Author: Sheila Mello
Publisher: PDC Professional Publishing
Keywords: product, development, key, definition, customer, centric
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-10
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0974560405
ISBN-13: 9780974560403

Despite the prodigious research and money devoted to new product development, nearly nine in ten new products fail to solve a perceived need--and are gone within their first two years. This unique new book introduces and explains Market-Driven Product Definition (MDPD), a proven methodology for identifying and understanding customer-value-based needs, then turning them into products that consistently break through the clutter of the marketplace. Drawing on techniques developed by experts from MIT, the University of Chicago, and the Center for Management of Quality, as well as product devel

Author: J. Edward Pope
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
Keywords: engineers, mechanical, thumb, rules
Number of Pages: 406
Published: 1996-12-23
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0884157903
ISBN-13: 9780884157908

Save time with this collection of straightforward, common-sense techniques that provide quick, accurate solutions to your engineering problems. Rules of Thumb for Mechanical Engineers assembles hundreds of shortcuts, calculations, practical "how-to" methods, and concise background reviews into one convenient volume. Whether you’re concerned with design, selection, or performance, you’ll find fast, accuarate answers here - all without wading through pages of theory. Experts from all engineering disciplines packed this book’s sixteen chapters with design criteria and practical

Author: RICH GILDERSLEEVE
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
Keywords: outscore, competition, benchmarks, analysis, business, financial, winning
Number of Pages: 334
Published: 1999-08
List price: $78.95
ISBN-10: 0884158985
ISBN-13: 9780884158981

Today’s business environment is a competition, and business managers need the right game plan if they want to win. Successful businesses do a lot of the same things well. They track inventories, expenses, growth, break-even units, margins, employee turnover, compensation plans, return on training, sales, earnings per employee, and a host of other statistics. But to win in business, managers need to do more than track these benchmarks. They need to improve results.Winning Business provides the benchmarks business managers should track. It shows managers how to calculate each benchmark, AN

Author: Bert Moniz
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
Keywords: mix, ups, chemical, engineering, materials, plant, guide, preventing, process, pocket
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2000-03-23
List price: $55.95
ISBN-10: 0884153444
ISBN-13: 9780884153443

This handy pocket guide condenses vital information into a simple format that explains how to prevent costly materials mix-ups that result from a deficiency in the supply chain. Using easy-to-read, straightforward language, it outlines effective methods of specifying, procuring, receiving and verifying critical materials. Pocket Guide to Preventing Process Plant Materials Mix-ups illustrates how to test and identify materials and provides what you need to know to choose between the various production methods.

Author: Trevor Kletz
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
Keywords: error, human, control, computer
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 1995-10-02
List price: $76.95
ISBN-10: 0884152693
ISBN-13: 9780884152699

Trevor Kletz takes you through a range of incidents and accidents which occurred on computer-controlled plants and equipment.

Author: David C. Dale
Publisher: Webmd Professional Publishing
Keywords: diagnosis, treatment, prevention, current, guide, diseases, clinicianâ¿s, infectious
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0970390262
ISBN-13: 9780970390264

New from the editors and authors of WebMD Scientific American® Medicine?the quarter-century leader in continually updated medical information?this book provides practical and current recommendations on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious disease. Its chapters cover such rapidly evolving subjects as bioterrorism, but also covers the mainstays of infectious disease, such as STDs and upper respiratory infections. This book includes, as well, viral, bacterial, fungal infections, slow virus, prions, and others.

Author: John Carroll
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
Keywords: guide, engineers, second, hydrates, gas, natural
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2009-07-24
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0750684909
ISBN-13: 9780750684903

The petroleum industry spends millions of dollars every year to combat the formation of hydrates - the solid, crystalline compounds that form from water and small molecules - that cause problems by plugging transmission lines and damaging equipment. They are a problem in the production, transmission and processing of natural gas and it is even possible for them to form in the reservoir itself if the conditions are favorable. Natural Gas Hydrates is written for the field engineer working in the natural gas industry, This book explains how, when and where hydrates form, while providing the knowl