INDUSTRIE 4.0 - Automation in weft knitting technology

Automation in Chemical Industry (Automatisierung in der Chemischen Industrie)

Automation technology is an integral part of chemical plants since the beginning of industrial chemistry. The evolution of process automation has been driven by the specific requirements of process industry and by the innovation cycles of instrumentation technology and control theory. Chemical production plants are still a fruitful and inspiring application field of automation with an enormous ...

The Radical Technology of Industrie 4.0

When traveling, you quickly learn that the software industry has imposed a great uniformity upon the world. Around the globe, programmers tend to work in the same kind of o ces, follow the same kind of schedules, and submit to the same kind of discipline. As we turn to the elds that are currently being in uenced or reshaped by software, we nd that standards play a role that’s equal to or perhap...

Quantum Knitting

We analyze the connections between the mathematical theory of knots and quantum physics by addressing a number of algorithmic questions related to both knots and braid groups. Knots can be distinguished by means of ‘knot invariants’, among which the Jones polynomial plays a prominent role, since it can be associated with observables in topological quantum field theory. Although the problem of c...

Industrie 4.0

Agent Technology and Process Automation

Application of agent technology to design and implementation of process automation systems has been proposed by some researchers. The purpose of this paper is to review current knowledge of this issue. The starting point of the study is the functional requirements of a process automation system. The requirements are compared with the models of agent systems, including multi-agent communication ...