Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing,  1997:<br>Proceedings of the Seventh International FAIM Conference

Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing, 1997:
Proceedings of the Seventh International FAIM Conference

ISBN Print: 978-1-56700-089-4

ISBN Online: 978-1-56700-442-7

The objectives of the Seventh International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM '97) are to support the international exchange of experience about outstanding industrial developments and the latest results of production research.

COPING WITH DISTURBANCES A PERFORMANCE EVALUATION APPROACH IN VIRTUAL MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENTS Nabil N. Z. Gindy , Sameh M. Saad pages 1-12

DEVELOPING A WEBSITE FOR THE FORMATION OF VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES Carlos Bremer, Edson dos S. Moreira, Fredy J. Valente, Paulo C. de Carvalho Dias pages 13-23

FACILITY LOCATION AND RELOCATION IN GLOBAL MANUFACTURING STRATEGY Bahrain Emamizadeh, Reza Zanjirani Farahani pages 24-34

AGILITY: MORE THAN A BUZZWORD? Leon F. McGinnis pages 35-42

ECONOMIC VALUE ADDED BY MANUFACTURING FIRMS William G. Sullivan pages 43-48

Product design methodological contribution based on product decisions : Proposition of reference decisionnal process Jean Renaud, Vincent Boly, Valerie Rault-Jacquot, Laure Morel, Claudine Guidat pages 49-56

SIMULTANEOUS PRODUCT/PROCESS DESIGN FOR DISASSEMBLY Matthew D. Bauer, David W. Rosen pages 57-68

AN INTEGRATED SYSTEM FOR FUNCTIONAL MODELING AND CONFIGURATION IN CONCEPTUAL DESIGN Janis P. Terpenny pages 69-80

PLUG AND PLAY FRAMEWORK FOR COMBINATORAL PROBLEM HEURISTICS Andrew Wooster pages 81-91

A MODEL FOR OPTIMISING THE MASTER PRODUCTION SCHEDULE IN MRP SYSTEMS Alistair R. Clark pages 92-101

THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTEGRATED PRODUCTION AND STRATEGIC PLANNING SYSTEM FOR BUILDING PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY Nashwan Dawood , Husam Petros pages 102-110

INTERACTIVE METHOD FOR GROUPING OPERATIONS IN ASSEMBLY LINE DESIGN Fabrice Pellichero, Alain Delchambre, Bertrand Mareschal pages 111-122

GENERIC MODELLING OF CELL CONTROL SYSTEMS AND PRODUCTION RESOURCES Per Gullander , Par Klingstam , Par Martensson pages 123-134

PRE-TREATMENT OF DATA FOR IMPROVED ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODEL GENERATION S. D. Parvin , D. Peel , M. Leek pages 135-144

ADVANCED CONTROL OF A DISTILLATION COLUMN M. Leek , D. Peel pages 145-156

ADAPTIVE CONTROLLERS FOR THE REGULATION OF THE GEOMETRICAL AND THERMAL CHARACTERISTICS OF GMA WELDING S. G. Tzafestas, E. J. Kyriannakis , G. G. Rigatos pages 157-168

HIERARCHICAL PETRI NET MODELING FOR SYSTEM DYNAMICS AND CONTROL OF MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS C. S. Liu, Y. H. Ma, Nicholas G. Odrey pages 169-182

PROGRAMMABLE CONTROLLERS PROGRAM GENERATION USING A TEXTUAL INTERFACE Orlando Duran , Antonio Batocchio pages 183-192

GLOBAL BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING: A SYSTEM DYNAMICS BASED APPROACH Jalal Ashayeri , R. Keij , A. Broker pages 193-203

ENHANCING LOSS PREVENTION THROUGH EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT AND EXCHANGE OF SAFETY CASE INFORMATION L. P. McAlinden, P. W. Norman, P. J. Sitoh pages 204-215

Design for de-manufacturing and generation of disassembly plans: The current state of knowledge George Ioannou , Subhash C. Sarin pages 216-227

THE IMPORTANCE OF CLIENT REQUIREMENTS PROCESSING IN CONCURRENT ENGINEERING J. M. Kamara, C. J. Anumba, N. F. O. Evbuomwan pages 228-238

A COMPUTER-AIDED PLANNING SYSTEM FOR THE PRE-CAST CONCRETE INDUSTRY Nashwan Dawood , B. Hobbs, A. Kalian pages 239-248

A METHOD FOR INTEGRATING FORM ERRORS INTO TOLERANCE ANALYSIS Scott Pierce , David W. Rosen pages 249-260

AN OPEN OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING OF MANUFACTURING PROCESSES Wilfried Sauer, Gerald Weigert, D. Hampel pages 261-268

AN UP-TO-DATE SHOP FLOOR MODEL FOR SHORT TERM PRODUCTION CONTROL Hans Kurt Tonshoff, Marc Sielemann pages 269-279

INTEROPERABILITY AND ITS IMPACT ON RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS Hua X. Du, Jun Wei, Chen Zhou pages 280-291

MODELLING AND CONTROL OF A PLASTICATING EXTRUDER C. K. S. Ho, LG. French, C. S. Cox, A. Jones pages 292-299

IMPROVED CONTROL OF MIMO PROCESSES USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS LG. French, C. K. S. Ho, C. S. Cox, K. C. S. Ng pages 300-311

A COLLABORATIVE MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING EDUCATION PROGRAM IN OREGON G. A. Spolek, R. D. Dryden, S. J. T. Owen pages 312-316

MODELLING OF SOCIAL SYSTEMS FOR ENHANCING THEIR PERFORMANCE Petia Sice pages 317-325

ERGONOMICS OF MATERIAL HANDLING Karl H. E. Kroemer pages 326-338

OPERATOR HEARING IN INDUSTRIAL NOISE: SIGNAL DETECTION, SPEECH COMMUNICATIONS, AND CONSIDERATIONS IN SELECTING HEARING PROTECTION John G. Casali pages 339-352

MACROERGONOMICS TO IMPROVE HUMAN AND TECHNICAL PERFORMANCE IN AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS Brian M. Kleiner pages 353-364

THE USE OF THE MONTE CARLO METHOD FOR TOOL SELECTION IN THE SHEET METAL INDUSTRY E. Summad, E. Appleton pages 365-374

MATERIAL TRANSPORT SCHEDULING IN FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS Bala Ram, Sanjay B. Joshi pages 375-386

FRONTIER BASED SCHEDULING IN FMS Gregory B. Jones, Manbir S. Sodhi, Victor Fay Wolfe pages 387-395

ERROR BUDGET CONTROL IN COORDINATE MEASURING SYSTEMS M. M. Sfantsikopoulos , S.C. Diplaris, V. S. Issopoulos, D. A. Mills pages 396-405

LASER RANGE FINDER AND VISION SENSORS FOR ROBOTIC APPLICATIONS Hossein Golnabi pages 406-415

PERFORMANCE TESTING OF HAND HELD SCANNERS FOR TWO DIMENSIONAL BAR CODE SYMBOLOGIES Richard E. Billo, Bopaya Bidanda, Martin Adickes pages 416-423

DESIGN INTEGRATION AND DATA INTERCHANGE IN A PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT P. W. Norman, R. Jamieson pages 424-436

TOTAL INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT SYSTEM A NEW APPROACH TO ORGANIZATION IT PLANNING Mohammed Kazem Farhang Kermani pages 437-448

DESIGN SOFTWARE FOR SPECIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF DISCRETE EVENT MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS T.O. Boucher, M. A. Jafari, R. C. Wurl, A. Yalcin pages 449-460

FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR METHODS TO SUPPORT EARLY-STAGE SPACE MISSION DESIGN Richard C. Anderson, Michael R. Duffey, Kevin W. Lyons pages 461-470

Analysis of k−Stage Automated Production Flow Lines with Recirculating Conveyor Buffer Storage William E. Biles, John S. Usher, Jacqueline M. Sprinkle pages 471-482

A MANUFACTURING CELL CONTROLLER ARCHITECTURE Antonio Quintas, Paulo Leitao pages 483-493

DESIGN AND REALIZATION OF INTELLIGENT AUTOMATED WORK-CELLS Heinz Ulrich, Willi Durig pages 494-503

INTER-CELL LAYOUT DESIGNS IN A CELLULAR MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENT- A CASE STUDY Massoud Bazargan-Lari pages 504-516

A VISION BASED INSPECTION SYSTEM OF PISTONS Dezhong Hong, Thompson Sarkodie-Gyan, Andrew W. Campbell pages 517-523

Use And Implementation Of Digital Close-Range Photogrammetry To Enhance Competitiveness: Use, Application, And Cost Justification George W. Johnson, H. Fred Walker pages 524-536

ENGINEERING 2D BAR CODE SYMBOLOGIES FOR MANUFACTURING INFORMATION SYSTEM MANAGEMENT Duane D. Dunlap, Soumya K. De pages 537-548

ACORN 1479 − AN INTEGRATED TOOLKIT FOR THE DESIGN OF FIELDBUS APPLICATIONS Iain G. Brownlie pages 549-560

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND AUTOMATION IN ELECTRONIC PRODUCT MANUFACTURING John T. Tester pages 561-570

SETUP MANAGEMENT ISSUES IN PRINTED CIRCUIT CARD ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS Kimberly P. Ellis, Leon F. McGinnis , Jane C. Ammons pages 571-581

FUZZY LOGIC CONTROL OF MATERIAL FLOW IN FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS Eman Kamel, William E. Biles pages 582-589

A STUDY OF DYNAMICAL AMPLIFICATION COEFFICIENT UNDER THE DIFFERENCE OF SPECIFIC CUTTING RESISTANCE IN LATHE CHATTER ( PART II) Yoshiaki Iwata pages 590-599

SPIN CASTING OF METAL PARTS DIRECTLY FROM RP MASTERS P.M. Hackney, M. Sarwar, S. Widdows pages 600-613

THE PRODUCTION OF OVER 2000 INJECTION MOULD IMPRESSIONS OF AN SL MASTER USING COPPER ELECTROFORMED INSERTS C. Bocking, G. Bennett, S. Dover pages 614-621

Economic Evaluation of Rapid Prototyping in the Development of New Products Guangming Zhang, Mark Richardson, Rena Surana pages 622-632

INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR MAKE-TO-ORDER MANUFACTURING S. A. Abbas pages 633-641

STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEM - INTEGRATION OF THE MANAGEMENT AND ENGINEERING ACTIVITIES Brane Semolic, Joze Balic pages 642-651

Architecture for low volume AGV controlled FMS Fergus G. Maughan, Huw J. Lewis pages 652-658

A TWO-HOLE CLAMPING STRATEGY WITH GEOMETRIC TOLERANCING FOR SETUP PLANNING Jueng-Shing Hwang, William A. Miller pages 659-668

OVERVIEW OF THE DATA MODELS AMD THE KNOWLEDGE SOURCES THAT FORM THE BACK-BONE OF AN INTERACTIVE CAPP KERNEL G. Van Zeir, J.-P. Kruth, J. Detand pages 669-682

ROUTING FLEXIBILITY IN A JUST-IN-TIME SYSTEM Min-Chun Yu, Timothy J. Greene pages 683-694

RE-ENGINEERING OF AN AUTOMATED WAREHOUSE SYSTEM USING OBJECT-ORIENTED SIMULATION Agostino G. Bruzzone, Roberto Mosca pages 695-704

EFFECTS OF NEGOTIATION MECHANISMS ON PERFORMANCE OF AGENT BASED MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS Naga K.C. Krothapalli, Abhijit V. Deshmukh pages 705-718

VALIDATION AND SIMULATION OF MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING DATA Anan Mungwattana, John Shewchuk, Albert Jones pages 719-728

SELECTION AND COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF CONVENTIONAL AND RAPID PROTOTYPING PROCESS CHAINS OF THE TOOL AND DIE-MAKING INDUSTRY BASED ON AN INTEGRATED INFORMATION MODEL Holger Durr, Uwe Kaschka pages 729-738

GETTING STARTED IN RAPID PROTOTYPING M. Sarwar, S. Hogarth, P.M. Hackney pages 739-750

A GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR OPTIMAL OBJECT PACKING IN A SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING RAPID PROTOTYPING MACHINE Ilkka Ikonen, William E. Biles pages 751-759

ADVANCES IN RAPID TOOLING IN PRODUCT INTRODUCTION PROCESSES Anthony Venus , Amerdeep Riat pages 760-768

TWO DIMENSIONAL STRESS ANALYSIS OF WORKING CONDITIONS ON THE PATELLA Farhad Nabhani, A.N. Hart, C. J. Connor, M. Wake pages 769-775

A CASE STUDY OF INTERACTIVE DESIGN OF A PRODUCT AND ITS ASSEMBLY LINE Th. Vast, Benoit Raucent, Frederic Petit pages 776-786

AN INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN FOR ENVIRONMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF DESIGN AIDS Philip M. Wolfe, Tom Caporello, David Bedworth pages 787-793

SHORT-CUT COSTING OF PROCESS VESSELS USING Al AND CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES A. M. Gerrard, J. Brass pages 794-802

SMALL FIRMS, BIG STOCKS? Michael Bedwell, Paul Higginbottom , Sharon Sandhu pages 803-809

SIMULATION AND COST ACCOUNTING Alexander Redlein, R. Rohrhofer, G. Schildt pages 810-819

PRODUCT COSTING FOR AUTOMATED FACTORIES Richard Giglio pages 820-827

PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT OF WORK TEAMS FOR COMPETITIVE MANUFACTURE A. J. R. Smith , M. Burwood pages 828-841

OBJECT ORIENTED MODELING FOR A PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR SMALL ENTERPRISES Orlando Duran , Antonio Batocchio pages 842-849

STRATEGIC TARGET COSTING Pui-Mun Lee , William G. Sullivan pages 850-858

MULTI-CRITERIA EVALUATION OF AUTOMATED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES Budi Saleh, Sabah Randhawa, Thomas West pages 859-866

Performance Measures for a Centralized Material Handling in Flexible Assembly Line Systems Jalal Ashayeri pages 867-876

PROBLEMS IN THE PROCESSING OF PARTICULATE SOLIDS -THE SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS OF PARTICULATE PROCESSES A.J. Matchett pages 877-886

A NEW APPROACH TO SMALL PARTS VIBRATORY CONVEYING Alan H. Redford, F Dhailami pages 887-897

THE APPLICATION OF QFD TO THE MANUFACTURE OF ENGINE BEARINGS John D. Foster , William G. Sullivan pages 898-909

QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT - IMPROVING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICE WITHIN MANUFACTURING Brendan Lynch, Ita Richardson pages 910-921

INTELLIGENT MANUFACTURING AND LATERALISATION W. F. Gaughran pages 922-931

CREATION OF SOLID MODELS USING MRI SCANNING Farhad Nabhani, A.N. Hart, C. J. Connor, M. Wake pages 932-938

PC BASED ROLL STRESS ANALYSIS J. Gui, LG. French, P. Blackburn, M. Munir Ahmad pages 939-946

A REVIEW AND COMPARISON OF EMERGING VIRTUAL 3-D TOOLS FOR PRODUCT DESIGN Grace M. Bochenek, James M. Ragusa pages 947-957

FACTORY AND LOGISTICS PLANNING WITH VIRTUAL REALITY Rolf D. Schraft, J. Neugebauer, K. Grefen pages 958-968

WHAT IS REAL-TIME AND HOW SHOULD WE USE IT? Antony Eddison pages 969-976

COST EFFECTIVENESS OF RELIABILITY-CENTERED MAINTENANCE Azim Houshyar pages 977-980

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