Process Selection or Learning Through Knowledge Management

Process Selection

Author: K G Swift

Process Selection
Second edition
K G Swift and J D Booker

The definitive practical guide to choosing the optimum manufacturing process, written for students and engineers.

Process Selection provides engineers with the essential technological and economic data to guide the selection of manufacturing processes. This fully revised second edition covers a wide range of important manufacturing processes and will ensure design decisions are made to achieve optimal cost and quality objectives.

Expanded and updated to include contemporary manufacturing, fabrication and assembly technologies, the book puts process selection and costing into the context of modern product development and manufacturing, based on parameters such as materials requirements, design considerations, quality and economic factors. Key features of the book include: manufacturing process information maps (PRIMAs) provide detailed information on the characteristics and capabilities of 65 processes and their variants in a standard format; process capability charts detailing the processing tolerance ranges for key material types; strategies to facilitate process selection; detailed methods for estimating costs, both at the component and assemby level.

The approach enables an engineer to understand the consequences of design decisions on the technological and economic aspects of component manufacturing, fabrication and assembly.

This comprehensive book provides both a definitive guide to the subject for students and an invaluable source of reference for practising engineers.

Professor K G Swift, Department of Engineering, University of Hull
Dr J D Booker, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol

Also available from Butterworth-Heinemann:
Process Planning, P. Scallan, 0 7506 5129 6
Make It! Engineering, the Manufacturing Solution, J Garside, 0 7506 4569 5

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Learning Through Knowledge Management

Author: Pervaiz K K Ahmed

'Learning through Knowledge Management' provides an insightful overview of the main issues integrating learning and Knowledge Management. It offers a rich resource of case examples that highlight Knowledge Management in practice.



The text explores and defines learning and Knowledge Management concepts, and deals with the elements that play an important part in determining implementation success in the organization. The chapters present a managerially oriented discussion of the following key areas:

* The role of processes in managing knowledge
* The behavioural side of Knowledge Management
* Leadership reflexes for knowledge management success
* The key features of Information Technology required for Knowledge Management
* The future of Knowledge Management as part of organization management.

There are many case studies which include:
British Airways
BP Amoco
Ford
Hewlett Packard
Xerox
Swedish Police
IBM

The case studies encompass a diverse and broad range of sectors, maturity of practice, problems and approaches to Knowledge Management.

Unique in explicitly drawing together the related thinking in the popular areas of Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning, and using this as the focal point
Includes original case studies to back up theory
Gives a single author overview of what can be a specialist field, making it a good introduction to the behavioural side of the subject

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Authors' profiles
1	Knowledge management and learning for organizations	3
2	Process approaches for management of knowledge and learning	25
3	Culture for knowledge sharing and transfer	49
4	Leadership role in the management of knowledge structures and culture	71
5	Measurement and technology	95
6	Learning knowledge management imperatives: present into future	110
7	British Airways	143
8	BP Amoco	156
9	Celemi	165
10	Chevron	173
11	CMG	195
12	Ford	203
13	Hewlett-Packard	206
14	Honda	217
15	IBM	221
16	ICL	233
17	Lucent Technologies	240
18	Monsanto	243
19	Pacific Western Airlines	248
20	The Post Office	251
21	Quidnunc	275
22	Singapore Airlines	280
23	Swedish National Crime Intelligence	284
24	Xerox	289
	References and further reading	303
	Case study references	309
	Index	315