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Issue Date: 02/01/2000

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1. Make the learning curve work for you
HEADNOTE Cut costs faster by using the learning curve to focus on cost-reduction opportunities. Practice makes perfect. The more you produce or do something, the ...
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2. Environmental Chemistry: Chemical Principles for Environmental Processes...
Environmental Chemistry: Chemical Principles for Environmental Processes Volume 4B Teh Fu Yen Prentice-Hall PTR, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 847pp., $76, indexed This book, part of ...
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3. Handbook of Cryogenic Engineering
Handbook of Cryogenic Engineering J. G. Weisend, Ed. Taylor and Francis, Philadelphia, PA, 504pp., $125, indexed Cryogenic engineering, the production, maintenance, and utilization of low ...
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4. The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
Clayton M. Christensen Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA, 225 pp., $27.60, indexed This lucid, opinionated, detailed book explains why successful companies with competent management, ...
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5. Avoid excessive overhung load
HEADNOTE All rotating-equipment drive shafts experience overhung load, but when it surpasses the manufacturer's design specifications, damage and failure can result. Careful design can avoid ...
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6. Make the most of predictive maintenance
HEADNOTE Doing so requires a comprehensive and cohesive process, along with appropriate metrics and technology. The goals of predictive maintenance are to reduce operation and ...
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7. Follow this strategy for better thermal design
This methodology can help maximize creative and innovative design within the context of currently available tools. Design is the crowning achievement of the engineering profession.
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8. Design better water networks
HEADNOTE Start by identifying the minimum water consumption, then simplify the network by balancing that against complexity, operability, and costs. Processes that demand water can ...
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9. Properly plan production in a pharmaceutical pilot plant
HEADNOTE Such planning really is possible. A modular package using common software can play a key part in achieving it. People usually relate production planning ...
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10. Ensure proper heat treatment of stainless castings
HEADNOTE Used widely for pumps, valves, and fittings, parts made of these alloys can suffer devastating corrosion under some conditions unless first property annealed and ...
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