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Carbon nanotubes (CNT) have been developed in recent decades for nanodevices such as nanoradios, nanogenerators, carbon nanotube field effect transistors (CNTFETs) and so on, indicating that the application of CNTs for nanoscale electronics may play...

The current product and assembly processes of system development in the vehicle industry are characterised by a multitude of different model formats, a relatively low level of data integration, and an unsatisfactory management of information. This ar...

Welding is a consolidated technology used to manufacture/assemble large products and structures. Currently, welding design issues are tackled downstream of the 3D modeling, lacking concurrent development of design and manufacturing engineering activi...

Prefabricated timber component-based systems are the most prevalent industrialised system used to build housing. Along with many other countries, the UK has invested in different types of factory-based prefabrication systems as a means of increasing...

As synthetic biology advances, prokaryotic microorganisms have become critical platforms for heterologous biosynthesis in cell factory applications. However, conventional free enzyme systems encounter substantial challenges, including inefficient int...

Multispectral imaging (MI) techniques are being used very often to identify different properties of nature in several domains, going from precision agriculture to environmental studies, not to mention quality inspection of pharmaceutical production,...

Capillary electrophoresis based on laser-induced fluorescence (CE-LIF) plays an important role in the analysis of nucleic acids. However, the commercial CE-LIF is not only quite expensive but also inflexible, thus hindering its widespread use in the...

Utilizing new experimental approaches and gradual understanding of the underlying chemical processes has led to advances in the self-assembly of inorganic and metal–organic compounds at a very fast pace over the last decades. Exploitation of un...

In this paper, the development process of a deployable modular sandwich panelized system for rapid-assembly building construction is presented, and its structural performance under some different action effects is investigated. This system, which inc...

Reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) can be used to produce micro-assembled products that are too complex for assembly on flat substrates like printed circuit boards. The greatest advantage of RMS is their capability to reuse machine parts for...

Wireless biosensor systems were developed in our lab for monitoring blood glucose concentrations in fish as an indicator of fish stress. However, uniform immobilization of the enzyme on the surface of the electrode is difficult, so the sensor respons...

Cancer research has traditionally relied on two-dimensional (2D) cell culture, focusing mainly on cancer cells and their abnormal genetics. However, over the past decade, tumors have been accepted as complex tissues rather than a homogenous mass of p...

Prior to the physical build of the industrial automation system, some challenges arise, such as processes’ cycle times calculations, ergonomics and safety evaluation, and the integration of separate machines to the complete production shops. Th...

Product assembly is often one of the last steps in the production process. Product assembly is often carried out by workers (assemblers) rather than robots, as it is generally challenging to adapt automation to any product. When assembling complex pr...

Striving for excellence during the assembling process through incorporating the expectations of Industry 4.0 requires complex information management on issues of overall system status, especially the physical characteristics and position of the parts...

Owing to its rapid advancement, information technology has emerged as a critical tool in assembly construction for addressing market demands, improving project quality, and reducing costs. However, the absence of unified informatization standards wit...

The continuous development of information technology has increased the level of automation and informatization in the manufacturing industry, which makes it necessary for companies to effectively monitor their assembly lines. Aiming to visualize the...

Due to increasing competition in the global market and to meet the need for rapid changes in product variability, it is necessary to introduce self-configurable and smart solutions within the entire process chain, including manual assembly to ensure...

The Dougong structure is an ancient architectural innovation of the East. Its construction method is complex and challenging to understand from drawings. Scale models were developed to preserve this culturally-unique architectural technique by learni...

The confluence of computer vision and natural language processing has yielded powerful vision language models (VLMs) capable of multimodal understanding. We applied state-of-the-art VLMs for quality monitoring of the shoe assembly industry. By levera...

Faster product lifecycles make long-term investments in machines for micro assembly riskier. Therefore, reconfigurable manufacturing systems gain more and more attention. But most companies are uncertain if a reconfigurable manufacturing system can f...

The automotive industry is undergoing a transformational period where more and more new energy vehicles (NEVs) are being produced and delivered to the market. Accordingly, some new challenges arise during the manufacturing process for car companies....

Screw assemblies of radar are characterized by numerous densely distributed small screws of various types, rendering their manual assembly difficult and inefficient. To improve the assembly quality and efficiency, an automatic assembly system was dev...

The assembly quality of the multistage rotor is an essential factor affecting its vibration level. The existing optimization methods for the assembly angles of the rotors at each stage can ensure the concentricity and unbalance meet the requirements,...

During the assembly process of the rear axle, the assembly quality and assembly efficiency decrease due to the accumulation errors of rear axle assembly torque. To deal with the problem, we proposed a rear axle assembly torque online control method b...

The alignment precision of manual brush assembly for a precision conductive slip ring is critical to its performance of reliability and service lifetime. Currently, the alignment precision cannot be guaranteed since it largely depends on the operator...

Recently, the design of novel supramolecular chiral materials has received a great deal of attention due to rapid developments in the fields of supramolecular chemistry and molecular self-assembly. Supramolecular chirality has been widely introduced...

Selective assembly is a manufacturing method that matches and assembles pairs of parts in a manner that offsets the machining errors of these parts. In the production of products requiring high precision and efficient mass production, flow production...

This article presents an interactive method of computer-aided assembly planning. It is estimated that such planning will be more and more desirable due to the increasing use of prefabrication in construction. Prefabrication meets the trends of sustai...

Assembly kitting lines typically deal with components that present different quantities in the final kit. Re-configurable feeders are not advisable for low quantity components since this solution leads to high inefficiency, due to the time required f...

Molds are still assembled manually because of frequent demand changes and the requirement for comprehensive knowledge related to their high flexibility and adaptability in operation. We propose the application of human-robot collaboration (HRC) syste...

The Design for Assembly (DFA) method, incorporating lean and prefabricated construction concepts, is emerging as a novel approach to industrialize the construction industry. In recent years, several countries have developed guidance documents to enha...

In this paper, an assembly sequence planning system, based on artificial neural networks, is developed. The problem of artificial neural network itself is largely related to symmetry at every stage of its creation. A new modeling scheme, known as art...

With an increase of environmental pressure on economic activities, reverse flow is increasingly important. It seeks to save resources, eliminate waste, and improve productivity. This paper investigates the optimization of the disassembly, remanufactu...

In the context of sustainable manufacturing, efficient collaboration between humans and machines is crucial for improving assembly quality and efficiency. However, traditional methods for action recognition and human–robot collaborative assembl...

This paper presents a passive buffer system of connection mechanism for space-assembled segmented mirrors. The purpose of assembling telescope in space is to overcome the limits of launch volume and mass to support ever increasing aperture sizes. Usi...

By using straw to build an assembled flood wall, this study provided new ideas for useful applications of straw and for the development of assembly flood control facilities. A straw flexible space assembly flood control system is designed on the basi...

Stochastic self-assembly provides promising means for building micro-/nano-structures with a variety of properties and functionalities. Numerous studies have been conducted on the control and modeling of the process in engineered self-assembling syst...

Peptide molecules, as fundamental structural units in biological systems, play pivotal roles in diverse biological processes and have garnered substantial attention in biomolecular self-assembly research. Their structural simplicity and high design f...

Prefabricated panel-assembled wall systems, comprising a confining frame and infill lightweight panels of autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC), are widely employed in framed structures. Different from studies on a main frame with infill walls, this stud...

Transcriptomic reconstructions without reference (i.e., de novo) are common for data samples derived from non-model biological systems. These assemblies involve massive parallel short read sequence reconstructions from experiments, but they usually e...

Low-molecular-weight gelators (LMWGs) are compounds with an intrinsic tendency to self-assemble forming various supramolecular architectures via non-covalent interactions. Considering that the development of supramolecular assemblies through the syne...

This paper presents a feasibility study of an automated pick-and-place process for ultrathin chips on a standard automatic assembly machine. So far, scientific research about automated assembly of ultrathin chips, with thicknesses less than 50 µ...

Bioactive compounds have drawn much attention according to their various health benefits. However, poor dissolvability, low stability and limited bioavailability largely narrow their applications. Although a variety of nontoxic ingredients have been...

Assembly lines are one of the cornerstones of modern production systems, significantly affecting the global society, economy, and other ancillary sectors. This is why the evaluation of assembly lines is particularly significant. Hence, the research o...

This paper presents the process of automated designing and parametric modeling of excavator buckets using the CAD system. A methodology has been developed that covers all stages of design, from the creation of 3D models of the parts, sub-assemblies,...

Traditional manual assembly is limited in terms of both efficiency and quality. In contrast, robots are characterized by rapidness and accuracy and can cooperate with humans to perform complex tasks. Human–robot collaboration may hold the poten...

This research explores the SL-Block system within an architecture framework by embracing building modularity, combinatorial design, topological interlocking, machine learning, and tactile sensor-based robotic assembly. The SL-Block, composed of S and...

An increasing body of evidence relates the wide range of benefits mineral surfaces offer for the development of early living systems, including adsorption of small molecules from the aqueous phase, formation of monomeric subunits and their subsequent...

Herein, novel hyperbranched polyamidoamine guanidinium salts (GS-h-PAMAM) and two cationic acrylamide copolymers P(AM-DAC-ABSM) and P(AM-DAC-AMTU) were successfully prepared. Then, self-assembly supramolecular systems were synthesized by directly mix...