Space factory and production technology.

Routing and Production Scheduling for a Mobile Factory

In last decades, mobile factories have been used due to their high production capability, carrying their equipment and covering rough and uneven routes. Nowadays, more companies use mobile factories with the aim of reducing the transportation and manufacturing costs. The mobile factory must travel between the suppliers, visit all of them in each time period and return to the initial location of...

A plant factory for moth pheromone production

Moths depend on pheromone communication for mate finding and synthetic pheromones are used for monitoring or disruption of pheromone communication in pest insects. Here we produce moth sex pheromone, using Nicotiana benthamiana as a plant factory, by transient expression of up to four genes coding for consecutive biosynthetic steps. We specifically produce multicomponent sex pheromones for two ...

Melanoma Cell Factory for Glycolipid Production

Green Factory: Recombinant Protein Production in Chloroplasts

erated by introducing foreign genes into the nuclear genome. Here we focus on plastid transformation as an alternative. Plastids have their own rudimentary genome, the plastome, which encodes around 120 genes [1]. Plastids in green tissues are “chloroplasts”, whose primary function is photosynthesis. In contrast to the nuclear genome with typically two copies of each gene per cell, the plastome...

Factory Energy Management System Using Production Information

As a result of the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011, electric power supply in Japan faced a critical situation; in particular, factories that consume a large amount of electric power were seriously affected. Meanwhile, in China and other emerging countries, where the economic growth rate is high and automation of manufacturing factories is progressing, further energy saving is a key is...