Information control problems in manufacturing technology 1992 : selected papers from the 7th IFAC/IFIP/IFORS/IMACS/ISPE symposium, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 25-28 May 1992

Content: 
IFAC SYMPOSIA SERIES, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
7th IFAC/IFIP/IFORS/IMACS/ISPE SYMPOSIUM ON INFORMATION CONTROL PROBLEMS IN MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY 1992, Page v
FOREWORD, Page vii
INNOVATION IN PRODUCTS AND PRODUCTION SYSTEMS: THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY PROGRAMMES AND EUREKA FAMOS PROJECTS, Pages 1-8
MODELLING MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES, Pages 9-12
SOME FINDINGS FROM STUDIES IN TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION, Pages 13-24
A FORMULATION FOR DYNAMICAL DECISION-MAKING IN AN INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENT, Pages 25-30
HIERARCHICAL MODELING APPROACH FOR PRODUCTION PLANNING, Pages 31-36
OPTIMAL NEURAL NETWORK CONTROL, Pages 37-42
CONTROL OF MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS: AN OBJECT ORIENTED APPROACH, Pages 43-48
DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEMS CONTROL OF A RAPID THERMAL MULTIPROCESSOR, Pages 49-54
RTX: A REAL-TIME OPERATING SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT FOR CNC MACHINE TOOL CONTROL, Pages 55-60
SCHEDULING OF A FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING CELL, Pages 61-66
DISTRIBUTIVE SCHEDULING OF FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS, Pages 67-71
DYNAMIC SCHEDULING BY USING SCHEDULING EDITOR AND DISTRIBUTED DECISION MAKER, Pages 73-78
INTELLIGENT CONTROLLER FOR FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM, Pages 79-84
KNOWLEDGE BASED GROUP TECHNOLOGY (GT) CLASSIFICATION AND CODING SYSTEM FOR THE CASTING INDUSTRY -METHODOLOGY AND ITS APPLICATION, Pages 85-90
A CS-PROLOG BASED EXPERT SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING CELL DESIGN, SIMULATION AND ANIMATION, Pages 91-95
KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION FOR HELPING A CONTROLLING DEVICE IN FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS, Pages 97-104
ROBOTIC SIMULATIONS USING THE ROBOT CONTROLLER TEST STATION (RCTS), Pages 105-110
INSERTION FORCE RECOGNITION BY MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS WITH ACCOMODATORS, Pages 111-116
DATA POINT REDUCTION FOR NC TOOL PATH GENERATION ON OVER-DETERMINED DATA SET, Pages 117-122
A STANDARD FEATURE-BASED MOLD DESIGN SYSTEM FOR CAD/CAPP INTERFACE, Pages 123-128
A PERSPECTIVE ON THE USE OF SENSORS IN ROBOT MATERIALS HANDLING, Pages 129-133
AN APPROACH FOR ADAPTIVE AND OPTIMAL CONTROL OF MOBILE AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS USED IN FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS, Pages 135-138
MICROCOMPUTER BASED CAD/CAM SOFTWARES FOR MANUFACTURING APPLICATIONS, Pages 139-144
A “LOW COST” MODULAR CIM CONCEPT FOR SMALL COMPANIES, Pages 145-149
SIMULATION AND OPTIMISATION OF A MANUFACTURING CONTROL SYSTEM USING REAL OPERATING DATA, Pages 151-156
A FACTOR-IMPACT-DRIVEN GRAPHICAL ANALYSIS APPROACH FOR OUTPUT ANALYSIS OF SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS, Pages 157-162
HIERARCHICAL AND INTELLIGENT CONTROL OF FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS, Pages 163-168
INTEGRATION OF DEPENDABILITY IN THE CONCEPTION OF FMS, Pages 169-174
PRODUCTION-MONITORING INTEGRATION IN PLANNING AND CONTROL OF FMS, Pages 175-180
HUMAN ASPECT INTEGRATION APPROACH IN PRODUCTION CONTROL, Pages 181-185
ADAPTIVE TECHNIQUES FOR THE MARK II FLEXIBLE AUTOMATIC ASSEMBLY SYSTEM, Pages 187-191
UniSet - A FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING CELL PROGRAMMING, SIMULATION, AND MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENT, Pages 193-197
VirtualWorks: BUILDING A VIRTUAL FACTORY WITH 3-D MODELLING AND OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES, Pages 199-204
OBJECT ORIENTED INFORMATION MODELLING, Pages 205-211
A KNOWLEDGE BASED SIMULATION APPROACH FOR REAL-TIME MODEL VALIDATION, Pages 213-216
STRUCTURING THE DISTRIBUTED OBJECT WORLD OF CIM, Pages 217-222
FREE MOTION, COLLISION AVOIDANCE AND CONTACT MOTION CONTROL FOR MOBILE ROBOTS, Pages 223-228
GETTING FRIENDLY WITH ROBOTS, Pages 229-234
NEUROMORPHIC CONTROL OF ROBOTIC MANIPULATORS USING SLIDING MODE, Pages 235-238
AN ON-LINE PRODUCT RECOGNITION AND COUNTING DISPLAY SYSTEM USING A TRANSPUTER/PC COMBINATION, Pages 239-244
THE LSI ASSEMBLY CELL, Pages 245-249
SCHEDULING PROBLEM WITH CHANGEOVER COSTS IN INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS, Pages 251-256
OVERCOMING COMMUNICATION BOTTLENECKS IN DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENT CONTROL OF FMS, Pages 257-261
LAN-DNC STRUCTURED BOTTOM UP FOR CIMS, Pages 263-266
A PROTOTYPE OF LOW COST TOKEN RING BASED OPTICAL FIBER INDUSTRIAL NETWORK, Pages 267-271
A CONCEPTUAL MODEL AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF ENTERPRISE-ORIENTED COMPUTER NETWORK, Pages 273-278
ENGINEERING DATA MANAGEMENT, Pages 279-283
INTEGRATION OF CAD/CAM AND PRODUCTION CONTROL IN SHEET METAL MANUFACTURING - THE BASIS FOR AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF PRODUCTION DATA, Pages 285-290
HAND POSITIONING IN OPERATION PLANNING FOR PRODUCT ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS, Pages 291-296
HOOD IMPLEMENTATION OF OPERATING MODES IN AUTOMATED PRODUCTION SYSTEMS, Pages 297-302
FLEXIBLE SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC ORDER PICKING, Pages 303-306
AN ERROR DIAGNOSIS EXPERT SYSTEM FOR FLEXIBLE ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS, Pages 307-312
CONCURRENT ENGINEERING APPROACH TO FMS DESIGN USING A BLACKBOARD ARCHITECTURE, Pages 313-318
A RULE-BASED DIAGNOSIS AND MAINTENANCE EXPERT SYSTEM FOR THE GaAs PRODUCTION LINE ON SPACE STATION, Pages 319-324
MICRO-BASED EXPERT COMPUTER AIDED PROCESS PLANNING SYSTEM (MICRO-CAPP) FOR TURNING PARTS, Pages 325-328
UNIFIED MODELLING OF MANUFACTURING PROCESS, PRODUCTION FLOWS AND CONTROL SYSTEM IN MANUFACTURING WORKSHOPS, Pages 329-334
PRODUCT MODELING: FROM GEOMETRICAL MODELING TO LOGICAL MODELING, Pages 335-340
IN-CYCLE MINIMUM VARIANCE CONTROL OF EXTRUSION BLOW MOULDING, Pages 341-345
REAL TIME QUALITY OPTIMIZATION IN FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS, Pages 347-352
COMPUTER SYSTEM OF THERMAL IMAGING QUALITY CONTROL OF COMPLEX OBJECTS, Pages 353-354
PATH PLANNING FOR MOBILE ROBOT USING SKELETON OF FREE SPACE, Pages 355-359
A RULE-BASED SELECTION OF C-SPACE REPRESENTATION FOR RAPID 3D ROBOT PATH PLANNING, Pages 361-365
PRODUCTION SCHEDULING USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS, Pages 367-372
NO-WAIT TASK ASSIGNMENT IN FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING CELLS, Pages 373-377
COMPUTER MODELLING IN DIE CASTING APPLICATIONS, Pages 379-382
PRODUCTS AND EQUIPMENTS UNITED MODELLING: MAKING CYCLES AND FLOWS GENERATION IN EVIDENCE, Pages 383-387
A MACHINE PART REPRESENTATION FOR CAPP AND CIMS, Pages 389-391
PHYSICAL FOUNDATIONS OF FEEDBACK CONTROLS, Pages 393-398
AUDROS: A METHOD AND A TOOL FOR INTEROPERABILITY AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN THE CIM ENVIRONMENT, Pages 399-402
GENETIC ALGORITHM APPROACH TO A PRODUCTION ORDERING PROBLEM IN AN ASSEMBLY PROCESS WITH BUFFERS, Pages 403-408
A JOB-SHOP SCHEDULING MINIMIZING THE WAITING AND TRANSIT TIMES IN FMS, Pages 409-414
A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING MULTIPRODUCT OPTIMAL BATCH SIZES WITH IN-PROCESS INVENTORIES AND MULTIWORK CENTERS, Pages 415-420
A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL PLANNING FLOW NETWORK MODELS, Pages 421-427
APPLICATION OF GENERALISED BOND-GRAPHS AND CONTINUOUS PETRI NETS TO MODELLING INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES AND MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS, Pages 429-434
A GENERIC PETRI NETS BASED MODEL FOR PAPER MILLS FINISHING PROCESSES, Pages 435-440
A TOOL OF PETRI NET GRAPHS REPRESENTATION IN MANUFACTURING CONTEXT, Pages 441-446
ON-LINE FAULT DETECTION VIA TRAJECTORY ENCODING, Pages 447-452
EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION OF THE PERFORMANCES OF THE MONITOR OF ATTENDANCE OF MILLING TOOLS WEAR, Pages 453-457
TRANSIENT ANALYSIS OF THE DYNAMICS OF A MANUFACTURING SYSTEM: A CASE STUDY, Pages 459-462
A DESIGN OF OPTIMAL CONTROLLER FOR NONMINIMUM PHASE PLANT FOLLOWING THE REFERENCE MODEL OUTPUT, Pages 463-465
THE METADATABASE FOR MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS INTEGRATION, Pages 467-472
AUTOMATED COMPUTER-AIDED LAYOUT PLANNING FOR ROBOT WORKCELLS, Pages 473-478
DESIGN OF MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS: A BOTTOM-UP APPROACH BASED ON PETRI NETS, Pages 479-483
INTEGRATING CNC TECHNOLOGY AND THE JIT KANBAN SYSTEM: A CASE STUDY, Pages 485-492
AUTHOR INDEX, Pages 493-494
KEYWORD INDEX, Pages 495-498
Published Symposia/Workshop volumes, Pages 499-500