Marine litter is cited by UNEP as “Any persistent, manufactured or processed solid material discarded, disposed of, or abandoned in the marine and coastal environment”, and includes metal, glass, paper, cardboard, processed wood, cloth and plastic. This report focuses mainly on the plastic fraction of …

In this paper we explore the influence of the physical and social environment (the design space) son the formation of shared understanding in multidisciplinary design teams. We concentrate on the creative design meeting as a microenvironment for studying processes of design communication. Our applied …

Organisaties maken veelal gebruik van ERP-oplossingen voor de ondersteuning van de bedrijfsvoering. Het begrip ERP staat voor Enterprise Resource Planning. Een ERP-oplossing bestaat uit meerdere deelprogramma’s (beter bekend als modules) die ieder een specifieke taak ondersteunen. De door de organisatie …

Algae, a new gold rush? DAS Conference 17 November 2011. Presentatie, gehouden op 22 januari 2013, in het kader van Charette (methode voor kwalitatief onderzoek met belanghebbenden). Oorspronkelijk gehouden tijdens de DAS Conference van 2011.

Van 1 september 2011 tot en met 31 augustus 2013 is binnen het SIA RAAK-project "Maakindustrie creëert met Rapid Manufacturing nieuwe ontwerpen en mogelijkheden" onderzoek gedaan naar de toepassingsmogelijkheden van 3D-printen binnen het MKB. Verschillende printtechnieken en materialen zijn bestudeerd, …

Sustainable and Agile manufacturing is expected of future generation manufacturing systems. The goal is to create scalable, reconfigurable and adaptable manufacturing systems which are able to produce a range of products without new investments into new manufacturing equipment. This requires a new approach …

Author supplied: The production system described in this paper in an im- plementation of an agile agent-based production system. This system is designed to meet the requirements of modern production, where short time to market, requirement-driven production and low cost small quan- tity production are …

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 …

Author supplied: The production system described in this paper in an implementation of an agile agent-based production system. This system is designed to meet the requirements of modern production, where short time to market, requirementdriven production and low cost small quantity production are important …