industrial design
121Industrial Review — ▪ 1994 Introduction The period since 1990 was proving a difficult time for the older industrialized economies, which had suffered from prolonged recession at home, and also for the previously centrally planned economies of Eastern Europe… …
122Industrial robot — Articulated industrial robot operating in a foundry …
123Industrial history of the People's Republic of China — Main articles: Economy and economic history of the People s Republic of China. China s industrial sector has shown great progress since 1949, but in the late 1980s it remained undeveloped in many respects. Although the country manufactured… …
124Industrial plasticine — A clay model of a BMW 1 Series …
125industrial glass — Introduction solid material that is normally lustrous and transparent in appearance and that shows great durability under exposure to the natural elements. These three properties lustre, transparency, and durability make glass a favoured… …
126industrial polymers, chemistry of — Introduction structure and composition of chemical compounds made up of long, chainlike molecules (molecule). What distinguishes polymers from other types of compounds is the extremely large size of the molecules. The size of a… …
127Industrial espionage — Teapot with Actresses, Vezzi porcelain factory, Venice, ca. 1725. The Vezzi brothers were involved in a series of incidents of industrial espionage. It was these actions that led to the secret of manufacturing Meissen porcelain becoming widely… …
128Design Rationale — In the survey on design rationale (DR) for software engineering [Jarczyk, Loffler Shipman, Design Rationale for Software Engineering: A Survey] the authors give a very clear definition to design rationale, it is “the explicit listing of decisions …
