Although the elaboration of the case representation is the key problem of the case-based reasoning system conception, there exists no proven methodology targeted to this task. This paper is a contribution to fill this gap in the maintenance domain, more precisely in the equipments diagnostic and repair help. A methodology to elaborate the case representation is proposed based on knowledge manag...

Rheological measurements are quite relevant in the food industry as a tool for physical characterization of raw material prior to processing, for intermediate products during manufacturing, and for finished foods. There are several approaches to conduct these rheological characterizations, and the selected technique pretty much depend on the specific product and the functional characteristics i...

The increasing demand for intelligent machines, coupled with the drive more efficient utilization of these machines in various industries, and emergence Industry 4 [...]

The excessive amount of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions in the recent years has caused a major global warming problem. Although historically GHGs have been a natural source of warming in the atmosphere, yet in the past two decade or so, their adversarial effects have been more sensed and reported. Among the sources of these emissions, transportation is responsible for more than 50% of these rel...

In today’s business world, competitiveness defines as an industry leader to drive towards maximum efficiency and it is constantly at the forefront of the companies objectives. Managers across the country are striving to adopt lean manufacturing practices to improve their bottom line cellular manufacturing and it helps to build a variety of products with as little scrap as possible. Layout a fac...

Algorithms for shape offsetting are of great importance in computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), the numerical control (NC) of machines, computer graphics and related fields. The need for offset shapes arises in applications such as the numerical control of sawing machines or milling machines in the car industry. The problem of shape offsetting can be formulated as fo...

Network emulation and simulation tools are widely used for preproduction, studies and researches purposes. This success is due to the quality of result they provide compared to the real equipments. Another advantage of the network simulators is that the cost of studies and experiences are exponentially reduced especially for networks that use expensive hardware or a big number of nodes. In the ...