2010, vol. 3, núm. 2

 

Summary

  • Special Issue: International Conference on ‘Management of Technologies - Step to Sustainable Production’, MOTSP2010, Rovinj, 2010 

    Cosic, Predrag (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2010-10)
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  • Do we need a new compass for the journey through the global crisis? 

    Janeš, Alexander; Dolinšek, Slavko (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2010-10)
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    In 2010, Luka Koper port and logistics system celebrated its 53rd anniversary. From being a small local port they have developed into the significant port and logistic system - European Logistics and Distribution Centre ...

  • Internationalization of R&D in two high-tech clusters and cooperation of R&D units in those clusters 

    Štrukelj, Peter; Dolinšek, Slavko (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2010-10)
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    In the paper, we present how transnational corporations (TNCs) internationalize their R&D and how they allocate foreign R&D units in high-tech clusters, where competitors of these TNCs, research and academic institutions, ...

  • Product Lifecycle Management: sustainability and knowledge management as keys in a complex system of product development 

    Trotta, Maria Giovana (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2010-10)
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    The PLM process is developing methodologies to support sustainable production during the whole product lifecycle. The present research makes a focus on the first phase product development (the design phase) that is significant ...

  • Product lifecycle management through innovative and competitive business environment 

    Gecevska, Valentina; Chiabert, Paolo; Anisic, Zoran; Lombardi, Franco; Cus, Franc (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2010-10)
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    Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is the process of managing the whole life cycle of a product starting from generating an idea, concept description, business analyzes, product design and solution architecture and technical ...

  • Some aspects regarding the concept “Research for Business” 

    Săvescu, Dan (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2010-10)
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    Paper presents some aspects regarding the scientific research in universities or research institutes oriented to fundamental or practical aspects. It is known that a researcher must publish his work, but the problems are: ...

  • Greening elements in the distribution networks 

    Opetuk, Tihomir; Zolo, Ivan; Dukic, Goran (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2010-10)
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    Due to climate change and the increase in environmental awareness in the world, the concept of Green Supply Chain Management appeared. The concept is aimed at the reduction of several elements: energy, materials, the ...

  • Automatic inspection system for dimensional measurements of the saw blade milling cutter 

    Wang, Yung-Cheng; Lin, Jui-Chang; Chiu, Shih-Fong (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2010-10)
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    The demand for measuring equipments of automatic optical inspection has grown rapidly, because of its benefits of promoted efficiency and higher precision. Instead of manual projection measurements, measurement performance ...

  • Comparison of different optimization and process control procedures 

    Reibenschuh, Marko; Cus, Franc; Zuperl, Uros (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2010-10)
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    This paper includes a comparison of different optimization methods, used for optimizing the cutting conditions during milling. It includes also a part of using soft computer techniques in process control procedures. Milling ...

  • Effect of data scaling on color device model fitting 

    Donevski, Davor; Milcic, Diana; Banic, Dubravko (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2010-10)
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    Output devices in print production can be characterized by different characterization methods. One commonly used method of color device characterization is least squares fitting. In essence, the least squares fitting is ...

  • Choosing optimal rapid manufacturing process for thin-walled products using expert algorithm 

    Górski, Filip; Kuczko, Wiesław; Wichniarek, Radoslaw; Dudziak, Adam; Kowalski, Maciej; Zawadzki, Przemysław (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2010-10)
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    Choosing right Rapid Prototyping technology is not easy, especially for companies inexperienced with that group of manufacturing techniques. Paper summarizes research focused on creating an algorithm for expert system, ...