The Swedish 2008 Government’s Action Plan on eGovernment offers old wine (focussed on technology rather than on services; production-centred rather than needs-based) in old bottles (closed political systems rather than open infrastructure; no measurements and, consequently, no incentives for government agencies to change). This paper analyzes the Plan based on an Enterprise Architecture integra...

The economic situation in the agro-industrial complex is heterogeneous. One of fastest growing industries food industry. This industry characterized by a stable financial position, it being actively modernized. production chemical fertilizers, after sharp drop domestic demand for them 90s, was reoriented mainly to external demand. state this currently influenced conjuncture world market. Low an...

Human operators often diagnose industrial machinery via anomalous sounds. Given the new advances in field of machine learning, automated acoustic anomaly detection can lead to reliable maintenance machinery. However, deep learning-driven methods require an extensive amount computational resources prohibiting their deployment factories. Here we explore a machine-driven design exploration strateg...

ed above, the letter below from one of our readers was submitted on June 10, 2004 to the Journal of the National Cancer Institute but was declined for publication. This journal [J Nat Cancer Inst] recently reported increased cancer incidence among cryolite industry workers.1 These findings merit comment on the implications for workers in other industries, particularly the aluminum industry. The...

Although the application of ultrasonic energy to produce or to enhance a wide variety of processes have been explored since about the middle of the 20th century, only a reduced number of ultrasonic processes have been established at industrial level. However, during the last ten years the interest in ultrasonic processing has revived particularly in industrial sectors where the ultrasonic techn...

Compared to opencut mining, underground coal mining is more common in Australia due to its lesser impact on the environment. Although there are several underground mining methods, such as the longwall, pillar, bord, and miniwall, longwall mining is the most commonly used method due to its high efficiency. However, longwall mining does lead to significant ground subsidence. Mining subsidence is ...

It is a critical time to upgrade technology and increase value added with manufacturing skills developing and management strategies that will highly satisfy the customers need in the precision machinery global market. In recent years, the supply side, each precision machinery manufacturers in each country are facing the pressures of price reducing from the demand side voices that pushes the hig...

Land leveling is one of the most important steps in soil preparation and cultivation. Although land leveling with machines requires considerable amount of energy, it delivers a suitable surface slope with minimal soil deterioration as well as damage to plants and other organisms in the soil. Notwithstanding, in recent years researchers have tried to reduce fossil fuel consumption and its delete...

The high awareness of intensification and frequency of smog phenomenon all over the world in XXI age makes for detailed analyses of the reasons of its formation and prevention. The governments of the developed countries and conscious of real hazards, including many European countries, aim to restrict the emission of harmful gases. In literature, we can find the discussions on the influence of t...