Modern Automation Technology Research Articles

Digital twin technology training and research in health higher education: a review

Healthcare strives to ensure overall physical, mental, and emotional well-being for individuals while managing limited resources efficiently. Digital technologies can offer cost reduction, improved user experience, and expanded capacity. In addition, modern automation technologies, which were implemented in industrial control systems or industrial automation control systems, are essential for ensuring the availability of societies’ critical cyber-physical systems (CPSs) and the services they provide, such as healthcare. This narrative literature review produces information that can be applied when planning and implementing an interdisciplinary biomedical and health informatics (BMHI) master’s education focused on the challenges of digitalization in the health sector. The review results that virtual human twins (VHTs) are revolutionizing healthcare by addressing people’s complex medical problems with real-time monitoring and precision care while digital twin (DT) technology can make the hospital’s operational processes resilient and efficient. Thus, future BMHI education must address these technologies with a multidisciplinary approach, including computer science, information science, engineering, basic sciences, health sciences, socio-behavioral sciences, and ethical, legal, and policy aspects. Collected and cumulative data is essential for cognitive DTs. A prerequisite for this data is information sharing between different CPSs. Better information sharing and the development of scalable cognitive DTs and VHTs, the provision of critical services, quality, and cost-effectiveness, as well as health, safety, and resilience, will improve. Similarities between peoples’ health information exchange and information needed for ensuring the resilience of CPSs exist. Since humans are in many ways more complex than CPSs, security engineers have a lot to learn from VHTs in maintaining the resilience of CPSs. Cross-sectoral research and cooperation with different disciplines are essential for the progress of both human health and the resilience of CPSs. Along with interdisciplinary research cooperation, educational cooperation should also be intensified.

Designing an automated agricultural millet acceptance and packaging system using UML

This paper presents a study on the design and implementation of an automated millet acceptance and packaging system using UML. The aim of the study was to create a system capable of increasing the efficiency of production processes, reducing labour costs and improving the quality of final products. In the process, a system analysis was carried out, UML diagrams describing the structure and functionality of the system were developed, a prototype was created and tested in conditions close to real ones. The results showed that the designed system provides high performance and reliability, allows you to automate key stages of millet processing, including its acceptance, transportation, distribution and packaging. The use of UML made it possible to create a clear and structured model of the system, which facilitated the process of its implementation and integration. The data obtained confirm the effectiveness of the proposed solutions and their importance for the development of agricultural technologies. This study demonstrates the possibilities of modern automation technologies in agriculture and opens up prospects for further improvements and expansion of the functionality of the system.

The Local Labor Market Effects of Modern Manufacturing Capital: Evidence from France

Using an event study methodology and comprehensive micro data from the French manufacturing sector, we analyze the local labor market effects of investments in modern manufacturing capital, including modern automation technologies. We estimate that commuting zones with higher investments in modern manufacturing capital and automation benefit from higher labor demand, with an increase in both local employment and wages. Our findings are consistent with a task-based model where the productivity effects of modern capital investments and automation outweigh their displacement effect.

Remote poultry management system for small to medium scale producers using IoT

The demand for poultry products continues to increase in the world. The prevailing global climate change calls for improved poultry management systems to maintain optimal environmental conditions for boosting productivity. Increased food security based on sound, equitable and sustainable food production systems that utilize modern automation technologies is essential for all nations to be able to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs). This proposed study seeks to help achieve some of the UNSDGs which include ending poverty, having zero hunger, good health and well-being, industry innovation and infrastructure. In this article, the design and implementation of a low-cost IoT-based remote poultry management system for small to medium scale producers is presented. Poultry farmers in developing countries are relying on manual poultry management methods which are labor-intensive. The proposed system which was built around the WiFi-enabled ESP8266 NodeMCU microcontroller is capable of monitoring and regulating temperature, humidity, water level, ammonia gas and the lighting system. Security is facilitated by the PIR sensor. The system minimizes employment costs and saves time. Besides, the system has unique capabilities of light scheduling and automatic switching control. The light schedules are pre-configured, and the user can select the required times of illumination. The illumination times in the evening are guided by the age of the birds. Light scheduling improves egg production and also conserves energy. The proposed light scheduling for the system was possible by executing a “cron job”. A “cron job” enables the web server to perform repetitive and specific tasks at specific times. Remote monitoring and ease of accessibility of the system via the internet anywhere in the world using devices like smart phones and laptops is facilitated by our proposed web-based portal www.agrorun.co.zw/. The web page also allows users to turn ON or OFF the actuators like fans, blower fan/extractor fan, water pump and the lights.

Development of a management and monitoring system for a city farm

For any manager of an agro-industrial enterprise, the use of resources is used for the efficient use of resources: labor, land, working capital and other. For this reason, the production processes of agriculture are already almost completely mechanized around the world, which is the productivity of an enterprise. The next logical step in increasing the productivity of agricultural enterprises is the automation and digitalization of agricultural production. Therefore, in order to remain competitive with the world leaders in agricultural production, it is necessary to integrate IoT technologies. It is predicted that the introduction of modern automation technologies in the agro-industrial complex will increase yields more than the inventions of the tractor, herbicides and GMOs. City farming is gradually becoming such a solution. In some megacities, urban farms are built on the rooftops of buildings, and in some places there are entire skyscra¬pers with vertical farms. Experts say that the quality and environmental friendliness of products grown in this way is much higher than that of counterparts grown in a traditional way. In this regard, the relevance in creating an application for a smart farm has been identified. Such an application will allow you to be more attentive to all parameters of plant growth thanks to sensors for humidity, light, temperature and other data that can be transmitted to a smartphone. The purpose of the study is to develop a management and monitoring system for a city farm. Materials and methods. The mobile application is implemented using the Xamarin framework in C# and JavaScript. The firmware for the microcontroller is written in C. Results. The paper provides an overview of management and monitoring systems for smart farms, a methodological comparison of advantages and disadvantages. The architecture of the control and monitoring system was also discovered. Implemented a mobile application and software. The functionality and design of the mobile application has been tested on various devices. Conclusion. The city farm management and monitoring system has been successfully developed. As further scientific work, it is planned to develop a mathematical model for more optimal farm management. This work can be useful in the field of decentralized agriculture.

Urban Health: A New Level of Smart City Development

Currently, the innovation agenda of the industry professional and academic community in the information and conceptual plans is largely filled with topics related to Building Information Modeling (BIM) technologies. In this sense, often, in a different context, we are talking about several new "digital" subject areas for the qualitative development of creation technologies, united by the new convergent paradigm "Smart City". For the first time, the general logic of convergent modeling of the "Smart City" is presented, the key target priority of which is the new socio-technological paradigm "Urban Health" at the level of relationships between the entity models "Smart City" and the results of their convergence. At the same time, it is shown that practical problems at the functional level of designing building systems today are solved, as a rule, using a wide range of modern automation technologies, and solving problems at the cognitive level of the complex effects of creative activity requires the use of technologies and techniques with elements of artificial intelligence.

EUROPEAN TEMPUS TATU PROJECT AND WIRESHARK SOFTWARE IN INDUSTRIAL NETWORKS DATA TRANSFER PROTOCOLS STUDYING AND ANALYZING

Industrial data transfer technologies are implementing in industry, transport, energetic together with Industry 4.0 and IIoT concepts. Compatible with previous generations TCP/IP based protocols ProfiNet, ModBus/TCP, Ethernet/IP, EtherCAT were created to perform complex technical systems remote control. 
 In 2013 – 2017 European TEMPUS TATU (Trainings in Automation Technologies for Ukraine) project was realized and TATU Smart Lab (TSL) equipment was obtained. 
 TSL is a set of devices for modern automation technologies studying. It matches to Industry 4.0 and IIoT concepts. It contains programmable logic controllers, I/O devices, switches, wireless access points and can be used for studying of Ethernet based data transfer technologies, wireless data transfer, TCP/IP technologies, hard real-time systems, EtherCAT, CAN, RS232/485, PROFINET, Modbus TCP interfaces.
 Wireshark software allows to analyze network traffic and supports capturing of long network protocols list. It helps to understand the reason of network problems, simplifies industrial and corporate networks exploitation.

Современные технологии автоматизации процесса смешивания древесных частиц со связующим в производстве ДСТП

Современные технологии автоматизации процесса смешивания древесных частиц со связующим в производстве ДСТП

Performance Enhancement by Splitting ALU in Error Resilient Low Cost Processors

Performance enhancement has always been a primary design goal for designers. Modern automation technology demands for reliable low cost controllers, required for specific applications. The restricted resources limits the number of functional units available on a processor which results into lowered performance. The better performance can be achieved with splitting existing functional unit into smaller independent units. The split of arithmetic and logic unit into two independent units namely arithmetic unit and logic unit, provides the facility for simultaneous operation by both of the units. This results into lesser execution time. The simulator Simplescalar has been modified to simulate split ALU. The benchmarks are run in order to collect performance statistics. The simulation parameters, including execution time have been recorded for standard simulator having integral ALU unit, and for split ALU unit and further compared to show enhanced performance with split ALU.

End of Life Management of Automation and IT Devices

End of Life Management (EoL) will be more and more important not only for electr(on)ic, especially IT, devices but also for automation devices. Therefore the main goal of this contribution is to give an overview about the state of the art and further development trends in this field. In this paper, a first attempt for an evaluation model for finding optimal End-of-life strategies for specific devices is developed and presented. Based on this model, important devices within the modern automation technology are analyzed and ranked according to different criteria. The variety of the chosen factors shows, that it is very important to understand the products and the surrounding environment in detail.Special emphasis will be on new approaches for EoL of process- and manufacturing devices like automated extraction of rare materials from scrap, using electronic scrap for education in automation, economical aspects of disassembly with special emphasis to SME's and developing countries.

The Design of Innovative Control Technology Integrated Experiment System for Engineering Applications

The design of innovative control technology integrated experiment system for engineering applications, which completed integrated experiment system design based on modern automation control technology. It contents regular control, intelligent electrical appliances, programmable logic controller (PLC), inverter, industrial control computer automation technology card. This system represents modern control technology in electrical engineering application, and it can complete overview of the teaching experiment such as motor control, electric control technology, programmable control technology, man-machine interface configuration technology, PLC control technology based on personal computer soft logic, computer control technology and industrial control system design, and this work can expand for modern automation technology, a open and development of scientific research platform.

Applied Research of Full Digital Electric Control Systems on Rebuild Machine Tool

Taking account of the situation of many old-fashioned imported machine tools, this paper proposes some favourable methods of rebuilding equipment. In theory and practice, with full digital electric system of modern automation technology, rebuilt equipments are easy to operate and reduce energy consumption, raise production efficiency. It realizes the aim of Environment-friendly and resource-economical. In this paper, it also gives three typical examples of rebuilding equipment, table planning machine made in Germany, D2300 lathe and 745A slotter made in Russia. Some pragmatic issues have been discussed, e.g. design optimization for speed regulation of main drive, position finding of cutter frame and synchro control between lathe tools feeding and lathe chuck turning. Finally, it gives the results of the operational curves of rebuilding equipment and relevant data.

Adapting traditional breakeven analysis to modern production economics: Simultaneously modeling economies of scale and scope

Although sophisticated models exists for the justification of advanced manufacturing technologies, practitioners often rely on simple tools, such as cost volume breakeven analysis (CVBA), to make initial comparisons between equipment alternatives. In the case of expensive automation technologies this initial comparisons may be followed by further attempts, using more sophisticated models, to define the costs and benefits of the alternatives remaining after CVBA. Ultimately, a leap of faith based upon some “intangible” benefits may underlie the actual adoption of new manufacturing technology (NMT). Finally, the implementation process determines the actual costs incurred and benefits derived from NMT. In this paper, we provide a historical perspective and show that CVBA is inadequate in the context of the process of justification for modern automation technologies. We also introduce an alternative to CVBA, cost volume flexibility breakeven analysis (CVFBA) and use examples to demonstrate its usefulness, particularly in the context of modern manufacturing technologies. CVFBA provides an approach which allows both economies of scale and economies of scope to be considered in initial comparisons between equipment alternatives. It may be applied at various levels of the managerial decision hierarchy.

Extending Cost‐VolumeBreakeven Analysis toInclude Flexibility

Recently many manufacturers have emphasized the enhancement of customer service through increased manufacturing flexibility. Sophisticated models exist for the justification of modern automation technologies which could have an impact on manufacturing flexibility, but practitioners are more likely to utilize a simple tool such as cost‐volume break even analysis. Indeed, much of the difficulty that managers have in justifying modern automation technologies may be due to the shortsightedness of cost‐volume break even analysis. In this paper, we introduce an equally simple justification tool, cost‐volume‐flexibility break even analysis, and explain its use and the benefits accompanying its use.