Human communities are kinds of machines – machines for social life – and just like any machine they fall apart and are discarded.
But they are machines without substance -- incorporeal machines, machines made of imagination and "logic" and "bits".
The 22 dialysis units were heterogeneous when comparing the use of disposable needle for artery-vein fistula, number of reuse of lines and dialysis equipments, type of dialysis machine, machine hygiene, machine sterilisation, type of dialysis rooms regarding infected patients, lines and dialysis equipments reprocessing rooms and the patients/care workers ratio.
As a process, it refers to the design of machines, machine systems, work methods, and environments to take into account the safety, comfort, and productiveness of human users and operators.
The advantages of the proposed model are as follows: considering multi-period production planning, dynamic system reconfiguration, duplicate machines, machine capacity, available time of workers, and worker assignment.
This is creating a new reality - decentralised, pervasive, embedded and active – "living" – technologies, and the prospect of an Internet of Everything, machine-machine learning and robotic innovation.
The computer is the universal machine almost by definition, machine-of-all-trades, capable of accomplishing or simulating just about any task that can be logically defined.
Then, the NC process parameter-driven characteristic of similar feature is revealed from the perspective of machining geometry, machining precision of the feature, and cutter geometry.
The rough machining is performed by machining volumes of material in a slice-by-slice manner.
Moreover, it could be used to predict machining precision of part before machining and provide the basis for error compensation.
