1. Industrial Ecology and Sustainability 1.1 Policyand Material-related Developments 2. Basic Concepts of Industrial Ecology 2.1 The Biological Analogy 2.2 Types of Industrial Ecology 2.3 Limits of the Analogy 2.4 Shortcomings of Interlinked Systems and Strategies 3. Industrial Ecology and the relation to tools and methods 3.1 Life-cycle Approach 3.2 Material Flow Analysis 3.2.1 Draft IN-OUT Ba...

In recent years, we have been witnessing rapid changes in the industrial environment, mainly driven by business and societal needs toward mass and extreme customization. This is supported by new disruptive advances in the cross fertilization of concepts and the amalgamation of information-, communication-, and controltechnology-driven approaches in traditional industrial automation and control ...

In this paper, we study the design and different methodology of automated guided vehicle (AGV) systems. This paper provides an overview on AGVS technology discusses recent technological developments and describes the formulation to control the traffic inside industrial work space.

Recent technological developments are pulling fieldbus networks to support a new wide class of applications, such as industrial multimedia applications. These applications are usually supported by the widely used TCP/IP stack. It is thus essential to provide support to TCP/IP based applications, in fieldbus networks. This paper presents an effort that is being carried out to integrate the TCP/I...

Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) are diverse polyesters synthesized by a variety of bacteria as intracellular carbon and energy storage compounds. As bio-renewable and biodegradable materials with diverse properties, PHA have drawn industrial attentions for their potential applications in many fields. This review focuses on recent strain developments for PHA production via cofactor engineering and m...

This paper shows the development of fieldbusses in factory automation and examines how new requirements from Industrial Internet of Things will impact communication technology. It further explores what future developments can be forecasted given that the Industrial Internet of Things defines that machines automatically coordinate and exchange information leading to increased real time requireme...

Developments in the field of sustainable product design are manifold, which means that education in this field is rapidly evolving as well. In this paper, the continuously evolving portfolio of courses offered at Delft University of Technology’s Industrial Design Engineering faculty is systematically discussed, with a focus on content, course formats, assignments and lessons learned from course...

This review covers the progress made in research on microbial a-amylase, a highly demanded industrial enzyme in various sectors such as food, pharmaceuticals, textiles, detergents, etc. Amylases are of ubiquitous occurrence and hold the maximum market share of enzyme sales. The article surveys the a-amylase family and the major characteristics, microbial sources, production aspects, downstream ...