This review outlines the current and emerging applications of biotechnology, particularly in the production and processing of chemicals, for sustainable development. Biotechnology is "the application of scientific and engineering principles to the processing of materials by biological agents". Some of the defining technologies of modern biotechnology include genetic engineering; culture of reco...

Ioannis Kostavelis Laboratory of Robotics and Automation, Production and Management Engineering Dept., Democritus University of Thrace, Greece e-mail: [email protected] Lazaros Nalpantidis Robotics, Vision and Machine Intelligence Lab., Dept. of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark e-mail: [email protected] Evangelos Boukas Laboratory of Roboti...

in biotechnology has been concentrated to review alternative routes for the production of natural compounds. plant cell culture systems are viable alternatives for the production of secondary metabolites that are of commercial importance in food and pharmaceutical industries. however, relatively very few cultures synthesize these compounds over extended periods in amounts comparable to those fo...

Due to our increasing concerns on environmental problems and limited fossil resources, biobased production of chemicals and materials through biorefinery has been attracting much attention. Optimization of the metabolic performance of microorganisms, the key biocatalysts for the efficient production of the desired target bioproducts, has been achieved by metabolic engineering. Metabolic enginee...

Increasing complexity in today’s manufacturing and production industry due to the need for higher flexibility competitiveness is leading inconsistencies iterative exchange loops of system design process. To address these complexities inconsistencies, an ongoing trend organizations make a transition from document-centric principles applications being model-centric observed. In this paper, litera...

This paper describes a system for accomplishing product engineering, called a Product Design Generator (PDG). Four rules for successful product engineering processes are posited by analogy with the Toyota Production System. An overview of the PDG method is presented as well as an industrial case study, which demonstrates the impact and potential for successful implementation of the method. This...