Using the example of CarboMoG, the Carbon Flow Model of Germany, structures and processes for process-based, macro-economic material flow models were analyzed. The aim is to create a toolbox, which can be used to assemble models of this kind from building blocks, to parameterize and calculate a model, and then to use the model for analysis tasks. It was investigated whether and how toolkits exi...

Improving material efficiency is widely accepted as one of the key challenges facing manufacturers in the future. Increasing material consumption is having detrimental impacts on the environment as a result of their extraction, processing and disposal. It is clear that radical improvements in material efficiency are required to avoid further environmental damage and sustain the manufacturing se...

Integrating the flow of materials and information is a challenge, independent whether it is inside a company or between companies in the value chain. The paper refers to different surveys that seeks to explain the growth of production networks. It also propose several definitinions and descriptions of networks. Control, information, and organisational aspects, economical issues, as well as geog...

Design paradigm exactly addresses the higher-level design issues where the implementation field (mechanical, electrical etc.) of the product is left for later stages. Once the general design problem is understood, better products will be emerging; especially products requiring a cooperation of various engineering-field components are a bigger concern. The idea is that design is a phenomenon, cu...

Abstract: properties of AA6082 aluminum alloy. Considering that aging phenomenon affects the distribution of alloying elementin matrix, and the fact that different distribution of alloying elements has different impediments to dislocationmovement, a material model based on microstructure, has been developed in this research. A relative volume fractionor mean radius of precipitations is introduc...

The paper suggests an approach for optimizing a material ow system consisting of two work-stations and an intermediate bu er. The material ow system may be a production system, a distribution system or a pollutant-deposit/removal system. The important characteristics are that one of the work-stations is unreliable (random breakdown and repair times), and that the performance function is formula...

1. Introduction The automotive industry is one of the most automated manufacturing industries worldwide nevertheless there is still a lot of potential for further improvements. On the given example of an existing production plant at DaimlerChrysler AG a new holonic concept has been developed by HMS partners breaking up rigid transfer line structures and introducing new concepts of flexible reso...

Abrasive flow machining (AFM) is a process for the production of excellent surface qualities of inner profiles that are difficult to access and outside edges, as well as for deburring and edge rounding. The grinding medium used in AFM consists of a polymer fluid, the so-called base, in which the abrasive grains are bound. The grinding medium is pressed along the contours at a defined pressure a...

This Technical Report contains the supplemental material to the main report on the MPI-Sintel optical flow dataset and evaluation [1]. In particular, we provide details of the image and optical flow statistics that are mentioned in the main paper. Additionally we provide details of the initial evaluation of optical flow algorithm performance on the dataset. Additional details and the dataset it...