Examples of these complex systems can be found in manufacturing, smart-grids, traffic control, logistics, economics and biology, among others.
The investigations and road-mapping processes lead to structural changes towards new generations of adaptable factories - engineered with knowledge-based engineering systems and operating in an ubiquitous information and communication (Grid Manufacturing) environment.
Stuxnet is the first widely analyzed malware program that is intended to jump from Windows-based computers to a specialized system used for controlling industrial equipment, like electric power grids, manufacturing plants, gas pipelines, dams and power plants.
This paper investigates these impacts by comparing the performance of micro manufacturing enterprises in grid-covered and non-covered villages in Northern Benin.
A grid-planned manufacturing town that would be more at home in the West Midlands or Teesside, with a railway works at one end, a cable works at the other, rows of terraces in between, a strip of closed working men's clubs and nonconformist churches, and a Poundland and charity shop shopping street.
Threats to security and our privacy will increase, nevertheless the Internet of Things will revolutionise manufacturing, resource use, smart grids and profoundly change personal health care.
In addition, combining of thin PEDOT PSS layer with an inkjet printed Ag grid structure allows manufacturing of semi-transparent devices.
This paper describes a case study where data from a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) system located in a large manufacturing company was fused with grid electricity and gas models as well as a maintenance cost model using the 5C architecture with a view to making effective decisions on its cost efficient operation.
In this article, we analyze closely the coalition between e-Work and service-oriented approach towards a new manufacturing architecture composed by a grid of services which operates in parallel to a main process that defines the manufactured artifact targeting an interesting blending of product and service.
Sociotechnical systems – for example, telecommunication networks, electric grids, large-scale manufacturing systems – are interacting ensembles of engineered artifacts embedded in society, linked with economies, and connected with ecology.
