Overview This paper investigates the investment in pollution control equipment under uncertainty. We assume that a firm's output generates a pollution by-product and the pollution reduces the productivity of capital. The dynamics of pollution is assumed to be governed by stochastic differential equation. Then, the firm has to invest in a pollution control equipment in order to reduce the pollut...

The paper presents different methods for observing, monitoring, parameterising and directly controlling CAN-based automation equipment using Internet technologies. Examples that are described are: a commercial industrial robot, a cartesian handling system, a workpiece separation unit and other CAN devices. Furthermore generic interfaces are presented to access CAN systems via the internet on CA...

This paper describes the equipment assignment in a control recipe design. To produce a batch in a batch plant, equipment assignments to each task of a batch are carried out on the basis of the equipment requirement information of the master recipe. However, the equipment units satisfying the equipment requirement are not necessarily connected topologically with each other, especially in the mul...