Issue · 2015
Vol 34 No 1 (2015)
13 articles · All issues →
ArticlesMETHODOLOGY FOR POSITIONING MULTIPLE DECOUPLING POINTS IN HYBRID MANUFACTURING SUPPLY CHAIN SYSTEM
Akhtar Nawaz, Sahar Noor, Iftikhar Hussain, Afzal Khan, Shahid Rashid, Rehman Akhtar
Manufacturing companies are hard pressed to produce products faster and keep their cost at possible minimum. Manufacturers are always in search to fit their supply chains both internal (within manufacturing) and external to meet the challenge of competit…
10 Aug 2020- Articles
EFFICIENCY OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT IN THE PUNJAB TANNERY SECTOR: A CASE STUDY OF DADA TANNERY
Sajjad Haydar, Zunaira Asif, A. A. Bhatti, Obaidullah Nadeem, Ghulam Hussain, Nadeem Abbas
Tanning industry of Pakistan contributes significantly towards foreign exchange earnings of the country. Growing concern of international buyers on environmental compliance, during tanning process, has forced this sector to install wastewater treatment plants…
10 Aug 2020 - Articles
EVALUATION OF MARBLE SLURRY WASTE FOR PREPARATION OF COMMERCIAL GRADE CEMENT
Wisal Shah, Muhammad Nafees, Muhammad Iqbal
Marble processing is generating a large amount of slurry waste which poses serious impact on the environment. This study was conducted with the objective to demonstrate the practicability of using marble slurry wastes in the manufacturing of cement on commerci…
10 Aug 2020 - Articles
ON THE PERFORMANCE OF SUPERVISED CLASSIFIERS FOR CROP IDENTIFICATION AND ESTIMATION USING MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGERY
Asif Ali Khan, Nasru Minallah, Shahbaz Khan
The objective of this research is to investigate crop estimation using SPOT-5 satellite imagery. We specifically considered tobacco as our pilot crop and compared the obtained results with manually delineated calculations. For this research SPOT-5 imagery of 2…
10 Aug 2020 - Articles
DEVELOPMENT OF A POWER MANAGEMENT CIRCUIT FOR MICROENERGY HARVESTERS
Farid Ullah Khan, Atal Khattak
This work reports on the development a power management circuit (PMC) for micro energy harvesters. The circuit is design to regulate the power between three different power sources for the operation of a wireless sensor nodes (WSNs). The main components…
10 Aug 2020 - Articles
STUDY ON THE PERFORMANCE OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT DESIGNED FOR INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENTS
Muhammad Nafees, Asim Nawab, Wisal Shah
The present study was conducted to assess the performance of the treatment plant installed on the main effluent drain of Hayatabad Industrial Estate (HIE) for reducing pollution load. The objective of the study was to know about the pollution removal eff…
10 Aug 2020 - Articles
QUANTIFYING THE EFFECTS OF UPASS: A TRANSIT DEMAND MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
Dr. Taimur Usman, Dr. Rashid Rehan, Dr. Salman Saeed
Transportation networks remain fixed, in terms of capacity, for long duration of times due to various reasons such as budgeting constraints, availability of land for more lanes. Whereas automobile growth rate increases each year putting more burden on ou…
10 Aug 2020 - Articles
DEVELOPMENT OF DATABASE OF HEAVY TRUCK LOAD DATA IN PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN
Muhammad Usman Shafi, Syed Muhammad Ali, Syed Akhtar Ali Shah, Kamran Ahmed
The objective of this research project is to develop an indigenous solution that should be efficient and cost effective for determining truck loads passing from Peshawar. As heavy vehicles impacts road most, therefore small vehicles are put in one catego…
10 Aug 2020 - Articles
PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT OF FACE RECOGNITION SYSTEM USING PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS MERGED WITH DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS
Sikandar Afridi, Muhammad Irfan Khattak, Nasim Ullah, Gulzar Ahmad, Muhammad Shafi
Performance of face recognition system can be enhanced by proposed technique titled as PCA merged with Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) instead of using the conventional PCA technique. In this technique to reduce the computational complexity of tradition…
10 Aug 2020 - Articles
EFFECT OF COCONUT FIBER AND MARBLE WASTE ON CONCRETE STRENGTH
Faisal Shabbir, Muhammad Fiaz Tahir, Naeem Ejaz, Daulat Khan, Naveed Ahmad, Jawad Hussain
A large amount of marble waste (MW) is being produced by marble industry every year, while coconut fibers (CF) are abundantly available in tropical regions. These two raw materials can be used as a partial cement replacement in concrete. In this research…
10 Aug 2020 - Articles
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE AND HAMMING DISTANCE USED FOR IRIS RECOGNITION
Atta Ur Rehman, Laiq Hassan, Nasir Ahmad, Kashif Ahmad, Shakirullah
This paper presents a comparative study of two well-known classification techniques of iris patterns, along with detailed description of some preprocessing steps. In preprocessing stage, Circular Hough Transform and Canny Edge Detector are employed for i…
10 Aug 2020 - Articles
MARKER BASED TRACKING IN AUGMENTED REALITY APPLICATIONS USING ARTOOLKIT: A CASE STUDY
Ihsan Rabbi, Sehat Ullah, Aftab Alam
TIn Augmented Reality applications, registration between a virtual and a real world object is necessary. The registration is needed for tracking video camera pose (position and orientation) with respect to the real world objects. In existing vision-based augme…
10 Aug 2020 - Articles
A TUTORIAL ON ADAPTIVE ROBUST POSITION CONTROL OF DC MOTOR USING FUZZY LOGIC COMPENSATION
Nasimullah, Muhammad Irfan Khattak, Muhammad Shafi, Gulzar Ahmad
This article presents a tutorial on adaptive fuzzy sliding mode control for position control of DC servo motor which is subjected to nonlinear friction and external disturbance torque. Friction phenomenon is simulated using Lugre dynamic model. Adaptive…
10 Aug 2020