Reviewer: 1

*Overall*: 6


        Review marks

 1. *Originality*: Accept
 2. *Quality*: Accept
 3. *Relevance*: Accept
 4. *Presentation*: Accept
 5. *Recommendation*: Accept

*Summary*:

*Details*: This is an interesting work on dependability of a conveyor surface 
built from MEMS valves. A proprietary simulation system (a multi-threaded Java 
program) with some assumed degradation model of the MEMS is used to study 
variations of an optimal transport path over the conveyor and the results can be 
used for optimization of the conveyor configuration and finding best scheduling 
algorithms.The paper is somewhat over the size limit (10 pages) so the author 
could possible think about its “compression” – first of all in the starting two 
chapters.

*Is this paper, to your knowledge, already published in a regular conference?*: No


    Reviewer: 2

*Overall*:


        Review marks

 1. *Originality*: Weak Reject
 2. *Quality*: Weak Reject
 3. *Relevance*: Weak Reject
 4. *Presentation*: Weak Reject
 5. *Recommendation*: Weak Reject

*Summary*:

*Details*:

*Is this paper, to your knowledge, already published in a regular conference?*: No


    Reviewer: 3

*Overall*: 6


        Review marks

 1. *Originality*: Accept
 2. *Quality*: Strong Accept
 3. *Relevance*: Accept
 4. *Presentation*: Strong Accept
 5. *Recommendation*: Accept

*Summary*: The paper concerns a conveyor remaining useful life optimisation. The 
problem of increasing conveyor life span by avoiding fatigued blocks is not 
discussed in the literature, what is well shown in the state-of-art review. The 
structure of the tekst is correct: presentation of the distributed MEMS-based 
surface; simulation and presentation of the results. Conclusions realistic.

*Details*: No comments

*Is this paper, to your knowledge, already published in a regular conference?*: No