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The use of BIM in the railway intervention planning process to support the early estimation of future interventions
(2024)This report describes the digitalisation of the railway intervention planning process using predictive maintenance algorithms and Building Information Modeling (BIM). It is proposed that this would improve the effectiveness and efficiency of estimating future interventions. This entails an understanding of (1) the current intervention planning process at the SBB, including the stakeholders involved and their associated responsibilities, ...Report -
The state of AI in the Swiss tech industry: Results from a survey by ETH Zurich in cooperation with Swissmem and Next Industries
(2024)This report summarizes the results of a study into the state of AI adoption and plans in the Swiss tech industries. In collaboration with Swissmem and Next Industries, the Chair of Production and Operations Management (Prof. Netland) at ETH Zurich has administered a survey among Swissmem’s members. The survey was sent to all Swissmem members in March 2024. A total of 209 senior managers returned the filled-in survey by the survey deadline ...Report -
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Risikoreduzierung durch Anbaudiversifizierung und Versicherungen bei Extremwetterereignissen
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Reducing yield risks of extreme weather events by combining crop diversification and insurances
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Coordinate systems in Banach spaces and lattices
(2024)SAM Research ReportUsing methods of descriptive set theory, in particular, the determinacy of infinite games of perfect information, we answer several questions from the literature regarding different notions of bases in Banach spaces and lattices. For the case of Banach lattices, our results follow from a general theorem stating that (under the assumption of analytic determinacy), every $\sigma$-order basis $(e_n)$ for a Banach lattice $X=[e_n]$ is a uniform ...Report -
Holding the Fields Constant: A Shape-Calulus Approach to Electromagnetic Forces
(2024)SAM Research ReportUsing the mathematical theory of shape calculus as tool, we perform a rigorous investigation of the virtual work principle for the computation of electromagnetic forces in static settings. The main goal is to shed light on the widely held belief that the virtual work principle entails passively advecting the fields with the virtual displacement when computing deformation-dependent field energies gradients. The adjoint approach to ...Report -