L. Laperriere — CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering (2014)

Автор: L. Laperriere
Название книги: CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Производственный и операционный менеджмент
Страницы: 1340
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

The CIRP Encyclopedia covers the state-of-art of advanced technologies, methods and models for production, production engineering and logistics. While the technological and operational aspects are in the focus, economical aspects are addressed too. The entries for a wide variety of terms were reviewed by the CIRP-Community, representing the highest standards in research. Thus, the content is not only evaluated internationally on a high scientific level but also reflects very recent developments.

Mankind has a long and successful history of continuously adapting to its
changing environment. One of the key elements of this adaptation process is
the development of precise skills to design, shape, and repeatedly produce
objects with various materials that also evolve: from stone to bronze, from
iron to steel, from composite to nano materials, the quest never ends. As
a result of this long evolution process, today we live in a world of global
production: in 2012, for the first time, over 60 million cars were produced
worldwide, and over 415 million mobile phones were produced only in the
first quarter of 2013! Needless to say, the total production of all goods
worldwide has simply become intractable.
It is the thesis of this encyclopedia that in a sustainable world, the knowledge
about good design practices, materials, and manufacturing technologies
used to produce goods should be easily available and shared. Production
engineering is a fast evolving area, and the production map on our little
planet, now a global village, has recently undergone very important changes.
New technologies are being deployed while manufacturing strategies are
constantly changing. Global production networks and supply chains are
created and international co-operation is quickly evolving.
Change is certainly not new, but the speed at which it takes place is. Not
surprisingly, the technical vocabulary in this engineering domain also experiences
significant expansion. New concepts in the fields of design, optimization,
control, and management of processes, machines, and systems
continuously emerge, thereby increasing the importance of communication
and the need for a rigorous and unified technical terminology.
But one must remember that knowledge, rather than being spontaneous, is
an incremental concept. Therefore, right from the beginning, the vision
behind this encyclopedia was to bring a good balance between fundamental
concepts and new emerging ones. In fact, a good proportion of the terms in
this first edition is a result of the continuous monitoring and update of
established concepts upon which new ones are derived. As such, this encyclopedia
is an evolving product where current authors will continuously
update their essays based on new technical or economical information,
while at the same time new authors will continuously be appointed to write
about new emerging topics. It is the main objective behind the CIRP
Encyclopedia of Production Engineering to provide authoritative, exhaustive,
fast, and easy access to such precious, fast evolving information.
The target audience includes researchers, engineers, managers, graduate
students, and many others whom day to day work gravitates around production
engineering technologies in the global market.
CIRP has a long history of standardizing the terminology for technical
terms. Since 1962, CIRP issued a number of trilingual dictionaries of
production engineering in English, French, and German. Not surprisingly,
technical terms are sometimes interpreted differently in their conceptual
contexts in the three languages. The dictionaries took account of this by
including both definitions of the terms and, in some cases, explanatory
illustrations. In this way, CIRP realized one of its fundamental aims, i.e., to
enable correct translation of production engineering terms and to contribute
to a clear, unambiguous professional communication in the three languages.
Throughout the years, some dictionaries were extended to include Danish,
Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and
Turkish translations.
In 2007, CIRP and Springer discussed the idea of creating an electronic
web version of the dictionaries, referred to as E-dictionaries, where such
things as animations, equations, and cross-links to other relevant terms
could be included to further enhance the understanding of the definition of
each term. As a natural extension, the idea of expanding the definitions into
essays was next discussed. At that time both parties started to refer to the work
as an encyclopedia.
In 2009, a pilot project involving 15 essays, 5 in each section of Forming,
Cutting, and Assembly, was initiated. Later on that year, a wiki platform was
developed and improved by Springer staff according to the feedback and
comments provided by CIRP. After the platform was judged to be at an
acceptable level of functionality, Editors in Chief and Section Editors were
appointed and Authors were invited to start using the platform to submit the
15 pilot essays. A successful demo took place at the CIRP general assembly
in Boston in August 2009. From then on, the Editors in Chief created a list of
256 most relevant technical terms to include in the first edition of what is now
called the CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering. It contains more
than 1300 pages, available both in print and online, organized around
11 chapters:
• Abrasive Processes
• Assembly
• Cutting
• Design
• Electro-Physical and Chemical Processes
• Forming
• Life Cycle Engineering
• Machines
• Precision Engineering and Metrology
• Production Systems and Organizations
• Surfaces
Certainly, the most fundamental aspect behind the CIRP Encyclopedia of
Production Engineering is quality of content. This comprehensive work
involves the contribution of more than 200 authors from all around the world, mostly CIRP fellows, associates, corporates, or affiliates considered as
leading authorities in their field. A thorough review process of each essay was
established under the leadership of each of the 11 Section Editors. We hope
the reader finds it as useful referring to it as it was a great experience for us
building it.