From hfj@ipa.fhg.de Wed Aug 10 20:00:02 EDT 1994 Article: 23521 of comp.ai Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!newsfeed.pitt.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!news.duke.edu!MathWorks.Com!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!centre.univ-orleans.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!uunet!sparky!not-for-mail From: hfj@ipa.fhg.de (Hans Friedrich Jacobi) Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences,comp.ai,comp.human-factors,sci.engr,sci.engr.manufacturing Subject: CFP: Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM `95) Followup-To: poster Date: 2 Aug 1994 08:46:00 -0500 Organization: IPA Stuttgart Lines: 117 Sender: rick@sparky.sterling.com Approved: rick@sparky.sterling.com Distribution: world Expires: 10 Sep 1994 8:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <31limo$4lh@sparky.sterling.com> Reply-To: hfj@ipa.fhg.de (Hans Friedrich Jacobi) NNTP-Posting-Host: sparky.sterling.com Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu news.announce.conferences:6743 comp.ai:23521 comp.human-factors:9641 sci.engr:9954 sci.engr.manufacturing:2046 ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS 5th International Conference FAIM '95 Flexible Automation & Intelligent Manufacturing June 28-30, 1995 Stuttgart Germany CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES Emerging technologies are revealing unprecedented opportunities for bringing new and improved products into being which will command a more competitive position in the marketplace. These technologies are acting to expand realizable design and manufacturing optlons. Issues related to product and process design, process monitoring, information management, and flexible manufacturingsystems (FMS) must be addressed to secure a strong international competitive position. Manufacturing success depends on the quality of the product being produced for the competitive market. These quality products can only be produced at the right cost if timely product data to and from the shop floor are available for decision making. To achieve effective flexible automation, industry must develop a realistic system/ network approach including human knowledge and experiences, computer potential to support manufacturing and office work (Computer integrated manufacturing / business (CIM,CIB)). Major initiatives at national and international levels have taken place during the last decade to introduce the concept of information integration from the enterprise level, through design, and to the process (individual device) level. In order to stay competitive, the world market demand requires a new generation of manufacturing systems: Intelligent Manufacturing. This conference provides a forum to address problems currently being encountered by industry, R&D institutions and major international universities for developing systems based on synergetic combination of technology, people and organisations. CONFERENCE THEMES The conference will include keynote, invited. and contributed papers in research and applications in the following areas: Manufacturing for the World Market International strategic market planning Total Quality Management and Statistical Process Control Management of new technologies The day after the implementations of CIM and FMS International issues related to CIM technologies Telecommunication and CIM Technology transfer between international institutions Concurrent and Simultaneous Engineering Models of product and process design Rapid prototyping methodologies Computer-aided design, engineering and manufacturing Design for automatic manufacture and assembly Tolerance representation and analysis Engineering for total quality Information Management Factory communications Artificial intelligence in design and manufacturing Technical aspects of information systems and databases Automatic: data collection (barcodes, RF technology, etc.) Real-time planning and scheduling in CIM environment Reengineering Factory Automation Macro and micro economics of automated systems Modeling and optimization of manufacturing processes Servicerobots Processes for electronic and composite manufacture Precision engineering or nanotechnology Sensors, image processing, and programming controllers Next Generation of Manufacturing Systems New manufacturing paradigms Lean or clean manufacturing Manufacturing and social competitiveness Manufacturing and information highway Economic and global manufacturing CALL FOR PAPERS Papers are invited on the topics listed and others within the general theme of the conference. Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be submiffed to the conference secretary by September 9, 1994. Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, results, and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by October 7, 1994. The category designation from the list of topics and final acceptance will be based upon review of the full length paper, which must be received by December 19, 1994. All papers will be refereed, and at least one author must be a paid registrant by March 20, 1995 in order to have the paper appear in the bound proceedings. The proceedings will be published in book form for distribution to conference attendees. The language of the conference will be English. Please mail to/for further information please contact: FAIM '95 Conference Secretary Dipl.Ing. H.F. Jacobi c/o Fraunhofer-Institut IPA Silberburgstra_e 119a D-70176 Stuttgart Germany Phone 1: 0049-(0)711-970-1971 Phone 2: 0049-(0)711-970-1972 Fax 1: 0049-(0)711-970-1002 Fax 2: 0049-(0)711-970-1003