With the advancements of robotic technologies, the industrial environments are adopting more and more aspects of automation to enhance product quality and accuracy and to reduce product cost. One of these aspects is the use of Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) which is gaining importance in industrial logistics and transportation systems. Automated Guided Vehicles are the essential parts of all au...

As manufacturers face an increasingly competitive environment, energy efficiency improvements can be a way to reduce costs without negatively affecting product quality or yield. One major barrier to reducing energy costs and associated environmental impacts is access to the information that is available. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR Program works with industries to add...

due to the increasing development in various branches of the automotive industry, the need for a comfort climate in the cabin is more sensible. however, to achieve climate comfort, hvac system consumes a considerable amount of engine power. hence, improving hvac system performance leads to more energy saving of the vehicle which is a critical factor for nowadays automotive. besides, one crucial...

Unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) are increasingly being used by civilian and defence operators for ever more complex and dangerous missions. This is due to the underlying characteristics of safety and cost effectiveness when compared to manned vehicles. UUVs require no human operator be subject to the conditions and dangers inherent in the underwater environment that the vehicle is exposed t...

As the automotive industry quickly moves towards hybridized and electrified vehicles, the optimal integration of power electronics in these vehicles will have a significant impact not only on the cost, performance, reliability, and durability; but ultimately on customer acceptance and market success of these technologies. If properly executed with the right cost, performance, reliability and du...

This paper reports from preparations in an ongoing research study concerning how digital service innovation transforms value networks in the vehicle industry. The research study concerns digital services based on remote diagnostics systems. This digital service innovation in particular is of great importance since the vehicle industry has great potential to expand its business and found new and...

the present paper explores the impact of an on-board hydrogen harvesting system (fuel reformer) on the overall efficiency of a fuel-cell powered vehicle. various methods of hydrogen production for automotive applications have been discussed first. as the hydrogen production is one of the major challenges for application of proton exchange membrane (pem) fuel cells, especially in vehicular indus...

MSC.Nastran V70.7 was used on the Cray SV1 to perform large-scale NVH problems typically encountered in the automotive industry. Several MSC.Nastran solution sequences such as SOL 103, 111, 108, and 107 are heavily used by automotive customers in a production environment on the Cray SV1. Significant performance improvements were recently made to key MSC.Nastran kernels to exploit the architectu...

A review of the experimental and computational studies performed at NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) to support the optimization and benchmarking of the hypersonic aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic databases for the X-33 vehicle is presented. A synoptic of the testing, computational, and analysis capabilities at LaRC applied to these studies is given. Analyses of the hypersonic aerodynamic c...

maintenance is one of the systems which can play an essential role in the success of manufacturing and services systems. one of the most maintenance innovative approaches is agile maintenance. based on this approach, organizations integrate maintenance concepts with agility features such as: flexibility, agile and fast move, etc and also are trying to provide one hundred percent preparing equip...