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This book covers detailed concepts and practical technologies based on system optimization methodologies that consider a broad range of mechanical and human factors. The core concepts and methodologies discussed can be applied to many business fields.

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Readers of System Design Optimization for Product Manufacturing will learn about detailed concepts and practical technologies that enable successful product design and manufacture. These concepts and technologies are based on system optimization methodologies that consider a broad range of mechanical, as well as human, factors.

System Design Optimization for Product Manufacturing explains the methodologies behind current and future product manufacture. Its detailed explanations of key concepts are relevant not only for product design and manufacture, but also for other business fields. These core concepts and methodologies can be applied to practically any field where informed decision-making is important, and where a range of often conflicting factors must be carefully weighed and considered.

System Design Optimization for Product Manufacturing can be used as a fundamental reference book by both engineers and students in the fields of manufacturing, design engineering, and product development.

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1. Progression of Product Manufacturing Technologies 2. Evaluative Criteria for Product Manufacturing and Optimization Fundamentals 3. Technologies for Product Manufacturing Innovation 4. Involvement of People in Product Manufacturing 5. Product Manufacturing Support Technologies 6. Optimization Technologies for Product Manufacturing 7. Decision-Making Methods 8. Design Optimization for Creativity and Balance

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Masataka Yoshimura has almost four decades of experience in the design and analysis of industrial machines, in research concerning the optimization of manufacturing systems, and in research and development of system optimization methods. He is a professor at Kyoto University, Japan, where he received his doctorate in engineering. In 2007 he was made a fellow of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering and received the society´s Achievement Award.

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