The growing attention to the issues of increasing energy efficiency railway transport results in suggesting various designs traction rolling stock with most advanced technical solutions, but, unfortunately, many them remain only at development or prototype stage.The analysis operating experience existing mainline locomotives is proposed help develop fundamental principles concept improving auto...

Nowadays, the problem of the flexibility in any organization has essential importance and the associated investigation with the organizational efficiency and performance is considered. In real-world situation, the process of decision making is often based on linguistic and mental data, so applying fuzzy logic in modeling at this point of view is convenient. In this paper, a fuzzy approach is ap...

in most industrial zones, electric energy is one of the most important energy sources. since electrical motors are the main energy consumers of industrial factories, consumption optimization in these motors can be considered as a main option related to energy saving. one very effective way to reduce the consumption of these equipment is to use a motor speed controllers or drives. since the loss...

In the face of an oversupplied world pig market only the most efficient producers will stay in business. By and large these will be the operations that are able to more successfully exploit the genetic potential of their animals. Similarly, only those breeders who are able to demonstrate sustained genetic improvement will sell stock to the smaller number of large producers who are left. Althoug...