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This volume contains the edited technical presentations of PROLMAT 2006, the IFIP TC5 international conference held on June 15-17, 2006 at the Shanghai University in China. The papers collected here concentrate on knowledge strategies in Product Life Cycle and bring together researchers and industrialists with the objective of reaching a mutual understanding of the scientific - industry dichotomy, while facilitating the transfer of core research knowledge to core industrial competencies.
Enterprise Architects, in their endeavor to achieve Enterprise Integration, have limited guidance on how best to use Enterprise Models and Modeling Tools to support their practice. It is widely recognized that the practice of engineering enterprises needs a number of models, but how to maintain the relation between these models with ease is still a problem. Model interoperability is an issue on multiople counts: - How to interchange models between enterprise modeling tools? - How to maintain the interdependencies between models - whether they describe the enterprise on the same level (but from different points of view), or from the same point of view (but on different levels of abstraction a...
Software has become a decisive cost and time factor in regard to developing and establishing manufacturing systems and setting them into operation. In addition, software determines the availability, reliability as well as functionality of manufacturing units. Software Engineering for Manufacturing Systems considers the methods and procedures required to deal with problems in the software engineering of control technology for manufacturing systems. Significantly, the following topics are addressed: * definitions and requirements of software for control technology * system design, describing forms of control software * CASE tools for the generation of a code * configuration, adaption of standard software variants, and re-usability of software * and man-machine interface. It contains the selected proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering and Case Tools for Control Technology of Manufacturing Systems, sponsored by the IFIP and held in Germany, in March 1996.
Computer-aided manufacturing and design, flexible manufacturing, computer-aided production management, and computer-integrated manufacturing are widely used in manufacturing enterprise. Within these systems, information technology has been applied to capture, organize, manage and display data. In the future, information technology must also become the catalyst for interaction among workers in these fields, in a complete enterprise from concept to product. This requires the development of an integrated information-system infrastructure. The papers in this volume are reports on the theory, and current and future applications of information technology. The collection presents valuable milestones towards the progress of information technology in advanced manufacturing systems.
Computer-supported co-operative work (CSCW) is a research area that aims at integrating the works of several people involved in a common goal, inside a co-operative universe, through the sharing of resources in an efficient way. This report contains the papers presented at a conference on CSCW in design. Topics covered include: techniques, methods, and tools for CSCW in design; social organization of the CSCW process; integration of methods & tools within the work organization; co-operation in virtual enterprises and electronic businesses; CSCW in design & manufacturing; interaction between the CSCW approach and knowledge reuse as found in knowledge management; intelligent agent & multi-agent systems; Internet/World Wide Web and CSCW in design; and applications & test beds.
The rapid growth in Internet, WWW and Intranet systems demands an increased sophistication in established information services, engineeering techniques and methods to improve the development of information services in a World Wide Web environment. The book addresses key, state-of-the-art developments in IS, focusing on such topics as the impact of WWW on organization structures and strategies; techniques for developing new information services, information systems based on multimedia and hypermedia; information filtering, mobile information systems; Intranet applications; security of information systems; and other related areas.
This proceedings contains numerous papers presenting the latest results of applied research and the most advanced industrial applications in engineering and manufacturing. Topics include: a panorama of the main international research programmes in the field of CIM in Japan, the United States, and in Europe (ESPRIT, EUREKA) and a number of presentations of the most advanced CIM applications in the world. Also presented is current technology concerning such topical subjects as: feature-based reasoning in engineering, CAD modelling techniques, concurrent engineering, modelling techniques for manufacturing systems, the various aspects of integration in CIM between the manufacturing functions (e.g., robotics, flexible manufacturing system, quality control), expert systems in maintenance, methodological approaches to design and implement CIM systems, human and economic aspects, planning and scheduling as tools for integration, and the design of information systems in CIM (structures, object-oriented approach).
This volume reviews the latest global research results in computer applications. The book contains a selection of papers presented at the Fifth International Conference on Computer Applications in Production and Engineering, arranged by the International Federation for Information Processing and held in Beijing, China in May 1995.
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