Digital Twin Driven Smart Manufacturing examines the background, latest research, and application models for digital twin technology, and shows how it can be central to a smart manufacturing process. The interest in digital twin in manufacturing is driven by a need for excellent product reliability, and an overall trend towards intelligent, and connected manufacturing systems. This book provides an ideal entry point to this subject for readers in industry and academia, as it answers the questions: (a) What is a digital twin? (b) How to construct a digital twin? (c) How to use a digital twin to improve manufacturing efficiency? (d) What are the essential activities in the implementation of a digital twin? (e) What are the most important obstacles to overcome for the successful deployment of a digital twin? (f) What are the relations between digital twin and New Technologies? (g) How to combine digital twin with the New Technologies to achieve high efficiency and smartness in manufacturing? This book focuses on these problems as it aims to help readers make the best use of digital twin technology towards smart manufacturing.

Digital Twin Driven Smart Manufacturing

Computers & Technology

Zhang, Meng

Tao, Fei

Nee, A.Y.C.

Programming

Academic Press

Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market (Culture, Place, and Nature)

In the Qing period (1644-1912), China's population tripled, and the flurry of new development generated unprecedented demand for timber. Standard environmental histories have often depicted this as an era of reckless deforestation, akin to the resource misuse that devastated European forests at the same time. This comprehensive new study shows that the reality was more complex: as old-growth forests were cut down, new economic arrangements emerged to develop renewable timber resources. Historian Meng Zhang traces the trade routes that connected population centers of the Lower Yangzi Delta to timber supplies on China's southwestern frontier. She documents innovative property rights systems and economic incentives that convinced landowners to invest years in growing trees. Delving into rare archives to reconstruct business histories, she considers both the formal legal mechanisms and the informal interactions that helped balance economic profit with environmental management. Of driving concern were questions of sustainability: How to maintain a reliable source of timber across decades and centuries? And how to sustain a business network across a thousand miles? This carefully constructed study makes a major contribution to Chinese economic and environmental history and to world-historical discourses on resource management, early modern commercialization, and sustainable development.

Business & Money

Economics

University of Washington Press

Review "[O]ne of the most interesting books for understanding the Chinese system of timber trade during the Qing era. Zhang's book can be useful to us today because we are living in a time of deforestation of the Amazon, climate change, and problems with the actual economic system. The explanation provided by Zhang might be part of the solution for shaping humanity's common future."―H-Net"Zhang's work is superlative... [T]his remarkable book belongs on the shelves and syllabi of any scholar interested in the economical and environmental history of early modern China."―Journal of Asian Studies"For the reader unfamiliar with the details of imperial Chinese political economy, this is a work that is attentive to what you need to know. For the specialist it is skilled in logical weaving together of the impact of a complex set of institutions and practices. This should encourage wide readerhip among comparative historians as well as China scholars."―Journal of Chinese History"This carefully constructed study makes a major contribution to Chinese economic and environmental history and to world-historical discourses on resource management, early modern commercialization, and sustainable development."―New Books Network"Revises a major truism in Qing dynasty history, and reveals how China's adaptation to the exhaustion of old-growth natural forest was in many ways more sophisticated than any early modern European contemporaries."―David A. Bello, author of Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain: Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China's Borderlands"Combines rigorous empirical research with impeccable conceptual logic to construct an important argument for environmental, economic, and Late Imperial Chinese history."―Stevan Harrell, coeditor of Greening East Asia: The Rise of the Eco-developmental State Product Description In the Qing period (1644–1912), China's population tripled, and the flurry of new development generated unprecedented demand for timber. Standard environmental histories have often depicted this as an era of reckless deforestation, akin to the resource misuse that devastated European forests at the same time. This comprehensive new study shows that the reality was more complex: as old-growth forests were cut down, new economic arrangements emerged to develop renewable timber resources.Historian Meng Zhang traces the trade routes that connected population centers of the Lower Yangzi Delta to timber supplies on China's southwestern frontier. She documents innovative property rights systems and economic incentives that convinced landowners to invest years in growing trees. Delving into rare archives to reconstruct business histories, she considers both the formal legal mechanisms and the informal interactions that helped balance economic profit with environmental management. Of driving concern were questions of sustainability: How to maintain a reliable source of timber across decades and centuries? And how to sustain a business network across a thousand miles? This carefully constructed study makes a major contribution to Chinese economic and environmental history and to world-historical discourses on resource management, early modern commercialization, and sustainable development. Book Description Traces the sourcing of logs that fueled early modern urbanization About the Author Meng Zhang is assistant professor of history at Vanderbilt University.

The rise and fall of microblade technology duringthe late Pleistocene and early Holocene is not only a part of the panorama ofglobal microlithization, but also a key question linked to human adaptivechange in the face of climate fluctuation. This monograph creatively uses LewisBinford's macroecological approach developed from his book ConstructingFrames of Reference (2001) against both interglacial and glacial climateconditions, to provide an explanation of variation and change among latePleistocene and early Holocene microblade-based industries in northeasternAsia. It uses six case studies to discuss two waves of cultural change linkedwith issues of the origin of microblade technology and the Palaeolithic toNeolithic transition. These cover the formation and convergence ofmicroblade-based societies (MIS 3 to MIS 2), referring to case studies inSiberia and Northern China, and the development and ultimate divergence ofmicroblade-based societies (MIS 2 to MIS 1), involving case studies in the JapaneseArchipelago, Eastern Siberia, Northern China, and the Tibetan Plateau. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Microblade-based Industries in Northeastern Asia: A macroecological approach to foraging societies (International)

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd

State Feedback Impulsive Model: Applications in Biomathematics and Engineering

Science & Math

Chen, Lansun

Mathematics

LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing

Life Efficiency Handbook: How to Have An Effective Day (Chinese Edition)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hunan literature and Art Publishing House

Emotion Management:Be A Person with A Strong Inner Strength (Chinese Edition)

Psychology & Counseling

Jilin Literature and History Press

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