The economical success of ship yards in Europe depends strongly on their capability to deliver their products on time. Big potentials in optimization exist in decreasing the through put time, using production methods in a more systematical way. The manufacturing control model describes a...

An Energy Bag is a cable-reinforced fabric vessel that is anchored to the sea (or lake) bed at significant depths to be used for underwater compressed air energy storage. In 2011 and 2012, three prototype sub-scale Energy Bags have been tested underwater in the first such tests of their kind. In...

From October 1995 to April 1998, sixteen European countries look part in this Action with the aim to review and to assess the systems for interconnecting ports and their partners using various modes of communication (e.g. phones, fax, electronic mail, etc.). To gather the data needed to describe...