Designing for Manufacturing Scalability in Clean Energy Research

Scalability Planning for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems

Reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) have been suggested by Koren et al [2] as a solution to address the needs for meeting the changing product demands. This has been recognized and supported later by other researchers [3-7]. From the viewpoint of RMS, a manufacturing system should be designed in such a way that it can be rapidly and costeffectively reconfigured to the exact capacity need...

Materials for Clean Energy Conversion

Designing for Color in Additive Manufacturing

In this paper we present a color design pipeline for 3D printed or additively manufactured parts. We demonstrate how to characterize and calibrate a commercial printer and how to obtain its forward and backward color transformation models. We present results from our assistive color design tool, allowing for colorimetric accurate prints and visualization of the printed outcome, prior to print. ...

Designing for scalability in a knowledge fusion system

The KRAFT project has defined a generic agent-based architecture to support knowledge fusion — the process of locating and extracting knowledge from multiple, heterogeneous on-line sources, and transforming it so that the union of the knowledge can be applied in problem-solving. KRAFT focuses on knowledge in the form of constraints expressed against an object data model defined by a shared onto...

Global clean energy in 2017.

uring the November 2016 Climate Change Conference in Marrakesh, much talk centered on implementation of the political commitments made in Paris in 2015. Governments are now focused on putting their words into action as they prepare for the first official stocktake in 2018. Innovation will have an essential role to play. In November 2015, 20 nations, including the United Kingdom, launched a new ...