The Yama – The First Book in an Explosive New Thriller SeriesMatthew Simo is more than just a high-powered corporate executive—he's The Yama, a legendary assassin who operates by a strict moral code: he only kills those who deserve it.When he's assigned to eliminate Victor Mendez, a billionaire philanthropist with a dark secret, Matthew believes it's just another job. But as he digs deeper, he uncovers a powerful criminal syndicate that reaches into the highest levels of po...

In a world where true crime intersects with twisted legacy, Jonah Alvarez, a celebrated true crime author, unwittingly uncovers haunting secrets from his past when he receives an anonymous envelope. Inside lies a chilling confession detailing five unsolved murders — and a photograph from his own childhood that threatens to unravel everything he thought he knew.As Jonah delves deeper into the chilling connection between himself and the victims, he discovers that the...

This edited book offers further advances, new perspectives, and developments from world leaders in the field of through-life engineering services (TES). It builds up on the earlier book by the same authors entitled: “Through-life Engineering Services: Motivation, Theory and Practice.”This compendium introduces and discusses further, the developments in workshop-based and 'in situ' maintenance and support of high-value engineering products, as well as the application of drone techno...

A wealthy man is discovered battered to death at home. His community are quick to blame burglars. Called to investigate DI Guido Black and team uncover feuds, envy and betrayals going a long way back. Events take a dramatic turn when a second body turns up.Can DI Guido Black and D Sgt Eden Hudson unravel the clues and unpick the alibis to crack their first murder?A gentle, complex crime story, where the clues pile up, suspects abound, and the identity of the killer is key. ...

Security Science integrates the multi-disciplined practice areas of security into a single structured body of knowledge, where each chapter takes an evidence-based approach to one of the core knowledge categories. The authors give practitioners and students the underlying scientific perspective based on robust underlying theories, principles, models or frameworks. Demonstrating the relationships and underlying concepts, they present an approach to each core security function within the con...

Automation is undergoing a major transformation in scope and dimension and plays an increasingly important role in the global economy and in our daily lives. Engineers combine automated devices with mathematical and organizational tools to create complex systems for a rapidly expanding range of applications and human activities. This handbook incorporates these new developments and presents a widespread and well-structured conglomeration of new emerging application areas of automation. Bes...

Devising optimal strategy for maintaining industrial plant can be a difficult task of daunting complexity. This book aims to provide the plant engineer with a comprehensive and systematic approach, a framework of guidelines, for tackling this problem, i.e. for deciding maintenance objectives, formulating equipment life plans and plant maintenance schedules, designing the maintenance organisation and setting up appropriate systems of documentation and control. The author, Anthony Kelly, an ...

In two volumes, Planning Production and Inventories in the Extended Enterprise: A State of the Art Handbook examines production planning across the extended enterprise against a backdrop of important gaps between theory and practice. The early chapters describe the multifaceted nature of production planning problems and reveal many of the core complexities. The middle chapters describe recent research on theoretical techniques to manage these complexities. Accounts of production planning s...

With extensive case studies for illustration, this is a practitioner's guide to an entirely new production system for construction management using flowline scheduling.Covering the entire process of presenting a comprehensive management system – from design, through measurement, scheduling, and visualization and control – its emphasis is on reducing cost and increasing quality.Drawing its components together into a management system, the authors not only include theory and ...

Software projects today are often characterized by poor quality, schedule overruns and high costs. Hence project decision makers need an objective and validated measurement framework to allocate limited resources and to track project progress. In this backdrop, based on the Goal-Question-Metric (GQM) model, Prashanth Harish Southekal has come up with eight generic objective measures for the project stakeholders to base their corrective actions for successful project delivery . The measurem...

The topic of this book is known as dynamic scheduling, and is used to refer to three dimensions of project management and scheduling: the construction of a baseline schedule and the analysis of a project schedule’s risk as preparation of the project control phase during project progress. This dynamic scheduling point of view implicitly assumes that the usability of a project’s baseline schedule is rather limited and only acts as a point of reference in the project life cycle. Consequently,...

In the past decades asset intensive companies have witnessed a number of regulatory changes and especially industry is facing ever increasing competitiveness. To overcome these challenges different asset management methods have been developed aimed to improve the asset life cycle. Especially the design phase and operation and maintenance phase have seen a rise in tools and methods. Smarter design can lead to improved operation. Likewise, improved operation and maintenance leads to lower re...