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The presented machinery concept CESA3R (Concept for Engineering free, Scalable, Advanced Automated Assembly system for Rapid ramp up) addresses today's challenges in production such as product variety and quantity variation by enhancing versatility. Central elements are function oriented standardized automation devices, which are technically featured with independent structure recognition and self-descriptive...
While the challenges and the advance factors of implementation technology are emerging, there are still lack of ideal formal models and developing tools for mechanical experts to construct the controller software on control integration for the pipelining manufacturing modules. To meet the requirements, a novel part behavior modeling method has been proposed in this paper. The definitions of materials,...
The self-sustainability of micro grids is an important challenge in the smart grids field due to the need to balance the fast growing energy consumption, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase energy independence by using renewable resources. The use of decentralized paradigms, and particularly multi-agent systems and holonic control, enable to face this challenge by implementing intelligent...
Sustainable energy is no longer a technological challenge, as many of its aspects have now been analyzed and solved. However, this is not true when looking for sustainable systems that are technologically compatible with the characteristics of the historical city. The research first investigated a specific case study: the historical center of Ascoli Piceno in the Marche Region. The analysis began...
This paper describes the operation and calibration modes for an experimental monitoring system of a photovoltaic (PV) plant with greater emphasis on the Maximum Power Point Tracker (MPPT). In order to optimize the energy production and therefore the economic convenience, it is very important that MPPT device works properly and that the measurement of PV electrical quantities is not affected by excessive...
Service Economics has been successfully proposed and implemented for promoting the macro service market especially in Global value chains which however does not provide guidance and integrate directly with the IT side implementation. Therefore there leaves a gap of the refinement from the strategic business planning to ubiquitous services implementation in the API (Application Program Interface) economy...
Over the past few years there has been an increasing use of informatics means in the school, as an essential mechanism to make the much desired change and modernization. However, this not translated into a simplification of administrative procedures. This paper describes a project that aims to focus the entire evaluation process in a single web application, allowing create autonomous mechanisms of...
This paper investigates how renewable resources can be exploited to overcome the power shortage and produce a significant amount of the energy demand from the most feasible renewable sources in Bangladesh. Using two energy system analysis softwares, HOMER which specializes in optimizing energy systems and EnergyPLAN which focuses on larger regions, a strong smart city model has been presented which...
The aim of this paper is to present the benefits of the use of Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) system for the deployment of a micro-grid supplied by hybrid energy system in remote sites and unconnected grids. A microgrid, based in the experimental test site of TechnoCentre éolien (TCE) at Riviere-au-Renard (Québec), and equipped by a SCADA system has been selected as case study for...
When the Colorado cement plant was commissioned, its associated quarry and reserves made it suitable and economical to produce an ASTM Type I cement, requiring a low percentage of limestone and a high percentage of shale. As has been the case with many cement plants around the world, changing market conditions and customer demands for ever increasing cement performance forced the plant to move to...
Despite of all known hazards of plastic pollution, it's prevalent and pervasive in India. Polythene bags are major contributors to it. Polythene bag production is easier and cost effective as compared to its eco-friendly alternatives. Paper bag is closest economical alternative to the polythene bag. In this paper, we try to address the several issues that makes paper bag production economically incompetent...
Communities across Africa depend on radio for access to information, often as their primary source of news and information. Given its importance, surprisingly little ICT work has focused on improving radio. Contemporary ICTs have the potential to catalyze radical changes in ownership models, facilitate greater linguistic and cultural diversity, increase inclusion, and allow for the types of major...
Service transition from a development to the full production operations is well defined in best practice documents with a set of steps that must be followed towards the success. Includes a lot of preparations and in advance planning, covering resources, policies, change management, definition of critical success factors and key performance indicators, challenges, risks and many other things. In multi...
Patients with Parkinson's disease may have difficulties in speaking because of the reduced coordination of the muscles that control breathing, phonation, articulation and prosody. Symptoms that may occur because of changes are weakening of the volume of the voice, voice monotony, changes in the quality of the voice, speed of speech, uncontrolled repetition of words. The evaluation of some of the disorders...
This is the eighth time that the annual International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon 2016), organised by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, is held in the historic city of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Over the years the CyCon conferences have proved to be world-recognised forums addressing cyber conflict and security and their implications for society, business and world...
This work focuses on the development of models, methods, and tools to increase a fault tolerance of highperformance computing systems. The described models and methods are based on automatic diagnostics of the basic software and hardware components of these systems, the use of automatic localization, correction of faults, and the use of automatic HPC-system reconfiguration mechanisms. The originality...
Nowadays the complexity of modern rolling mill plants is steadily increasing and thus the demand placed on automation systems. Therefore the use of virtual process systems can be very beneficial to validate the control system before start-up, as well as a training tool for rolling mill operators. This paper presents the iStand, the Danieli Automation rolling mill simulator platform.
DevOps presents a significant broader perspective in delivering software solutions. The perception of DevOps being a mere tool has been formulated into a change in culture, paradigms in automation, clarity in measuring risks and facilitating ease of sharing. DevOps has been responsible for companies to move from a monolithic pace of software releases to an agile mindset. This paper discovers the significance...
A new methodology and algorithm is presented for testing on-chip memories concurrently with the normal operation of a processor, which has little or no effect on its performance. The test algorithm uses a series of short burst of memory access and does not destroy the memory contents. This paper describes the implementation of the memory built-in self-test (MBIST) methodology in the ARM® Cortex®-M7...
Rice processing is the major food processing industry in Sri Lanka. Although the process creates immense economic, social and environmental impacts, the studies conducted to analyze those impacts are scarce in the country. Though there are various rice production processes in the world, basically there are two rice production processes as raw rice and parboiled rice in Sri Lanka. Out of these, parboiled...
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