Over the past two decades there has been a surge in demand for accurate and precise 3D metrology machines to provide measurements in micron scale. This demand is encouraged by the need for quality and process control for the promised technological development of micro electromechanical systems (MEMS). Parallel mechanisms have been the subject of study as positioning machines. Parallel manipulat...

We present two schemes for planning the time-optimal trajectory for cooperative multi-manipulator system (CMMS) carrying a common object. We assume that the desired path is given and parameterizable by an arclength variable. Both approaches take into account the dynamics of the manipulators and object. The first approach employs linear programming techniques, and it allows us to obtain the time...

In bottled wines, haze and turbidity are phenomena to be avoided. Since bentonite fining is a common process clarify wines removing heat unstable proteins, theoretical study on the adsorption of three Charged Model Molecules (CMMs, egg albumin, polyphenols riboflavin) was carried out deep comprehend this chemical phenomenon. Four bentonites were adopted finely characterized together with potent...

Abstract Compliant micromechanisms (CMMs) acquire mobility from the deflection of elastic members and have been proven to be robust by millions silicon MEMS devices. However, limited impedes realization more sophisticated CMMs, which often require larger deflections. Recently, some novel manufacturing processes emerged but are not well known community. In this paper, CMMs is reviewed, aiming pr...

Managers are constantly being told that the quality of data is insufficient for producing reliable results from business models. Reliability analysis is no exception. In this paper, the authors show that it is possible to retrospectively improve the quality of failure histories stored in computerised maintenance management systems (CMMS). A tool was developed to help reliability professionals a...

The human brain is an extremely powerful pattern recogniser, as well as being capable of displaying amazing feats of memory. It is clear that human memory is associative; we recall information by associating items together so that one may be used to recall another. This model of memory, where items are associated as pairs rather than stored at a particular location, can be used to implement com...