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Engineering » Industrial Engineering and Management
Manufacturing the Future
Edited by V. Kordic, A. Lazinica and M. Merdan, ISBN 3-86611-198-3, Hard cover, 908 pages, Publisher: Pro Literatur Verlag, Germany / ARS, Austria , Chapters published July 01, 2006 under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license
DOI: 10.5772/45 
The primary goal of this book is to cover the state-of-the-art development and future directions in modern manufacturing systems. This interdisciplinary and comprehensive volume, consisting of 30 chapters, covers a survey of trends in distributed manufacturing, modern manufacturing equipment, product design process, rapid prototyping, quality assurance, from technological and organisational point of view and aspects of supply chain management.
- Chapter 1
Multi-Agent Based Distributed Manufacturing - Chapter 2 The Cobasa Architecture as an Answer to Shop Floor Agility
- Chapter 3 Development of Holonic Manufacturing Execution Systems
- Chapter 4 Bio-Inspired Approach for Autonomous Routing in FMS
- Chapter 5 Modular Machining Line Design and Reconfiguration: Some Optimization Methods
- Chapter 6 Flexible Manufacturing System Simulation Using Petri Nets
- Chapter 7 Applications of Petri Nets to Human-in-the-Loop Control for Discrete Automation Systems
- Chapter 8 Application Similarity Coefficient Method to Cellular Manufacturing
- Chapter 9 Maintenance Management and Modeling in Modern Manufacturing Systems
- Chapter 10 Zadehian Paradigms for Knowledge Extraction in Intelligent Manufacturing
- Chapter 11 PURE: A Fuzzy Model for Product Upgradability and Reusability Evaluation for Remanufacture
- Chapter 12 Distributed Architecture for Intelligent Robotic Assembly Part I: Design and Multimodal Learning
- Chapter 13 Distributed Architecture for Intelligent Robotic Assembly Part II: Design of the Task Planner
- Chapter 14 Distributed Architecture for Intelligent Robotic Assembly Part III: Design of the Invariant Object Recognition System
- Chapter 15 Assembly Sequence Planning Using Neural Network Approach
- Chapter 16 Evolutionary Optimisation of Mechanical Structures or Systems
- Chapter 17 Improving Machining Accuracy Using Smart Materials
- Chapter 18 Concurrent Process Tolerancing Based on Manufacturing Cost And Quality Loss
- Chapter 19 Optimize Variant Product Design Based on Component Interaction Graph
- Chapter 20 Applying a Hybrid Data Mining Approach in Machining Operation for Surface Quality Assurance
- Chapter 21 Sequential Design of Optimum Sized and Geometric Tolerances
- Chapter 22 A New Rapid Tooling Process
- Chapter 23 SCM Innovation for Business Globalization Based on Coupling Point Inventory Planning
- Chapter 24 Relative Control and Management Philosophy
- Chapter 25 Multidimensional of Manufacturing Technology, Organizational Characteristics, and Performance
- Chapter 26 Engineering Change Management in Distruted Environment with PDM/PLM Support
- Chapter 27 Study of Flexibility and Adaptability in Distributed Supply Chains
- Chapter 28 An Autonomous Decentralized Supply Chain Planning and Scheduling System
- Chapter 29 Simulation Modeling and Analysis of the Impacts of Component Commonality and Process Flexibility on Integrated Supply Chain Network Performance
- Chapter 30 On Direct Adaptive Control for Uncertain Dynamical Systems - Synthesis and Applications