Purpose – This article is the third in a four-part series that aims to illustrate the process involved in planning a portal and creating a portal definition document. Design/me...
Reconfigurable software is highly desired for automated machine tool control systems for low-cost products and short time to market. In this paper, we propose a software architectu...
Reusing software components (e.g. classes or modules) improves software quality and developer’s productivity. Unfortunately, developers may miss many reusing opportunities since...
The control system of many complex mechatronic products requires for each task the Worst Case Execution Time (WCET), which is needed for the scheduler's admission tests and su...
The tolerancing process links the virtual and the real worlds. From the former, tolerances define a variational geometrical language (geometric parameters). From the latter, there...