Industrial & Manufacturing

How do today's most successful tech companies - Amazon, Google, Facebook - design, develop, and deploy the products that have earned the love of literally billions of people around the world? Find out....

Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The Design of Everyday Things shows that good, usable design is possible....

Help transform your business and innovate like the world's top tech companies!

In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried 58 shipping containers from Newark to Houston....

The audio edition of this Shingo Prize-winning bestseller provides critical insights and approaches to make any lean transformation an ongoing success.

In this classic text, Taiichi Ohno—inventor of the Toyota Production System and Lean manufacturing—shares the genius that sets him apart as one of the most disciplined and creative thinkers of our time....

In The Alchemy of Us, scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez examines eight inventions - clocks, steel rails, copper communication cables, photographic film, light bulbs, hard disks, scientific labware, and silicon chips - and reveals how they shaped the human experience....

A just culture is a culture of trust, learning, and accountability. This third edition offers new material on restorative justice and ideas about why your people may be breaking rules....

In Stuff Matters, Miodownik entertainingly examines the materials he encounters in a typical morning, from the steel in his razor and the graphite in his pencil to the foam in his sneakers and the concrete in a nearby skyscraper....

In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need....

This book offers practical insights to transform your approach to design, engineering, simulation, prototyping, testing, and manufacturing.

I, Wes Sander, will share the secrets of creating knives and swords that are easy to make, yet strong and sharp....

Elevate your manufacturing processes with advanced quality control techniques that ensure precision, efficiency, and customer satisfaction. This comprehensive guide delves into the latest methodologies and tools to help you achieve manufacturing excellence in quality management.

Laine Griffey brings over 20 years of expertise in quality management, with a strong background in both operations and quality.

Creative Selection recounts the life of one of the few who worked behind the scenes, a highly respected software engineer who worked in the final years of the Steve Jobs era - the Golden Age of Apple....

The best-selling author of Inside Steve's Brain profiles Apple's legendary chief designer, Jonathan Ive....

In this book, authors William McDonough and Michael Braungart challenge the notion that human industry must inevitably damage the natural world....

Surprising rules for successful monetization....

Whether you're an aspiring or experienced welding professional, this comprehensive guide covers every critical aspect of the CWI Part A exam.

The World in a Grain is the compelling true story of the hugely important and diminishing natural resource that grows more essential every day, and of the people who mine it, sell it, build with it - and sometimes, even kill for it....

"Conquer the CWI Part B Exam: Your Guide to Passing the Certified Welding Inspector Practical Exam" is a comprehensive study guide designed to help...

"Conquer the CWI Part A Exam: Your Guide to Passing the Certified Welding Inspector Fundamentals Exam" is a comprehensive study guide designed to ...

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....

In this book, Roberto Verganti offers a new approach - one that does not set out to solve existing problems, but to find breakthrough experiences....

From the humble garden lawnmower to the ear-splitting electric guitar, James May returns with a typically wacky account of what makes these great machines work, one piece at a time....