Development of the Digital Site for Chemical Processes in the Manufacturing of Printed Circuit Boards
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear Authors!
After carefully acquiring your work, I ought to conclude that you have undoubtedly done a great job. A high-quality and fairly complete review of the existing technologies is presented. You have shown a high level of competence and mastery of the material.
Unfortunately, I believe that your work cannot be published in the journal Inventions, because it does not describe the invention. I drew attention to this while reading the annotation, where there is no indication of the results proposed in your work. In the Conclusion, you refer not to the results of your article, but to papers from the references list. Reading all sections led me to the conclusion that:
1. The work is a de facto survey, meanwhile, it does not have the necessary features of a high-quality survey, in particular, it has a too short references list and insufficiently deep/detailed coverage of the problem.
2. The invention that you are intending to describe still exists only at the level of a concept and is not embodied even at the level of a computer simulation, let alone a prototype or established technology.
To improve the quality of your work and make it possible to be accepted, I would recommend either strengthening its overview part or take steps to translate your idea into practice and describe at least early results. In addition, your English needs significant stylistic improvements.
Author Response
Hello, thank you for your informative comments. We took them into account and reworked the structure of the article. The article focuses not on the existing methods of control of electrochemical processes but on developing a prototype of the digital section and its experimental analysis.
The following changes were made in the article:
- The structure of the article has been revised. In particular, the section "Methods" was reduced, and it now considers only the methods based on which the digital site was further developed (lines: 57-178).
- The section "Results" is devoted to the development of a digital site's prototype, its hardware and software parts, as well as the architecture of digital production (lines: 179 – 304). Added the section "Analysis", which describes the experimental analysis of the digital section performance and shows the first results of its work (lines: 305-429).
Reviewer 2 Report
Overall it is a sufficient work, with some interesting ideas, but needs to be thoroughly revised.
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Author Response
Hello, thank you for your informative comments. We took them into account and reworked the structure of the article. The article focuses not on the existing methods of control of electrochemical processes but on developing a prototype of the digital section and its experimental analysis.
The following changes were made in the article:
- The structure of the article has been revised. In particular, the section "Methods" was reduced, and it now considers only the methods based on which the digital site was further developed (lines: 57-178).
- The section "Results" is devoted to the development of a digital site's prototype, its hardware and software parts, as well as the architecture of digital production (lines: 179 – 304). Added the section "Analysis", which describes the experimental analysis of the digital section performance and shows the first results of its work (lines: 305-429).
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear authors!
Your article has been greatly improved. Now it describes a specific technical solution, its purpose is clear, as well as the need for its development. The overview part was reduced significantly. The work is supplied with a large number of high-quality illustrations to simplify its perception. The overall manuscript looks like a finished work ready for publication.
At the same time, I may note a number of shortcomings.
The link between the process models described in section 2 and the system developed in section 3 should be strengthened. Does it use the mathematical models described? If so, how?
Black background in Fig. 14, 15, 17, 18, and 20 complicates its perception. This is a screenshot of the GUI you developed, but I would recommend importing the data and rendering the meaningful graphs separately.
Lines 231 and 233 contain errors (reference source not found), please fix.
Author Response
Reviewer 1:
Of course, the development in section 3 uses the methods from section 2. But we do not use specific mathematical models; we use one of the approaches described in section 2. We tried to rewrite the ending of section 2 (lines 173-177) and added lines 179-182 to the beginning of section 3. Also, we changed the figures (14, 15, 17, 18, and 20) and fixed the mistakes in the links (lines 231, 232).
Reviewer 2 Report
Text editing of the final version of the paper can be improved. As example the dark background of the figures (14, 15, 16 and 18) makes them illegible.
Author Response
Reviewer 2:
We changed the figures (14, 15, 17, 18, and 20).
