Toward the Factory of the Future: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Production Research and 5th Working Conference of the Fraunhofer-Institute for Industrial Engineering (FHG-IAO) at University of Stuttgart, August 20 – 22, 1985

Front Matter....Pages I-LXXII
Can Manufacturing Management Meet the Challenge of the Factory of the Future?....Pages 3-6
Information Management and CAD/CAM — The New Challenge....Pages 7-9
On Inventory Investment Determinants....Pages 10-16
International Comparison of Flexibility in Income Measurement and Other Accounting Procedures; Its Economical, Geopolitical, and Sociological Approach....Pages 17-22
Steps Towards Intelligent Assembly Robot....Pages 23-28
FEM Calculation of the Influence Matrix of a Six-Component Force Transducer for Robotics....Pages 29-33
Production Flow Analysis....Pages 34-42
Computer Aided Process Planning with Help of a Decision Table Generator....Pages 43-46
Development of Industrial Workstation Design: A State-of-the-Art Survey....Pages 47-51
Modular Assembly System....Pages 52-56
Group Technology in Egypt....Pages 57-60
Technical Education for a Successful Implementation of CAD Systems....Pages 61-63
Automation of Assembly — Application Potential and Preconditions—....Pages 64-67
A Study of Continuous and Intermittent Cranking Motion....Pages 68-73
Developments and Planning for FMS — Requirements, Examples and Experiences—....Pages 74-79
Concept of Manufacturing Control for a Highly Automated Factory....Pages 80-84
Disposition of Orders in a Flexible and Highly Automated Factory....Pages 85-88
Flexible Manufacturing with Laser: Problems, Machine Concepts, System Solutions and Experiences....Pages 89-94
Automatic Tool Changers for NC Machining Centres....Pages 95-100
Selecting standard systems of production and inventory control (PIC) with the aid of utility value analysis....Pages 101-107
A Microcomputer-Based Planning & Control System....Pages 108-113
PSK 2000: A new Flexible and Integrated System for Production Planning and Control....Pages 114-118
The Interactive Control Center in the Factory 2000....Pages 119-123
A Proposal and Analysis of Tri-Relation Forecasting and Control Method....Pages 127-132
Guidelines for Design and Performance Evaluation of Production Lines Having Variable Operation Times and Limited in-Process Inventory....Pages 133-138
Material Flow Components for Automated Flexible Manufacturing....Pages 139-146
Scheduling of Flexible Manufacturing Systems....Pages 147-152
The selected problems of FMS application in Polish industrial plants....Pages 153-156
The Development of Highly Automated Flexible Manufacturing Systems in the GDR....Pages 157-162
Determination of Cutting-Tool Reliability on Flexible Automatic Lines....Pages 163-168
Cutting Tool Reliability and Machining Economics when Tool Wear Follows a Linear Nonstationary Random Wear Process....Pages 169-178
A new CIM toolkit: Functionally structured hard-and software allows for easy configuration and worthwile realisation of turnkey production systems....Pages 179-184
The Identification of Information Processes in the Manufacturing....Pages 187-192
A Study of Technology of Grinding and Polishing Diamond Turning Tool and Cemented Carbide Precision Turning Tool....Pages 193-197
A Theoretical and Experimental Study of the Influences on Flat Lapping....Pages 198-203
Remanufacturing of Products — Technologies and Appropriate Product Design....Pages 204-208
The Force Model of Creep-Feed Dry Grinding....Pages 209-212
Controlled Deformation — a Process to Increase Quality of Automated Adjustment and Straightening....Pages 213-218
Electrochemical Microboring with a Capillary Electrode Made of Glass....Pages 219-223
A Production Planning Based on the Minimum Kullback-Leibler Information....Pages 227-231
Dynamic Algorism of Choosing Production Process Variants of a Set of Parts....Pages 232-235
Design of Informations Sensoring and Feedback Method in Production Ordering Systems....Pages 236-241
Optimal Groupings of Inventory Items for a Common Order Cycle System....Pages 242-246
Routing and Scheduling of Automated Guided Vehicles....Pages 247-251
A Backward Simulation System for Production Management Support....Pages 252-257
Process Planning with an Intelligent Knowledge Based System....Pages 258-263
On the Internal Control of Production Systems....Pages 264-269
Multi-Level Lot-Sizing Heuristics....Pages 270-276
Optimal Ordering Decisions for Multiple Substitutable Products with Stochastic Demands....Pages 277-281
Knowledge Based Control System for Automated Production and Assembly....Pages 285-293
Fast Scheduling Scheme for On-line Production Control....Pages 294-299
A Torpedo Car Scheduling System in Steel Mill....Pages 300-303
A Study on the Facility Allocation to the Multi-product Production System....Pages 304-310
Determination of Lotsize Minimizing the Average Leadtime for Multi-Item Production on a Single Machine....Pages 311-316
Integrated Material Requirement and Capacity Planning for Flow — Shop Production....Pages 317-319
Solution Techniques for Inventory Replenishment Policies with Linear Demand Trend....Pages 320-325
Production Model for Agricultural Processing Industry....Pages 326-331
Plant Layout with Multiple Objectives: PLAMO....Pages 332-336
Application of Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Computer Aided Design: A Case Study....Pages 339-344
Guiding techniques for manufacturing system using Artificial Intelligence....Pages 345-350
Data Communications between Production Planning and Control Systems and Computer Aided Design/Computer Aided Manufacturing....Pages 351-356
An Integrated Software System for Use within the Design Office....Pages 357-361
An Application of a CAD/CAM in Software Productions....Pages 362-365
CIM — Integration beyond Manufacturing....Pages 366-371
Design of Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems....Pages 372-379
Computer Integrated and Automated Manufacturing Systems in Aircraft Manufacturing....Pages 380-388
Successful Implementation of CAD/CAM....Pages 389-394
CAFPLAN-I: Computer Aided Factory Planning System-I....Pages 395-400
An Adaptive Control Stratelgy for Material Handling Components in a Computer Integrated Manufacturing System....Pages 401-408
Computer-Aided Estimation....Pages 409-415
A New Approach to Form Accuracy Control in Machining....Pages 416-424
Computer Aided Design for Different Drill Geometries by the Quadratic Surface Model....Pages 425-430
The Double Bunker — Utilization of the Computer in Design....Pages 431-437
Design Analysis for Automatic Assembly....Pages 441-447
Workplace Organization in Flexible Automated Assembly Systems....Pages 448-452
Flexible Automated Wiring Harness Assembly....Pages 453-460
Flexible Assembly Automation with New Robot Station....Pages 461-465
Bridging the Gap between a Product Design Sector and a Production Sector: Conceptualization and a Support Tool....Pages 466-471
Unit Load Delivery Strategies for Assembly Lines....Pages 472-476
An Organizational Structure for Productivity Improvement....Pages 479-484
Management and Quality Control....Pages 485-490
Qualification in the Use of Industrial Robots....Pages 491-495
Improvement of Productivity in Finnish Metal Industry in Cooperation with Employers’ and Employees’ Organizations....Pages 496-499
Skill Based Production — The Superior Concept to the “Unmanned Factory”....Pages 500-505
The Relationship among Workers’ Desires and Design Factors of Production Systems which harmonize Workers’ Desires with Workshop Productivities....Pages 506-511
The Effective Machines Assignment to Fixed Number of Workers....Pages 512-517
Simulation of Intra-Cell Sub-Batch Workload Transfer in GT Cells....Pages 518-523
The Demands and Responses of Machine-Paced and Self-Paced Material Handling Tasks....Pages 524-528
Study on the Character of Workers by Job....Pages 529-533
A Tactile Sensor Incorporating PVF 2 as the Transduction Medium....Pages 537-543
A Sensor for the On-Line Inspection of Drilled Hole Dimensional Parameters....Pages 544-549
The Assessment of Surface Structures with an Optical Sensor....Pages 550-554
Graphical Description of the Structure of Displacement Industrial Manipulator Driving Mechanisms....Pages 555-559
Intelligent Sensors for Process and Product Control....Pages 560-564
“Predicting Performance Times of Robot Systems”....Pages 565-570
Active Force Feedback Control for Assembly Processes Using a Flexible and Sensible Robot Wrist....Pages 571-577
Optimisation in Robotic Interfacing with Automated Materials Handling....Pages 578-584
Performance Enhancement of a Grasping Force Control System for Robot Grippers via a Modified On-Off Controller....Pages 585-590
Development of an Adaptive Robotic Welding System....Pages 591-596
Offline Programming of Industrial Robots....Pages 597-602
Designing a Management Information Decision System for the Short Term Profit Planning Under Uncertainty....Pages 605-610
Capital Productivity, Maintenance Effectivenes and Economic Models in Capital Intensive Manufacturing Systems....Pages 611-615
Effectiveness of Production Systems — A Problem Concerning Information to the Design Department....Pages 616-621
Product Work Shop Organization....Pages 622-627
Office Automation as a Strategic Dimension....Pages 628-632
Implementing Design for Reliability and Producibility in the Corporate Computer-Aided Design Strategy....Pages 633-636
Creative Thinking and Design....Pages 639-644
Technological Systems of Extreme Complexity and Human Cognitive Capacity....Pages 645-648
Fuzzy Sets and Systems and its Applications in Production Research....Pages 649-656
Contributions of Fuzzy Methodologies to Production Management....Pages 657-662
System Equations — A Contribution to the Theory of Diskrete Production Systems....Pages 663-668
Optimal Production Planning for Cascaded Production-Inventory Systems....Pages 669-674
Total Cost Minimization in Assembly Sytems of Flexible Type by Branch and Bound Techniques....Pages 675-679
Determination of Economic Production Policy with Dynamic Demand and Production Capacity Constraint....Pages 680-684
A Study of Control on the Fluctuation of Production Quantity and Inventory Level....Pages 685-690
An Algorithm of Conjugate Direction Method in Optimization Design....Pages 691-694
An Identification of Four Examples of Fuzzy Set Membership Classes in Production Function Modelling at Micro and Macro Levels....Pages 695-698
An Approach to Design of Production Systems of Higher Effectivity Level....Pages 699-706
A new Techniques for the Required Design Objectives and Performance of Items....Pages 707-713
Quality Control Spreadsheets....Pages 714-721
Performance Monitoring Through In-Process Product Quality Measurement....Pages 722-727
Management Information System for Industrial Project....Pages 731-738
Computer Aided Design of Organization of Industrial Quality Inspection....Pages 739-744
Application of Computerized Time Study to Establish Time Standards....Pages 745-750
Simulation as an Aid to Assembly Planning....Pages 751-756
An Analysis of the Performance Rating Ability of Experienced Observers....Pages 757-760
Improving Productivity in Model-Mix-Assembly....Pages 761-766
Analysis of Waiting Time and Idle Time in Job Shop....Pages 767-772
INTAKT — Interactive Assembly Line Balancing....Pages 773-777
PRESIS — A Processor Tool for the Simulation of Flexible Assembly Systems....Pages 778-783
Effects of in Process Inventory on an Assembly Line....Pages 784-788
A Simulation Model for Capacity Scheduling of Assembly Systems....Pages 789-795
A Study of the Classification Method for the Function of Machine Parts Material in the Evaluation Method....Pages 796-801
Tool Monitoring in a Flexible Turning Cell....Pages 805-809
A Further Economic Analysis of Multicutting and Deformation Region Tools....Pages 810-818
Some Aspects of the Preparation of Workpieces for Use in a Flexible Manufacturing System for Small Prismatic Parts....Pages 819-826
R & D and Production Integration....Pages 827-828
A Problem in Material Flow in a Distribution Centre....Pages 829-834
The Application of Multidimensional Scaling for Recognising Similarities and Production Planning....Pages 835-840
The Influence of Factory Automation on Worker’s Desires in Manufacturing Industry....Pages 843-848
A Study of the Consciousness of the Employees Working for the Subcontract Enterprises of the Automobile Industry in Japan....Pages 849-854
Multi-Factor Incentive Schemes....Pages 855-858
Effect of Information Load on Human Performance in Terms of Perceptual Motor Load and Heart Rate Variability in a Two-Stage Combined Manual and Decision Task....Pages 859-864
A Linguistic Rule-Based Expert System For Mental Workload....Pages 865-875
Human-Computer Interaction in the Production -A Systematic Approach to the Design of CNC-Tools-....Pages 876-881
Aspects of a Common Mental Stress in Paced Work Conditions —Conveyor-Paced Work and Computer-Paced Work with VDU—....Pages 882-887
Workload of Managers and Time Structure of Their Daily Lives in Two Local Factories....Pages 888-891
Computer-Aided Rating of Work Load When Applying MTM....Pages 892-896
New Methods of Ergonomic Work Design....Pages 897-902
Use of Anthropometry and Dynamic Strength in Developing Screening and Placement Procedures for Workers....Pages 903-909
An Application of Psychomotor Tests to Estimate Worker Performance....Pages 910-914
Front Matter....Pages 915-915
A Study of Influence of Various Factors on Surface Roughness in Micro-cutting of Non-ferrous Metal by Carbide Precision Turning Tool and Diamond Turning Tool....Pages 919-919
Dynamic Modeling of a Multiclass Flexible Manufacturing System....Pages 919-919
A Comparison of Performance Measures for Closed and Semi-Open Network of Queues Models for Flexible Manufacturing Systems....Pages 920-920
Simulation of Integrated Manufacturing Units....Pages 921-921
The Control Elements of the Surface Layer State in the Technological Process of Cutting with the Additional Current in the Set....Pages 921-921
An analysis of friction phenomenon in the machining process with the application of additional current flowing via contact zone....Pages 922-922
The Model of Planning Production and Repair Processes....Pages 925-925
F.M.S. Control by Using Periodic Release Strategies....Pages 925-925
Production Planning of Multicommodity for Multiple Factories....Pages 926-926
Front Matter....Pages 915-915
Improving Material Handling at the Workplace through the Use of Industrial Robots....Pages 941-941
A Robotic Drilling System with On-Line Sensing and Quality Control....Pages 941-941
“A New Tactile Sensor”....Pages 942-942
Tactil Image Acquisition by a Touch Sensor....Pages 942-942
Optimization of Mechanical Linkages in Robot Manipulators....Pages 943-943
Determination of multi-machine assignments by a nomograph — the case of the same product and the same machine—....Pages 926-926
Production Planning of Seasonal Good —Basic Rules and their Applications—....Pages 927-927
Priority Rules in Production Flow Control....Pages 927-927
Probabilistic Model for Balancing Production Tasks and Capacities....Pages 928-928
The Geometrical Adaptive Control System for Conventional Lathe....Pages 931-931
Computer- Aided Schematics in the Field of Factory Automation....Pages 931-931
Computer Integrated Manufacturing System for Cold-Rolling Manufacture....Pages 932-932
Process Based Strategies for Growth....Pages 947-947
A Poorly Performing Division Can Revitalize a Company If It Is Managed Strategically: An Empirical Study....Pages 947-947
Degree of Corporate Diversity and Diversification: Their Impact on Corporate Performance....Pages 948-948
Employee Cross-Training: A Corporate Strategy for Increasing Productivity....Pages 948-948
Towards appropriately balanced factory Automation....Pages 935-935
A Study of Small Foundry Automation....Pages 935-935
Rigidity or Elasticity of Production Planning....Pages 936-936
Skill and Its Meaning....Pages 937-937
Front Matter....Pages 915-915
“Maximizing Corporate Productivity Gain Strategy Through Teambuilding and Group Creative Problem Solving”....Pages 949-949
Test of ‘Market Share Myth: Key Determinant of Corporate Profitability?....Pages 949-949
Corporate’s competence in formulation and implementation of strategy: Its impact on corporate performance....Pages 950-950
Individuality Function Based Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Choice in the Design of Multi-Robot Installations....Pages 953-953
Assessment of Alternative Assembly Line Arrangements with Variable Operation Times....Pages 953-953
Application of a Computerized Line Balancing Technique....Pages 954-954
Diagnosis of Rolling Bearing Malfunction....Pages 954-954
Development of Data Processing and Management Information System in Fatigue Testing....Pages 955-955
An Expected Cost Model for an Acceptance Sampling Plan Where Variables and Attributes Quality Characteristics of the Products Are Simultaneously Controlled....Pages 955-955
‘Shifting’ Policies in Warehousing....Pages 956-956
The Level Formation of Rejects Detectability in a Production Cell....Pages 956-956
The Effect of Prior Experience on Learning Curve Parameters....Pages 959-959
Effects of Localized Vibration on the Ability of Discrimination for the Difference of Surface Roughness through Tactile Sense....Pages 959-959
Temporary Threshold Shift of Finger-Tip Vibratory Sensation Induced by Exposure to Intermittent Vibration....Pages 960-960
Man — Machine System Analysis of Welding....Pages 960-960