This article discusses the postdigital as a term that can be used to describe either a contemporary disenchantment with digital information systems and media gadgets, or a period in which our fascination with these systems and gadgets has become historical. After Edward Snowden’s disclosures of the NSA’s …

When using autonomous reconfigurable manufacturing system, that offers generic services, there is the possibility to dynamically manufacture a range of products using the same manufacturing equipment. Opportunities are created to optimally scale the production using reconfiguration means and automatically …

De provincie Overijssel hecht grote waarde aan een gezond en veilig leefmilieu. De provincie heeft onderkend dat meer inspanning nodig is voor het bereiken van de ambitie voor het thema gezond leefmilieu en heeft in het bijzonder besloten om de sanering van asbestdaken op bedrijventerreinen te faciliteren …

Silvio Berlusconi was Italy's longest serving Prime Minister since the Second World War. As Prime Minister, he exercised control over the three public television channels in Italy. The combination of a strong political figure that controls large parts of public media and has considerable business interests …

Kverneland Group Nieuw-Vennep is an agricultural machinery manufacturer located in the town of Nieuw-Vennep in the Netherlands. In the spring of 2015 the company will start the production of a new generation of trailed field sprayers and the desire is to assemble these machines as quickly and efficiently …

In the nineties of the last century, a lot of (ICT) incubators started in the Netherlands, many private (GorillaPark, Ant Factory, Lost Boys and Newconomy), some public, such as Twinning. Most of them stopped early this century or gone bankrupt. From 2005 university incubators like YesDelft!, Erasmus …

In this paper we present a system that generates questions from an ontology to determine a crisis situation by ordinary people using their mobile phone: the Situation Awareness Question Generator. To generate questions from an ontology we propose a formalization based on Situation Theory and several …

In this report the marketing plan of Primark will be discussed. Primark was established in 1969 and is originally an Irish brand. After 1969, Primark expanded very quickly to several other countries. Its main goal is to sell inexpensive clothing and other accessories for women, men, children next to …

Modern manufacturing has to deal with global competition, in which customers have high purchasing power. Production efficiency and rapid response to customer demand are dominant conditions for enterprises to stay successful. Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMSs) are designed to have a modular architecture …

Young musicians at the conservatoire: talent or attainment? The mastery of a music instrument comes after many hours of practice: on the average 10,000. It should therefore be no surprise that most great musicians started their studies at an early age. Moreover, the technical achievement of playing a …