Industrial appliances do usually have RS232 ports to enable computer control and monitoring. In this paper we present a system to allow remote control by GSM/GPRS messaging not disturbing local link. To do so, the module must include a port arbiter to handle bi-directional communications between a RS232 and the two other ports (RS232 and GSM/GPRS).

To demonstrate the applicability of the mobile agent technology in supply chain management, we developed a prototype system which makes use of a wireless network link, the global positioning system, and mobile agents. The system demonstrates the workability of this combination of technologies in an industrial application.

This paper investigates the link between economic de-regulation–domestic as well as trade de-regulation–and firm-level productivity using two unique data sets. We use the industrial licensing regime in India (operating from the 1950s onwards) and its gradual relaxation during the 1980s and 1990s to test whether industrial de-regulation that leads to more competition domestically, affects firm-l...

This work-in-progress paper describes some elements of our efforts in defining an architecture and an appropriate set of protocols for industrial local area networks (ILAN) with wireless communication media. The major focus is on lower layer protocols. The main elements are a description of data link layer services, a MAC protocol and a scheduling approach taking into consideration special prop...

We address the following problem: Given a simple polygon $P$ with $n$ vertices and two points $s$ and $t$ inside it, find a minimum link path between them such that a given target point $q$ is visible from at least one point on the path. The method is based on partitioning a portion of $P$ into a number of faces of equal link distance from a source point. This partitioning is essentially a shor...

The technical customer documentation of a technical product plays an important role in international competition in industry. Customer documentation is more and more delivered, used and managed in electronic form. The main problems of technical customer document management in inter-organizational projects are related to unsystematic working procedures and heterogeneous information systems betwe...

Focusing information in manufacturing: a knowledge management perspective Ely Laureano Paiva Aleda V. Roth Jaime Evaldo Fensterseifer Article information: To cite this document: Ely Laureano Paiva Aleda V. Roth Jaime Evaldo Fensterseifer, (2002),"Focusing information in manufacturing: a knowledge management perspective", Industrial Management & Data Systems, Vol. 102 Iss 7 pp. 381 389 Permanent...

The technical customer documentation of a technical product plays an important role in international competition in industry. Customer documentation is more and more delivered, used and managed in electronic form. The main problems of technical customer document management in inter-organizational projects are related to unsystematic working procedures and heterogeneous information systems betwe...

In this paper, a new robust feedback controller for trajectory control of n-link robot manipulators under parametric uncertainties is suggested. The proposed controller using dynamic compensation scheme leads to improvement in the transient response and fast convergence of tracking error to a neighborhood of zero in the steady-state. The uniformly ultimate boundedness of the closed-loop system ...