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This paper presents the application of a total productive maintenance (TPM) technique to increase the effectiveness in producing aluminium stranded conductors in order to reduce waste problems of the machine and improve the quality of the production. Two pillars of TPM activities for autonomous maintenance and focused improvement are established. Machines which have low overall equipment efficiency...
Modern engineering design and simulation software (CAD, CAM, CAE) allow for extensive use of virtual prototypes along the product and production development reducing the cost and time of physical prototyping. These software technologies in turn has also important role in testing and verification against the various regulations. This paper reviews the recent progress of virtual verification (ViVer)...
This paper presents EnerSpectrum a standard wall electricity socket redesigned to present how much of the electricity being consumed is sourced from a renewable energy source. We build on studies that report an increase in consumer energy awareness and literacy when presented with the source of their electricity. The prototype was evaluated by 10 users using interviews, which found the concept interesting...
Being able to respond flexibly to business opportunities is essential for the manufacturing industries to stay competitive. Making flexible use of the plant floor equipment is an essential aspect to this. The research presented proposes an approach to automation systems design and implementation, focusing on (but not limited to) batch processes and derived from the ISA-88 standard, with the aim of...
In this paper we explore the relationship between business networks and technology standards battles for dominance during the technology life cycle. Based on brief reviews of existing theory and research, we relate (1) standard dominance to the technology life cycle, (2) the business network to standard dominance and (3) the technology life cycle to the business network. We expect the technology life...
Increasing circuit densities and speeds are quickly reducing electrical test point access for printed circuit assembly test. Boundary-scan (JTAG/IEEE 1149.x) is a technology that will allow continued testability of printed circuit assemblies, but its use requires that it be designed into semiconductor devices. Currently, not all semiconductor suppliers support boundary-scan. Wider availability of...
Developing sustainable urban environments is complex as it requires consideration of interacting social, economic and environmental sustain ability factors. The task is made even more difficult by the wide variety of stakeholders (e.g. planners, architects, businesses and the public) that may be involved in the process and the lack of a common language for all to understand. This paper describes a...
Digital Earth (DE) is a virtual presentation of the planet based on geographic coordinate, and is an information system with tremendous amount of multiple resolutions and multiple scales data as shown in multiple dimensions. It can visualize the real earth and represent historical phenomena in digital way by using the large amount of data of the earth, and utilizing the computer techniques, image...
A substantial amount of universitiespsila and institutespsila funding derives from their scientific achievements. Researchers are encouraged to publish new findings and ideas at an ever growing rate. How can the university keep track of the research of hundreds of scientists? How can the university rate departments and distribute funding according to scientific achievements? We present a distributed...
The UNICORE grid system provides a seamless, secure and intuitive access to distributed grid resources. In recent years, UNICORE 5 is used as a well-tested grid middleware system in production grids (e.g. DEISA, D-Grid) and at many supercomputer centers world-wide. Beyond this production usage, UNICORE serves as a solid basis in many European and International research projects and business scenarios...
We developed a quality of service (QoS) management system to support service level management (SLM) for global enterprise services. The QoS management system is integrated with one of our enterprise services in a preproduction system, an identical system as the production system but in a test environment. Lab experiments showed that our integrated solution helps global enterprise services to better...
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