4 comments about Food Analysis (Food Science Texts Series).

1. dear sirs, as a matter of fact ,we need to know if this book is usefull for processing of potato chips and can this book help us for using a better technology for oil consumption in our production.since we are researching on how we can reduce oil in potato chips.



2. The book handles all the techniques, principles and recommended applications regarding sampling, proximate analysis and special analysis for the main components in foods, carbohydrate, protein and fats. It also includes an excellent review on the biochemical and instrumental methods. I would recommend a second book regarding the special analysis for the food groups. I lecture on food analysis and found it to be an excellent support for my course.



3. i found it a very good book to understand the basics of spectroscopy and chromatography in addition to other analysis procedures.



4. This text book is required by the professor for the course my daughter taking for her 4th year in bio-engineering and is available in the university bookstore at twice the price we paid at Amazon. The delivery time for Amazon is amazingly fast, virtually overnight for Amazon Prime account, my daughter is completely satisfied with it. I would advise those who are attending college to make Amazon as the first stop for their text book needs.

4 comments about Product Design for Manufacture & Assembly Revised & Expanded.

1. Boothroyd and Dewhurst are recognized as international experts on the re-engineering of electro-mechanical products. Their methodology and guidelines have been widely documented to make significant savings. I have used their techniques with dozens of products in many companies in North America with vast improvement. I have also taught these techniques to many, many engineers who have had the same success.

   The book is a good, comprehensive overview of designing products to ease thier assembly and manufacture. Other texts are available but most are not written as clearly.




2. As an academician this book is easy to read but practitioners will have no diffculty in understanding the content of this book. I rate this book as a great book because of its practicality and yet it is theoretically sound.



3. While the book contains useful information, a great deal of it is available online in various places, though it is a good all inclusive reference. I think it will come in handy in the future as well as for the finer details of my Design for Manufacturability course. At times the content can be a bit dry, but that's to be expected from about any textbook.
   
   I think that the section on B&D for Robotics is outdated and no longer "true" with todays technology. But if you're not using it for robotics reference, it seems that the material is fairly time inclusive. (Meaning that for certain types of manufacturing, the processes have remained mostly the same over time and most likely will not alter too far in the near future.)
   
   I hope this was clear enough to help someone decide if they should use this textbook or not.



4. Overview
   Boothroyd and Dewhurst's Second Edition of Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly provides an accessible and reasonably thorough introductory treatment of some of the most common topics in the field of design for manufacture and assembly (DFMA). By introducing the theoretical underpinnings of DFMA in the opening chapter of the book, the authors provide context and support for the importance of the field in modern business, and draw attention to the many ancillary benefits of applying DFMA methodologies in a business environment. Subsequent chapters describe these methodologies, as well as major assembly and manufacturing processes in some detail. The authors also provide basic tools for cost analysis within the context of DFMA. On a whole, the book is a worthwhile read for novices or users of the authors' commercial software, but the content suffers at times in its dependence on that same software, and in its failure to explain or note omissions which were made in the favor of brevity.
   
   Materials and Process Selection
   The second chapter begins to elaborate in depth on some of the concepts developed in the first chapter by discussing the driving considerations in concurrent materials and fabrication process selection. While the chapter is useful in that it provides tabular references which document the compatibility of different engineering materials and processes, the chapter as a whole suffers from its methodological reliance upon the extensive databases included in commercial software which the authors market. Users of the software may find their exposition of its underlying algorithms useful, but those seeking an independent understanding of material and process selection may wish to consult other methodologies or references such as Ashby's Materials Selection in Mechanical Design, which are more user friendly, and are readily adaptable to manual application.
   
   Design for Assembly
   The third and fifth chapters of the book segue into the topic of assembly-both automatic and manual. Their treatment of assembly benefits from greater accessibility and independence from their software's methods, and the support of experimental results demonstrating the relationships which they discuss between part geometries and assembly. The general design guidelines are useful, and the empirically-derived equations are sufficient to allow the reader to perform basic analyses.
   
   Where the third and fifth chapters focus upon the assembly of mechanical components, fourth and sixth chapters of the book focus instead upon the challenges of designing and assembling electrical boards and wiring in a product. Though modest guidelines are suggested, the material in these chapters is primarily limited to the mechanical aspects of electrical component assembly, and focuses particularly on techniques for estimating the assembly time and cost of these components. The goal of their inclusion here seems to be not as an aid for the electrical engineer, but rather as a reference and tool for the mechanical engineer charged with interfacing between the mechanical and electrical systems of a product.
   
   Process-Specific Topics
   From the seventh chapter through the fourteenth chapters, Boothroyd and Dewhurst choose to focus each chapter upon providing a thorough introduction to a particular, widely-used fabrication process. These chapters begin with an in-depth introduction to the mechanics of each process, the associated terminology, and its strengths and limitations for production applications. The materials commonly used in conjunction with each process are also covered in each section, but only superficially. The remainder of each chapter focuses upon providing basic, equation-based cost estimation techniques for each process which enable the designer to perform his or her own semi-detailed analysis of the costs associated with a particular component design. In the process of providing these tools, the authors take time to highlight particularly important and relevant relationships and design techniques which the majority of readers will find helpful.
   
   By adhering to this general format, the process-focused chapters are in many ways the most useful in the book. For the student and educational audience seeking to develop knowledge in design for manufacturing, these chapters provide a comprehensive and accessible introduction to each process. For the practicing engineer or other individual seeking to perform cost analysis, the authors' exposition of the basic algorithm and process used to estimate cost for each process is invaluable. In particular, users of the authors' software package should derive the greatest benefit from these chapters as the equations they contain represent generalized and simplified versions of those underlying the software package. Therefore, mastery of these equations will provide valuable understanding of the software's operation, and make explicit the relationships between design decisions and specific part features and the final estimated part cost.
   
   CAD/CAM
   In the fifteenth chapter, which appears in many ways as a crudely grafted addition to the volume, though it was also present in the first edition, the authors provide an interesting overview of Computer Aided Design (CAD) technologies and the underlying logic and geometric representations utilized by CAD software packages. Their discussion of the implications of each technology for the potential integration of CAD and DFMA processes through automatic extraction of desired geometric data is also interesting, but the section as a whole suffers from having been overshadowed by the rapid improvements in CAD software which have been made in the ensuing 5 years since publication.
   
   Summary
   Boothroyd and Dewhurst's newest edition of Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly serves as a useful student introduction to the basic concepts of DFMA and shows particular strength as a textbook in its introduction to the field as a whole, and in particular to its well-balanced coverage of the eight common manufacturing processes which are described in its latter chapters. The authors' decision to omit certain other common processes, including welding and brazing, and several specialized plastic molding fields including rotational and blow molding is lamentable, but is understood within the text's limited scope as an introduction to the subject. The one more substantive challenge that might be leveled against the book concerns the authors' omission of adequate detail concerning geometric characterization and classification techniques, and their omission of more advanced or complex case studies which might help to clarify their intent here. This omission is a significant barrier to the application of the book's estimation techniques to real-world problems. At some level, it is possible that this decision may have been intentional, as this detail-like others-is presumably encompassed in the more complex algorithms and procedures used in the authors' software. At times, in fact, the book seems to suffer overly much from its companion status to the authors' software package, which the authors rely upon to fill in conceptual gaps in their writing.

5 comments about Maynard's Industrial Engineering Handbook.

1. A great reference book for engineers who would like to implement process re-engineering. Industrial Engineering tools & methods are provided in this book.



2. As an IE graduate I've first entered manufacturing and progressed to service management in the airlines, this is still the bible for my daily work reference. Topics cover enormous grounds useful in multi industries and yet each topic is given ample depth. Chapters are structured for easy reference and search. Even if you're not an IE, there is just so much you can use in the book.



3. I've been a professional IE for more than 15 years and I bought this "manual" thinking that it would actually be a summary of the most important tools used in this profession, but I realized that it is not. It is way to general and it has lost most of the formulas and calculations that are required as an IE. There is too much wording and too little math. If you are a manager and you don't care for the how to, this is good for you. If you are in the field, and you need a quick reference on how to calculate things and how to implement them , you got to look for another book.



4. El voluminoso libro consiste en un compendio de diferentes artículos que cubren múltiples aspectos del campo de la Ingeniería Industrial, todos ellos descritos por autoridades en la materia (principalemente profesores de Universidad).
   
   Justamente es el enfoque lo que hace ser un texto casi de introducción para cada uno de los temas tratados. La amplitud de los temas, son de tal calibre que o bien la descripción queda corta o bien el autor quiere incluir el máximo de detalle que llega a ser intratable como introducción.
   
   Cada uno de los capítulos, son de por sí temas que merecen una descripción más detallada en libros por separado.
   
   Para mi gusto, el mismo objetivo se cubre ampliamente en los libros del profesor Roger G. Schroeder (Operations Management), con una didáctica muchísimo más clara y con ejemplos más actualizados.
   
   Carlos Ortega
   2006-01-30



5. There is a definite demand for this handbook based on the price I would say. Honestly, it is wide-ranging in its scope of the IE function reflecting the diversity of Industrial Engineering in general. I like the concise format for that very reason. I am an old fashioned Motion and Time Study IE and the ever evolving nature of the field based on exponentially improved communications and technology at our fingertips has slanted and re-postured the nature of Industrial Engineering. This new slant is well represented here and is an indispensable source of reference for new IEs and the old timers like myself. I was recently told that an Engineer is an Engineer is Engineer etc. That may be but you still have to say current in your field. This handbook is an invaluable concise reference and a good starting point for whatever diverse topics you wish to review and investigate.

No comments about Blueprint Reading for Electricians, Expanded 2nd Edition.

3 comments about Product Development for the Service Sector: Lessons from Market Leaders.

1. Well written and full of understandings... Bob, as with all his books, has made many key points. An excellent read for anyone who's business is dependent on new services and believes that luck is not a sustainable advantage. If you believe that the event or experience marketing is the key to most sales, then becoming excellent in launching new services is a must.



2. This is a very good book for managers of new service development processes. It offers a framework for designing and implementing a new service development process and there are many good advice and techniques in the book that I believe will prove invaluable to these managers. I expect this is the result of the 1,500 case studies that the authors have conducted.

   I especially liked the sections that the authors have entitled "Points for Management to Ponder". These short bits, interspersed throughout the book, forces a reader to link the theories to actual situations in a company. I found such exercises beneficial to the learning process.

   However, I found that the authors tend to repeat themselves throughout the book. For example, Chapter 4 and 5 are essentially the same. Chapter 4 walks through the framework fairly quickly with a real case example while Chapter 5 examines the general framework in detail. I believe the 2 chapters could have been combined without much loss to content.

   I recommend this book to practitioners, as this is a very practical book. For readers who just want to know more about service development but are currently not involved in any development work, this book is not for you. Like me, you may find some of the framework difficult to understand without a real case to relate to.




3. Cooper is the guy if you are into development - from idea to delivery of the goods - be it a product (widget), software or services. He is a portfolio management guy that will help you wrap your thinking around making investments into ideas that are yearning to make a debut in reality.

No comments about David Busch's Quick Snap Guide To Lighting.

1 comments about Enterprise Architecture and New Generation Information Systems.

1. It is always a pleasure to read a well written book in a leading edge arena and that's exactly what this book provides. With the potential for myself to be involved with Test and Evaluation (T&E) in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) I was looking for a book that captured the latest thinking for Enterprise Architecture (EA) and had the vision of what the future held in this fast paced area of business. Chorafas, one of the most prolific writers and orchestrators of future thought, provides numerous real world examples to document the complex integration problems and a response to evolutionary trends. Being on Temporary Duty (TDY) in the Austin, TX area it was somewhat serendipity to see a front page story in the local newspaper about Dell Computers vision of the future. Dell uses EA extensively. Any senior decision-maker in private industry or government that's not familiar with most of the concepts captured in this book is doing a disservice to himself and the organization he/she leads. Nanotechnology, optics, and biological frontiers are all covered with the latest information and then linked to the most advanced applications, tools and methods available to maximize return on investment (ROI) for as Chorafas notes several times..."cost matters". One of the highlights is the numerous graphs and models to capture complex thoughts with relative simplicity.

2 comments about Drug Metabolism in Drug Design and Development.

1. I do not intend to comment the whole book, but the chapters I read for preparing my future ADME work are absolutely practical and useful. Suggested: Ch. 7-9 and of course 18 to the best. The BMS team are trying to navigate the audience throughout the whole process from every single detail of preparations and precautions, as well as step-by-step procedures. The valuable resource of sample data record templates shall never be missed. Flow diagrams included in various chapters also clearly summarized the drug development process in a few words. Don't miss this easy-reading and yet resourceful volume when you are or will be get into this field.



2. A really good text book. The book covers a wide range of concepts and they are well presented and clearly written. The book is also well referenced on where to obtain further information, i would recommend this book for anyone working in the field, be they a new graduate or seasoned scientist.

No comments about Plant Design and Economics for Chemical Engineers.

No comments about Instrument Engineers' Handbook, Third Edition: Process Software and Digital Networks.