Monitoring and control of manufacturing processes is an essential part of any industry. Being able to collect sensor measurements, analyse the measurements in an intelligent way, select appropriate actions and validate the desired results of these actions is a tremendous goal to be achieved. In this paper, we propose a monitoring and control framework of a multi-tier closedloop controlling lost...

In the Lost Foam Casting process, melting point temperature of metal, as well as volume and rate of the foam degradation have significant effect on the mold filling pattern. Therefore, gas generation capacity and gas gap length are two important parameters for modeling of mold filling time of the lost foam casting processes. In this paper, the gas gap length at the liquidfoam interface for a lo...

This chapter first describes the robotic CAM system proposed from the viewpoint of robotic servo controller for an industrial robot RV1A. Then, a reverse post-processor is proposed for the robotic CAM system to online generate the original CL data from the NC data post-processed for a five-axis NC machine tool with a tilting head. Next, an application of the industrial robot with incorporated t...

Electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) is used to image the permittivity distribution of an object by measuring the mutual electrical capacitance between sets of electrodes mounted on its periphery. Reconstruction of the cross-section images in ECT system from the capacitance measurements is a nonlinear and illposed inverse problem. However, there are many algorithms to solve the inverse probl...

The importance of smooth mould filling in the foundry casting process has been recognized for a long time. More uniform the filling process is, the better the quality of the casting of the products produced. Successful computer simulations can help to reduce the number of trials and cut down the lead time in the design of new casting products by better understanding the complex mechanisms and i...

The lost foam casting process offers several advantages over traditional green sand casting, most notably the ability to reuse casting sand, thus eliminating the need for costly disposal of contaminated casting sand. The process does, however, produce significant quantities of airborne emissions that can be a danger to both the environment and to the health of workers. This research examines th...