Innovative Production Machines and Systems, Fourth I*PROMS Virtual International Conference, 1-14 July 2008

Content: Title page 
 Contents 
 Sponsors 
 Preface 
 Introduction by Mr A Gentili, European Commission 
 Programme and Organising Committees 
 Special Session Organisers 
 Special Chairs and Co-chairs 
 Referees 
 I*PROMS Central Coordination and MEC Teams 
 Advanced Production Machines 
 An investiagtion of influence of machining conditions on machining error 
 Conductive metallic tracks by Pyrolytic printing 
 Hydrualic axis actuation control for precision motion 
 Implementation and dissemination of RM in the industry 
 Predictive maintenance and diagnostics of machine tools. The sheet thickness effect on sprinback amplitude of a U-shaped part Use of HSS tools for milling of titanium alloys 
 Digital Manufatcuring 
 Behaviour and integration of service-oriented automation and production devices at the shop floor 
 A theoretical model in measuring global manufacturing complexity and its potential applications 
 An Auto ID-enabled framework for manufacturing information sharing systems 
 Forecasting options 
 The value of PLM for the smaller companies 
 Fit and Sustainable Manufacturing 
 Fit Manufacturing: A strategy for achieving economic sustainability. Relationship between lean manufacturing, agile manufacturing and sustainability Six sigma green belt training for researchers 
 A multi-faceted strategy to ensure economic, environmental and social sustainability in manufacturing SMEs 
 Changing conditions that may lead the manufacturing companies to failure models 
 FIT Sigma --
An integrated strategy for manufacturing sustainability 
 Key technologies for sustainable production 
 Sustainable energy consumption in European manufacturing 
 Human Machine Interface and Human Computer Interface. Consideration of vibration behaviour of rectangular plates Design implementation of semantic oriented agent and knowledge based approach 
 Human-machine interaction based on multimodal interfaces for industrial environments 
 Virtual machine tool --
A case study on virtual operator training 
 Innovative Design 
 Application of design functionality rules in CAD/CAM 
 Customer driven development of Product-Service Systems 
 Design for intuitive use: A study of mobile phones 
 Computer aided design and analysis of the sprue system of an injection mould. Mapping from Product Shape Parameters into Kansei Image Using ANNs Intelligent Decision Support 
 An improved scheme for on-line recognition of control chart patterns 
 Association rules discovery in manufacturing: A case study in the metal industry 
 Design of an expert information system for decision-making in the textile industry 
 Enterprise wide knowledge level 
 Process models for a sugar mill crystallisation stage knowledge based supervisory support system 
 Intelligent Optimisation and Planning 
 Energy efficient reall time scheduling of dependent tasks.