Balanced Automation Systems: Architectures and design methods

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
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The Extended Enterprise — Manufacturing and The Value Chain....Pages 5-16
Continuous Education in New Manufacturing Systems....Pages 17-26
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Information and command infrastructures for small and medium size enterprises....Pages 29-36
Narrowing the gap of SME for IT innovation with enterprise architectures....Pages 37-44
One-Product-Integrated-Manufacturing....Pages 45-52
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Transition Enabling Petri Nets to Supervisory Control Theory....Pages 55-62
Planning, Training and Learning in Supervision of Flexible Assembly Systems....Pages 63-74
Automated Planning for restarting Batch Procedure in the Wake of an Incident (Single Product)....Pages 75-87
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An Object-Oriented Approach to the Design of Flexible Manufacturing Systems....Pages 91-106
Integration of Object Oriented Programming and Petri Nets for modelling and Supervision of FMS/FAS....Pages 107-120
Design of FMS: Logical architecture....Pages 121-128
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Issues on the anthropocentric production systems....Pages 131-140
A Complementary Approach to Flexible Automation....Pages 141-148
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AI for manufacturing: Some practical experience....Pages 151-158
A manufacturing support system for industrial part process planning....Pages 159-170
Fuzzy logic for similarity analysis....Pages 171-178
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HOLOS : a methodology for deriving scheduling systems....Pages 181-194
Evaluation of on-line schedules by distributed simulation....Pages 195-202
Integration of Process Planning and Scheduling using Resource Elements....Pages 203-210
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A Decision Making Tool in FMS Design....Pages 213-221
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Multipurpose Layout Planner....Pages 222-229
Towards more humanized real time decision support systems....Pages 230-237
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Interoperability testing in an Implementation of ISO/OSI Protocols....Pages 241-252
Supporting the Information Management of Control Activities in a CIM Shop Floor Environment....Pages 253-264
Object-Oriented Development Methodology for PLC software....Pages 265-272
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Support for Concurrent Engineering in CIM-FACE....Pages 275-286
A Federated Cooperation Architecture for Expert Systems Involved in Layout Optimization....Pages 287-300
A holistic approach to intelligent automated control....Pages 301-308
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Reference Models for an Object Oriented Design of Production Activity Control Systems....Pages 311-318
Organizational behaviour analysis and information technology fitness in manufacturing....Pages 319-326
An Integrated Framework for the Development of Computer Aided Engineering Systems....Pages 327-335
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Formal and Informal in Balanced System Specifications....Pages 339-348
PFS/MFG: A High Level Net for the Modeling of Discrete Manufacturing Systems....Pages 349-362
Discrete event and motion-oriented simulation for FMS....Pages 363-372
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Group technology considerations for manufacturing systems with balanced flexibility....Pages 375-384
Product differentiation and process flexibility as base for competitive strategy....Pages 385-392
Balanced automatization levels in manufacturing systems....Pages 393-404
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Architecture Solutions for Integrating CAD, CAM and Machining in Small Companies....Pages 407-416
A feature-based concurrent engineering environment....Pages 417-428
A framework for feature based CAD/CAM integration....Pages 429-436
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CNC Machines Monitoring Using Sensorial Stochastic Models....Pages 439-450
No Knowledge to Waste — Learning more about Processes....Pages 451-458
3-D Vascular reconstruction on a standard X-ray angiography machine....Pages 459-466
Back Matter....Pages 467-471