An estimated 17 million tonnes of tires are discarded annually. Re-use is achieved by retreading (9%), recycling (39%), energy recovery (37%) and landfill (5%). A preferred, but complex way of recycling is to make new tires from discarded tire rubber. Vulcanised car tire rubber has to be devulcanized …

Abstract This paper applies and discusses the principles of Axiomatic Design for changing IT architecture in health care. It presents three case studies positioned in the field of Enterprise architecture that explore how IT architects, as professionals, manage change and re-design the structure of the …

This paper applies and discusses the principles of Axiomatic Design for changing IT architecture in health care. It presents three case studies positioned in the field of Enterprise architecture that explore how IT architects, as professionals, manage change and re-design the structure of the IT systems …

Smart home technologies are a large potential market for the construction and building services industry. This chapter discusses the topics consultants, installers, and suppliers of home automation systems encounter when working in the field. Improved communication skills and more flexible approaches …

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 …

This report is written for the design of a new production facility to product the Ginaf HD5380T mining truck. Several requirements were studied to reach an output of five trucks per week. The study relates to: • Purchasing, which parts should be purchased centrally at Ginaf Veenendaal and which products …

Remote maintenance activities in ITER will be performed by a unique set of hardware systems, supported by an extensive software kit. A layer of middleware will manage and control a complex set of interconnections between teams of operators, hardware devices in various operating theatres, and databases …

Turbine blade cooling has been a topic of significant interest, as increasing turbine entry temperatures result in higher cooling requirements. The present numerical method divides the blade into a finite number of elements in the span and peripheral directions and solves the heat transfer fundamental …

Binnen de scriptie wordt een uitbreiding op de Symbiosis applicatie, gebruikt voor het sync houden van requirements en domeinmodel, besproken. De applicatie wordt geschikt gemaakt voor mulit-user gebruik en wordt beschikbaar gemaakt als Eclipse plug-in.