In a manufacturing system (MS), a wide range of human activities are applied in production processes. The human factor plays a core role and should be incorporated into the design, planning and decision making processes. In this work we describe different definitions, developments and existing concepts of a Virtual Factory (VF) and discuss VFs from the human oriented point of view. Furthermore,...

Background Industrial growth is occurring exponentially, for unimpeded growth, industrial workers are recruited on a large scale globally. There are various sectors of industries present for which laborers are trained in accordance to their requirements. As workers possess the general health risk of occupational hazards, various labor laws, schemes and policies are undertaken by the government ...

Increasing attention has been given to energy utilization in Turkey. In this report, we present an energy efficiency evaluation and economic feasibility analysis of a geothermal heating and cooling system (GSHP) and a mechanical compression water chiller system (ACHP) to improve the energy utilization efficiency and reduce the primary energy demand for industrial use. Analyses of a mechanical w...

Examination of the records of employees leaving an electronics factory over three-and-a-half years showed that a significantly greater proportion left the shop floor (where soldering took place) because of ill health than left the stores and office areas. This difference was largely due to work-related respiratory disease in those whose job was soldering. Shop floor workers leaving for health r...

DiFac is an IST research project (FP6-2005-IST-5-035079) funded by the European Commission within the 6 Framework Programme priority called “Collaborative Working Environment”. The project aims to the development of an innovative Collaborative Manufacturing Environment (CME) for the next generation of Digital Factory in order to support SMEs competitiveness. The paper presents the activity perf...

I will summarize theoretical issues in Working Group 1 at Nufact’01. In particular I will clarify a controversy on the optimum baseline L muon energy Eμ for measurements of the CP phase at a neutrino factory. If the uncertainty of the matter effect is assumed to be ±10%, which may be slightly too pessimistic, then the results from two groups agree (L ∼ 1000km, Eμ ∼ 10GeV).

In this study, a gold amalgam method called the "Double amalgam method" was compared with the ISO 17733 method for mercury vapor analysis method. In terms of sensitivity and ease of operation, the amalgamation method is superior to the oxidation method. Two parallel samplings were carried out in this research at a button battery factory, where the mercury vapor level in the air was about 0.001 ...

I will summarize theoretical issues in Working Group 1 at Nufact’01. In particular I will clarify a controversy on the optimum baseline L muon energy Eμ for measurements of the CP phase at a neutrino factory. If the uncertainty of the matter effect is assumed to be ±10%, which may be slightly too pessimistic, then the results from two groups agree (L ∼ 1000km, Eμ ∼ 10GeV).

Co-working is a new trend for integrating service robots into smart environments, such as homes or assembly lines of manufactories. Modern sensitive robots recognize human beings in their neighborhood and stop when touched, so that they can be integrated into their environment much better as in the past. Robots come out of the cage, and this creates a lot of opportunities for scalable automatio...

In order to get strategic positioning for competition in business organization, the information system must be ahead in this information age where the information as one of the weapons to win the competition and in the right hand the information will become a right bullet. The information system with the information technology support isn't enough if just only on internet or implemented with in...