Carbon monoxide is one of the most important reducing gases to be detected in combustion of hydrocarbon fuels, petroleum and automobile industries, heat-treating furnaces and, also in the first stages of fire. During the past four decades, gas sensors based either on the surface characteristics or the bulk properties of ceramics have been the subject of extensive research and development. New m...

Kansei Engineering was founded by M. Nagamachi at Hiroshima University about 30 years ago and it is a powerful ergonomic consumer-oriented technology for a new product development. Kansei is a Japanese of psychological feeling or image which a consumer will have in mind when purchasing some thing. For instance, the customer has such kinds of kansei of “speedy, easy control and good styling” for...

Welding is one of the key components of numerous manufacturing industries, which has potential physical and chemical health hazards. Many components of welding fumes can potentially affect the lung function. This study investigates the effects of welding fumes on lung function and respiratory symptoms among welders of an automobile manufacturing plant in Iran. This historical cohort study asses...

Smart Company is a temporal cooperation of independent knowledge-source units (enterprises, institutions or individuals) which provide a service on the basis of shared skills, information technologies and resources. To achieve common interface within and between various components at various levels of hierarchy, a multiagent infrastructure for the information support of SmC management is propos...

In the ever increasing level of customer expectations in a competitive environment, the sustenance of a company solely dependent on robustness in its process and applications. Many industries at the early stages of its production focus more on the ways and means to increase the volume. A management system will be more effective if implemented ahead of the commercial production. There are many p...

Aluminum hybrid reinforcement technology is a response to the dynamic ever increasing service requirements of such industries as transportation, aerospace, automobile, marine, etc. It is unique in that it offers a platform of almost unending combinations of materials to produce various hybrid composites. This article reviews the studies carried out on various combinations of aluminum hybrid com...

Hard turning of martensitic stainless steel is gaining importance in all manufacturing sectors like automobile and aerospace industries. Machinability of materials depends on surface roughness, tool wear, cutting forces, specific cutting pressure and work material hardness. In this research hard martensitic stainless steel AISI 440 C and SCM 440 alloy steel was used as work materials. CBN and P...

The composite pressure vessels are used in varieties of applications such as automobile, aeronautics and chemical engineering. Besides these, they have become very popular in oil and gas transport industries. These pressure vessels are experience very high internal pressures during their operation. The present paper demonstrates a study on cylindrical section of carbon fiber reinforced polymer ...

Innovation in form of new products, processes or forms of productive organisation brings growth to firms and development to economies and therefore it is important to understand sources of innovation and technological capabilities. In this context this paper explores sources of innovation and technological capability in the Indian automobile industry. In last decade Indian auto industry emerged...

Laser-Gas Metal Arc (GMA) hybrid welding is fast making the transition from laboratory to production, in industries as diverse as shipbuilding to automobile manufacture. For the past 3 years, our team has striven to both develop a hybrid welding process for steel pipe, and to specify, build, and install a hybrid pipe welding system in a General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard. In March 2007, the syste...