MOD!FACT. A software for human integrated factory planning and process optimization

Aim to discuss of this paper is the method, the functionality and the experiences of industrial use of Virtual Reality to support the participative approach in the factory design. It describes the system developed at the Fraunhofer IFF and its use as basis for an innovative experimentation field to support the factory planning process. In this connection the speeding up and the optimization of the planning process by supplying all involved people a common environment for their decision making process will be pointed out

Factory Animation by Self-Organization Principles

In the paper a novel idea of combining a virtual reality with an automated action control based on selforganization simulation is introduced. The concept provides an intelligent control for entities in the virtual reality enabling the user to participate in real-time to the self-organization simulation through the virtual reality interface. The concept is demonstrated with an implementation in a manufacturing domain, where a real world factory shop-floor is modeled in virtual reality, and factory operations are controlled based on selforganization simulation. The control provides a real time and continuous adaptation of the factory operations to the user interactions and other environmental disturbances. The implementation is based on distributed programming, where the self-organization simulator and the virtual factory are running on a separate computers. Two programs interchange continuously information through a local area network. The first implementation have proved to provide suf..

Unveiling the pathogen behind the vacuole

© 2015 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.Many clinically relevant pathogens, including certain bacteria and protozoan parasites, have developed an intracellular lifestyle that enables them to nestle in customized vacuoles. Although these pathogens are protected from extracellular defences, recent findings indicate that host cells have evolved multiple strategies to unmask the pathogen disguised by the vacuole and thereby initiate innate immune responses. In this Opinion article, we propose and discuss models by which hosts can sense 'professional' vacuolar pathogens, and we highlight the ability of the host to target these stealthy bacteria and parasites.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio