The chapter focuses on how to use controls to improve a working machine or process.
Managers can use reliability technology to predict when maintenance of a manufacturing machine will improve a plant's performance, and conversely, when performing maintenance will slow production.
Another disciple of Maudslay, Joseph Whitworth, invented or improved a great number of machine tools and came to dominate the field; at the International Exhibition of 1862, his firm's exhibits took up a quarter of all the space devoted to machine tools.
To improve the irregularity, a Machine Vision Methodology was put forward for cells expansion supervision.
In order to improve its stretchiness, a machine perforates it into a net-shaped structure that is then coated with a silicone-based material.
This year, the first fund was awarded to Professor of Computer Science Ryan Adams, along with graduate students Jad Rahme and Samuel Barnett, for a project to improve reinforcement learning, a machine learning method that enables software agents to learn behaviors based on human-specified rewards.
The team worked on improving a pedal-powered grinding wheel machine, adding a drill with an adjustable stand and a hook to twist the fibers, to remove the sources of injury.
Having access to useful data sets is only a start: A system needs to extract accurate metadata from the data, and use it as an input to improve the machine's accuracy.
For this task, we hypothesize that the translation quality can be improved by adapting a machine translation system to the domain of the ontology.
A commerce website has to be incrementally improved to be a machine that can continually convert those visits from Google, Facebook (or anywhere else for that matter) into sales.
