Overview
- Considers technology as combination of the physical world and the digital virtual world of information and communication
- Describes the product cycle of technical systems and the corner stones of technology: material, energy and information
- Presents a holistic view of technology and engineering
Part of the book series: Synthesis Lectures on Engineering, Science, and Technology (SLEST)
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This concise textbook introduces a systems approach to technology, describing tribological, mechatronic, cyber-physical systems, and the technologic concept of Industry 4.0 to students in a range of engineering domains. “Technology” in this book refers to the totality of human-made, benefit-oriented products, based on engineered combinations of material, energy and information. Dr. Czichos examines technology in this volume in the context of systems thinking with regard to the following main technology areas
- Technical systems with “interacting surfaces in relative motion” especially in mechanical engineering, production, and transport; including the analysis of friction-induced energy losses and wear-induced materials dissipation.
- Technical systems that require a combination of mechanics, electronics, controls, and computer engineering for needs of industry and society.
- Technical systems with a combination of mechatronics and internet communication.
- Cyber-physical Systems for the digitalization of Industry in the development project Industry 4.0.
- Considers technology as combination of the physical world and the digital virtual world of information and communication.
- Describes the product cycle of technical systems and the corner stones of technology: material, energy and information.
- Presents a holistic view of technology and engineering.
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Book Title: Introduction to Systems Thinking and Interdisciplinary Engineering
Authors: Horst Czichos
Series Title: Synthesis Lectures on Engineering, Science, and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18239-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Synthesis Collection of Technology (R0), eBColl Synthesis Collection 11
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18238-9Published: 18 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18241-9Published: 19 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-18239-6Published: 17 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2690-0300
Series E-ISSN: 2690-0327
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 115
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 102 illustrations in colour
Topics: Industrial and Production Engineering, Mechatronics, Systems Theory, Control, Control, Robotics, Mechatronics, Knowledge based Systems