Industry Roadmap Research Articles

Planning regional development in Australia: questions of mobility and borders

Radically changing ideas and practices around mobility and borders have made the question regarding how best to approach and plan regional development in Australia more complex. Using the conceptual tools offered by the ‘mobility turn’ and ‘relational regions’, this paper assesses the usefulness of place-based development (PBD) approaches in addressing contemporary planning challenges of mobility and borders. Through a case study of the Latrobe Valley's ‘Industry and Employment Roadmap’, this paper concludes that PBD approaches to regional planning offer a means of recognising: (1) both mobility and place in processes of regional development; and (2) the fluid nature of borders in these processes.

World Radiocommunication Conference 12: Implications for the Spectrum Eco-System

Spectrum allocation is once more a key issue facing the global telecommunications industry. Largely overlooked in current debates, however, is the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC). Decisions taken by WRC shape the future roadmap of the telecommunications industry, not least because it has the ability to shape the global spectrum allocation framework. In the debates of WRC-12 it is possible to identify three main issues: enhancement of the international spectrum regulatory framework, regulatory measures required to introduce Cognitive Radio Systems (CRS) technologies; and, additional spectrum allocation to mobile service. WRC-12 eventually decided not to change the current international radio regulations with regard to the first two issues and agreed to the third issue. The main implications of WRC-12 on the spectrum ecosystem are that most of actors are not in support of the concept of spectrum flexibility associated with trading and that the concept of spectrum open access is not under consideration. This is explained by the observation that spectrum trading and spectrum commons weaken state control over spectrum and challenge the main principles and norms of the international spectrum management regime. In addition, the mobile allocation issue has shown the lack of conformity with the main rules of the regime: regional spectrum allocation in the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) three regions, and the resistance to the slow decision making procedures. In conclusion, while the rules and decision-making procedures of the international spectrum management regime were challenged in the WRC-12, the main principles and norms are still accepted by the majority of countries.

Modeling the Cost and Minimum Sustainable Price of Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Manufacturing in the United States

We extend our cost model [1] to assess minimum sustainable prices of c-Si wafer, cell, and module manufacturing in the United States. We investigate the cost and price structures of current mc-Si technology and consider the introduction of line-of-sight innovations currently on the industry roadmap, as well as advanced technologies currently at an earlier stage of development. We benchmark the capability of these concepts to reach the U.S. Department of Energy SunShot module price target, and perform a sensitivity analysis to determine high-impact research domains that have the greatest impact on price. This exercise highlights advanced c-Si manufacturing concepts with significant cost reduction potential, and provides insight into strategies that could greatly reduce module prices in a financially sustainable manner.

Implications of mobile devices on ITS freight roadmaps ahead

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the growing importance of generic mobile computing for ITS (Intelligent Transportation System) development and governance. Specifically, building on theories of open innovation and pertinent examples, the paper aims to inform future ITS policymaking.Design/methodology/approach – Using a wide range of national, regional, and industry roadmaps together with scientific reports on the impact of specific ITS services, conclusions for ITS governance and policymaking are drawn.Findings – This paper finds that it is imperative to proactively embrace the rapidly expanding generic mobile computing service industry and critically reassert investments in dedicated ITS‐infrastructure. This is of equal importance for developed and developing countries.Research limitations/implications – Previous literature has mainly dealt with ITS in terms of mobility of people. This paper addresses ITS in a freight context, an area that has received scarce attention in the literature....

Industry Roadmap update from MPIF

Continued growth of the PM industry depends on advances in materials and materials properties, processes, and manufacturing efficiency, MPIF reports. Joe Capus, contributing editor, reviews its new Industry Roadmap.

Silicon Crystal Growth and Wafer Technologies

Silicon substrates form the foundation of modern microelectronics. Whereas the first 50 years of silicon wafer technology were primarily driven by the microelectronics industry, applications in photovoltaics (PV) also promise to drive new advances in silicon wafer technology over the next ten years. In the first part, we review the historical development of semiconductor silicon wafer technology and highlight recent technical advances in bulk crystal growth and wafering technologies, including the development of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technologies and ultrathin wafers. We then discuss technologies that could take us beyond the current capabilities of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) devices. In the second part, we review silicon manufacturing for PV applications and some unique wafering technology challenges in that field. Finally, we summarize industry roadmaps and product needs highlighting key technical areas which promise to shape the future of silicon wafer technologies in the coming decades.

Developing Secure Products in the Age of Advanced Persistent Threats

Advanced persistent threats (APTs) are making technology providers reconsider their security assumptions for secure product development. This article suggests an industry roadmap for rethinking product security in the face of APTs. It also describes steps EMC has taken to implement this roadmap and strengthen its product development practices.

Roadmapping the next wave of sustainable IT

PurposeThis paper aims to explore the strategic dimensions and drivers of sustainable IT and roadmaps its likely development as a disruptive innovative force over the next decade as it moves beyond the datacenter and throughout the IT organization, the firm, markets, and society at large. Its purpose is to provide a comprehensive view of the emerging industry to inform sustainable IT strategy development and stimulate future research.Design/methodology/approachThis paper uses a qualitative three‐phase process to develop the technology roadmap for the sustainable IT industry. The phases are domain analysis, which features a comprehensive literature review and expert panel depth interviews; roadmap development, which involved two technology roadmapping brainstorming sessions; and follow‐up activity, to confirm roadmap session results with the expert panel.FindingsThe paper defines the emerging field of sustainable IT and its green IT and sustainable IT services dimensions. It identifies market segments, products and services, technologies, compliance and reporting requirements, organizational changes, and value migration and roadmaps a likely future landscape for the development of sustainable IT strategy.Practical implicationsDeveloping a sustainable IT strategy is a major issue for most organizations. Managers and researchers can use the results of this study to better understand the dimensions of sustainable IT and its likely future growth paths. Researchers will find the comprehensive approach to the topic useful for planning future technological innovations and determining their disruptive potential. Managers can use the results to benchmark their current situation and develop strategies for the next generation of sustainable IT service solutions.Originality/valueThis paper is the first to apply technology roadmapping to the emerging sustainable IT industry. It provides a strategic planning perspective of the future of the industry as it migrates from green‐IT strategies for reducing the costs and energy use of computing to sustainable IT services that hold the potential for transforming complex environmental and social responsibility problems into business opportunities.

Sustainability metrics for extending thin-film photovoltaics to terawatt levels

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Wood Pellet Technology Roadmap

This paper presents a technology roadmap for the wood pellet industry in the Pacific Northwest U.S. The roadmap was developed for the Oregon Wood Innovation Center (OWIC), College of Forestry, Oregon State University (OSU) in Corvalis, OR. The researchers apply technology roadmapping to a bio-fuel called wood pellet using both qualitative and semiquantitative tools which resulted in a roadmap including market drivers, product, technology, knowledge, and partners.

Developing an Automatic Virtual Metrology System

Virtual Metrology (VM) is a method to conjecture manufacturing quality of a process tool based on data sensed from the process tool and without physical metrology operations. VM has now been designated by the International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative and International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors as one of the focus areas for the next-generation factory realization roadmap of the semiconductor industry. This paper defines the VM automation levels, proposes the concept of automatic virtual metrology (AVM), and develops an AVM system for automatic and fab-wide VM deployment. The example of automatic VM model refreshing for chemical vapor deposition (CVD) tools is also illustrated in this paper. The AVM system has been successfully deployed in a fifth-generation thin-film-transistor-liquid-crystal-display (TFT-LCD) factory in Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO), Taiwan.

Cyber security for intelligent buildings

This article examines the evolution of intelligent building technologies and outlines the challenges that building owners, operators and managers face when securing their facilities. It draws on findings from an industry survey conducted in August 2015 by the Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA), with more than 500 respondents involved in IT management, operations, facility management, security and compliance. This article provides a definition of intelligent buildings, examines the evolution of smart building technologies, describes the emerging cyber security risks in intelligent buildings and provides an overview of CABA survey results. The survey itself provides a synopsis of cyber security trends, a brief survey of cyber security risks, an analysis of the cyber security market through a number of other industry surveys and examines how cyber security solutions should be adopted. The survey also provides a series of short-, mid- and long-term recommendations concerning the creation of an actionable industry roadmap.

Technology Innovation Roadmap To Industrial Development of Rubber-Raw Material In South Sumatera (Ergonomics SHIP Approach & Appropriate Technology Point of View)

South Sumatera Province is a belonging wealthy province in Indonesia, but quality of life of many people still underline in poverty. The bigger potential of natural sources are natural rubber. Therefore technology innovation roadmap to industrial development of rubber-raw material in South Sumatera Province should be created and developed. That's important to orientation and increasing added-value of natural rubber products. It's become a lower course industrial of higher competitiveness and then increasing prosperity people of South Sumatera Province. Research has done with collaboration of several crumb rubber industrial, the R&D of South Sumatera Province, and incubator centre of rubber finished goods development. They should be produced of various rubber products with application SHIP Approach and Appropriate Technology in surveys and reviews. Aim this research is arranging development of small-medium rubber industrial roadmap based on technology innovation in South Sumatera to higher competitiveness of finished goods rubber in national level through roadmap, SWOT analysis, Ergonomics SHIP Approach (Systemic, Holistic, Inter-discipliner, and Participatory) and Appropriate Technology. Result and recommendation of this research are; technology innovation is a important key to winning in global competition, natural resources must be manage with technology innovation to give added-value and poverty of people, arranging of roadmap with two approach that is technology push and market pull, and the first priority of small-medium rubber industrial are ribbon vulcanize and souvenirs.

A road map for the beef industry to meet the challenge of climate change—A discussion document

A road map for the beef industry to meet the challenge of climate change—A discussion document

DANA BAGI HASIL (DBH) CUKAI HASIL TEMBAKAU DITINJAU DARI CUKAI ROKOK, KESEHATAN DAN INDUSTRI ROKOK.

The allocation of Profit-Sharing Fund of Tobacco-Product Duty (DBH-CHT) to regions is a new implemented policy in the relationship history between central government and local government. In the Article 66A – 66D of Act no. 39 2007 regulating such allocation, the fund is profit-shared to local government in order to increase state income from Tobacco-Product Duty as well as to overcome the cigarette effects on health. The Government has already communicated the Road Map of Tobacco-Product Industry 2007-2015 to cigarette manufacturers which leads to the consequence that any terms of legislation related to tobacco-product industry, including DBH CHT, must also contain policy that conforms to the Road Map of Tobacco-Product Industry 2007-2015.Keywords : Profit-Sharing Fund of Tobacco-Product Duty (DBH-CHT), cigarette duty, cigarette industry, health.

Application of technology roadmaps for renewable energy sector

Technology Roadmapping (TRM) is a growing technique widely used for strategy planning and aligning technology with overall business objectives. Technology roadmaps are extensively used in many diverse fields at product, technology, industry, company and national levels. An increasing number of articles published on TRM and technology roadmaps indicate that there is a growing attention for TRM among the researchers from academia, industry and government. In this article, an overview of the application of TRM in renewable energy sector has been provided. After survey of the relevant academic literature and industry roadmaps, we tried to group the roadmaps related to the renewable energy technologies into national, industry/sector and organizational level roadmaps. Research findings indicate that goals and objectives of renewable energy roadmaps are different at these three levels. At national level, roadmaps focus on future energy security, energy dependence, energy policy formulation and environment protection. At industry/sector level, roadmaps are used to identify vision, common needs and evaluate barriers, constraints and risks faced by the industry from technical, political and commercial aspects. Organizational roadmap focuses on evaluation and prioritization of R&D projects to achieve the business goals. Similarly different methods, tools and approaches are used to develop roadmaps at different levels. Various other characteristics of these roadmaps are also discussed and analyzed. Research findings also indicate that greater numbers of roadmaps are developed for those renewable energy technologies undergoing rapid growth. Moreover, most of these roadmaps are developed in the regions where more research, development and deployment activities of renewable energy technologies is taking place.

Les web services sémantiques, automate et intégration. II. Composition de services web, technologies et plateformes, applications industrielles

Recent advances in networks, information and computation grids, and WWW have resulted in the proliferation of a multitude of physically distributed and autonomously developed Web services. This second part presents two key scenarios in B2B and B2C, the central function of services composition and orchestration, the languages and prominent technologies and lastly an industry and research roadmap.

A technology road map for the PCB industry

A technology road map for the PCB industry

An Update on the Progress in High-n Immersion Lithography

High-n immersion lithography has been under development for the past three years, the target being to extend Optical Lithography to the 32nm node and beyond. Feasibility studies have been generating results on all aspects of the technology. This paper reports results obtained in key areas: High-n Immersion Fluid performance and lifetime; High-n Final Lens material development; Defect generation and control.High-n Immersion Fluids have been developed by companies such as DuPont and JSR. The fluids typically have a refractive index of 1.65 and will support a system numerical aperture of >1.55. These new fluids have been engineered to a point where they are now more transparent than water at the exposing wavelength of 193nm, but challenges remain. Test results are reported from the UV The studies indicate that the UV irradiation of the fluid at high doses causes a build up of carbonaceous contamination on the final lens element surface. Cleaning procedures have been developed and calculations of the expected cleaning schedule made.,br>A key requirement for this technology is the availability of high refractive index final lens element material. Final lens element material must have a refractive index >1.70 to support optics design with >1.55NA; it must also have sufficient optical transparency. The availability of viable high-n immersion fluid means that the supply of optical grade high-n material for the final lens element fabrication is the potential technology show stopper. High-n materials (>1.9) have been identified. Initial technical progress with materials such as LuAG and Spinel has been encouraging; the focus has been on obtaining starting materials that are pure enough to ensure a final optical material with a transparency that is high enough at 193nm wavelength. There is, though, a risk that availability of optical grade material will miss the window for the technology.Defect generation is another major concern with this Immersion Lithography. We have studied the effect on defect generation of using the high-n immersion fluid instead of water. There are defect generating mechanisms specific to the use of high-n immersion fluid. High-n immersion fluid is much more difficult to purify than water, and the purification process can generate particles which must be removed.The new high-n immersion lithography can be assessed with regard to the Semiconductor Industry roadmap. The relatively slow development of high-n optical material implies that the potential for the technology now lies in the context of Double Pattern Processing for application to sub-32nm nodes.

A 30 Year Retrospective on Dennard's MOSFET Scaling Paper

The MOSFET scaling principles for obtaining simultaneous improvements in transistor density, switching speed, and power dissipation described by Robert H. Dennard and others in "Design of Ion-implanted MOSFETs with Very Small Physical Dimensions" (1974 ) became a roadmap for the semiconductor industry to provide systematic and predictable transistor improvements. New technology generations emerging approximately every three years during the 1970's and 1980's and appearing every other year starting in the mid-1990's, promise to continue although we face growing challenges.