abstract the decisions and personal preferences of the designer are vital for all aspects and stages of the design. to elaborate, the designer has the central role in creation, development, detailing and construction of the built forms. also, the scientific/engineering evaluations of the design models are carried out under the directions and decisions of the designer. the paper explores the con...

Fixture design is crucial part of manufacturing process. Fixture design is a critical design activity process, in which automation plays an integral role in linking computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD). This paper presents a literature review in computer aided fixture design (CAFD) in terms of automation and optimization techniques over the past decades. First, the...

Almost all of electric utility companies are planning to improve their management automation system, in order to meet the changing requirements of new liberalized energy market and to benefit from the innovations in information and communication technology (ICT or IT). Architectural design of the utility management automation (UMA) systems for their IT-enabling requires proper selection of ...

Abstract In order to respond a shortened development time of today’s transmission systems, the automation certain steps in design process is essential for ensuring an efficient process. Computer-aided tools are widely used analyzing given configurations because standardized methods available evaluate load carrying capacity all key components simple gear train, namely bearings, shafts and gears....

Dr. Doug Burger from Microsoft, who talked about “A New Era of Hardware Microservices in the Cloud.” In addition, a keynote lecture by Prof. Giovanni De Micheli (Professor at EPFL and Director of Nano-Tera.ch) was given on “Distributed Systems for Health and Environmental Monitoring” within the Nano-Tera.ch initiative. On the same day, an Executive Panel Session and three Innovative Technologie...