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The amount of non-revenue water, mostly due to leakage, is around 126 billion cubic meters annually worldwide. A more efficient wastewater management strategy would use a parametric design for on-demand, customized pipe fittings, following the principles
Abolfazl Taherzadeh Fini +4 more
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Distributed VR for collaborative design and manufacturing [PDF]
Virtual Manufacturing (VM) applies Virtual Reality (VR) technology to provide a digital manufacturing solution in both 3D visual and interactive ways. It makes VR no longer a state-of-the art but rather an innovation technology to support modern industry.
Jin, L. +5 more
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Software for integrated manufacturing systems, part 2 [PDF]
Part 1 presented an overview of the unified approach to manufacturing software. The specific characteristics of the approach that allow it to realize the goals of reduced cost, increased reliability and increased flexibility are considered.
Naylor, A. W., Volz, R. A.
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Telefacturing Based Distributed Manufacturing Environment for Optimal Manufacturing Service by Enhancing the Interoperability in the Hubs [PDF]
Recent happenings are surrounding the manufacturing sector leading to intense progress towards the development of effective distributed collaborative manufacturing environments. This evolving collaborative manufacturing not only focuses on digitalisation
Krishnan, M. Gokula +3 more
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Through reduced 3-D printer cost, increased usability, and greater material selection, additive manufacturing has transitioned from business manufacturing to the average prosumer.
Emily E. Petersen, Joshua Pearce
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High-Efficiency Solar-Powered 3-D Printers for Sustainable Development
The release of the open source 3-D printer known as the RepRap (a self-Replicating Rapid prototyper) resulted in the potential for distributed manufacturing of products for significantly lower costs than conventional manufacturing.
Jephias Gwamuri +4 more
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An improved cell controller for the aerospace manufacturing [PDF]
The aerospace manufacturing industry is unique in that production typically focuses on high variety and quality but low volume. Existing flexible manufacturing cells are limited to certain types of machines, robots and cells which makes it difficult to ...
Asif, Seemal, Webb, Philip
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Formal description technique SDL for manufacturing systems specification and description [PDF]
This paper addresses the formal specification and description of manufacturing systems. It is considered the use of SDL (Specification and Description Language), a standard FDT (Formal Description Technique), to model the behaviour, data and structure ...
Putnik, Goran D., Sousa, Rui M.
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Stained glass has played important roles in heritage building construction, however, conventional fabrication techniques have become economically prohibitive due to both capital costs and energy inefficiency, as well as high-level artistic and craft ...
Emily Bow Pearce +2 more
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Free and Open-source Control Software for 3-D Motion and Processing
RepRap 3-D printers and their derivatives using conventional firmware are limited by: 1) requiring technical knowledge, 2) poor resilience with unreliable hardware, and 3) poor integration in complicated systems.
Bas Wijnen +4 more
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