Decision-Making in Engineering Design Theory and Practice
We use our brains when we create plans and designs. The resulting plans and designs take physical form, however, what we thought about, the alternatives we tried, and the constraints we recognized while we were making these plans and designs are usually n
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Series Editor Dr Rajkumar Roy Department of Enterprise Integration School of Industrial and Manufacturing Science Cranfield University Cranfield Bedford MK43 0AL UK
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Yotaro Hatamura (Ed.)
Decision-Making in Engineering Design Theory and Practice Translated from the Japanese by Kenji Iino
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Yotaro Hatamura Hatamura Institute for the Advancement of Technology Tokyo Opera City Tower 52F 3-20-2 Nishishinjuku Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-1452 Japan and Professor, Kogakuin University Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo Translator Kenji Iino Sydrose LP 475 North 1st Street San Jose, CA 95112 USA
Originally published in Japanese as Koushite Kimeta by The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Decision-Making in engineering design. - (Decision engineering) 1. Engineering design - Decision making I. Hatamura, Yotaro 658.4’03’002462 ISBN-13: 9781846280009 ISBN-10: 1846280001 Library of Congress Control Number: 2005933049 Decision Engineering Series ISSN 1619-5736 ISBN-10: 1-84628-000-1 e-ISBN 1-84628-261-6 ISBN-13: 978-1-84628-000-9
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Preface
This book is a sequel to The Practice of Machine Design, and The Practice of Machine Design, Book 3 – Learning from Failure. It deals with what happens inside the human mind during such activities as design and production, and how we reach decisions. Unlike other regular machine design textbooks or handbooks that
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