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Energy management in manufacturing: Toward eco-factories of the future - A focus group study

The integration of environmental sustainability and eco-efficiency has been recognized as a means to foster economic and environmental performance, increase competitiveness and use it as a lever to spur innovation. Besides integrating green technologies in ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2016

Micro-structuring of glassy carbon for precision glass molding of binary diffractive optical elements

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Karin Prater

Precision glass molding is a more cost efficient process for the large volume manufacturing of highly complex optical surfaces than direct manufacturing. Glassy carbon (GC) molds are used for precision glass molding, because they can be operated at tempera ...

Optical Society of America2016

Learning Physical Collaborative Robot Behaviors from Human Demonstrations

Sylvain Calinon

Robots are becoming safe and smart enough to work alongside people not only on manufacturing production lines, but also in spaces such as houses, museums or hospitals. This can be significantly exploited in situations where a human needs the help of anothe ...

2016

10.1 A pin-efficient 20.83Gb/s/wire 0.94pJ/bit forwarded clock CNRZ-5-coded SerDes up to 12mm for MCM packages in 28nm CMOS

Mohammad Amin Shokrollahi, Seyed Armin Tajalli, Christoph Walter, Ali Hormati, Anant Pratap Singh, Omid Talebi Amiri, Klaas Lammert Hofstra, Sergio Pesenti

High-speed signaling over package substrates is key to delivering the promise of 2.5D integration. Applications abound and include high-density memory interfaces, sub-division of large dies to increase yield and lower development time, sub-division of a di ...

2016

Tunable radiator for small satellite application

Jean-Daniel Landis, Frédéric Bongard, Tomislav Debogovic, Pedro Robustillo Bayon, Nevena Saponjic, Mikaël Krummen

A tunable radiator for space application has been developed to meet stringent requirements in terms of electrical and environmental specifications but also low mass, simple manufacturing and low cost. The element is based on the folded PIFA antenna, with s ...

2016

Towards stable and commercially available perovskite solar cells

Kai Zhu

Solar cells employing a halide perovskite with an organic cation now show power conversion efficiency of up to 22%. However, these cells are facing issues towards commercialization, such as the need to achieve long-term stability and the development of a m ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Building Capabilities for Service Innovation

Andreas Felix von Vangerow

The service sector is the most dominant sector in every developed economy today. The ability to develop and successfully launch new services is crucial for service organizations to stay competitive and to adapt to the ever-changing conditions of the enviro ...

EPFL2015

A model to determine the optimal parameters in a machining process for the most profitable utilization of machining energy

Ian Anthony Stroud, Olcay Akten, Muhammad Arif

This article presents a model within the sustainable machining paradigm. In general, the optimization of machining process for the minimum energy consumption alone does not have sufficient impetus for application in the manufacturing companies wherein prof ...

Sage Publications Ltd2015

Industrial trial to produce a low clinker, low carbon cement

Karen Scrivener, Leng Maday Vizcaino Andres, Abdel Perez Hernandez

A preliminary assessment of conditions for the industrial manufacture of a new cementitious system based on clinker-calcined clay and limestone, developed by the authors, referred as "low carbon cement" is presented. The new cement enables the substitution ...

Inst Ciencias Construccion Eduardo Torroja2015

Study of physical phenomena of selective laser melting towards increased productivity

Christoph Van Gestel

This thesis presents an experimentally focused study of three of the key physical phenomena of the Selective Laser Melting (SLM) process. The SLM process increasingly gains momentum in industrial applications. As awareness of the process and its capabiliti ...

EPFL2015

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