The objective of this research paper is to design and implement wireless sensor networks (WSN) for various monitoring & control applications in industry. In today’s competitive market the industries are facing growing demands to improve process efficiencies to comply with environmental regulations and meet corporate financial objectives. Therefore, the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) for industri...

Safety ðSÞ improvement of industrial installations leans on the optimal allocation of designs that use more reliable equipment and testing and maintenance activities to assure a high level of reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) for their safety-related systems. However, this also requires assigning a certain amount of resources ðCÞ that are usually limited. Therefore, the decisi...

Recent efforts to promote a transition to a low carbon economy have been influenced by suggestions that a low carbon transition offers challenges and might yield economic benefits comparable to those of the previous industrial revolutions. This paper examines these arguments and the challenges facing a low carbon transition, by drawing on recent thinking on the technological, economic and insti...

The following on-going research work intends to highlight the relevant contributions that Green Virtual Enterprise Breeding Environments (GVBEs) can have in the development of new sustainable industrial development models, able to address the threefold sustainability challenges of environmental protection, economic growth and social progress by means of collaborative networks and systems. Focus...

The DEPLOY project has provided a rare opportunity to explore and document the potential benefits and challenges in creating and exploiting usable formal methods. Using the results of an updated review of 98 industrial applications, we identify trends relating to analytic power, robustness, stability and usability of tools, as well as the quality of evidence on costs and benefits of deployment....

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The next industrial revolution is foreseen to happen with upcoming Industrial Internet that combines massive data collected by industrial sensors with data analysis for improving the efficiency of operations. Collecting, pre-processing, storing and analyzing such real-time data is a complex task with stringent demands on communication intelligence, QoS and security. In this paper we outline som...

Requirements engineering for commercial off-the-shelf software packages entails special challenges. This paper presents preliminary results from an empirical study investigating these challenges through a qualitative approach using semi-structured interviews. The survey is exploratory with the objective of eliciting relevant topics for further research. Seven employees at five software companie...

Currently a shift of focus towards 6-sigma quality and market responsive operation has been initiated in the chemical processing industries. The fast evolution of products and processes enforced by fierce global competition and by tightening legislation are major forces for new application development approaches and for new technologies. The need of high performance non-linear model based contr...

Both practitioners and researchers are concerned about resource deficiencies on the planet earth and agree that circular business models (CBMs) represent solutions to move towards zero waste, improving environmental impacts and increasing economic profit. Despite all of the benefits of CBMs, the implications are not widely available, and failure rates are high. Thus, there is a need to identify...