INDUSTRIE 4.0

Industrie 4.0, currently one of the most frequently discussed topics in German-speaking area. The term ‘INDUSTRIE 4.0’ or also called ‘Smart Industry’ has been introduced in Hannover Messe 2013 as a part of High-Tech Strategy Action Plan governed by Germany Trade& Invest organization. The aim deals with intentions to create Read more…

Solar Energy!

Investing into renewable energy sources is the future for our civilization. In the previous post I have discussed ‘Geothermal energy’ as one of the renewable energy source with enormous potential. Can you also think of other unlimited energy source? Already in 19th. century Thomas Alva Edison well said: ‘I’d put Read more…

SCARA Robots

The SCARA, which stands for Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm, has 4-axis design, it means that robot has parallel-axis joint layout, where the arm is slightly compliant in the X-Y direction but rigid in the Z direction (Bickendorf, 2015). For this reason we call it ‘Selective Compliant…’. In more depth, Read more…

Geothermal Energy!

Slovakia, relatively small country has high potential of using Geothermal Energy. According to Geofar portal, the efficiency of geothermal use in Slovakia is around 30 percent and that is mostly seasonal thing due to the fact that geothermal water is used primarily for recreational and somewhat for agricultural purposes. These Read more…

Optimalizacia a Excel??!

What’sBest! What’sBest! is an add-in to Excel that allows you to build large scale optimization models in a free form layout within a spreadsheet. What’sBest! combines the proven power of Linear, Nonlinear (convex and nonconvex/Global), Quadratic, Quadratically Constrained, Second Order Cone, Stochastic, and Integer optimization with Microsoft Excel — the Read more…