scholarly journals Upgrading of Symbolic and Synthetic Knowledge Bases: Analysis of the Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industry and the Automotive Industry in China

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan van der Borg ◽  
Erwin van Tuijl
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Knowledge Bases

scholarly journals From Lean Manufacturing to Lean Construction: How Principles, Tools, and Techniques Evolved

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sevilay Demirkesen
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Lean Construction ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Lean Tools ◽  
Low Efficiency ◽  
Tools And Techniques ◽  
Lean Methods

Lean manufacturing first emerged in the automotive industry. However, low productivity and low efficiency in production are major problems for the majority of industries relying on a heavy workforce. Being one of these, the construction industry suffers from low productivity rates along with inefficient work practices. To prevent those, the industry has shifted its focus from the traditional approach to a more innovative one, which is called Lean construction. Lean construction aims to maximize value while minimizing waste. Therefore, it intends to create safer, smoother, and more efficient processes to eliminate waste. This chapter focuses on Lean construction and highlights the generic Lean tools and techniques practiced in the construction industry indicating its historical journey from Lean manufacturing. The chapter aims to raise awareness towards the efficiency of Lean methods in the construction industry with respect to practices observed in manufacturing.

scholarly journals Exploring plasticity in the development path of the automotive industry in Baden-Württemberg: the role of combinatorial knowledge dynamics

2013 ◽  
Vol 57 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Strambach ◽  
Benjamin Klement
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Development Path ◽  
The Past ◽  
Knowledge Dynamics ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Gradual Transformation

AbstractProfound insights into why some regional paths remain dynamic over several decades while others follow a bumpy road and become stuck in the past are still scarce. This paper addresses this gap by contributing to a deeper understanding of dynamics within territorial paths. It focuses on organizational and institutional changes connected with so-called combinatorial knowledge dynamics. We claim that especially innovations based on the transversal combination of separated knowledge bases are connected to the gradual transformation, recombination or creation of institutions at the microlevel. This contribution explores the dynamics within the automotive industry of Baden-Württemberg by providing a meso-level overview of the trajectory of its technological and institutional development as well as an analysis of a case study that illustrates the gradual institutional change on the micro-level in the course of knowledge combination.

scholarly journals Designing a Smart Gateway for Data Fusion Implementation in a Distributed Electronic System Used in Automotive Industry

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 3300
Author(s):  
Mircea Rîșteiu ◽  
Remus Dobra ◽  
Alexandru Avram ◽  
Florin Samoilă ◽  
Georgeta Buică ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Fusion ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Electronic Control Unit ◽  
Control Unit ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Electronic Control ◽  
Smart Gateway

This paper focuses on the interdisciplinary research on the design of a smart gateway for managing the dynamic error code testing collected and generated by the Electronic Control Unit (ECU) from the automotive industry. The techniques used to exchange information between the ECU code errors and knowledge bases, based on data fusion methods, allowed us to consolidate and ensure data reliability, and then to optimize processed data in our distributed electronic systems, as the basic state for Industry 4.0 standards. At the same time, they offered optimized data packets when the gateway was tested as a service integrator for ECU maintenance. The embedded programming solutions offered us safe, reliable, and flexible data packet management results on both communication systems (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Provider (TCP/IP) and Controller Area Network (CAN) Bus) on the Electronic Control Unit (ECU) tested for diesel, high-pressure common rail engines. The main goal of this paper is to provide a solution for a smart, hardware–software, Industry-4.0-ready gateway applicable in the automotive industry.

scholarly journals Design and implementation of automatic painting mobile robot

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Amgad Muneer ◽  
Zhan Dairabayev
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Robot ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Wall Painting ◽  
Current Speed ◽  
Ultrasonic Sensor ◽  
Working Process ◽  
Painting Robot ◽  
Interior Walls ◽  
Spray Gun

Wall painting is a repetitive, stressful, and hazardous process that makes it an ideal automation case. In the automotive industry, painting had been automated but not yet for the construction industry. However, there is a strong need for a mobile robot that can move to paint residential interior walls. In this study, we aim to design and implement an automatic painting mobile robot. The conceptual design of the proposed wall painting robot consisting paint mechanism with a spray gun and ultrasonic sensor. The spray gun is attached to a pulley mechanism that has linear motion. The ultrasonic sensor is used to detect the spray gun when it reached a certain limit. The DC motor rotates clockwise and counterclockwise based on the ultrasonic sensor condition made. The experimental results indicate that the robot was able to paint the walls smoothly vertically, and horizontally. The spraying gun structure's speed is at a tolerable speed of 0.07 m/s, which could be increased, but to provide high-quality painting without any gaps, the current speed was selected as the most suitable, without any harm to the working process.

Microstructure of an extruded rapidly solidified Al-8Fe-2Mo alloy

1986 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 548-549
Author(s):  
W. T. Donlon ◽  
J. E. Allison ◽  
S. Shinozaki
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Fuel Economy ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Al Alloys ◽  
Light Weight ◽  
Thin Sections ◽  
Strength And Durability ◽  
Rapidly Solidified ◽  
Whitney Aircraft

Light weight materials which possess high strength and durability are being utilized by the automotive industry to increase fuel economy. Rapidly solidified (RS) Al alloys are currently being extensively studied for this purpose. In this investigation the microstructure of an extruded Al-8Fe-2Mo alloy, produced by Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, Goverment Products Div. was examined in a JE0L 2000FX AEM. Both electropolished thin sections, and extraction replicas were examined to characterize this material. The consolidation procedure for producing this material included a 9:1 extrusion at 340°C followed by a 16:1 extrusion at 400°C, utilizing RS powders which have also been characterized utilizing electron microscopy.

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