Industry 4.0: Current Status and Future Trends

This chapter focuses on the vision of one of the biggest changes that will mark our way to live: Industries 4.0. Our intention is to discuss its basics, the automation and improvements on the processes, the way to transform an small and medium enterprises (SMEs) into an Industry 4.0, some of the economic and educational aspects, return of the investment, etc. This topic is very extensive; nevertheless, our purpose is to give a current vision of the industry and also show the Industry 4.0’s future trends. Furthermore, this chapter presents the process to migrate to Industry 4.0 until reaching to Society 5.0 and, in turn, includes a future version of Industry 5.0 that is expected to begin in 2020

Equity research - Micron Technology

Mestrado em FinançasEste projeto é o trabalho final como parte do mestrado. Licenciatura em Finanças pela Escola de Economia e Gestão de Lisboa (ISEG). Os alunos podem optar por escrever uma tese de mestrado ou escrever uma pesquisa de patrimônio de uma empresa escolhida. O projeto está estruturado de acordo com as diretrizes do ISEG e o CFA institui recomendações de relatórios de pesquisa. Eu escolhi analisar a Micron Technology Inc. por causa do meu interesse no setor de tecnologia, especialmente na indústria de semicondutores. O setor exibe muitos traços especiais, como ciclicidade e exigências extremas de capital, que eram ao mesmo tempo educacionais e exigentes para análise.This project is the final work as a part of the MSc. Finance degree at Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ISEG). Students can choose to write a master thesis or write an equity research of a chosen company. The project is structured after ISEG's guidelines and the CFA institutes research report recommendations. I choose to analyze Micron Technology Inc. because of my interest in the technology sector, especially the semiconductor industry. The industry displays a lot of special traits like cyclicality and extreme capital requirements, which was both educational and demanding to analyze.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

A comparison of processing techniques for producing prototype injection moulding inserts.

This project involves the investigation of processing techniques for producing low-cost moulding inserts used in the particulate injection moulding (PIM) process. Prototype moulds were made from both additive and subtractive processes as well as a combination of the two. The general motivation for this was to reduce the entry cost of users when considering PIM. PIM cavity inserts were first made by conventional machining from a polymer block using the pocket NC desktop mill. PIM cavity inserts were also made by fused filament deposition modelling using the Tiertime UP plus 3D printer. The injection moulding trials manifested in surface finish and part removal defects. The feedstock was a titanium metal blend which is brittle in comparison to commodity polymers. That in combination with the mesoscale features, small cross-sections and complex geometries were considered the main problems. For both processing methods, fixes were identified and made to test the theory. These consisted of a blended approach that saw a combination of both the additive and subtractive processes being used. The parts produced from the three processing methods are investigated and their respective merits and issues are discussed