Serverless computing is a cloud computing execution model where server-side logic runs in the stateless compute containers that are event-triggered and usually fully managed by vendor hosts such as AWS Lambda. This approach is also called Function as a Service (FaaS). Applications that rely on this approach are called Serverless applications. Serverless usage promises infrastructure cost reduction and automatic scalability. One more important benefit of serverless is making the operations part of DevOps process simpler. It reduces the time on the management and maintenance of the servers and sometimes makes them even completely unnecessary. Despite this fact, applications using serverless computing model require a new look at DevOps automation practices since it is a new approach to software architecture design and software development workflow.

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In modern manufacturing engineering, a major challenge is the contradiction between the need to reduce the time required to design and manufacture the products and the increasing complexity of product design. Today's market requires more varieties of products, and consequently the equipment and processes should be more flexible. Fixtures play an essential role in production of high-quality and competitive products in multiproduct manufacturing. The paper describes the ways of increasing of machining efficiency of parts. The principally new constructions of functional modules of modular adjustable fixtures for locating and clamping of workpieces are introduced. Use of the proposed fixtures with the possibility of automatized adjustment ensures the spreading of technological capabilities of CNC metal-cutting equipment, decreasing of preparatory time and setup time, and therefore, assists improving of the efficiency of production planning.

Issues of technological processes’ intensification and increase of technological equipment efficiency are of priority value in the modern engineering. Application of various methods of hydrodynamic drag on the working fluids in rotary-wheel machines allows increasing of processing efficiency to receive finely-dispersed homogeneous mixtures with necessary characteristics. In this article the issues, connected with the liquid flows' formation in the working zone of rotary-cavitating activator are studied and the main principles of energy impact while the usage of rotor with radial channels, supplied with the elements for receiving cavitating effects, are defined. Based on the offered methodology, experimental research was conducted and calculations of the main indexes, defining efficiency of energy impact on the working medium, were held. The substantiated estimation of efficiency of hydrodynamic machines work according to the dissipative power that allows to choose the proportion of hydrodynamic settings, which provide the highest intensity of cavitating processing of processed liquids, was presented. The practical value of the research is in the studying of ways of increasing of equipment efficiency through the possibility of technological process intensification.

Fixtures play an essential role in production of high-quality and competitive products, especially under conditions of multiproduct manufacturing, which requires quickly re-equipment while transferring to the machining of parts of other nomenclature. Nowadays, the multiproduct manufacturing is the basic form of organization in the manufacturing and automobile industries. The article describes the ways of increasing of machining efficiency of parts of automobile industry at the contracting organizations, which are parts of automakers or work closely with them. For increasing the machining efficiency through the use of approaches to intensification of production, and also for performed analysis of locating charts for the majority of parts, which are included to the construction of machines, the principally new constructions of functional modules of modular adjustable fixtures for locating and clamping of parts are used. Use of the proposed construction with the possibility of automatized adjustment ensures the spreading of technological possibilities of metal-cutting equipment, decreasing of preparatory time and setup time, and therefore, assists improving of the efficiency of production planning.

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An improved version of the TOPAZ 3D gun code is presented as a powerful tool for beam optics simulation. In contrast to the previous version of TOPAZ 3D, the geometry of the device under test is introduced into TOPAZ 3D directly from a CAD program, such as Solid Edge or AutoCAD. In order to have this new feature, an interface was developed, using the GiD software package as a meshing code. The article describes this method with two models to illustrate the results.