Land use or land-use changes can trigger or generate hazards and affect the potential consequences of these hazards. Deforestation can trigger land slides, for example, and land reclamation or levee construction can increase flood hazards downstream. New dwellings in or near forests can trigger wildfires, …

A lot of research effort is put in developing enzymatic treatment of textiles by focusing on the performance of enzymes on lab-scale. Despite all this work upgrading of these developments from lab-scale to industrial scale has not been really successful. Companies are nowadays confronted with rapid developments …

This study investigated the effect of work pace on workload, motor variability and fatigue during light assembly work. Upper extremity kinematics and electromyography (EMG) were obtained on a cycle-to-cycle basis for eight participants during two conditions, corresponding to "normal" and "high" work …

A (semi-)closed greenhouse is a novel greenhouse with an active cooling system and temporary heat storage in an aquifer. Air is cooled, heated and dehumidified by air treatment units. Climate in (semi-)closed greenhouses differs from that of conventional open greenhouses. The aims of our research were …

Het hanteren en beheersen van specifieke productieprocessen heeft een positief effect op de efficiëntie waarmee bedrijven hun productie voeren en daarmee ook op hun concurrentiepositie. Dit geldt tevens voor de automobielindustrie en hun toeleveranciers. In diverse onderzoeken rondom het toepassen van …

This paper describes an agent-based software infrastructure for agile industrial production. This production is done on special devices called equiplets. A grid of these equiplets connected by a fast network is capable of producing a variety of different products in parallel. The multi-agent-based underlying …

Binnen de afdeling Product Engineering, van Scania Production Zwolle, hebben er de afgelopen jaren een tweetal organisatorische wijzigingen plaatsgevonden. Deze wijzigingen hebben de informatie uitwisseling binnen de afdeling lastiger gemaakt. De eerste wijziging is dat de Product Engineers (PdE's) van …

My assignment was to assess whether Turkey was an appropriate production market for Colorique. This was both desk researched and I performed in depth interviews with experienced business people(who had importing textiles experience in Turkey).

The Dutch greenhouse horticultural industry is characterized by world leadership in high-tech innovation. The dynamics of this playing field are innovation in production systems and automation, reduction in energy consumption and sharing limited space. However, international competitive advantage of …

What are successful companies? That question will be investigated. The determination of successful factors will be identified by explaining the successful factors of a company by the following questions: How come successful ventures are successful and non successful ventures are not? What are the most …