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Women and men inhabit the same world, yet it does not suit them both equally. Women are 73% more likely to be injured in a car crash than men. In the military, women suffer pelvic fractures at a much higher rate than their male counterparts. In construction, 90% of women are unable to find proper fitting safety gear. These outcomes are not a coincidence—they are a result of products where the female population is an afterthought at best.

Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Yet today's researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials that physically sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart. These materials open new directions for industrial innovation and challenge us to rethink the way we build and collaborate with our environment. Things Fall Together is a provocative guide to this emerging, often mind-bending reality, presenting a bold vision for harnessing the intelligence embedded in the material world.

The story of human civilization can be read most deeply in the materials we have found or created, used or abused. They have dictated how we build, eat, communicate, wage war, create art, travel, and worship. Some, such as stone, iron, and bronze, lend their names to the ages. Others, such as gold, silver, and diamond, contributed to the rise and fall of great empires.

Learn to pass your CDL exam with flying colors, whether you're aiming for a Class A CDL or Class B CDL license. From the basics of trucking to advanced driving techniques, we've got you covered.

Why do some programs deliver their product under cost, while others bust their budget? Why do some deliver ahead of schedule, while others experience endless delays? And most importantly, which products work better - the quick and thrifty or the slow and expensive? Which situation leads to superior equipment? In this story-filled blend of quirky pop culture and practical engineering insight, Dan Ward presents an entertaining and useful framework for pursuing rapid, frugal innovation.

UNLEASHING PRODUCTIVITY: PRESCRIPTION FOR MANUFACTURING SURVIVAL is about improving your manufacturing productivity by implementing currently available manufacturing technologies, to produce high quality marketable products, at a better price. The author shows how to clearly identify and evaluate economic, strategic, and other variables that impact capital investment decisions.

Empowering Women in STEM: Working Together to Inspire the Future provides a platform to share the stories of those who have been in STEM careers but have pivoted to other areas by utilizing the STEM skills they learned.

This is the second in the Modern Manufacturing Case Studies series of three books. If you have an interest in how things are made, this collection of impactful manufacturing case studies is for you! Take a tour with the author inside more than 30 world-class facilities to experience the most remarkable innovations and highly sophisticated robotics and automation in action. Capture a front-row seat to top-brand, big-budget manufacturing in action with complex machines communicating with other machines. However, you can also learn from small-to-medium size manufacturers.

No Brasil, inicialmente, a indústria petroquímica possuía diversas características herdadas do arranjo institucional "tripartite" ― setor público e privado nacional e internacional ― que desejava impulsionar o desenvolvimento do setor. Entretanto, devido a sua excessiva complexidade trilateral ou "nó-societário", ela era identificada como uma deficiência competitiva, considerada ponto focal da reestruturação do setor petroquímico no país.

This audiobook will help you, the UX designer, develop a communication style that your business stakeholders or clients will understand, and elevate your career toward better UX strategy and leadership. This is not your typical UX book - it doesn’t focus on the things they teach you in a UX crash course, or preach about how to do UX design properly. It helps you find ways to apply your craft more effectively, inside your business, by understanding better ways of communicating, and building alignment within your organization or your client’s organization.

Are you a beginner bladesmith who is constantly faced with problems that you can't seem get solved? Do you want to know why your latest knife didn't turn out like it was supposed to? Have you consulted many knife makers and searched across forums, but still have questions that are unanswered? Your solution is here. I, Wes Sander, have compiled answers to 101 of the most frequently asked questions that knife makers have. These questions solve a wide range of problems, from choosing the correct knife-making steel to how much you should pay for an anvil.

Humanity has used asphalt for thousands of years. This humble hydrocarbon may have glued the first arrowhead to the first shaft, but the changes wrought by this material are most dramatic since its emergence as pavement. Since the 1920s the automobile and blacktop have allowed unprecedented numbers of Americans to experience the beauty of their continent from the Adirondacks to the Rockies and beyond, to Big Sur and the Pacific Coast Highway.

Scrap steel is perfect for practicing grinding and heat treatment techniques. So, you can get better at bladesmithing without spending excess money on buying steel. But do you need power tools to forge scrap steel? No. Most of the steels inside this book have forging/stock removal instructions with minimal use of power tools. And they can also be forged with no power tools. But to be honest, without them the work would be tedious, trust me. Learn scrap forging before you decide to make bad steel into a knife, only to have it shatter into pieces the first time you use it.

Think how commonplace it is now for people to ask Siri for the weather forecast, deploy Roomba to clean their homes, or summon Alexa to turn on the lights. The "smart home" market will reach well over $100 billion in the next five years on the promise of products that are truly integrated with our cooking, cleaning, entertainment, security, and hygiene habits. But the reality is, these first-generation "smart" products aren't very smart - yet. We're clearly seeing only the tip of the iceberg in terms of capability and how such products can enhance our lives.

This book is about job shops. Inside is a combination of stories and practical tips from my experience. It’s not theory. This is how I lost money, made money, kept my job, or got promoted. These are all the things I dug through the literature trying to find answers to. Job shops can be many different types of businesses. Factories, distributors, and government offices could all be considered job shops.

In a world rife with rapidly changing social and technological change, it’s far too easy to lose sight of the foundations of design thinking that led us to success. With standardization beginning to show its weaknesses and a growing demand for more human-focused design, how can you challenge the status quo and create a robust and flexible design identity suited for the modern world? And how can you design products that build connections with consumers and influence society?

Tips are a great way to enhance your bladesmithing knowledge and avoid mistakes. The best part is that they only have a small time investment of just a few seconds. That is why I have compiled 101 bladesmithing tips that any bladesmith can benefit from, regardless of his skill level.

If you want to achieve success in project management, then pay attention...Some projects were always bound to fail. However, that is just a tiny minority. Most projects fail at least partly because of poor project management. This audiobook aims to demystify project management and show you two different approaches that have a big following: Agile/Scrum, a very free form methodology that is good for services and software, and Lean Six Sigma, which is more data-driven and particularly useful for high-volume businesses from call centers to manufacturing.

The Maker Movement represents a dramatic shift in the democratization of design and manufacturing. Advancements in new technologies such as 3D printing and laser cutting are putting powerful tools once only available to large institutions like NASA in the hands of millions of people worldwide. This rapid pace of change opens up new possibilities that were never before imaginable, placing strong emphasis on resourcefulness as the path to technical competence.

This 300-page book chronicles a unifying theme which points to all those who Dream Differently, the title of a book authored by Dr. Vince Bertram, one of more than 40 professionals I interviewed. Personalities include NHRA 8x top fuel champion Tony Schumacher, four-time Emmy winning director Don Dupree, NFL play-by-play announcer Wayne Larrivee, author Nicole Martin, entrepreneurs like PreHeels inventor Dana Ward and AirHook inventor Craig Rabin, as well as many executives, elite athletes, parents, media personalities, and leaders in manufacturing, education, and politics.