Manufacturing industries require the efficient and voluminous production of high-quality finished goods. In the context of Industry 4.0, visual anomaly detection poses an optimistic solution for automatically controlled product quality with high prec...
This study aims to reveal the influence mechanism of innovation competition on the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry in Chinese local governments. Additionally, the study provides a theoretical basis for understanding how governm...
In this work, the localized electrochemical micro additive manufacturing technology based on the FluidFM (fluidic force microscope) has been introduced to fabricate micro three-dimensional overhang metal structures at sub-micron resolution. It breaks...
In the Global South, pico- and micro-hydropower turbines are often made by local workshops. Despite several advantageous features, e.g., a high power density and capacity to handle silt, there is no commonly available Turgo turbine design appropriate...
Background: Local vaccine manufacturing is being pursued across Africa to improve pandemic preparedness and reduce reliance on imports. In Nigeria, where COVID-19 vaccines were largely imported, willingness to accept locally produced vaccines is impo...
Systemic innovation is restructuring global industrial competition. This study focuses on the relationships between local product standards, firm internationalization, and radical innovation. Using panel data of Chinese listed manufacturing firms fro...
The optimization of impact localization in 3D-printed structures is critical for their application in smart monitoring and damage detection systems. This study investigates the influence of infill density on the accuracy of low-velocity impact locali...
The paper presents an analysis of local and global forces acting on the ferromagnetic material of a modulator in a co-axial magnetic gear, taking several design variants and the impact of loading into account. The analyses include a modulator with co...
Additive manufactured components have a different metallurgic structure and are more prone to fatigue cracks than conventionally produced metals. In earlier papers, an effective Structural Health Monitoring solution was presented to detect fatigue cr...
The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Benchmarking Tool (GBT) classifies regulatory systems into four maturity levels, with Maturity Level 3 (ML3) signifying a stable and effective regulatory environment. As of January 2025, eight African nation...
Saudi Arabia aims to build a sustainable and diversified economy by 2030. The automotive industry presents a key opportunity to achieve these goals through localization and the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies. This research analyzes the impact...
The Flexible Job-shop Scheduling Problem (FJSP) plays an important role in production and processing in Smart Manufacturing Systems. Unlike the traditional Job-shop Scheduling Problem (JSP), the additional flexibility in machine selection enlarges th...
Since medieval times, sugar production and consumption has had a huge impact on European social, cultural, and economic development. The introduction of sugar cultivation entailed knowledge transfer and new technological requirements, such as the man...
GFRP rebar is found corrosion resistant and has a greater tensile strength. GFRP rebars are being explored as an alternative way to preventing the degradation of civil infrastructures. GFRP materials, as opposed to steel reinforcement, have anisotrop...
To build a long-wave infrared catadioptric optical system for deep space low-temperature target detection with a lightweight and wide field of view, this work conducted a study that encompasses a local cooling optical system, topology optimization-ba...
In this work, the load-dependent indentation response of as-built Inconel 718 produced by direct laser deposition was studied, followed by local mapping around a single surface-intersecting pore. A working load of 100 mN was selected because the inde...
Additive manufacturing is a promising and emerging technology that can transform the global manufacturing and logistics by cutting costs and times of production. Localized corrosion resistance properties of 0°, 45°, and 90° build-up orien...
This article focuses on the use of fused deposition modeling (FDM) technology to manufacture and test polymer isogrid lattice cylindrical shell (LCS) structures with equilateral triangular unit-cells using non-professional and conventional 3D printin...
Cervical cancer management increasingly requires patient-specific and locally adaptable technologies to address complex pelvic anatomy, heterogeneous tumor geometry, limited local drug retention, and the need for improved planning and education. Poly...
Accurate weld keypoint localization is an important visual perception task for robotic welding, weld tracking, and intelligent manufacturing. However, weld keypoints in line-structured light images are usually small, weakly textured, and easily affec...
As the process of informatization progresses in an equipment manufacturing enterprise, its information system becomes a dissipative structure due to the nonlinear interaction of many factors. The objectives of this study were to help enterprises adop...
This research article proposes a new method for an enhanced Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) using a combination of smart methods. These methods use a set of three technologies of Industry 4.0, namely Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Twin (DT...
Inconel 718 (UNS N07718) is a nickel-base superalloy containing iron that is used at cryogenic temperatures (arctic pipe components) and at high temperatures (gas turbines). This alloy is also used in off-shore oil drilling due to its high overall st...
To support data-driven decision-making in a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) environment, a system that can quickly and accurately analyze a wide range of production, quality, asset, and material information must be deployed. However, existing ME...
Non-contact ultrasonic three-dimensional (3D) printing has emerged as a promising alternative to conventional energy-curing manufacturing techniques. However, an insufficient understanding of its underlying curing mechanisms still limits the precise...
This work investigates the fracture behavior of maraging steel specimens manufactured by the selective laser sintering (SLS) technology, in which a crack-like notch (sharp notch) was directly produced during the additive manufacturing (AM) process. F...
Knowledge learning and diffusion have long been discussed in the literature on the dynamics of industrial clusters, but recent literature provides little evidence for how different actors serve as knowledge brokers in the upgrading process of apprent...
We investigated the fabrication and finishing of wall-profile machining by wire and arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) employing plasma welding with Ti-6Al-4V wire. We fabricated and integrated a local shield and a cover for the area below the local s...
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Natural-language access to structured manufacturing data could let plant personnel query batch records without structured query language (SQL) expertise, yet realistic multi-table industrial schemas remain hard for text-to-SQL systems, and regulated...
Large-scale deployments of the Internet of Things (IoT) are adopted for performance improvement and cost reduction in several application domains. The four main IoT application domains covered throughout this article are smart cities, smart transport...
This paper summarizes the deliberations at a meeting convened by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation held in Beijing in October 2015. Farm power and mechanization are agricultural production inputs that will be essential to raise the labor and la...
This paper presents a comparison of two variants of an axial flux magnetic gear (AFMG), namely, with integer and fractional gear ratios. Based on calculations derived with the use of three-dimensional numerical models, the torque characteristics of t...
Conservation agriculture (CA) is an increasingly adopted production system to meet the goals of sustainable crop production intensification in feeding a growing world population whilst conserving natural resources. Mechanization (especially power uni...
Additive manufacturing is currently one of the promising methods for the fabrication of products of complex shapes. It is also used in medical applications, thanks to technological progress, which also enables the printing of metallic materials. Howe...
Accurate conductor-to-pad alignment is essential in PCB wire welding because misalignment increases rework, lowers yield, and affects product quality. In manufacturing images, precise conductor localization is challenging because the target structure...
In order to transport materials flexibly and smoothly in a tight plant environment, an omni-directional mobile robot based on four Mecanum wheels was designed. The mechanical system of the mobile robot is made up of three separable layers so as to si...
This study evaluated the influence of scan rate (4.23 mm/s [S10] and 6.35 mm/s [S15]) on the localized corrosion and tribocorrosion behavior of a laser engineered net shaping (LENS)-produced stainless steel 316L (SS316L) in a phosphate-buffered salin...
The importance of conservation agriculture (CA) is discussed in the context of producing food for a growing population while, at the same time, conserving and improving the natural resource base: sustainable crop production intensification. CA requir...
This study examines the fundamental feasibility of sequential metal-powder solidification by localized microwave-heating (LMH) provided by a scanning, all-solid-state microwave applicator. This continuous process is considered for the additive manufa...
Rehabilitation aids help people with temporal or permanent disabilities during the rehabilitation process. However, these solutions are usually expensive and, consequently, inaccessible outside of professional medical institutions. Rapid advances in...
Background/Objectives: Local production is a global priority for increasing access to routine, outbreak, and pandemic vaccines and leads to a variety of direct and indirect benefits for countries. This study aimed to characterize the enabling environ...
The reliability and performance qualification of additively manufactured metal parts is critical for their successful and safe use in engineering applications. In current powder-bed fusion type metal additive manufacturing processes, local thermal ac...
Green policies serve as a crucial instrument for the state to incentivize enterprises toward green transformation. Utilizing panel data from manufacturing firms listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share markets between 2011 and 2022, this study emp...
As global environmental challenges intensify and the imperative to mitigate extreme climate change grows increasingly urgent, the sustainable development of economic and social systems has emerged as a fundamental pathway for addressing environmental...
This study proposes a new method, electrochemical critical localized corrosion potential (E-CLCP), in order to evaluate localized corrosion resistance of biomedical additive manufacturing (AM) titanium (Ti) alloys. The procedures for determining E-CL...
Material tracking and localization are key applications of Industry 4.0 in manufacturing process control. Traditional approaches—such as barcode or QR code identification and RTLS-based localization using RF/UWB, 5G or GPS–require a large...
China’s leading development of a complete battery value chain for electric vehicles (EVs) is restructuring the global automotive sector. In contrast with the normal point of view, which emphasizes the role of industrial policy, this article arg...
This study analyzes the local deformation behavior of austenitic stainless steel 316L, manufactured conventionally by casting and additively by laser metal deposition (LMD). We produced directionally solidified 316L specimens with most grains showing...
This paper details two case studies that make use of laser metal deposition for local reinforcement of sheet metal components. Two benchmark scenarios are investigated, both using aluminum alloys: (i) using laser cladding to increase the stiffness of...
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Mercury is considered one of the most toxic elements for plants and animals. Nevertheless, in the Middle East, Asia and Latin America, whitening creams containing mercury are being manufactured and purchased, despite their obvious health risks. Due t...
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