This master thesis deals with a proposal of a business plan of SITEC, s.r.o. - the company owned by international corporation GlobSol Corporation. The aim of this study is to analyze and consider the business plan. It is focused on preconditions definition of possible enhancement of the company’s business activities and finally to recommend or refuse the realization. The company is oriented on software development of telecommunication projects and wants to enhance its activities to the area of system integration. This study evaluates preconditions of this business project and considers the risks.

Background: The maintenance process is crucial for production activities to supply continuity and productivity. With Industry 4.0 advent, opportunities to create a huge amount of data and use this data to improve production and maintenance performance indicators became a topic that is necessary to make decisions. Most importantly, before applying these technologies, there is a need to integrate all systems to create a common language. Purpose: The first aim is to explore the influence of system integration within production and maintenance in measuring machine availability. Secondly, to review in detail the procedure of calculating machine availability among several production units in a manufacturing company. Research Question 1 (RQ1): What are the values of system integration among maintenance and production decisions in measuring machine availability? Research Question 2 (RQ2): Which parameters or indicators can be taken into consideration to calculate machine availability among several production units in a manufacturing company? Methodology: The study is based on a case study that primarily relies on qualitative data from interviews, survey, and observations, as well as quantitative calculation of availability data. An exploratory research design was used in the beginning of the study, followed by an abductive approach which means both inductive and deductive approach were used. The total process can be broken down into two parts: theoretical background/literature review and Scania empirical research. Conclusions: With the integration of different systems, it is shown that the real availability numbers differ compared with assumed numbers. The manufacturing industry is undergoing paradigm shifts, and many manufacturing companies worldwide are currently updating their maintenance strategies aligned with smart maintenance. With the aim of securing productive, robust, and sustainable production systems through the implementation of the smart maintenance concept. Therefore, it can be suggested that before implementings mart maintenance technologies, starting to create collaboration within a common database in association with production units about production data sharing matter is crucial step for the case company.

System integration is the given solution to connecting and making different softwares and applications of today to collaborate without the need to create completely new programs or systems.       In this thesis, a component created for system integration with the purpose of being run on-premise will be the base on how a cloud based solution could be constructed and what benefits this would present, both in matters of scalability, elasticity and distribution as well as expenses. The cloud platform provider will be Microsoft Azure with the resources that are provided within and the presented solutions will primarily follow the cloud service model PaaS, presenting the benefits this provides for development within system integration.

The goals of the research documented in this thesis were the design, construction, modeling, and validation of a fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle based a conversion of a five-passenger production sedan. Over 60 engineering students working together as the Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team of Virginia Tech (HEVT), integrated a proton exchange membrane fuel cell system into a series hybrid electric vehicle. This design produced an efficient and truly zero-emission vehicle. This 1997 Chevrolet Lumina sedan, renamed ANIMUL H2, carries this advanced powertrain, using an efficient AC induction drivetrain, regenerative braking, compressed hydrogen fuel storage, and an advanced lead-acid battery pack for peak power load leveling. The vehicle weighed 2000 kg (4400 lb) and achieved a combined city/highway fuel economy of 9L/100 km or 26 mpgge (miles per gallon gasoline equivalent, charge depleting, state of charge corrected). A model of the vehicle was developed using ADVISOR, an Advanced Vehicle Simulator that tracks energy flow and fuel usage within the vehicle drivetrain and energy conversion components. The vehicle was tested using the Environmental Protection Agency city and highway driving cycles to provide data for validation of the model. Vehicle data and model results show good correlation at all levels and show that ADVISOR has the capability to model fuel cell hybrid electric vehicles. To make techniques proven by this work more versatile for real world application, VT worked with engineers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to develop a 'generic' version of this fuel cell system model that was released to the public in ADVISOR 2.2. This generic model correlates well to test data and incorporates both fuel cell stack and subsystem models. This feature allowed HEVT to predict the benefits of load following subsystem control, showing a 40% fuel economy improvement. / Master of Science

The aim of this dissertation is to bring the complete view of the Home System Integration, including public survey based on this data. Households are generally composed of several different systems that are controlled separately and are not interconnected. The purpose of Home System Integration is to connect all electronic equipment to make household safer, more efficient and more comfortable. The public survey, forming a practical part of the thesis, brings the view of Home System Integration in the Czech Republic. It can also serve as an information source for producers, sellers, their further product development and setting sales strategies.

Cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have become a prominent internationalization and growth strategy of today’s global business landscape. However, the practice faces significant failure in terms of value creation. To this end, the post-merger integration of information systems (IS) is critical for the failure rate of M&As due to the complexity and ambiguity of how and what systems should be consolidated. Research has been carried out to provide frameworks illustrating IS integration methods and the relationship between business strategies and IS integration strategies but omits potential factors that influence the level of IS integration. Hence, the aim of this study is to examine what factors influence how information systems are integrated in cross-border M&As. This was carried out through a qualitative multiple-case study of 9 Swedish multinational corporations with recent M&A activity. The study finds that there are five IS integration methods, one of which was added by this study in order to cover all levels of how IS are integrated. Additionally, a mixture of factors was found to influence specific IS integration methods where the M&A context, design of the IS integration, and organizational characteristics were on a general level found to be most influential. This suggests previous findings focused on alignment of business strategies and IS integration strategies need a nuanced view to further explain the failure rates of M&As.

A 3D bioprinter employing light-based technology has been designed and constructed in an EU-funded research initiative known as BRIGHTER (Bioprinting by Light-Sheet Lithography). This initiative is a collaborative effort between institutions and companies and aims to develop a technique for efficient and accurate production of engineered tissue. Presently, the bioprinter’s function is limited to 2D printing, with the lack of 3D printing capabilities.  The problem addressed is the integration of two separate electronic systems within the bioprinter to control the laser beam’s trajectory for 3D printing. The goal of the project is to create functional software and simulation tools to control the hardware modules in a precise and synchronized manner, thereby enabling 3D printing. The outcome manifests as a software prototype, which successfully facilitates intercommunication between the two electronic subsystems within the bioprinter, thereby enabling further progress on the bioprinter with 3D printing available. Nevertheless, the prototype requires thorough testing to determine its optimal operational efficiency in terms of timing the movements for the various hardware modules. / En 3D-bioprinter som använder ljusbaserad teknik har designats och konstruerats i ett EU-finansierat forskningsinitiativ som kallas BRIGHTER (Bioprinting by Light-Sheet Lithography). Detta initiativ är ett samarbete mellan institutioner och företag och syftar till att utveckla en teknik för effektiv och korrekt produktion av konstruerad vävnad.  I dagsläget har bioprintern inte möjligheten för 3D-utskrift, utan är begränsad till 2D-utskrift. Problemet som åtgärdas är integrationen av två separata elektroniska system inom bioprintern för att styra laserstrålens bana för 3D-utskrift. Målet med projektet är att skapa funktionell mjukvara och simuleringsverktyg för att styra hårdvarumodulerna på ett exakt och synkroniserat sätt och därigenom möjliggöra 3D-utskrift. Resultatet av examensarbetet är en mjukvaruprototyp, som framgångsrikt möjliggör interkommunikation mellan de två elektroniska systemen inom bioprintern och därigenom öppnar möjligheten för vidare arbete med 3D-utskrift tillgängligt. Prototypen kräver dock noggranna tester för att fastställa dess optimala operativa effektivitet när det gäller koordinationen av hårdvarumodulernas rörelser.

ITC/USA 2005 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-First Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 24-27, 2005 / Riviera Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / The Telemetry Data Center (TDC) at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), New Mexico recently targeted analog best source selectors for replacement along with their associated signal handling equipments. The commercial selectors available offered no better performance, so TDC engineers circulated a "White Paper" on real time correlation based compositing. Within two years a Correlating Source Selector (CSS) was fielded successfully. The CSS’s bridging feature unexpectedly opened the door to a ubiqituous software decommutator (decom) that has catalyzed a complete “make-over” of the entire TDC architecture. Hardware and software interaction in a decom is different with the CSS. While performing its correlation tasks the CSS is able to provide raw data over TCP/IP directly to the end application. The CSS places the data in computer friendly frame aligned form and the decommutation may be performed in software. The converse is similarly simple, a data file maybe transferred to the CSS for commutation into PCM. This white paper describes the morphing of software decommutation into a commodity, integrated into each end device, be it graphics display, Disk or Chart recorder. The result is an interesting consolidation that spawns a new functionally integrated Telemetry Data Center ( iTDC). This integrated Display Decom (iDD) concept has been demonstrated on Apple G5 RISC computers.

台灣資訊系統整合產業 2018 年產值預估將近 1800 億台幣，在高度 e 化的趨 勢下，各行業皆非常依賴資訊系統運作來提升效率及經營績效。同時資訊系統的 投資與整合也是與世界接軌所必要的管道，在新技術持續創新下，台灣系統整合 產業必需緊跟國際技術發展的腳步，以維持本身的競爭力及所應用產業的競爭 力。 本研究主要以台灣系統整合廠商-個案公司為研究對象，面對市場興起與競 爭環境轉變，以其在系統整合專業上的知識與經驗，不斷地尋求轉型；且在後續 在市場進入策略上，選擇以既有優勢擴大市場佔有率，以優質的技術能力與服務 品質進入較高獲利市場，深耕客戶的經營。 但在技術持續進步與市場需求持續轉變中，本研究探討其成長與轉變的歷 程、開創新思維、深化核心能力及融合市場客戶的需求與掌握外在環境的變化， 提供客戶客製化的差異性服務，並漸進轉型為全方位解決方案提供之服務型廠商 之動態成長過程，從而解析其動態能力的演進。 隨著國際技術演進，創新應用能力與順應變革已經成為適應大環境中的唯一 生存之道，因此適應新技術應用及其所需要的適應能力的培養絕對是刻不容緩的 事。而本研究透過個案公司的探討，解析其一路走來的過程中，面對外部市場及 來自競爭者的挑戰，於其策略定位及經營模式所做的相對應改變與調整，以及強 化哪些能力以提升企業的競爭優勢。 未來因應市場技術環境的變革，個案公司如何運用系統整合解決方案技術的 優勢及跨技術整合的能力，積極往利基市場開發前進，以進一步擴大市場廣度及 深度，以邁向企業經營的永續成長之路。

Reducing the carbon footprint of domestic properties is, due to global warming and social impact of increased energy costs, an ever increasing priority. Although the compulsive building standards are set by the building regulation part L1, The Code for Sustainable Homes have set more stringent requirements above the requirements of Building Regulations to achieve zero carbon emissions during occupation. This Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH) requires all new homes to be zero carbon by 2016. Land scarcity and lower number of people per household forces developers to develop compact apartment-based dwellings on brown field sites, constraining the design. The aim of this research is to understand the effect of practical constraints on real building design and technology on achieving zero carbon performance in compact urban dwellings in a maritime northern European climate. In this work, currently commercially implementable renewable generation technologies are evaluated for their suitability in a compact urban setting. A model-based approach is developed to evaluate the energy consumption (both regulated and unregulated) and energy balance under the specific constraints of compact urban buildings. Graphical representation enables the introduction of a demand envelope, which shows the boundaries of the minimum and maximum expected thermal and electrical energy consumption over one year period. The research has three key findings: 1. Due to variations in energy consumption by the occupants, mainly by the unregulated energy consumption, multiple renewable energy technologies would have to be implemented to achieve the lowest possible carbon emission. 2. Although the combination of PV, CHP and HP is the generation option with the lowest carbon emissions, it is not completely carbon free when producing the required electrical and thermal energy. This suggests that there is a high likelihood that zero-carbon energy generation can not be achieved in this case study of a compact urban dwelling with the currently available technology. 3. The simulations show that with highly insulated dwellings the amount of space heating required is less than 10% of the overall energy consumption, as opposed to the 60% generally achieved in the building industry. Subsequent on-site measurements showed an estimation of just under 30% of the total energy consumption was used in space heating, which is higher than the simulated value, but still less than half that of a conventional dwelling. The main academic recommendation resulting from this research is a requirement for further ongoing research into new generation technologies as they become mature. Recommendations for the sponsoring company include continuation of measurements at the case study building to enable confirmation of energy consumption/generation findings so far.