The radio frequency identification (RFID) is a technology for automatic identification of items, particularly in supply chain, but it is becoming increasingly important for industrial applications. Unlike barcode technology that detects the optical signals reflected from barcode labels, RFID uses radio waves to transmit the information from an RFID tag affixed to the physical object. In contras...

The number of things that are connected to the Internet is growing exponentially. This has led to defining a new conception of Internet, the commonly called Internet of Things. Internet of Things ecosystems are composed, on the one hand, of so called smart objects, i.e., tiny and highly constrained physical devices in terms of memory capacity, computation capability, energy autonomy, and commun...

Technology-based sustainability enhancement is a key approach for industrial sustainability realization. However, identification of effective technologies for any industrial system could be very challenging. If the available data and information about the industrial system and technologies are incomplete, imprecise, and uncertain, then technology identification could be very difficult. In this ...

Components of industrial processes are often affected by un-permitted or un-expected deviations from normal operation behaviour. The fault detection task consists of determination of the fault present in a system and the time of detection. In addition to fault detection follows the fault identification by determination of kind, location and time of detection of a fault. These procedures are bas...

It is now generally recognized that in order to make significant advances in accident prevention, the focus of industrial firms must shift from assessing the risks of existing production and manufacturing systems to discovering technological alternatives, i.e. from the identification of problems to the identification of solutions. Encouraging the industrial firm to perform (1) an inherent safet...

during the last years, several exceedances of pm10 and benzo(a)pyrene limit values exceedances were recorded in taranto, a city in southern italy included in so-called areas at high risk of environmental crisis because of the presence of a heavy industrial district including the largest steel factory in europe. a study of these critical pollution events showed a close correlation with the wind ...

Product differentiation, customization, and just-in-time logistics require a new approach to manufacturing. Production lines have to be flexible, and therefore machine setup times must be short, to be able to handle small batch sizes efficiently and economically. In addition, ever higher quality standards and ever increasing international competition impose higher accuracy, speed, and reliabili...

introduction: hamburger is a popular type of fast foods consumed all over the world. sarcocystis spp. is a zoonotic parasitic pathogen which endangers safety of meat and meat products. the present study describes the prevalence rate of sarcocystis spp. in hamburgers in yazd, iran using pcr-rflp. materials and methods: raw hamburger samples (100 traditional and 90 industrial) from central region...

economic growth is the most important purpose of developing countries. each country can improve social welfare and access to international markets by increasing production potential. production can increase by two ways: the first one, using more inputs that raising production cost and the second one, improving efficiency that can produce more output with certain inputs or the same output with l...

Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Baghdad, Iraq Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tripoli, Libya d Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Research Laboratory (PEARL), D...