A wire rod mill must execute orders from different customers, with different features, different priorities and different due dates, considering the physical constraints of the line itself. The volumes and features of the ...

Recently, mezcal production has had a period of great economic growth on the domestic and foreign market for being a product of excellent quality, comparable to the best beverages worldwide, given its organoleptic ...

A product widely used in industry is painted steel sheet. For correct paint adhesion is necessary a particular texture is present in the sheet surface. While the literature on the laminated sheet, especially steel, is very ...

Control theory and computing power of microprocessors enables new control strategies for electrical machines drives. The strategy of model-based predictive control (MPC) has the advantages: good dynamic response, and the ...

Although the manufacturing process for metal removal has changed considerably in recent years with the addition of electronic controls that manage the process, this labor is still excessive time-consuming. This paper seeks ...

The seabed of Galician estuaries is contaminated with sludge from human activity: industrial, aquaculture, etc. so that the height of the sludge layer under mussel polygons grows an average of 10 cm per year. The low ...

This paper describes a new neural network model applied to classifying the risk of low back disorders presented by certain lifting jobs. The neural network obtained can be used by the ergonomist as a diagnostics system, ...

The main objective of the Check List OCRA method is to alert about the potential musculoskeletal disorders caused by a repetitive activity. Nowadays Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WRMD) are among the main causes ...

This paper presents three ergonomic approaches and how they promote innovation in productive organisations’ project engineering. Ergonomics integrates design variables and offers methodological approaches that favour ...