Repair Maintenance -- Age Replacement -- Periodic Replacement -- Block Replacement -- Preventive Maintenance -- Imperfect Preventive Maintenance -- Inspection Policies -- Modified Maintenance Models.The maintenance of systems in engineering is of increasing concern to managers and designers in all branches of engineering, whether they are producing high-quality products or designing highly-reli…
Low-Noise Amplifiers in CMOS Wireless Receivers -- ESD Protection in CMOS -- Detailed Study of the Common-Source LNA with Inductive Degeneration -- RF-ESD Co-Design for CMOS LNA's -- Integrated CMOS Low-Noise Amplifiers -- Conclusions.LNA-ESD Co-Design for Fully Integrated CMOS Wireless Receivers fits in the quest for complete CMOS integration of wireless receiver front-ends. With a combined di…
Testing Concepts -- Design Flow -- Design for Test -- Boundary Scan -- SOC Design for Testability -- System Modeling -- Test Conflicts -- Test Power Dissipation -- Test Access Mechanism -- Test Scheduling -- SOC Test Applications -- A Reconfigurable Power-Conscious Core Wrapper and its Application to System-on-Chip Test Scheduling -- An Integrated Framework for the Design and Optimization of SO…
What is changing?- Does progress matter? -- Being successful in disruptive environments -- What is it that the successful really do? -- Can you learn disruptive Innovation? -- Go with the flow - the courage to take the plunge -- Practical aspects of creating an Innovation Cell -- Can I manage change and stability side by side? -- Why one room? -- Why autonomy? -- What do I gain? - Path of Innov…
Handling: The Underrated Process -- Evolution or Revolution? -- Getting To Grips With Handling Tasks -- Movement Adds Value -- Practical Applications.Automated gripping and handling tasks offer a great rationalization potential but they are still difficult to realize. This book shows you how to ensure process reliability on the basis of combining the right components with advanced application k…
to Industry and Environmental Issues -- Technology and the Environment -- Key Topics and Approaches in Greening the Industrial Facility -- Approaches and Tools for Industrial Environmental Management -- The Starting Point -- The Next Step -- Facility Assessment from the Life-Cycle Perspective -- Sustainability-Related Performance -- Sustainability Assessments -- Industrial Sector Analysis -- Fo…
Introduction. Basic test issues. Introduction. A review of analogue fault diagnosis -- Fault Diagnosis of Analogue Circuits using Model-based Observer Scheme. Introduction. The diagnosis procedure. The test stimulus generation. The fault modelling. Approximation modelling of the analogue integrated circuits. Artificial neural networks: an overview. Summary and conclusions -- Fault Diagnosis in …
Case Study Vacuum Cleaner: From Vision to Reality -- The Product Life Cycle -- Environmental Assessment -- From the Market to Holistically Optimised Product Concepts -- From Concept to Application -- Final Summary.Development of environmentally friendly products gains an increasing - portance in science and in industry. While product development was strongly dedicated to achieve quality, cost a…
ADC Characterisation Based on Sinewave Analysis -- ADC Applications, Architectures and Terminology -- Sinewave Test Setup -- Time-Domain Data Analysis -- Frequency-Domain Data Analysis -- Code Histogram Test -- Comparative Study of ADC Sinewave Test Methods -- Measurement of Additional Parameters -- Jitter Measurement -- Differential Gain and Phase Testing -- Step and Transient Response Measure…
The Need for Design Performance -- The Nature of Performance in Design -- Design Performance Measurement -- Industrial Practice -- A Methodology for Enhanced Design Performance -- A Formalism for Design Performance Measurement and Management -- The Impact of Resources on Effectiveness -- The PERFORM Approach -- A Methodology for Performance Modelling and Analysis in Design Development -- Applic…