Smart Industrial Robot Control Trends, Challenges and Opportunities within Manufacturing

Challenges and opportunities in biopharmaceutical manufacturing control

The total sales of biopharmaceuticals have been steadily increasing for decades with growing approval of new drug products, especially for monoclonal antibodies. This trend motivates the development of deeper understanding and advancement of biopharmaceutical manufacturing operations. This article describes opportunities, needs, and challenges in process control and operations for biopharmaceut...

Challenges and Opportunities for Intelligibility and Control in Smart Homes

Several studies have reported on interaction challenges users face when confronted with proactive contextaware technologies that take actions on their behalf. To address these challenges, techniques have been proposed to improve intelligibility (understanding) of and control over context-aware systems for end-users. Proactive context-aware systems have not only been featured in several smart ho...

Challenges and Opportunities in Logic Control for Manufacturing Systems

Discrete part manufacturing systems typically consist of numerous machines working together in a coordinated and sequential fashion. Programmable logic controllers are widely used to implement the control algorithms for these machines. Systems with hundreds or thousands of inputs and outputs, many of them simple on/off switches, are not uncommon. The logic controller must handle not only the no...

Biobanking trends, challenges, and opportunities.

OBJECTIVES To review the different interests and needs of industry and academic users of human biomaterials. METHODS A review of the current literature and interviews with involved parties. Questionnaires were e-mailed to assess current attitudes towards biobanking and opinions of trends and implications for the future. The organisations included commercial biobanks, charitable foundations, a...

Trends in Service Oriented Architectures for Robot-CNC Manufacturing Control