Thermoplastic injection molding is a widely used process for producing complex three-dimensional plastic parts with tight dimensional tolerances. A key determinant of part quality is the switchover point—the transition from velocity-controlled...
Filling-to-packing switchover (also called V/P switchover) is critical for assuring injection molding quality. An improper V/P switchover setting may result in various defects of injection-molded parts, such as excessive residual stress, flash, short...
The process of digitizing radio is far from over. It is an important interdisciplinary aspect, involving Big Data and AI (Artificial Intelligence) when it comes to classifying and handling content, and an organizational challenge in the Industry 4.0...
To address the limitations of traditional network gateways in performance and reliability, this paper proposes a multi-gateway load balancing and active-standby switchover strategy based on software-defined networking (SDN). A link quality scoring mo...
(1) Background: Oral semaglutide represents the first oral GLP-1 RA approved for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). This real-world retrospective study aimed at evaluating its effectiveness and tolerability in the treatment of patients...
The cavity pressure in the injection molding process is closely related to the quality of the molded products, and is used for process monitoring and control, to upgrade the quality of the molded products. The experimental platform was built to carry...
The collaborative economy comprises resource circulation systems where consumers can act as both obtainers and providers of products and services. Despite considerable research on collaborative economies, there is a dearth of understanding of how ind...
This research developed an adaptive control system for injection molding process. The purpose of this control system is to adaptively maintain the consistency of product quality by minimize the mass variation of injection molded parts. The adaptive c...
The injection-molding process is a non-linear process, and the product quality and long-term production stability are affected by several factors. To stabilize the product quality effected by these factors, this research establishes a standard proces...
Injection molding is a popular process for the mass production of polymer products, but due to the characteristics of the injection process, there are many factors that will affect the product quality during the long fabrication processes. In this st...
Quantum structures are ideal objects by which to discover and study new sensor mechanisms and implement advanced approaches in sensor analysis to develop innovative sensor devices. Among them, one of the most interesting representatives is the Yanson...
The current and torque ripple of inverter-fed induction motor drives is an inherent problem of control strategies working with switching frequencies in the range of multiple kilohertz, such as direct torque and, more recently, predictive torque contr...
At present, the installed capacity of photovoltaic-battery energy storage systems (PV-BESs) is rapidly increasing. In the traditional control method, the PV-BES needs to switch the control mode between off-grid and grid-connected states. Thus, the tr...
This study developed a scientific process parameter setup based on nozzle pressure and screw position, with the process parameter search sequence being injection speed, V/P switchover position, packing pressure, and packing time. Unlike previous stud...
Replacement of the Essen intramuscular (EIM) by the updated Thai Red Cross intradermal (UTRCID) regimen for rabies post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), in high-throughput hospitals of India, has been advocated since 2006 thanks to its cost-effectiveness....
In this study, we deal with a dual active bridge (DAB) converter-based battery charger in a standalone wind power generation system (WPGS) with a small-scale wind turbine. However, the power conversion efficiency under the low power output in the dis...
Plastic injection molding is a widely used manufacturing process for producing plastic components. However, achieving optimal process stability and part quality remains a persistent challenge due to limited real-time feedback during production. The m...
High availability is crucial for industrial Ethernet networks as well as Ethernet-based control systems such as automation networks and substation automation systems (SAS). Since standard Ethernet does not support fault tolerance capability, the high...
Oral anticoagulants are required for both treatment and prophylaxis in many different diseases. Clinicians and patients now have a choice of oral anticoagulants, including the vitamin K antagonists (of which warfarin is the most widely used and is us...
In many industries and plants, a stable power supply system with acceptable cost/benefit is essential. This paper investigates the cost-effectiveness of an unreliable retrial system that includes standby generators and experiences the switchover fail...
We propose a model for the integration of electric vehicles (EVs) into the grid power system in Japan. The potential of the switchover from conventional vehicles to EVs and the incurred charging loads for the EV fleet were evaluated based on the resu...
Fluidic oscillators have proven their capabilities and advantages in terms of the generation of oscillating jets without moving parts for many years, mainly in experimental studies. In this paper, the design, development, and integration of fluidic a...
l-Ascorbic acid (ASA), vitamin C, is a ubiquitous carbohydrate-like compound that has an essential role in a number of cellular processes, such as collagen synthesis, cellular oxidation, and various hydroxylation reactions. ASA is a biomolecule of cr...
The molecular organization of humic acids in different aqueous solutions was studied over a wide concentration range (0.01–10 g·dm−3). Solutions of humic acids were prepared in three different media: NaOH, NaCl, and NaOH neutralized by HCl after diss...
The mixing of polymers, even structurally similar polyolefins, inevitably leads to blend systems with a phase-separated morphology. Fundamentally understanding the changes in mechanical properties and occurring deformation mechanisms of these immisci...
This study established a real-time measurement system to monitor the melt quality in an injection molding process using a pressure sensor installed on the nozzle and a strain gauge installed on the tie bar. Based on the sensing curves from these two...
When designing power electronic systems, it is crucial to correctly estimate the junction temperature of semiconductor devices, particularly power MOSFETs, under actual operating conditions. Thermal resistance is a parameter that characterizes the ab...
The simultaneous improvement of injection molding process efficiency and product quality, as required by Industry 4.0, is a complex, non-trivial task that requires a comprehensive approach, which involves a combination of sensoring and information te...
This paper proposes a bidirectional boost–buck converter employing a six-pack SiC intelligent power module using droop control in DC nano-grids. The topology is constructed as a cascaded structure of an interleaved boost converter and buck conv...
We examine the effects of different process parameter settings on variations in melt-filling pressure, viscosity index, and part weight based on the use of real-time pressure sensor readings of the inside of the injection melt flow path. In the exper...
A hybrid photovoltaic solar assisted loop heat pipe/heat pump (PV-SALHP/HP) water heater system has been developed and numerically studied. The system is the combination of loop heat pipe (LHP) mode and heat pump (HP) mode, and the two modes can be r...
This paper presents experimental results of investigations on narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) uplink channel performance under extreme pathloss conditions, approaching the boundary maximum coupling loss (MCL) defined for cellular IoT systems....
Sustainability of food production is a major concern today. This study assessed the environmental impact of fruit production and discussed business implications for sustainability. Data were collected from three agricultural enterprises growing six s...
An integrated dual-signal bioassay was devised to fulfil thrombin (TB) ultrasensitive detection by integrating visualization with the photoelectrochemical technique based on G-quadruplex/hemin. During the process, branched sheet embedded copper-based...
Injection molding is a highly nonlinear procedure that is easily influenced by various external factors, thereby affecting the stability of the product’s quality. High-speed injection molding is required for production due to the rapid cooling...
In this paper, climate evolution is revisited in terms of the theory of dynamical systems, which has been successfully used in predictions of catastrophic events such as avalanches, landslides, or economy and civilization collapses. Such tipping even...
In spite of a growing interest in organic agriculture; there has been relatively little research on why farmers might choose to adopt organic methods, particularly in the developing world. To address this shortcoming, we developed an exploratory agen...
ClearVoice™ enables Advanced Bionics cochlear implant users to improve their speech understanding in difficult listening environments, without compromising performance in quiet situations. The aim of the study was to evaluate the benefits of ClearVoi...
In power system operations, unforeseen energy imbalances commonly occur, resulting in unexpected constraints on the system. This leads to a disturbance in normal operation. In systems with integration of large intermittent wind power resources, addit...
In the quest to make deep learning systems more capable, a number of more complex, more computationally expensive and memory intensive algorithms have been proposed. This switchover glosses over the capabilities of many of the simpler systems or modu...
This work presents the design and validation of a redundant, low-jitter clock architecture for White Rabbit (WR) Switches, developed to meet the growing demand for sub-nanosecond synchronization in distributed scientific and industrial systems. WR re...
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More and more countries employ the Carbon Cap and Trade mechanism (CCT-mechanism) to stimulate the manufacturer to produce much more eco-friendly products. In this paper, we study how the CCT-mechanism affects competitive manufacturers’ product...
Voltage sags are the most frequent power quality disturbance on low-voltage networks, and equipment immunity is verified against IEC 61000-4-11:2020. Laboratory-grade generators are expensive, and low-cost alternatives based on zero-crossing solid-st...
Background and Objectives: Vitiligo is a skin disorder characterized by hypopigmented macules occurring due to melanocyte destruction. An interplay of several biochemical mechanisms has been proposed to explain the etiopathogenesis of vitiligo, such...
The study utilised a pasture grazing based, voluntary traffic automatic milking system to investigate milk production of cows fed a pasture-based diet and supplemented with a pellet formulated with vs. without rumen-protected lysine and methionine (R...
This study presents a heterogeneous PLC-based distributed controller integrating an embedded logic-monitoring blackbox for real-time failover and fault detection in industrial control environments. Industrial automation and water treatment systems he...
Information-Centric Networking (ICN) is the emerging next-generation internet paradigm. The Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite mega-constellation based on ICN can achieve seamless global coverage and provide excellent support for Internet of Things (IoT...
The Hilbert–Huang transform (HHT) has been used as a powerful tool for analyzing nonlinear and nonstationary time series. Soil loss is controlled by complicated physical processes and thus fluctuates with nonlinearity and nonstationarity over t...
Urban drainage systems rely on fixed surveillance cameras that operate continuously under daytime, nighttime-infrared, rainy, and non-rainy conditions, yet most vision-based water-monitoring methods are validated only on daytime imagery and require c...