Assembly plays an important role in any production system as it constitutes a significant portion of the lead time and cost of a product. Virtual computer-integrated manufacturing (VCIM) system is a modern production system being conceptually developed to extend the application of traditional computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) system to global level. Assembly scheduling in VCIM systems is ...

Offices have long been networked, but the home is becoming an increasingly electronic and networked place. As the public demands (and governments mandate) an energy-efficient home, and everything from TVs to printers and refrigerators becomes networked, the energy consumption of these devices becomes critical. Most of these networked edge devices spend the majority of their time idle, but still...

The use of different optical-fiber sensors for weighing measurements is Abstract described. By using three different mechanical stressing mechanisms, the operation of the fiber-to-fiber transducer systems are tested and the results are presented. Parameters such as sensitivity, hysteresis, resolution, and dynamic range are measured. A comparison of the results has shown that the sensor system m...

There is described an approach in a Fault Detection and Isolation by means of Markov chains in this article. After first part which is devoted to terminology of the FDI there is a description of the Markov chains as a strong tool for dynamic systems modeling with extensions to the field of the FDI. There is also a simple practical example of the Markov chains FDI application for a two tank syst...

Hidden Markov Model theory is an extension of the Markov Model process. It has found uses in such areas as speech recognition, target tracking and word recognition. One area which has received little in the way of research interest, is the use of Hidden Markov Models in character recognition. In this paper the application of Hidden Markov Model theory to dynamic character recognition is investi...

Hexagrid structural system is an innovated system with structural behavior which is similar to a tubular system. In this paper, a numerical study is conducted to estimate the seismic performance of horizontal hexagrid concerning the combined horizontal and vertical hexagrid, tubular and diagrid structural systems. First 30 and 50 story buildings are modeled using ETABS, then pushover and nonlin...

In this paper, probabilistic models for two dissimilar redundant systems with replacement at each common cause failure have been developed to analyze and compare some reliability characteristics. Two configurations are studied under the assumption that each system is replaced at the occurrence of common cause failure. Configuration I is a 3-out-of-4 cold standby system, while configuration II i...

Lehoux and colleagues plea for a health systems perspective to evaluate innovations. Since many innovations and their scale-up strategies emerge from processes that are not (centrally) steered, we plea for any assessment with a dynamic, instead of a sequential, approach. We provide further guidance on how to adopt such dynamic approach, in order to better un-derstand an...