Semiconductor manufacturing spans across many manufacturing areas, including wafer manufacturing where electronic circuitry is built layered on a wafer, chip manufacturing that involves circuit probing and testing, and product manufacturing from which the final IC (integrated circuits) products are assembled, and finally tested. Semiconductor manufacturing is well known as the most challenging ...

Automation in clinical laboratories is not new. Since the pioneering work of Skeggs in developing continuous flow systems, automated analysers have become standard in almost all laboratories. It will be diYcult to imagine a modern clinical laboratory without automation. This form of automation is sometimes referred to as “microautomation.” The next stage in automation is the automation of speci...

A monitoring architecture and corresponding data model to support fault diagnosis in distributed automation systems is presented. The monitor system consists of a central monitor and a set of the monitoring agents, that cooperate via rule sets and diagnosis results. The data model combines event-based and continuous diagnostic methods and allows to adjust the monitor overhead. The achieved comp...

This study presents a framework to allow human and machine agents to reason and coordinate actions without direct communication mechanisms by sharing distributed Linked Data resources. This framework addresses the problems of querying frequently-updating distributed datasets and guaranteeing consistency in case of concurrent updates. The motivation for this framework comes from the use-case of ...