PRIMARY PROCESS SELECTION AND PROCESS SEQUENCING AS THE PART OF PROCESS PLANNING
The field of our research is defining the main criteria for selection of primary processes and types of operations in production. Selection of primary process is based on nature of material, quantity, form complexity of the part, part size/mass and some other factors. Type and sequence operation are results of influence different factors as product shape, surface roughness and tolerance. In application will be used some aspects of knowledge base. Application will enable users to better understand procedure of selection primary process and sequence operations with possible additional technological gradation support. Self learning and testing of students is included in application. In application are used IT technologies of Visual Basic.NET.
PROCESS PLANNING APPLICATION AND INTERNET CONNECTION
This work is a part of the project creating the technological database necessary for improvement of process planning and connection database through SQL server by Internet environment. Developed web site for Database System and Process Planning is useful especially during development student’s project’s of technological process inside fields Process Planning, Production and Operations Management. Here we have elaborated the first phase of selecting tool machines, tools, operations and initial material on the basis of the chosen criteria.We have indicated the problems of selection and the possibility of working out a solution. The Internet technology gives us the possibility to share our data with many users and a chance to improve the elements of Virtual Manufacturing
Impacts of climate and land use changes on flood risk management for the Schijn River, Belgium
Abstract Flooding is the most common natural disaster in Europe. Modern flood risk management relies not only infrastructure development but also on governmental and non-governmental actors applying legal, economic and communicative water management instruments. Within the European Union (EU), flood management closely relies on policy set at the EU and national levels. It is now recognized that a sound understanding of climate change is required in addition to current management by taking into account land use change and socio-political context, as climate and land use changes have major impacts on hydrological responses. This paper investigates the hydrological behavior due to urbanization under current and future climate scenarios of high summer and high winter rainfall for 20 sub-catchments of the Schijn River, located in the Flanders region near Antwerp, Belgium. As urbanization increases and existing rainfall-runoff models neglecting the specific behavior of urban runoff, a hydrological model was developed based on a basic reservoir concept and applied to the existing rainfall-runoff model (PDM) flow to examine the specific urban contribution. Results revealed that peak flow for urban runoff and the total peak flow (i.e. rural and urban runoff) were significantly higher (i.e. ranges from 200% to 500%) than the existing rainfall-runoff model (PDM) flows, because of faster and more peaked urban runoff response. The impact of climate change on current and future conditions was also assessed by estimating peak flows with respect to return periods from the flood frequency curve. The predicted peak flow of high summer future climate scenario was significantly higher (i.e. ranges from 200% to 250%) than that of the current climatic condition for this region. Furthermore, hourly peak flow and daily volume ratios of 100-year return period for the highest, lowest and average impervious area were projected for the time horizon of the year 2100. It is concluded that climate change impacts contribute the most in producing peak flow in coming years, while increased urbanization takes the second place for both hourly and daily values. Results on urbanization effect and climate change impact assessment are useful to the water managers for spatial planning, emergency planning and insurance industry.