After reflecting on the different criteria, categories and characteristics of open controllers in general, the CNC products in the market are evaluated and an overview on the world-wide research activities in Europe, North America and Japan is given.
The most frequently reported involvement across both groups were: input into organisational governance, such as membership on strategic research planning or other high level committees such as the Board of Directors; fund-raising for research; and assisting with the communication and dissemination of information about individual or organisation-wide research activities.
The development is a part of a wider research activity conducted for EU FP7 project GENiC (Globally optimized Energy efficient data Centres).
In particular, in the present paper the authors present the results of a wider research activity aimed at experimentally and numerically investigate historic buildings degradation due to wind exposure.
Qualitative studies contributing data for secondary analysis were sampled by convenience from those already collected in other projects within the wider research activity of the team.
For example, relatively few participants had been able to forge close links with other (UK) doctoral nursing students and relatively few seemed to have become engaged in wider departmental research activities.
Graphene-based materials have generated tremendous interest in a wide range of research activities.
GaN based power devices for high efficiency switching applications in modern power electronics are rapidly moving into the focus of world wide research and development activities.
The development of more benign, environmentally friendly processes with less hazardous solvents is currently the major focus of a wide variety of research activities.
This overview could be useful to orientate the readers in the wide panorama of research activities concerning water splitting, natural and artificial photosynthesis, and solar fuel production through the identification of common aspects, specialties and potentialities of the many initiatives and approaches that are developing worldwide in this field with the final aim to meet world energy demand.
Inspite of the wide spectrum of research activities and industrial developments in the mechatronic field it seems to be difficult for the design engineer in practice - in particular for the still unexperienced one - to select the suitable procedures, methods and tools for his design task.
