Understanding the holistic relationship between refinery production scheduling (RPS) and the cyber-physical production environment with smart scheduling is a new question posed in the study of process systems engineering. Here, we discuss state-of-the-art RSPs in the crude-oil refining field and present examples that illustrate how smart scheduling can impact operations in the high-performing chemical process industry. We conclude that, more than any traditional off-the-shelf RPS solution available today, flexible and integrative specialized modeling platforms will be increasingly necessary to perform decentralized and collaborative optimizations, since they are the technological alternatives closer to the advanced manufacturing philosophy.
Brazil is approving a series of new regulations, standards for RFID and loT components applied in transportation scenarios. At this stage, there is already a need for interoperability and Brazilian regulators require that interoperability should satisfy recognized standards such as NTCIP, SINIA V, and ISO/IEC 18000-6. Although there are studies of the higher evolutionary level of loT, much more are needed on the standardization of interfaces and communication protocols. The infrastructure created at IPT will grow to allow testing of products, environments, services, and innovative RFID solutions with applications in the context of the Internet of Things. The main purposes for laboratory are for teaching and research, and the next step involves the connection with experimental networks of Future Internet. Thus, enabling researchers, teachers, and students to conduct experimental research using innovative technologies offered by these systems. Consequently, we can form a critical mass of knowledge and skills required to identify and seize new business opportunities, mainly in V21 and V2V environment.
Nowadays, there are at least four important mobile platforms (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone). The main challenge for mobile application developers is to provide their solution across all these platforms. Cross-platform development approaches emerged to address this challenge by allowing developers to implement their applications in one step for a range of platforms, avoiding repetition and increasing productivity. We will present a systematic review where we define and explain the different approaches used in crossplatform development in order to achieve a comparison between these approaches allowing us to identify the strong points, and weaknesses of each approach.
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