Considering that the energy consumption of a given system can be directly related to its dynamics, this work presents a study accomplished at the Laboratory of Energy Efficiency (LEENER) and Industrial Process Laboratory of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). The work makes comparison studies among some different tunings for the flow control on pumping systems and tuning procedures f...

Nowadays, industrial necessities claims global management procedures integrating information systems in order to manage and to use the controlled-processes information and thus, to assure a good process behaviour. These aspects aim to the development of fault detection and diagnosis systems and makingdecision systems. In this work, a reference model for fault management in industrial processes ...

The eeectiveness of hardware veriication techniques has increased markedly in the past decade. As hardware veriication techniques become increasingly powerful the idea of transitioning veriication technology to industry can be taken seriously. Nevertheless, powerful decision procedures that can completely automate the veriication of certain types of hardware, whether they are BDD based model-ch...

A method is presented for estimating the improvement potential of planning and scheduling in a batch-wise processing company. It involves a characterization of the actual planning and scheduling situation and supports systematic exploration of improvement options and their benefits. Insights gained in two explorative industrial case studies were used to arrive at a robust method that can be app...

A new developed and designed real-time expert intelligent control system (REICS) for industrial process control has been introduced. The global architectures of the hardware and software of the system have been proposed. A multi-level method of knowledge representation based on the combination of frame, production rules and real-time procedures has been discussed, and used to represent the cont...

Industrial Safety and Health Law (ISH Law) of Japan requires abnormalities identified in evaluations of worker health and working environments are reported to occupational physicians, and employers are advised of measures to ensure appropriate accommodations in working environments and work procedures. Since the 1980s, notions of a risk assessment and occupational safety and health management s...

Measures for assessing the environmental impact and long-term sustainability will become an increasingly important requirement in industrial project management. The concept of sustainability influences all aspects of a project, from its earliest phases: development procedures, design of facilities and infrastructure, operation of the industrial facility, and economics. Project management resear...

In Québec, workers intervening in hazardous zones of machines, equipment and processes during maintenance, repairs and unjamming activities have to apply lockout procedures. Lockout procedures involve shutting down the equipment, isolating it, applying individual locks, releasing residual energies and verifying the absence of energies. Lockout has mostly been linked to industrial sectors. Howev...

In this paper the guidelines for applying heteroscedastic linear models for analysing industrial process data is presented. Heteroscedastic linear models are considered as a good model family for the joint modelling of dispersion and mean. The model selection of heteroscedastic linear model is discussed considering the special features of industrial data. A procedure for dispersion model select...