La globalización, la mayor eficiencia en los costes de producción, la introducción de las tecnologías de la información en los procesos de manufactura y la saturación de los mercados entre otros factores obligan a las ...

Innovation is a key process for Small and Medium Enterprises in order to survive and evolve in a competitive environment. Ideas and idea management are considered the basis for Innovation. Gathering data on how current ...

Most of the world electrical energy is consumed by electric motors, and then, the improvement in their performance leads to essential savings in the global energy consumption, required to reduce the CO2 emissions. Actually, ...

Memory problems of XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) (default persistence in Eclipse Modelling Framework (EMF)) when operating large models, have motivated the appearance of alternative mechanisms for persistence of EMF models. ...

Environmental concerns are increasing within the industy, especially in the automotive industry. On one hand, they are making efforts to reduce the CO2 emissions and on the other hand, they are working in the development ...

Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) are metallic alloys with different thermomechanical properties compared to more conventional ones such as iron or aluminum alloys. This kind of alloys have two types of behaviours depending on the ...

Many mechanical components such as, bearing housings, exible couplings and spines or steel wires are simultaneously subjected to fatigue and fretting damage. Fretting phenomenon arises when two bodies are in contact subjected ...

Low weight is one of the most important design criteria to be considered during the selection of the material for different applications. Weight saving is necessary in the applications where the components are in motion. ...

In this thesis, a Cognitive Radio(CR)-based MAC for Industrial Wireless Sensor and Actuator Network (IWSAN) applications is proposed. IWSANs are typically used for closed-loop control applications, and they demand strict ...