Author: Trevor Kletz
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Published: 2019-06-06
Total Pages: 840
ISBN-13: 0128105402
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What Went Wrong? 6th Edition provides a complete analysis of the design, operational, and management causes of process plant accidents and disasters. Co-author Paul Amyotte has built on Trevor Kletz’s legacy by incorporating questions and personal exercises at the end of each major book section. Case histories illustrate what went wrong and why it went wrong, and then guide readers in how to avoid similar tragedies and learn without having to experience the loss incurred by others. Updated throughout and expanded, this sixth edition is the ultimate resource of experienced-based analysis and guidance for safety and loss prevention professionals. 20% new material and updating of existing content with parts A and B now combined Exposition of topical concepts including Natech events, process security, warning signs, and domino effects New case histories and lessons learned drawn from other industries and applications such as laboratories, pilot plants, bioprocess plants, and electronics manufacturing facilities
Author: Shirley P. Keeble
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780719034237
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work is concerned with the business practices and policies which have produced Britain's much-criticised owner-managers and managers since the 1890s, and the efforts that have been made, and which continue to be made, to reform the British approach to management formation. It identifies a century of weak demand from business for managers qualified by education and wide experience, and discusses possible future directions to stimulate demand.
Author: Hans Pohl
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 3642755127
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The German Yearbook on Business History contains a wealth of articles on corporate and business history in the 19th and 20th centuries. The authors are scientists and businessmen.
Author: Anthony S. Travis
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-04-24
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 3319689630
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This monograph provides an account of how the synthetic nitrogen industry became the forerunner of the 20th-century chemical industry in Europe, the United States and Asia. Based on an earlier SpringerBrief by the same author, which focused on the period of World War I, it expands considerably on the international aspects of the development of the synthetic nitrogen industry in the decade and a half following the war, including the new technologies that rivalled the Haber-Bosch ammonia process. Travis describes the tremendous global impact of fixed nitrogen (as calcium cyanamide and ammonia), including the perceived strategic need for nitrogen (mainly for munitions), and, increasingly, its role in increasing crop yields, including in Italy under Mussolini, and in the Soviet Union under Stalin. The author also reviews the situation in Imperial Japan, including the earliest adoption of the Italian Casale ammonia process, from 1923, and the role of fixed nitrogen in the industrialization of colonial Korea from the late 1920s. Chemists, historians of science and technology, and those interested in world fertilizer production and the development of chemical industry during the first four decades of the twentieth century will find this book of considerable value.
Author: A. Booth
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2006-11-14
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0230800602
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the management of technical change in manufacturing and services through an explicit political-economic framework. It examines the management of automation in Britain and America since 1950, and it applies the same useful framework to explore the impact of Japanization on both Britain and the US in the 1980s and 1990s.