• Job Demands and Worker Health: Main Effects and Occupational Differences (1975), by Robert D. Caplan, Sidney Cobb, John R. P. French, R. Van Harrison, and Samuel Richard Pinneau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Workers' Emotions in Shop and Home: A Study of Individual Workers From the Psychological and Physiological Standpoint (Wharton Industrial Research Department research study #18; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1932), by Rexford B. Hersey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psychology and Industrial Efficiency, by Hugo Münsterberg
  • HTML at York
  • Gutenberg text
• The Psychology of Management: The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Lillian Moller Gilbreth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Introduction to Linear, Time-Invariant, Dynamic Systems for Students of Engineering (c2016), by William L. Hallauer (PDF at vt.edu)

• Emotion, Seduction and Intimacy: Alternative Perspectives on Human Behaviour (third edition, c2010), by Rory Ridley-Duff (PDF in the UK)

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