Statistical process control (SPC) is an approach to process control that has been widely used in any industrial or non-industrial fields. SPC is based on so called Shewhart ́s conception of the process variability. This conception distinguishes variability caused by obviously effected common causes (process is considered to be statistically stable) from variability caused by abnormal assignable ...

In this paper, an industrial MPC performance monitoring technology is introduced with a focus on the industrial implementation. A plant-oriented framework for APC performance monitoring is proposed on the basis of industrial computer control systems background. A software package integrating this technology, which is called Performance Analysis Toolbox and Solutions (PATS), is introduced. The m...

Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) is an automatic identification system, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data about objects we want to manage using devices called “RFID tag”. Even though RFID system is widely useful for industrial and individual applications, RFID tag has a serious privacy problem, i.e., traceability. To protect users from tracing, we propose an RFID mutual authe...

The bottleneck (BN) of a production line is a machine that impedes the system’s performance in the strongest manner. It has been shown in the previous work that the so-called downtime bottlenecks (DT-BNs) are of main industrial importance. In this paper, a method for DT-BN identification is developed in the framework of serial production lines with unreliable (Markovian) machines and finite buf...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an automatic identification (Auto-ID) technology which allows remote interrogation of ID data on RFID tags using radio frequency (RF) as a means of wireless communication between tagged objects and RFID readers. This paper studies whether so called ”networked RFID” systems can meet the timing constraints set by real-time industrial control applications. ...

Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) is an automatic identification system, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data about objects we want to manage using devices called “RFID tag”. Even though RFID system is widely useful for industrial and individual applications, RFID tag has a serious privacy problem, i.e., traceability. To protect users from tracing, we propose an RFID mutual authe...

This paper concerns the identification of a so-called doping profile (source term) in the system of elliptic equations modeling a semiconductor device. We give several simplification of the model and find useful adjoint problems and asymptotics motivated by applications to inverse problems and by a presence of certain small physical parameters As a result we obtain first uniqueness results for ...

Microorganisms, such as bacteria, which might be present as contamination inside an industrial food or pharmaceutical clean room process need to be identified on short time scales in order to minimize possible health hazards as well as production downtimes causing financial deficits. Here we describe the first results of single-particle micro-Raman measurements in combination with a classificat...