Industrial Technology

is the Dean of the College of Technology at the University of Houston. She holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and an M.B.A from the University of Central Florida and a Master's in Mathematics. She has authored more than 60 journal articles and conference proceedings and is the author of two major textbooks in information systems.

This paper reviews the radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and its significance in engineering and technology education. The conceptual design of four packaging-based RFID projects is presented. The major costs involved in setting up an RFID system for ...

Time needed to set-up and send new products to the market is a crucial factor for success, so one important rule is to develop your product as quickly as you can. In the electronics world the systems normally contain some parts in HW and others in SW being the HW/SW partition a crucial issue in the cost-performance trade-off. A bad choice usually requires the redesign or remaps of some parts the system with the consequent waste of time and money.

Technological devices are playing such a significant role in our lives that educators are incorporating
Ipads, smartphones, and even Skyping via these devices to educate our future generations. Managing the
utilization of this technology has become an important issue for businesses and proposes the question: how
is it possible to maintain good human relations with customers, clients and other businesses with all of the
technological advancements that often prevent face-to-face interaction? This paper addresses the value of
assimilating human relation skills into the curriculum of Industrial Technology related programs.
Additionally, this article provides an overview of Industrial Technology related programs and will also
address how to differentiate between Human Resource Development programs and Human Resource
Management programs

Netflix, as a tech company, is currently the largest global streaming platform challenging traditional US studios. This article analyses Netflix’s transnational business strategies disrupting such status quo by focusing, on one local example: Mexico. Literature on Netflix has identified some of the transnational strategies studied here, this article adds to the discussion the use of local elements to infiltrate the power hub of Hollywood. By using the holistic scope of Political Economy, this research presents an integrated examination of: (a) the structural conditions of the Mexican audiovisual system in which Netflix is immersed; (b) the tech company’s expansion strategies; (c) the case of the movie Roma as a pivot-like tactic to push forward different company goals. The article argues that Netflix, by setting a new form of audiovisual circulation through innovation technology, has understood the key areas to break the audiovisual market value chain allowing it to gain global domi...

When we move past the hype surrounding fourth generation industrial technology (4gIT) and attend to its nature, we should expect 4gIT to exacerbate, rather than alleviate, conditions that tend to ensnare us in dukkha. Here I probe the nature of 4gIT with brief case studies about the Eyeborg, the DIY pancreas system, Google's Pixel Buds, and their role in exacerbating experiences of inherent separation from others. I examine how cravings for self-continuity (bhavana) and self-discontinuity (vibhana) connect experiences of separation from others with dukkha. I also contrast my techno-pessimism with David Loy's Buddhism-inspired value-neutrality, and with an increasingly popular pessimism grounded upon observations about the so-called attention economy.

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The automotive sector is one of the most important economically, it not only generates direct employment, but also provides jobs to the entire associated industry. Today, component manufacturers and suppliers face disruptive changes. Electronics, which plays a fundamental role in innovation, new companies and technological giants, who claim their place in the sector; and the mentality of consumers, which opens towards other forms of mobility are some of the irruptions to which face. This article reviews the current literature and exposes the situation that the automotive sector is going through. Component suppliers that have not yet taken the step towards mechatronics or that lack high added value products will have to undergo an industrial regeneration, changing their design processes, if they want to remain competitive and continue in the sector. Keywords: Automotive, Electronics, Industrial Processes, Industrial Regeneration.

Twenty-two expert firefighting professionals were used in evaluating four methods for fire extinguisher hands-on training. Two different fire simulators were put into service along with two conditions for the fighting distance; keeping a distance of 2.44 m (8ft.) away from the base of the fire and having no restriction on getting closer to the fire. The fire simulators both utilized burned propane gas and modified air pressurized water extinguishers. Demographics data were gathered at the beginning of the study and participants completed a study form after each study conditions and at the end of the study. The participants are required to provide comments and suggestions as well. Results showed that participants preferred and recommended one simulator over the other for better simulating a real situation. Moreover, the participants reported that keeping a 2.44 m (8ft.) fighting distance is not realistic and maybe questionable as it is counter to proper use of extinguishers. Participants suggests adding smoke, sound and light effects to better simulate a real situation and improve training.

The high amount of food waste generated is the main cause to most issues related to landfills such as foul odor, toxic leachate, emission of greenhouse gases and vermin infestation. Although food waste issue is as critical as municipal solid waste issue, the condition is such that municipal solid waste management systems in Malaysia are also very poorly conducted. Thus, the aim of this paper is to discuss the possible options of food waste management systems that are suitable for implementation in Malaysia.

As technology evolves and becomes more complex over time, so must the training for those involved in
creating it. This article reviews the various programs that were developed throughout America’s history
to prepare individuals for designing and working with the technology that inevitably made it a great nation.
The necessities that warranted each program are discussed as well as the reasons for each of their demise.
This article also addresses the factors facing technology-based education and the importance of its future.

The Triple Alliance (Argentine, Brazil and Uruguay) war against Paraguay is rooted in the context of the Second Industrial Revolution. This evidence led many historians to suppose that it would certainly be a modern conflict, marked by technological innovations of the time such as: rifled muskets and artillery, balloons, telegraph, trench warfare. Nevertheless, such innovations have had a very shy impact than it was expected and that is because the allies, especially the brazilian army, were not as well as trained to get the most of it from their equipment, including portable weapons. Therefore, the goal is to explore through the analysis of memories of war (diaries, letters and reminiscences) and Official Reports from the Warfare Ministry to that extent such innovations from the industrial age were able to interfere on the result of the conflict. We will focus in the most violent period of this huge fight|: from april 1866 to December 1868.

Bakery industry has no sufficient scientific research in order to support a real time decisional process of the managers who are most of the time also involved in the production process and all their knowledge is based on practical experience. Our purpose was to conduct an observatory analysis on Andana Pan Bakery from Baia Mare, Romania, and based on theoretical notions regarding the supply chain management was analysed step by step the production and distribution strategy and physical process. Our results indicate that bakery production and distribution is facing high challenges and high risks of low performance and profitability and a clear algorithm to correlate the distribution with production process and improve the distribution management, lowering the costs and increasing the profits would be a perfect tool for any small and medium size bakery

ABSTRAK Pada Sistem telekomunikasi dari waktu kewaktu akan mengalami suatu perkembangan ,hal ini berimbas dari Pertumbuhan penduduk maupun user yang semakin meningkat serta keterbutuhan masyarakan akan kualitas mutu dalam berkomunikasi dan untuk mengakses jaringan internet yang cepat, mudah dan lancar, penggalakan pembangunan fasilitas teknologi pundilakukan demi menjawab keterbutuhan konsumen / user itu sendiri, QOS sebagai mutu standarisasi qualitas jaringan teknologi yang harus bisa di pertahankan ketika dalam kondisi sistem aktif sebaga upaya mereduksi terhambatnya komunikasi seperti karena ada kerusakan sistem, unit server akses dsb. Maka dari beberapa permasalahan tersebut perlu adanya suatu evaluasi berkala dalam usahanya meningkatkan mutu perkembangan teknologi jaringan juga sebagai upaya dalam usaha mempertahankan kualitas komunikasi akses data jaringan telekomunikasi .untuk memperoleh hasil evaluasi kerja jaringan server diperlukan suatu sistem yang biasa kita sebut dengan (NMS) Network monitoring Sistem PT. Telkom divre IV telah menerapkan system NMS ini sebagai upaya mempertahankan kualitas akses jaringan di tingkat regional areal kerjanya, dengan memakai cacti sebagai tool / aplikasi yang di gunakan dalam pemonitoringan jaringan kerjanya, sehingga evaluasi berkala suatu lalu lintas akses internet dapat di lakukan dengan baik juga sebagai data real trafik pemakaian bandwidth guna penyediaan sarana telekomunikasi yang lebih baik Kata kunci : Network Monitoring Sistem, Traffik Monitoring, Jaringan Komputer

Capital accumulation in Argentine and American manufacturing industries in the last century (1929-2014)
RESUMEN Este trabajo realiza estimaciones en clave comparativa de una serie de variables relacionadas con los postulados de la economía política marxista para las industrias manufactureras de Argentina y Estados Unidos en el largo plazo. Se presentan cálculos de los niveles de inversión, productividad y rentabilidad industrial en ambos países y su evolución relativa, así como también estimaciones referidas a la composición orgánica del capital y de la tasa de plusvalía que constituyen los determinantes centrales de los niveles de rentabilidad. En términos generales, se observa una validación empírica de la mayor parte de las hipótesis marxianas relacionadas con las tendencias inmanentes de la producción capitalista

This Study aimed to develop and validate Worktext in Drawing 2 for Technology students of  College of Industrial Technology.  It was conducted at University of Rizal System during the school year 2010-2011 with 50 first year BT students and 8 drafting professors as respondents. The study used the descriptive-experimental method to describe and evaluate the developed
Worktext in Drawing 2 using the questionnaire-checklist and test results in gathering data.  A pretest and posttest was administered to the student users to determine the performance in Drawing 2 of the two groups of respondents.  They were asked to evaluate the worktext through the following:  subject matter, organization and presentation, language and style and style and usefulness. Responses
were tallied, tabulated and interpreted with the use of appropriate statistical treatment. The derived conclusions are as follows.  Students exposed to the developed worktext in Drawing 2 performed better than the students taught without the use of the worktext.  The developed worktext in Drawing 2 as instructional material is highly acceptable in teaching the subject. From the findings and conclusions presented, the study recommended the following:  the developed worktext in Drawing 2 may be adopted for use by all Technology and Engineering students in different specializations, continuous revisions and modifications of the worktext may be done
to suit the learning styles, needs and abilities of the students and development of worktext, workbook and the same materials in other drawing/drafting areas may be developed.

An electrical wiring installation trainer provides the students' learning experience and appreciation of the subject and course and for the professors' demonstrations and evaluation of students' performance during laboratory time. This study utilized a developmental type of research. The trainer board was 48 inches by 48 inches by ¾ inch marine plywood. It was cost-effective, space-efficient and portable. It contained circuit breaker, plurality of utility boxes, a plurality of junction boxes, a plurality of single switches, plurality of three-way switches, plurality of convenience outlets, plurality of base plates, plurality of receptacles, a plurality of Light Emitting Diode (LED) Bulbs, plurality of flexi-hoses, and plurality of u-clamps. All the devices were totally exposed for easy installation and familiarization. It was equipped with a low current circuit breaker to facilitate safe operations and eliminate damages to all the devices. It was capable of handling a residential-like, commercial-like and industrial-like electrical wiring installation, troubleshooting, and commissioning. The electrical wiring installation trainer was operated at 220VAC (Volts-Alternating Current) power supply and supported with the instructional module in electrical wiring installation. Demonstration, interview and consultation with the faculty members of the College of Technology, Pangasinan State University (PSU) Lingayen Campus teaching Bachelor of Industrial Technology (BIT) major in Electrical Technology, the said utility model can perform all the activities listed in the module in electrical wiring installation which is parallel to the actual building wiring installation. An electrical wiring installation trainer was granted an Industrial Design (ID) patent by the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines while still waiting for subsequent formality examination report as a pending application for a Utility Model (UM) patent by the same office.

Industrialization of the Nigerian economy started with the establishment of fully integrated large-scale industries for rapid development of the sector. However, inability of the strategy to fast-track economic growth in Nigeria led to a shift to small-scale industries. As opposed to the complex and sophisticated nature of the former, the latter strategy is characterized by simple technology which available industrial infrastructure could readily support. A blend of the right choice of technology and strong economic fundamentals is imperative for a vibrant and robust manufacturing sub-sector. This paper estimates the impact of key macroeconomic indicators on manufacturing performance in Nigeria using the method of vector auto-regression (VAR). The study focused on the industrial strategy based on small-scale industrialization. The variance decomposition result shows that variations in manufacturing capacity utilization in Nigeria are largely driven by shocks to its lagged values. The result further shows strong positive impact of trade openness on manufacturing capacity utilization. The study therefore concludes that manufacturing performance in Nigeria is partly driven by shocks to own innovations and partly by trade policy shocks.

Competence in Mathematics is considerably an inevitable factor in the holistic development of a learner. Several studies reported different factors which lead to students' poor performance in this subject. This study generally aimed to assess the entry mathematics performance of the Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology. Specifically, the study aimed to describe the student's profile, determine their attitudes and beliefs towards mathematics and impression to mathematics teachers towards their entry mathematics performance. It employed the descriptive research design involving eighty-seven Industrial Technology students. The findings revealed that the level of the entry mathematics performance of the students was good. It was disclosed that students have a moderately positive attitude and beliefs towards Mathematics and impressions to Mathematics teachers. Students who have shown positive attitude, beliefs and impressions to Math teachers tend to perform better. Considering the results of the study, effective strategies in teaching with meaningful intervention activities to develop positive attitudes and beliefs of the students are recommended. Thus, utilization of new innovations and technologies and integration of values formation shall be done in the teaching of mathematics to build positive attitudes and beliefs which yields to better performance and cope with the demand of IR 4.0.

The main goal of the current investigation was to use sugar cane bagasse ash (SCBA) and to compare its adsorption efficiency with Magnesol XL as synthetic adsorbents to regenerate the quality of fried sunflower oil. In addition, to evaluate the effect of water washing process on the quality of fried and fried – treated sunflower oil. The metal patterns of sugar cane bagasse ash and Magnesol XL were determined. Some physical and chemical properties non-fried, fried and fried–treated, sunflower oil were determined. Sunflower oil sample was  heated at 180 ± 5 °C, then frozen French fries potato were fried every 30 min. during a continuous period of 20 h. Oil samples were taken every 4 h. The filter aids were added individually to the fried oil at levels 1, 2 and 3 % (w / v), then mechanically stirred for 60 min at 105 oC. The results indicate that all the filter aids under study were characterized by high levels of Si and variable levels of other minerals. The highest level of Si was r...

This study, provided by the Policy Department A at the request of the ITRE Committee, aims to provide a description of the key blue growth sectors of the economy along with the EU potential to exploit them in a sustainable and competitive manner. Apart from the Blue Growth strategy and objectives, it describes its impact on growth and job creation. The report provides an analytical insight as well as policy recommendations on the key issues concerning blue economy and blue growth.

This article makes a parametric study of cascade refrigeration systems with a low carbon footprint in tropical climates. An NH3/ CO 2 cascade refrigeration system is modelled, simulated under Engineering Equation Solver (EES) and the results are discussed. It is noted that the use of an internal heat exchanger in the R717/R744 cascade system reduces performance by 4.7%, whereas subcooling in both circuits increases the performance of the cascade systems by 16.50%. Exercise analysis of the cascade refrigeration system identified the temperature of-10°C as an optimal coupling temperature that allows for a low total irreversibility (i.e. a total irreversibility of 78.072 kW for a system with a cooling capacity of270 kW).The condenser and the compressor of the high temperature cell have been identified as the most critical components with a total irreversibility of 48%. Based on Total Equivalent Warning Impact (TEWI) calculation, 8 cascade refrigeration configurations are compared in the weather conditions of Benin (Cotonou). The natural refrigerants R717 and R600 seem to be suitable candidates in combination with CO2 for cascade systems. Furthermore, the refrigerant R717 (ammonia) appears to be a good choice to achieve high performance with a relatively low TEWI.

is the Dean of the College of Technology at the University of Houston. She holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and an M.B.A from the University of Central Florida and a Master's in Mathematics. She has authored more than 60 journal articles and conference proceedings and is the author of two major textbooks in information systems.

In this work, we suggested a new approach for the basic configuration of a mobile robot capable of being a building block of an intelligent agent. This configuration includes obstacle avoidance (OA), goal tracking (DTG) and communication implemented as competence layers. Moreover, a geometry based behavior arbitration layer is proposed for fusing those behaviors. Proposed control is tested on simulations where different scenarios are studied. Results have confirmed the high performance of the method.

In the background of global tobacco control smoking, tobacco technology as a technology with a clear negative effect, has not disappeared from time to time in the world, but has gradually narrowed down the scale and social impact in the efforts of governments, Which in addition to economic, institutional, technical factors, but also contains a profound cultural roots. From the perspective of Social science and technology, taking the tobacco industry technology in China as an example, the tobacco culture has emphasized the traditional culture of Chinese culture, the spread of tobacco standards to traditional Chinese culture, the inheritance of tobacco to traditional hierarchical concepts. The cultural characteristics of smoking behavior in the field of social life, and the systematic analysis of the social function of the decision-making of China's tobacco technology development, the humanization of technological products and the huge technical premium, and the deep cultural connotation of the tobacco industry and the long-term impact of technology on social culture, from the perspective of social and cultural barriers to smoke control has a certain significance.

The effects of domestic and industrial cooking methods on the non-starch polysaccharides (NSP) content and in vitro starch digestibility of chick pea (variety “blanco lechoso”) have been studied. Total and soluble NSP increased, as did the slowly digestible starch (SDS), whereas the resistant starch (RS) fraction decreased after cooking, showing higher content in domestic than industrially cooked chick peas. The in vitro starch digestible rate index (SDRI) was similar in the cooked chick peas, as was the rapidly available glucose (RAG). Due to the low values of RAG, chick peas would give a slow post-prandial glycaemic response. Domestic cooked chick peas consumption would increase the intakes of RS in human diet, whereas the industrially cooked chick peas with lower content of RS would result in less flatulence problems.

Proje kavramının yapısının yönetim, tasarım ve üretim yönünden incelendiği bu arastırmada, Teknoloji Projesinin küresel anlamda kullanılan proje kavramı içerisindeki yeri de incelenmistir. Ayrıca Teknoloji Projesinde tasarım ve üretim asamasında ne gibi safhalardan geçilmesi gerektiği üzerinde durulmustur. Bu bağlamda bir Teknoloji Eğitimi Projesi olusturulmustur. Proje, iki eksenli PC kontrollü robot sistemden olusmaktadır. Proje, mekanik sistemlerin elektronik donanımla desteklendiği ve Turbo Pascal’da hazırlanan bir yazılımla kontrolünün sağlanması seklindedir.

The automotive sector is one of the most important economically, it not only generates direct employment, but also provides jobs to the entire associated industry. Today, component manufacturers and suppliers face disruptive changes. Electronics, which plays a fundamental role in innovation, new companies and technological giants, who claim their place in the sector; and the mentality of consumers, which opens towards other forms of mobility are some of the irruptions to which face. This article reviews the current literature and exposes the situation that the automotive sector is going through. Component suppliers that have not yet taken the step towards mechatronics or that lack high added value products will have to undergo an industrial regeneration, changing their design processes, if they want to remain competitive and continue in the sector.

Monosync Framework is an integration of all the existing Application Program Interface (API) for the Java FX implementation. This framework can also be considered as Java version two because of the difference in syntax. It gives the
system robustness and flexibility and makes the code maintainable and uniform because the framework follows the MVC pattern.

1. There is growing consensus in Indonesia that 2003, there is only limited time to begin to technology development is central to the nation's address the issue seriously. efforts to improve productivity, efficiency and 2. International experience shows that competitiveness and to sustain the rapid growth macroeconomic stability, procompetition of its industrial sector. However, there has been economic policies and the development of inadequate promotion and diffusion of best prac-human resources are the basic conditions tice technologies to help Indonesian industry required to promote industrial technology compete better internationally. Now that the development. Although these are necessary Government of Indonesia (GOI) has announced conditions for industrial technology devela major trade liberalization program to the year opment, they are not sufficient to sustain it. It also is important to have policies that ensure access to foreign technology, foreign direct investment, financing for technology development, and technology support services. 3. This report identifies three priorities for technology development strategy: * Maintain macro policies which encourage firms to make long-term investments in technology development; * Continue economic deregulation so that firms will have to upgrade their technology to remain competitive; * Upgrade the quality of human resources for technology development. To improve the enabling conditions for industrial technology development, the major priorities are to: * Improve Indonesia's access to foreign technology by expanding the role of foreign trade companies and buyers and improving technology licensing procedures and intellectual property protection; • Make greater use of foreign direct investment as a tool for technology development; * Strengthen the policy and institutional framework for financing technology development, and carefully target fiscal incentives for technology development; * Reorient public technology support services toward effective diffusion of best practice technologies to industry and promote the private provision of those services. Within this framework Indonesia should let the market play a greater role in developing technology intensive industries.

Netflix, as a tech company, is currently the largest global streaming platform challenging traditional US studios. This article analyses Netflix’s transnational business strategies disrupting such status quo by focusing, on one local example: Mexico. Literature on Netflix has identified some of the transnational strategies studied here, this article adds to the discussion the use of local elements to infiltrate the power hub of Hollywood. By using the holistic scope of Political Economy, this research presents an integrated examination of: (a) the structural conditions of the Mexican audiovisual system in which Netflix is immersed; (b) the tech company’s expansion strategies; (c) the case of the movie Roma as a pivot-like tactic to push forward different company goals. The article argues that Netflix, by setting a new form of audiovisual circulation through innovation technology, has understood the key areas to break the audiovisual market value chain allowing it to gain global domi...

Netflix, as a tech company, is currently the largest global streaming platform challenging traditional US studios. This article analyses Netflix’s transnational business strategies disrupting such status quo by focusing, on one local example: Mexico. Literature on Netflix has identified some of the transnational strategies studied here, this article adds to the discussion the use of local elements to infiltrate the power hub of Hollywood. By using the holistic scope of Political Economy, this research presents an integrated examination of: (a) the structural conditions of the Mexican audiovisual system in which Netflix is immersed; (b) the tech company’s expansion strategies; (c) the case of the movie Roma as a pivot-like tactic to push forward different company goals. The article argues that Netflix, by setting a new form of audiovisual circulation through innovation technology, has understood the key areas to break the audiovisual market value chain allowing it to gain global dominance.

Electronic throttle body (ETB) is a device used in cars to regulate air inflow into the motor's combustion system. Its good behavior is crucial for the superimposed engine speed control system. However, electronic throttle body is a highly nonlinear process, and its only measurable state is the throttle valve position measured by a cheap potentiometer of low resolution, resulting in significant quantization noise. In order to apply an advanced control strategy, all states should be usually available and the measurement noise should be reduced. With these two goals in mind we have implemented an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF), as a common solution for state estimation of nonlinear systems, and an Unscented Kalman FIlter (UKF), which is a preferable solution when the process nonlinearities are very strong. Both filters are based on discrete time piece-wise affine process model which uses new friction model. By experimental tests on a real ETB it is shown that UKF gives better estimates of its state variables.

El texto académico presenta el impacto positivo y negativo de la inteligencia artificial (IA) en el contexto educativo, médico y empresarial-laboral. Se utilizó información sobre sus técnicas en cada uno de los campos mencionados, destacando la participación de las partes interesadas; seres humanos. Por consiguiente, se expuso sus aplicaciones, dando la oportunidad de optimizar procesos con grandes beneficios; no obstante, existen repercusiones negativas en las partes interesadas como la sustitución y estrés laboral. Se concluyó que los sistemas con inteligencia artificial son instrumentos de asistencia para complementar las capacidades humanas, sin reemplazarlo totalmente. Se tuvo como limitación la escasez de información en español, debido a su alta demanda de desarrollo en los países potencia. Se obtuvo un exitoso trabajo.

One of the main weaknesses with traditional computing is the fact that the numerical world of the computer is decoupled from the user's real world. The application of Augmented Reality (AR) can provide interactive systems in which real objects and computer data are combined in a cohesive way. This new paradigm has many potential applications in various fields, in particular in the maintenance domain. It allows the user to see computer generated virtual objects superimposed to the real world through the see-through Head Mounted Display (HMD). The technician of maintenance, when using this system, can interact with the virtual world and have additional information, such as instruction for performing maintenance tasks in form of text messages, images, 3-D models of pieces or audio such as speech instruction. In this paper, we propose a design process of the maintenance system focused on the analysis of the interaction between the user, the system and the real world. This area is based on the UML notation. The use of UML represents our ergonomic and software design process basis for AR systems. This process also is based on ergonomic characteristics study within a UML system description and on the hybrid PAC-Amodeus model architecture adaptation for the AR systems.

Triangulation with active beacons is widely used in the absolute localization of mobile robots. The original Generalized Geometric Triangulation algorithm suffers only from the restrictions that are common to all algorithms that perform self-localization through triangulation. But it is unable to compute position and orientation when the robot is over the segment of the line that goes by beacons 1 and 2 whose origin is beacon 1 and does not contain beacon 2. An improved version of the algorithm allows self-localization even when the robot is over that line segment. Simulations results suggest that a robot is able to localize itself, with small position and orientation errors, over a wide region of the plane, if measurement uncertainty is small enough.