With increasing automation, many work processes become more and more complex. Most technical products can no longer be developed and manufactured by a single department. They are often the product of different divisions and require cooperation from different specialist areas. For example, in the Western world, a simple coffee maker is no longer so ...

By C K Jalba, A Muminovic, S Epple, C Barz, V Nasui

Adoption of new technologies on mobile phone market in the past 30 years has transformed the industry and had a large impact on the global economy. Technological progress, as the main factor in the adoption of new technologies, has enabled reduce costs and increase equipment performance. The smartphone is perceived by consumers as a sustainable ele...

By N Barkoczi, G Lobontiu

Although the status of lingua franca can easily be claimed by English nowadays, there are always plenty of challenges involved in the process of teaching a foreign language. The simple mastering of the four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) and the acquisition of general grammar and vocabulary may not be enough in some circumstances...

By A Fălăuş

The distilled water has the advantage of high value dielectric constant (Ɛ = 81) in relation to ceramic glass materials, currently used for constructing the dielectric barrier. It was necessary to build a thin-walled enclosure of solid insulating material that contain distilled water to achieve a dielectric barrier. This was necessary to avoid expo...

By I Ganea

The dielectric barrier discharge cell (DBDC), also called ozone cell, is the main component of the ozone generators widely used. When the cell is powered with a high voltage value (> 5 kV) in the dielectric gas, arises a high intensity electric field that influences ozone generation processes by silent discharge also called dielectric barrier di...

By I Ganea, R Morar

The quality of electric energy capture and also the equipment operational safety depend essentially of the technical state of the contact line (CL). The present method for determining the technical state of CL based on advance programming is no longer efficient, due to the faults which can occur into the not programmed areas. Therefore, they cannot...

By S Rusu-Anghel, A Ene

The manufacturing of PEMFC stacks (POLYMER ELEKTROLYT MEMBRAN Fuel Cell) is nowadays still done by hand. Over hundreds of identical single components have to be placed accurate together for the construction of a fuel cell stack. Beside logistic problems, higher total costs and disadvantages in weight the high number of components produce a higher s...

By C K Jalba, A Muminovic, C Barz, V Nasui

While the European Union has put a lot of emphasis on cluster development due to their inherent advantages such as lower transaction costs, technological transfer and regional development, little is known about how clusters emerge and what can facilitate their competitiveness. This paper aims to study the impact of public-private cooperation betwee...

By D Stoicovici, M Bănică, M Ungureanu, M Stoicovici

Automation processes enter more and more into all areas of life and production. Especially people with disabilities can hardly keep step with this change. In sheltered workshops in Germany people with physical and mental disabilities get help with much dedication, to be integrated into the work processes. This work shows that cooperation between di...

By C K Jalba, A Muminovic, S Epple, C Barz, V Nasui

Due to multiple reflexions on walls, the electromagnetic field in a multimode microwave oven is difficult to estimate analytically. This paper presents a C++ program that calculates the electromagnetic field in a resonating cavity with an absorbing payload, uses the result to calculate heating in the payload taking its properties into account and t...

By C Abrudean