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The Pedagogical Impact of Augmented Reality on Architectural Education
Authors: Sajjadian Seyed Masoud
Published: February 2025

Latest hardware and software development in computer science and software engineering have promoted Augmented Reality (AR) prototypes for a number of architecture and design applications. Recent development in digital fabrication tools and techniques added more inspiration and support to implement AR technology in design and construction in order to solve complex issues even though more practical platforms are still required for effective digital information usage in such industries. Due to capability of this visualization platform, this study presents the concept and supplementary supporting technologies of AR to demonstrate the feasibility in architectural education and studio learning. Besides, this paper also discusses how the recognized technology could sensibly be addressed in architectural environment.
Review of Implementing Lean Six Sigma to Reduce Environmental Wastes of Internal Supply Chains in Food Industry
Authors: Nabhani Farhad  , Bala Shilon  , Evans Garry  , Shokri Alireza
Published: February 2025

The purpose of this ongoing research paper is to explore a systematic literature review for measuring the environmental performance of internal supply chains in food manufacturing based on Lean Six Sigma techniques that have gained significant popularity over the years due to their ability to identify and eliminate non value adding but cost incurring activities so as to identify sources of waste in the selected supply chain. Findings show that the rigour and discipline of integrated lean six sigma creates a perfect match for the gap of heavily regulated industries such as food industries where defects can have significant environmental consequences also the future research directions have been suggested for the future researchers. This research is original as it is focused on the gaps between the integrated Lean Six Sigma, food manufacturing and environmental sustainability.
Research on the Effect of Shear Clearance on the Processing of Copper Sheet
Authors: Ouyang Bing  , Lu Jiabin  , Yan Qiusheng  , Kuang Zhihui  , Zeng Jun  , Li Hui
Published: February 2025

In shearing processing experiments of copper sheet of 0.5mm thick, The effects of shear clearance on shearing surface morphology, edge hardening and shearing force are studied. The results show that the shear clearance directly affects the shearing surface morphology and the degree of work hardening. With the increase of the shear clearance, the height of shearing zone decreases gradually, but the height of the fracture zone, rollover and burr increase gradually. The degree and area of work hardening increase initially and then decrease, when the relative clearance (c/t) is 8%, the hardness value and depth of work hardening reach the maximum value. The shearing surface morphology is closely related to the work hardening. Along rollover side to the burr side, the hardness value increases initially and then decreases, and the maximum work hardening value occurs at the border region between the shearing zone and the fracture zone.
Improving Sustainability of Manufacturing Systems Through Integrated Sustainable Value Stream Mapping Tool – Conceptual Framework
Authors: Abualfaraa Wadhah Ahmed  , Salonitis Konstantinos  , Al-Ashaab Ahmed
Published: February 2025

There are a lot of economic and social reasons in why manufacturers would need to reduce their impact on the environment, whereby many economic, social and environmental opportunities are being missed on becoming greener without larger investments. The application of lean focuses on the flow between value-adding operations and the removal of waste and non-value adding activities. This paper introduces an analogy that can be drawn with energy efficiency in that savings can be achieved through a modified lean tool; value stream mapping (VSM), via integrating sustainability indicators and measurements with the lean standards, which leads to achieve more sustainable outcomes and savings within the manufacturing stream as well as post-manufacturing stage.
Assessment of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Awareness and Practices in Manufacturing Sector of Pakistan
Authors: Hussain Amjad  , Fahad Ali Syed  , Case Keith  , Masood Tariq  , Masood Maryam
Published: February 2025

Globalization and mass communication have significantly influenced the socio-economic growth of countries and organizations are under immense pressure to develop their businesses in a more socially responsible way. Consequently, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has emerged as a business development concept. CSR acknowledgement is low in south Asian countries both at state and corporate levels. Pakistan, being a developing country, is no exception and the manufacturing sector, which is the third largest contributing sector to the economy, is facing the challenge of corporate social compliance. This study explores the awareness level amongst employees in the manufacturing sector and also evaluates the practices of CSR activities in these organizations. The study is mainly focused on the textile and automobile sectors and shows greater CSR awareness in the automobile sector than the textile sector; however, there are many organizations where the concept of CSR is unknown. The findings of this research will help organizations in enhancing understanding of CSR amongst employees and will also allow manufacturing industries to improve their implementation against identified weak areas. Increased levels of social compliance will ultimately help organizations in promoting their businesses in the global market.
An Analysis of Design for Manufacturing Requirements for Managing Aerospace Manufacturing Knowledge
Authors: El Souri Mohammed  , Gao James  , Owodunni Oladele  , Simmonds Clive  , Martin Nick
Published: February 2025

In the manufacturing lifecycle of aerospace products, large amounts of data are generated throughout the activities involved. Much of this data contains useful knowledge for engineers to improve various aspects of Design for Manufacturing (DFM) of new or existing products that may help reduce defects in future manufacturing activities. An investigation is carried out at a large UK based manufacturer of aerospace products that aims to introduce an improved approach that supports design engineering activities to make use of the ‘data’ generated to drive the number of re-occurring defects down. This paper particularly focuses on analysing the requirements for introducing a solution identified from questionnaires, observations and stakeholder reviews and proposes a framework of the components to enable its implementation. The research discussed the requirements and concludes the main findings toward implementing a fully integrated solution at the collaborating company in order to improve data usefulness and effectiveness.
Knowledge Management in International Aerospace Collaboration Projects: The Case of Saudi Arabia
Authors: Al-Shaigi Homoud  , Al-Ashaab Ahmed
Published: February 2025

An aspiration of many developing countries, such as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is to create their own national aerospace sector. This is considered to be a strategically vital asset for the national economy and security as well as a means to create new job opportunities for Saudi nationals in a high value-added industrial sector. The Saudi government spends billions of US dollars on aerospace-related projects and although this has increased the capacity of the aerospace industry, the ability to build a local industrial technological capability is questionable when compared to the achievements of other nations operating with fewer resources. This stems from a failure in transferring the required aerospace knowledge in terms of skills, technology and infrastructure during international collaborative projects. A wide range of diverse tools and methods are needed for knowledge management in large and complex projects. This study investigates the knowledge required to enable implementation of aerospace projects in the KSA, and the tools and methods needed to be employed in order to facilitate successful international aerospace collaboration projects. Nine international aerospace collaboration projects were investigated; the nature of the projects was related to the design, manufacturing and assembly of aircraft, aero-engines and ground support equipment. The results illustrate the required knowledge, and some general methods are proposed in order to participate in aerospace projects.
A Formal Ontological Approach for Semantic Coherence in Welding Standards
Authors: Saha Sattam  , Usman Zahid  , Jones Steve  , Kshirsagar Rohit  , Li Weidong
Published: February 2025

The need for common understanding and consistency in welding processes has led to the development of various standards. Such standards are also aimed at supporting interoperability between welding and other domains. However, this is only possible if welding standards are themselves free from semantic inconsistencies and incoherence. This is particularly important when communicating through computer systems. The research work reported in this paper investigates welding standards to identify and resolve semantic inconsistencies and incoherence within and across welding standards. Previous research in solving such issues lacks in formal capture of semantics. Formal i.e. computer interpretable, ontologies can potentially be a solution in resolving semantic issues. A formal ontology based approach is proposed to ensure semantic coherence and consistency within and across welding standards. Proposed ontology facilitates the formal capture of welding semantics. This aids in identifying and resolving semantic inconsistencies and resolve misinterpretations within and across welding standards. The work is leading towards the development of a formal semantic base for a range of welding standards. This research is expected to impact the international standards.
Assessing the Role of Knowledge and Project Management in the Competitiveness of Manufacturing Firms in Baja California
Authors: Ahumada-Tello Eduardo  , Evans Richard David  , Castañón-Puga Manuel
Published: February 2025

This article analyses the Knowledge Management (KM) and Project Management (PM) practices of manufacturing firms based in Baja California to determine their level of importance in generating competitive advantage in the manufacturing sector in Baja California. Key questions researched in this paper are: 1) How is KM managed through information technologies and organisational systems, ensuring empirical and industrial success? and 2) How do PM strategies increase competitiveness in the Baja California manufacturing sector? The research analyses currently-implemented management systems used for improved KM and PM, based on knowledge and new advantage orientation. One of the limitations found in this research is that several firms do not adopt standardised policies relating to knowledge procurement and development. Although competitiveness is perceived as vital for organisations, the combination of KM and PM are not yet fully developed and integrated into organisational processes to increase competitiveness.
Variation Model and Analysis of Spatial Assembly with Multiple Closed Chains
Authors: McKenna Vincent  , Jin Yan  , Murphy Adrian  , Morgan Michael  , McClory Caroline  , Higgins Colm  , Collins Rory
Published: February 2025

Process variations are inherent in all manufacturing processes and have a profound effect on the quality and cost of assemblies. Modelling variation propagation through complex assemblies is difficult due to the abundance of potential sources, disparate magnitudes and the stochastic nature of variation occurrence. Robust methods for modelling simple connective assemblies have been established in existing research. Recent work has started to consider spatial assemblies with one closed chain, where parts are located using fixtures. But the study of spatial assemblies with multiple closed chains is still lacking, where constraints are shared by multiple chains. Achieving all Key Characteristics (KCs) simultaneously is not possible when variations are considered. This creates a major challenge for process planning and optimization as additional processes at the assembly stage are necessary, influencing production time, cost and quality. This paper proposes for the first time a method of modelling variation propagation in a spatial assembly with multiple closed chains. The benefit of the methodology is the ability to understand variation drivers and their transmission mechanism, to enable informed process decisions at a full system level. An algorithm for quantification of assembly KCs is proposed, which allows variation sensitivity on assembly KCs to be clearly identified.
Experiential Learning in Data Science: From the Dataset Repository to the Platform of Experiences
Authors: Serrano Emilio  , Molina Martin  , Manrique Daniel  , Baumela Luis
Published: February 2025

Data science is a revolution that is already changing the way we do business, healthcare, politics, education and innovation. There is a great variety of online courses, masters, degrees, and modules that address the teaching of this interdisciplinary field, where is a growing demand of professionals. However, data science pedagogy has repeated a number of patterns that can be detrimental to the student. This position paper describes an ongoing educational innovation project for the study of methods, experiences, and tools for experiential learning in data sicience. In this approach, the student learns through reflection on doing instead of being a recipient of already made content.
Designing an Intelligent Support Model of a Reading Companion Robot
Authors: Ghanimi Hayder M.A.  , Aziz Azizi Ab  , Ahmad Faudziah
Published: February 2025

Human-functioning models that describe human cognitive and psychological states have been developed and used to serve as a core component in creating intelligent and responsive systems. Endowing such systems with these human-functioning models, it gives them the ability to reason and intelligently acting to attain its ultimate design object which is to assist and support people. The process to integrate these models with new systems remains as a nontrivial challenging task. This paper pinpoints the initial steps of integrating an earlier developed agent-based model of cognitive load and reading performance with a robotic lamp. In regard to this matter, several algorithms that have been developed are also discussed and simulations that were performed to prove the applicability of the proposed algorithms are presented.
Verifying CPS Using DDL
Authors: Zhou Ying  , Zhu Min  , Gong Xufang  , Li Bixin
Published: February 2025

With the development of sensor network and embedded system, Cyber-Physical System (CPS) integrating computation, communication and control is becoming the focus of attention gradually. Obvious problems have emerged when CPS applying to various industries. It is crucial that the designed CPS can work as expect. A growing number of researchers are concerned about the property verification of CPS since verification technique has played a key role in improving the security and reliability of systems. It is a commonly used method that transforming generic model to formal model for verification. A formal method of theorem proving has well applied to verify CPS based on Differential Dynamic Logic (DDL) which operating model named Hybrid Program proposed by A. Platzer. This paper introduced HybridUML to model CPS, presented a method to verify CPS using DDL, where model was transformed from HybridUML to Hybrid Program, and verified a case study with the resulting model finally.
Security Issues and Solutions in Cloud Computing
Authors: Xie Yujie  , Lee Yeonju  , Kim Kwangmin  , Kim Pankoo
Published: February 2025

The leap development of Internet gives computer science infinite possibility. Meanwhile, the emerging cloud computing has become a tremendous boost of Internet innovation. It alters the traditional IT service models to a remote service and provides massive storage without the limitation of computer processing capacity. This unique storing service paradigm apparently brings a series of benefits and convenience to most Internet enterprises especially start-ups. However, few attentions have been paid to the potential security issues and challenges with the rapid development of cloud computing. During the frequent processing between cloud providers and users, cloud security has been cited as a vital problem as cloud computing outputs data in a virtual environment through the internet. Virtual computing is more vulnerable to various attacks such as data loss and leakage. Hence, comprehensive solutions are significantly necessary to solve these problems in cloud systems. In this paper, we will briefly introduce the definition of cloud computing firstly. And cloud security structure is given in the second part, which includes three main cloud types and three service models. Moreover, crucial security threats and challenges in the cloud computing are illustrated and corresponding solutions are proposed accordingly in the last part.
A Knowledge-Based Approach to Social Sensors for Environmentally-Related Problems
Authors: Periñán-Pascual Carlos  , Arcas-Túnez Francisco
Published: February 2025

Social media can serve to contribute to situation awareness, which involves the perception and comprehension of the reality around us, so that future actions can be projected. For example, Twitter can be used as a real-time channel of communication to report on environmentally-related problems. The goal of this paper is to describe a knowledge-based system that is able to detect such problems, so that a protocol of action can be developed. The evaluation of the system demonstrated that our symbolic approach to problem detection can outperform supervised classification methods.
Strategies for Undermining the Digital and Physical Caliphates
Authors: Cantey Seth
Published: February 2025

This chapter explores mutually reinforcing steps that governments in the United States and Europe have taken to counter the Islamic State (IS) on- and offline. It argues that while operations since 2014 have significantly reduced the group's attractive power and military capacity, additional measures against the digital and physical caliphates can and should be taken. The chapter outlines strategies that would build on recent successes against IS, recognizing that the group's ultimate demise will be a long-term project requiring measures beyond what Western states can or should do alone.
An Introduction to the StreamQRE Language
Authors: Alur Rajeev  , Mamouras Konstantinos
Published: February 2025

Real-time decision making in emerging IoT applications typically relies on computing quantitative summaries of large data streams in an efficient and incremental manner. We give here an introduction to the StreamQRE language, which has recently been proposed for the purpose of simplifying the task of programming the desired logic in such stream processing applications. StreamQRE provides natural and high-level constructs for processing streaming data, and it offers a novel integration of linguistic constructs from two distinct programming paradigms: streaming extensions of relational query languages and quantitative extensions of regular expressions. The former allows the programmer to employ relational constructs to partition the input data by keys and to integrate data streams from different sources, while the latter can be used to exploit the logical hierarchy in the input stream for modular specifications.
Assurance and Assurance Cases
Authors: Rushby John
Published: February 2025

Assurance provides confidence that a system will work as required and not cause harm. Confidence is based on justified beliefs about the system and its environment, and justification can be developed and documented as an assurance case comprised of a structured argument grounded on evidence. For justification to be compelling, the argument must be indefeasible, meaning that we have so thoroughly considered everything that can go wrong (i.e., hazards to the system and defeaters to the argument) that there is no new information that could change our assessment.
Computing the Next-State Function of a Requirements Model
Authors: Heitmeyer C.L.  , Leonard E.I.  , Archer M.M.
Published: February 2025

For many years, the SCR (Software Cost Reduction) tabular notation and method have been used to model the requirements of critical software systems, such as flight programs and systems controlling nuclear plants. In 1996, we published an initial formal requirements model that assigned a state machine semantics to the SCR notation. With this initial SCR model as its formal foundation, our group has developed many tools—e.g., for creating and analyzing SCR requirements models, and for generating tests from the models. Based on our experience applying the SCR method and tools in practice, we have extended the 1996 formal model. This book chapter presents an excerpt from our new formal requirements model that includes a constructive method, missing from the original 1996 model, for composing the functions defined by the SCR tables to produce the next-state function of the underlying state machine.
From Timed Automata to Stochastic Hybrid Games Model Checking, Synthesis, Performance Analysis and Machine Learning
Authors: Larsen Kim G.  , Fahrenberg Uli  , Legay Axel
Published: February 2025

This article aims at providing a concise and precise Travellers Guide, Phrase Book or Reference Manual to the timed automata modeling formalism introduced by Alur and Dill [8,9]. The paper gives comprehensive definitions of timed automata, priced (or weighted) timed automata, and timed games and highlights a number of results on associated decision problems related to model checking, equivalence checking, optimal scheduling, the existence of winning strategies. Also the article provides the stochastic semantic extension of timed automata and timed games enabling statistical model checking as well as optimal synthesis using reinforcement learning.
Telemedicine in Macedonia – Smart I (Eye) Advisory Rescue System
Authors: Madevska Bogdanova Ana  , Achkoski Jugoslav  , Tasic Jurij  , Chorbev Ivan
Published: February 2025

Many existing telemedical projects are being put into practice for civilian use. The telemedical systems can be divided into two main groups regarding their functionality: real time telemedical systems versus store and forward telemedical systems. Another division is based on intention of the communicating parties. There are patient–doctor; healthcare provider–expert (doctor); and patient–patient telemedical systems. Our proposed system is classified as a “store and forward” telemedical system for health care provider-expert communication. The two years of project realization has given us a solution, ready to put in test to prove the concept of the SIARS project.
Telemedicine in Prevention of Chronic Respiratory Diseases (Asthma and COPD)
Authors: Stojkovic J.
Published: February 2025

Prevention is crucial in the management of chronic respiratory diseases, especially in the prevention of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the most common chronic diseases in respiratory pathology. Information and communication technologies (ICT) have great potential to support organizational changes for enhancing chronic care management. Currently, many patients with severe and very severe stages of COPD are unable to live a normal life. Helping people decrease their risk for chronic diseases and improving a patient's ability to live with chronic conditions, are international concerns. The increasing incidence of chronic conditions is approaching epidemic levels and finding evidence-based and effective strategies to promote health and prevent and manage these conditions is essential. Prevention of these diseases is also important as a way of reducing for healthcare system costs.
The New Telemedicine Business Model
Authors: Moraru Aurelian
Published: February 2025

Medicine is one of the few domains where innovation has proven an unacceptably, very low rate of diffusion. Comparing with new born industries (like aviation) or with ones in which one witnesses an extremely high rate of diversity (in terms of electronic tools, services and resources) such as banking, medicine still operates with the same ages old business model self-designed, following the “try & error” model.
Digitalized Health Security: Finland's Solution
Authors: Kouri Pirkko  , Seppänen Jukka
Published: February 2025

Over two decades Finland has had a national information strategy within the area of healthcare, which has created the basic principles how safe information management, information share and capacity building of healthcare staff should be realised, for instance. The renovation of social and healthcare services will constitute a coherent system that increases equality in access to services, and will give citizen's freedom of choosing services. The developments of cloud computing, Internet of things (IoT) and other digitalised health applications is fast-paced and the amount of personal data is growing. The legislation has not kept up with the technology, leaving significant gaps in privacy and data protection. This means that development of data security and privacy protection is lagging behind digitization.
Telemedical Consultations as a Means of Providing Qualified Medical Assistance to Remote Towns and Villages
Authors: Dzherdzh Serhii
Published: February 2025

Telemedicine is rapidly developing today and we can already actively use current information technologies in healthcare. In Ukraine, monitoring of patients from a distance is especially important in remote areas that lack qualified specialists and new equipment. In this article, we analyze providing highly qualified complex consultative medical assistance to the population through the application of telemedical technologies, and the development, testing and implementation activities for advaninge telemedicine in Ukraine.
Deploying Integrated Homecare Telemedicine Services in Central Greece
Authors: Dafoulas George E.
Published: February 2025

Within the objectives of the Digital Agenda for Europe, the European Commission has co-funded flagship projects, in order to pilot test and evaluate the deployment of large scale telemedicine projects (United4Health and Renewing Health) in every day e-health and e-care services practice. The Region of Central Greece participated in these large scale EU co-funded projects in order to permit a comprehensive approach in the assessment methodology within the national health care services, providing also sufficient to draw valid conclusions on the effectiveness of the installed telemedicine services. Future telehealth services in Central Greece will be upgraded via Internet of Things technology, implementing large scale IoT e-health and e-care services via the ACTIVAGE EU co-funded project.
Implementation of Telemedicine in Albania – The First Eight Years: Making a Case to Continue
Authors: Latifi Rifat  , Boci Arian
Published: February 2025

The aim of this article is to present the key achievements in the implementation of the Integrated Telemedicine and e-Health program in Albania, supported by US government agencies, implemented by International Virtual e-Hospital Foundation in partnership with Albanian Ministry of Health. The IBOT (initiate–build–operate–transfer") strategy was used by IVeH to establish an effective telemedicine system in Albania that includes the National Telemedicine Center and 5 university, 11 regional and 3 municipal hospital telemedicine centers throughout the country. This nationwide telemedicine network has several active clinical programs, virtual educational programs, and an electronic library. Experiences in Albania show that the application of sustainable and low-cost telemedicine programs not only improves access to health care but can overcome the existing unmet needs, thus significantly improving health services throughout the country. The IVeH telemedicine network in Albania provides a solid experience that can be expanded in countries with limited financial and technical capacities, as a model to build on to improve access to quality of health care in professional and timely manner.
The Terrorists Logic Behind the Choice of Targets
Authors: Boncio Alessandro
Published: February 2025

All the information originates from open sources and/or personal research and study. The expressed opinions as well as any mistake or inaccuracy in the text should be referred solely to the author.
Chaos-Based Communication Schemes for Improved Security in 4G Networks
Authors: Busawon Krishna  , Wang Yue
Published: February 2025

There is a considerable amount of research on chaos-based communication or simply chaotic communication that has been ongoing since the early 1990's. It was argued that chaotic communication has the potential of addressing the security issue that is omnipresent in standard communication systems, yet this technology has not taken over traditional methods of communication. In this work, we provide a discussion as to why such communication system is still not fully embraced by the industrial and communication community. We give a brief survey on the existing methods for designing chaos-based communication schemes. We also propose some solutions to address this issue as well as its potential applications in 4G networks.
Knowledge Management Support in the Engineering Change Process
Authors: Tavčar Jože  , Duhovnik Jožef
Published: February 2025

Knowledge management (KM) in the engineering change management process is crucial for any manufacturing enterprise. Increasing complexity triggers an increasing demand for systematic management of information and knowledge. KM is of strategic importance to a successful management of an enterprise, especially when the key staff changes. Systematically gathered, analyzed and interpreted professional experiences can prevent unnecessary costs and unnecessary engineering changes. KM is based on the interaction between tacit and explicit knowledge. The first one refers to personal skills and the other one to written documents. However, implementation of KM is a challenge, people prefer keeping knowledge for themselves and recording of knowledge in a transparent way is always time consuming. A successful implementation of KM requires a holistic and transdisciplinary approach. The people, processes and technology should be dealt with together, not focusing on a single element. The paper presents a proposal for KM that is integrated into the engineering change process. The concept is based on recording and re-using the knowledge. Failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) and product history files are the basic documents, used to manage the knowledge, related to a specific product. Product history files should contain good explanations for all decisions that have been made. The lessons, learned at the end of projects are additional examples of knowledge recording. Supporting activities for applying KM should include a campaign to raise the awareness and understanding of the skills for improving knowledge. The content of the acquired knowledge should be checked periodically and the analysis should be followed by corrective measures.
Design Rationale, Knowledge Based Engineering and Knowledge Management in Large Supplier Company
Authors: Pokojski Jerzy  , Woźnicki Łukasz  , Dębniak Marcin
Published: February 2025

The paper presents the components of the system for knowledge storage, distribution and processing in a large international company operating globally. It shows knowledge management processes which take into account both the standard activities for a number of years covering the entire company, and activities carried out gradually, consisting of an evolutionary development (building and verification) of further components – tools for an automation of engineering processes. The evolutionary development includes a process of gradual, iterative creation and verification of subsequent KBE applications supporting the process of building FEM models for a specific product – a car seat. All implemented processes of building and developing KBE applications are focused on the evolutionary pursuit of creating an advanced design platform designed to carry out FEM analysis of car seats. Different elements of this system are characterized: tools for storing knowledge in the form of multimedia information for direct use by people, tools for automating selected elements of engineering processes etc.
MOMIS Dashboard: A Powerful Data Analytics Tool for Industry 4.0
Authors: Magnotta Luca  , Gagliardelli Luca  , Simonini Giovanni  , Orsini Mirko  , Bergamaschi Sonia
Published: February 2025

In this paper we present the MOMIS Dashboard, an interactive data analytics tool built to explore and visualize contents from varied data sources through several dynamic views (e.g. maps, charts, pies, etc.). The software tool is very versatile, and supports connections to the major relational DBMS and Big Data sources. Moreover, it can be connected to MOMIS, a powerful Open Source Data Integration system, capable of integrating heterogeneous data sources such as enterprise information systems as well as sensors data. MOMIS Dashboard provides a secure permission management to limit data access on the basis of user roles, and a Designer to create and share personalized insights of the company KPIs, thereby facilitating enterprise collaboration. We will illustrate the MOMIS Dashboard efficacy in a real enterprise scenario: a production monitoring platform that analyzes real-time and historical data collected through sensors, located on machines, detects early marks of malfunctions or failures and sends alarm notifications to the supervisors, therefore optimizing both production and energy consumption, while ensuring preventive maintenance.
The Designed Product Construction Information Semantic Representation in a CAD-System
Authors: Tsygankov Denis  , Pokhilko Alexander  , Gorbachev Ivan
Published: February 2025

This article deals with the structural & semantic method of representing construction data in a CAD-system. This proposed method based on a semantic generalization of basic operations to the level of a macroobject corresponding to a real constructive-functional element of the product. Such macroobject fixed as an integral structural unit in 3D-model creation tree. This allows unambiguously correctly perceiving and display the construction of the designed product.
Influence of Control Parameters on Consumer FDM 3D Printing
Authors: Cappetti Nicola  , Naddeo Alessandro  , Salerno Giuseppe
Published: February 2025

Rapid prototyping (RP) is a set of technologies that permits building a physical model directly from its design by implementing a single automatic process using a 3D model of the object to be printed. RP systems can be based on different Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies, such as a Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) machine that works by extruding and melting together fused plastic filaments, drawing the boundaries and filling the model thin layer by thin layer. Low-cost FDM 3d printers do not work well automatically but require of a calibration phase because the best configuration settings in the slicing software are unknown, and the number of parameters values that needs to be manually defined is very large. The scientific literature reports many interesting articles on this topic, describing how the process can be improved by choosing the correct values of various parameters. Internet websites such RepRap.org discuss 3D printers and ppost detailed FAQ sections where users described improvements in 3D printing with simple methods but with great effort in terms of costs and time. Yet not all questions are answered. This paper would introduces: a) a new method for the analysis of the slicing software parameters that can be done with easy models; b) a second method for improving the effects of the parameters that shows a higher influence in the signal-to-noise ratio analysis.
High-Aged Using Smart Phone Interface Gesture Operation Research
Authors: Liu Shuo Fang  , Wang Ming Hong
Published: February 2025

In the face of global population aging, it is an issue currently worthy of being emphasized, called “aging-related technology.” From the viewpoint that the state of physiological aging influencing the functional activities for the elderly can be inferred, the elderly will face the problems in their daily life. For example, their thresholds for sound, sense of touch, sense of pressure, and feedback response to fingers gradually increase, which makes the elderly experience an increasing sense of frustration psychologically and rejects to do the similar move. The purpose of this study is to develop a gesture operation model which enables the elderly to use smartphone better. Firstly, the study team collected 5 smartphones that are popular in the market and 5 alleged intuitive operating gestures as the experimental samples for comparison. This study looks for 30 elderly people over the age of 65, two researchers investigating the elderly issue, one designer engaged in the development of smart mobile devices and programs over 5 years, and 3 product designers investigating the most suitable gestures for the elderly to operate and use. This study is compared with the two experimental variables between experimental groups and control groups. According to the experiment results of this study: the gestures of more than 2 fingers are not a good intuitive operating method for the elderly; the “innovative operating gesture” designed by the study team shows a far more significant development value in practicality than “traditional operating gestures.”.
Human-Robot Collision Avoidance for Industrial Robots: A V-REP Based Solution
Authors: Safeea Mohammad  , Neto Pedro
Published: February 2025

In this study we revisit the problem of on-line human-robot collision avoidance for industrial manipulators, where the robot is operating in non-static surrounding with moving obstacles/humans. The objective is to leverage the power of concurrent simulation packages for validating human-robot collision avoidance algorithm. The simulations are carried out on a robotic cell in which a human co-worker and a robot share the same working area. The robot is required to perform a task while the co-worker is moving freely in the space around the robot. Experimental tests were conducted recurring to the real-time virtual-reality simulations carried out using the Virtual Robot Experimentation Platform (V-REP).
Participatory Design of a Personalized Device for a Student with Spastic Quadriplegia at Federico II
Authors: Lanzotti Antonio  , Martorelli Massimo  , Papa Stefano  , Sicignano Gennaro  , Pepino Alessandro  , Orrei Salvatore  , Ciaramella Stefano  , Del Giudice Domenico Maria  , Gloria Antonio  , Gerbino Salvatore
Published: February 2025

In the field of movement disorders, each disabled person is different for both motor performance for functional requirements and expectations. This paper describes the development of a personalized device for a student with spastic quadriplegia at Federico II. This device is an Alternative Augmentative Communication system and it consists of hardware and software, which have been adapted to the individual characteristics of the student. According to participatory design and using the task analysis, we proceed to the hardware prototyping and to the software interface improving. An approach based on Analytic Hierarchy Process and Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis is used. Tests under laboratory conditions are performed for evaluating the usability index of the device. Considering the data analysis, some critical issues are identified. The knowledge acquired in the case study is a point of strength of the proposed paper because it can be re-used for other persons with severe motor disabilities to improve their inclusion, integration and participation and to carry out tasks in different areas of application with minimum stress and maximum efficiency and effectiveness.
An Integrated Quality Engineering and Evolutionary Neural Network Procedure for Product Design
Authors: Lin Ming-Chyuan  , Shieh Meng-Dar  , Liu Shuo-Fang  , Wu Yun-Yun
Published: February 2025

In product design, the accuracy of product information greatly affects design quality. Therefore, robust product design provides a critical role that sound product design plays in securing competitive advantages in product quality and production efficiency. In the area of robust product design, the Taguchi method of quality engineering simplifies the analysis method and provides an effective product design approach by confirming variable characteristics and determining the optimum combination of characteristics. The aim of this research is to introduce an evolutionary neural network into robust product design to help designers search for a more optimal combination of variable characteristic values for a given product design problem. In the product design procedure, the data resulting from the experimental design in the Taguchi method are forwarded to the back-propagation network training process and simulation to predict the most suitable combination of variable characteristic values. The recommended combination of variable characteristic values is represented in 3D form using a computer-assisted design system. A case study of design of a lat bar for pull-down fitness station is used to demonstrate the applicability of the design procedure. Note that the signal-to-noise ratios of the robust lat bar product design are derived from experiments that measure the back and bicipital muscle responses using an electromyography (EMG) apparatus. The results indicated that the proposed procedure could enhance the efficiency of product design efforts.
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Methods in the Concept Development of Product Design: A State-of-the-Art Review
Authors: Wang Zuoxu  , Zheng Pai  , Lee Ching-Hung  , Chen Chun-Hsien
Published: February 2025

Concept development is a knowledge-intensive activity and plays a critical role in product design since it significantly affects the success of a product in the market but with a considerable low cost. Because of rapid change of product information and customer preferences, large-scale knowledge among Internet and requirement of machine-readable data, abundant well-represented knowledge is required to support the design tasks in concept development. Though many related works knowledge representation and reasoning have been studied, there still lacks a holistic review of the knowledge representation and reasoning methods which are appropriate for the concept development of product design. In this paper, the knowledge involved in the concept development of product design, knowledge representation methods and knowledge reasoning methods which are suitable to apply in this phase are discussed respectively. 38 related publications out of over a hundred reviewed ones are selected in this paper. This literature review lays the foundation for future research in the area of knowledge representation and reasoning in the concept development of product design.
IoT to Enable Social Sustainability in Manufacturing Systems
Authors: Papetti Alessandra  , Gregori Fabio  , Pandolfi Monica  , Peruzzini Margherita  , Germani Michele
Published: February 2025

One of the most actual and consistent driver for industry is sustainability. This topic opens at different problems according to the three sustainability pillars: environment, economic, and social. Regarding the last one, there is a lack for methodologies and tools. Moreover, industries are crossing today a crucial transition in terms of technologies. The so called fourth industrial revolution is ongoing. This is a second challenge for industries that needs to be competitive reducing their time to market integrating new technologies on their production sites. From these perspectives, this work is aimed at highlighting the role of the humans under the Industry 4.0 paradigm. A new transdisciplinary engineering method to favour the sustainable manufacturing is provided. It allows designing a connected environment (IoT framework) aimed at measuring and promoting social sustainability on production sites. The work also remarks the relationship between social sustainability and productivity. Indeed, optimizing the human works permits to improve the quality of the working conditions while improving efficiency of the production system. The case study was performed at an Italian sole producer. The goal of the analysis was to improve and innovate the finishing area of the plant from a social point of view with the perspective of digital manufacturing. An IoT framework has been installed, without affecting the productivity, and the work of 2 operators has been compared in order to identify common problems and define a synergy strategy.
Engineering Tomorrow Will be a Game of Soccer
Authors: Fukuda Shuichi
Published: February 2025

This is not a research paper, but a paper to discuss in which direction the author considers engineering tomorrow will be heading for. Engineering up to now has been final product-focused and product development has been on an indivual product basis. And intrumental rationality has been important. How faster, cheaper and better products can be developed was evaluated. The industry framework has been tree-structured. But what becomes crucially important in engineering tomorrow is fast and flexible adaptability, because environments and situations change very frequently and extensively. Therefore, not only humans, but products and further products and humans (things) must work together, as rapidly progressing IoT demonstrates. Collaboration was needed yesterday, too, but it was tree-structured and static. Collaboration tomorrow will call for adaptive network. We need dynamiclly varying collaboration as a team tomorrow. Therefore, we have to design and develop products as a dynamically adapting team from the first. Thus, organizational development and operation become crucially important tomorrow. It is only users who understand what is happening now. Therefore, engineering tomorrow must change from producer-centric to user-centric and the importance of decision making of users increases. In short, engineering tomorrow will be realizing the highest human need of self-actualization, which Maslow pointed out and will be satisfying our needs to answer to our intrinsic motivations, which Ryan and Deci pointed.
Design Automation of Electric Vehicle's Aerodynamic Parts
Authors: Skarka Wojciech  , Wąsik Mateusz  , Skoberla Ryszard  , Jałowiecki Andrzej
Published: February 2025

The design process of electric vehicle aerodynamic parts is a specific challenge for engineers, especially in automation of such design tasks case. Classical techniques of the design process automation such as simple model parametrization become not sufficient for the surface modelling techniques. Furthermore, validation of every implemented changes into the model forces the need for special CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) software application. Such approach requires data transfer between usually two or more different kinds of methods supported by different advanced software. Any model changes are based on subjective CFD analysis results interpretation. In this paper, authors show a novel approach to design of electric vehicle aerodynamic parts using specially developed distributed system that combines CAD, CFD and additional optimization control software. The main task of the proposed system is automatic generation of elements optimal from the aerodynamics point of view. The main issue in such case is proper distribution of different design tasks between different kinds of software performing their tasks on the basis of advanced methods. Proper data transfer and complex mathematical description of parametrised surfaces is necessary to control such process of optimization in proper way. Mathematical approach allows for parametrization and optimization of generated surfaces. All of those problems with proposition of the distributed optimisation system are indicated and described in the paper.