The past two decades have seen the realization of the manufacturing firms towards quality consciousness. The various firms worldwide employed the statistical tools for minimizing the deviations and subsequently the number of rejects of the manufactured parts. In this process, more prominence is laid on prevention of defects rather than detecting and rejecting the defect in the usual traditional...

Research applications of osmotic dehydration to food processing in technology and in component transfer mechanisms are being carried out in several countries. Osmotic dehydration is a traditional process applied to food dewatering. It leads to attractive products that are ready to eat or can be applied as a pretreatment to the next process such as drying or freezing. The new osmotically dehydra...

Botulinum neurotoxins belong to the most toxic substances in nature. Well-known as a food poisoning agent for almost two centuries, the beneficial aspects of this bacterial metabolite were rediscovered about 30 years ago. These toxins, which are produced by the anaerobic bacterium Clostridium botulinum are nowadays used to treat a variety of neuro-muscular disorders. The increased demand requir...

It is widely accepted that excessive urbanization, concluded into intense industrial activities near residential districts, with unpleasant effects to the citizens health. Furthermore, shipbuilding and ship repairing consists one of the polluting industrial activities in the country – and more precisely concerning the widely capital region – in spite of the recession that has come to the last y...

This report describes the identification of important estrogenic compounds in surface and sediment pore-water samples collected from the Tyne and Tees estuaries (United Kingdom) through the application of toxicity identification evaluation (TIE) procedures. The Tyne and Tees estuaries represent estuaries that have been historically impacted by industrial activities and continue to receive treat...

This work presents a methodology for the characterization of human reliability based on fuzzy sets concepts, which has been implemented in an innovative decision support system, providing managers with an intelligent computational tool for reducing the possibility of human errors in industrial activities. Considering that such activities can be described as operational, maintenance or inspectio...

Safety and optimality are crucial requirements in every industrial process. Modern day chemical plants, in particular, require comprehensive fault diagnosis procedures to function smoothly. The success of any fault diagnosis technique depends critically on the sensors measuring the important process variables. With thousands of possible measurements in a typical plant, the selection of variable...

The communication between control units and field devices in industrial environments is based on so-called fieldbus technologies networks optimized for the realtime transmission of highly sensitive data for control and monitoring purposes. As a strong need for wireless fieldbus systems arose, the applicability of available wireless standards has been examined. Some specialized wireless systems ...

Over the past years, a vast number of datasets have been published based on Semantic Web standards, which provides an opportunity for creating novel industrial applications. However, industrial requirements on data quality are high while the time to market as well as the required costs for data preparation have to be kept low. Unfortunately, many Linked Data sources are error-prone which preven...

This paper introduces a ”Diminished Reality” technique for removing an object or collection of objects and replacing it with an appropriate background image. Diminished Reality can be considered an important part of many Mixed and Augmented Reality applications. Our target application is the use of Augmented Reality (AR) to revamp procedures in industrial plants. An object or a region of intere...