Mapping social context of sustainable attitudes using stakeholder analysis with discourse analysis: Investigating the maritime sector in order to provide knowledge about future technological pathways

Maritime sectors have been notorious for their slow paced innovation efforts and although it is an efficient sector, it has big impact on the environment just because of the size of the industry (M. Rahim, et al. 2016). There is a lot of activity on the seas, changes in this sector could make a big difference when making our world become more...

Aligning the ‘right people’ for a circular value chain: A method for collaboration in the Dutch consumer electronics industry

Electrical and electronic devices are a significant focus in resource sustainability due to increasing demand, resource usage, and waste challenges. Among these, consumer electronics are known for rapid innovation, short product life cycles, and being a part of an industry with many players, making them ideal for applying circularity principles...

Using Multiple On-Site Markers to Create Large-Scale Augmented Reality Experiences on Smartphones

Augmented Reality (AR) tracking for mobile devices is not realiable in environments where large virtual content, such as an entire virtual building, is to be displayed to the user. This paper presents a study on how multiple on-site markers can be used to better align the virtual scene to the real-world environment to improve large-scale AR...

Design and realization of a high quality large beam collimator

With PLATO the European Space Agency (ESA) will launch its third medium-class mission in its Cosmic Vision program. The PLATO satellite consists of 26 optical refractive telescopes where 24 identical wide field cameras form composed images.<br/><br/>Each individual camera must be tested and characterized before being integrated in the satellite....

Design method for 3D printed compliant mechanisms

There are strict tolerances on the placement of optical components in high performance optical systems. Compliant alignment mechanisms can be used to meet these tolerances. Conventional manufacturing techniques, such as milling and spark erosion, have been used to produce an extensive library of alignment solutions but are limited in the...

Unsupervised Manifold Alignment with TopoGAN: Aligning multi-modal biological data without correspondence information available across modalities

Single-cell multi-modal omics promises to open new doors in bioinformatics by measuring different aspects of cells, thus offering multiple perspectives on the underlying biological phenomenon. Although simultaneous multi-modal measurement protocols do exist, their inherent technical limitations necessitate focus on single modality measurements....

Towards an algorithm to optimise gait pattern for patients with above knee prosthesis with the use of inertial sensors

Misalignment in prosthetic legs can lead to bad posture, back pain and stump problems. A big influence therein is the alignment in the frontal and transverse plane of a prosthetic knee. This work aims to create an auxiliary tool for the prosthetist to align the prosthesis in an optimal way for the patient, with the use of inertial sensors. The...

Single lift blade alignment for large offshore wind turbines: A critical assessment of the alignment process of next generation wind turbine blades

In 2022 the first 12 MW offshore wind turbines are expected to be installed. Due to the continuous upscaling of wind turbine generators new problems are expected to arise during the installation of the turbines. Especially the workability of the installation of larger wind turbine blades, which are already causing problems during the...

GPU Acceleration of DNA Alignment Algorithms of Long Reads for DNA Assembly

Third generation sequencing machines produce reads with tens of thousands of base pairs.<br/>To perform de novo assembly, all reads must be compared with every other read to find overlaps.<br/>Finding overlaps with the optimal Smith-Waterman is not feasible, since the complexity of Smith-Waterman is quadratic with the length of the reads.<br/...

Project War Room: Developing A Tool To Align Internal Departments On product Strategy

This project has explored concepts of alignment and product strategy to meet Ultimaker’s needs. Insights were gathered from multiple sources to analyse the project’s brief and explore its facets. The company’s intention is to create a space in which alignment on product strategy will take place.<br/><br/>Through interviewing employees, a number...

Metamodelling for networked business model implementations: An application to the Industry 4.0 domain

Although aligning business models with enterprise architecture concepts can provide insights into business model implementation aspects, current approaches that facilitate business model enterprise architecture have several limitations: they often lack a network perspective, facilitate one level analysis of the business model implementation, are...

Examining the dynamics between aligning a company’s internal processes to the external environment and the company’s performance with a temporal dimension in the aircraft and semiconductor industry

Since Bourgeois III and Eisenhardt (1988) have introduced their ground breaking study discussing the concept of environmental velocity, which describes how fast and continuous/discontinuous the organizational environment of a company changes in all the relevant dimensions which affect the company i.e. the dimensions of technology, demand,...

Modelling of the Initial Deformation of TriPleX Based Bimorph Actuators Used in Alignment of Optical Waveguides

A lot of research is being done in the field of Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for use in telecom, datacom, optical sensing and visible light applications. Optical packaging of these PICs is still a challenge; increasing complexity leads to a higher number of interconnects and, combined with the need for sub-micrometer accuracy, this places...

Views to deal with the challenges of implementing Best Value: A study to provide guidelines to optimize the client - contractor relationship in the clarification and execution phase

In order to realise more focus on quality in tenders the construction industry must move away from the low-bid arena characterised by specifications, qualifications, standards and management and inspection by the client. New procedures must be adopted to react on the need for harmonized procurement policies for public contracting authorities,...

Using Big Data in the Public Sector. Uncertainties and Readiness in the Dutch Public Executive Sector

Designing and Testing a Strategy Game

A persistent problem in Corporate Real Estate Management CREM) is the issue of aligning an organization’s real estate to its organizational objectives. In this thesis a decision-making model has been designed for the Delft UT in order to provide the organization with a solution as to how they can renew their portfolio of lecture halls. In order...

Alignment Tool for E-beam Projection Lens Assembly: Design of a High Precision Alignment Tool