Flexible Automation and Integrated Manufacturing 1996

ISBN Print: 978-1-56700-067-2

Based on the huge success of previous FAIM conferences, FAIM '96 is being hosted this year by the Manufacturing Research Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. The next conference will take place in June, 1997 at the European Process Industries Competitiveness Center (EPICC Ltd) at the University of Teesside in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom.
The preceding conferences in the U.S.A. and Ireland were dedicated to the main topics of Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing. As a consequence of international activity in Production Research, which has led to many new developments, FAIM '96 promotes and advances the state-of-the-art in this domain by focusing on intelligent manufacturing. The FAIM conference series differs from many other conferences in that it presents an integrated picture of these related technologies, rather than focusing on one single technology.
This year, authors from approximately 25 countries have contributed more than 90 papers, and as in the case of previous FAIM conferences, each paper has been thoroughly refereed by at least two reviewers.
The objectives of the Sixth International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM '96) are to support the international exchange of experience about outstanding industrial developments and the latest results of production research.

Table of contents

SECTION 1: BUSINESS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS

ACHIEVING COMPETITIVENESS FROM TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS Jan Frick, Roar Hjulstad, Hongyi Sun DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.30 pages 20-29
ENHANCING COMPETITIVENESS: BARRIERS AND PROMISING PRACTICES Ronald L. Meier, H. Fred Walker DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.50 pages 40-46
HOPFIELD NEURAL NETWORK FOR A TRANSNATIONAL ENTERPRISE'S MANUFACTURING NETWORK Nicola Violante, Pierpaolo Pontrandolfo, O. Geoffrey Okogbaa DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.100 pages 88-98

SECTION 2: MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY

BASELINE CALIBRATION OF AUTOBRAZER FOR QUALITY CONTROL Emmanuel I. Agba, Elborn W. Jones, Andres S. Penaherrera, Bruce Thrift DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.120 pages 110-119
AUTOMATED DATA COLLECTION FOR AUTOMATED QUALITY CONTROL IN ASSEMBLY CELLS Richard E. Billo, Kim LaScola Needy, Thomas A. Barbe DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.140 pages 131-138
FIBER OPTIC SENSING OF DISPLACEMENT AND PRESSURE Hossein Golnabi, Ashkan Ashrafi, Habib Golnabi DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.160 pages 149-158
CELL CONTROL ENGINEERING Hans J. Lynggaard, Leo Alting DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.190 pages 178-187
ENHANCED AUTOMATION OF INJECTION MOULDING BY VISUAL FEEDBACK Robert Marsh, Richard J. Stamp, Terry M. Hill DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.200 pages 188-196
ENHANCING VISION DATA USING PRIOR KNOWLEDGE Alan H. Redford, K. Khalili DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.210 pages 197-205
FACTORY AUTOMATION USING OSI TECHNOLOGIES: PROCESSES AUTOMATION IN A TRANSFORMERS MANUFACTURING PLANT Eduardo Tovar, Jose Oliveira, Mario Alves, Rui Azevedo, Adriano Carvalho, Mario Sousa, Paulo Portugal, Jose Carvalho DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.270 pages 246-253
REQUIREMENTS ON PERCEPTION IN INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS Markus Vincze, Herbert Hufnagl, Karl M. Filz, P. Krautgartner, S. Spiess DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.280 pages 254-262

SECTION 3: PRODUCT AND PROCESS DESIGN

ANALYSIS OF DETERMINISTIC POSITIONING ON WORKHOLDING FIXTURES A. Armillotta, G. Moroni, L. Negrini, Quirico Semeraro DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.300 pages 274-284
THE AGILITY OF BUCKET BRIGADE PRODUCTION LINES John J. Bartholdi, III, Donald D. Eisenstein DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.320 pages 295-299
DESING FOR DISASSEMBLY VIA VIRTUAL PROTOTYPING Matthew D. Bauer, Zahed Siddique, David W. Rosen DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.330 pages 300-311
INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTS OF CONTROL LOGIC ON AGV SYSTEM PERFORMANCE Terrence G. Beaumariage, I-Chien Wang, Chun-Ho Kuo DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.340 pages 312-321
CONCURRENT ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENT FOR PRODUCT DESIGN, ASSEMBLY AND RESOURCE PLANNING Alain Delchambre, Ip-Shing Fan, Alain Wafflard, Emanuel Falkenauer DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.350 pages 322-331
A BENCHMARKING STUDY OF DESIGN INFRASTRUCTURES IN SHIPBUILDING AND OTHER HEAVY INDUSTRIES Michael R. Duffey, Philip C. Koenig, David W. Rosen, Perry Singh DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.370 pages 341-350
FEEDBACK INTO THE EARLY STAGES OF DESIGN Holger Durr, Michael Schramm DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.380 pages 351-362
CONSTRAINT MANAGEMENT AND DESIGN MODELS IN SUPPORTING RE-DESIGN Pat Fothergill, Ines Arana, Jorg Forster DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.390 pages 363-372
MODELING OF REQUIREMENTS: THE KEY FOR COOPERATIVE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT Hans Grabowski, S. Rude, M. Gebauer, C. Rzehorz DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.410 pages 382-391
TOWARDS COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL PROTOTYPING IN A WORLD MARKET Uwe Jasnoch, Edwin Klement, Holger Kress, Norbert Schiffner DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.430 pages 402-411
ROBOTIC LOIN CUTTING Norbert Lay DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.460 pages 430-438
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY FRAMEWORK FOR IPPD IN AERONAUTICAL INDUSTRY Unny Menon, Michael Graham, Gregory Thompson DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.490 pages 458-467
DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURE AT THE FUNCTION LEVEL OF ABSTRACTION: A CONCEPTUAL EXPOSITION Jesse Peplinski, Patrick Koch, Janet K. Allen, Farrokh Mistree DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.520 pages 488-498
INTERACTIVE DESIGN OF A PRODUCT AND ITS ASSEMBLY LINE Frederic Petit, A. Leroy, Benoit Raucent, E. Aguirre DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.530 pages 499-508
DEVELOPMENT OF A RAPID PROTOTYPING SYSTEM FOR TACTILE GRAPHICS PRODUCTION Guangming Zhang, Mark Richardson, Rena Surana, Steve Dwornik, Warren Schmidt DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.590 pages 558-567

SECTION 4: MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS

A FRAMEWORK FOR PRODUCTION PLANNING AND SCHEDULING IN FMC Esther Alvarez, F. Javier Zubillaga DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.600 pages 569-578
INTEGRATION OF AN MRP II SOFTWARE AND CIM COMPONENTS Gulay Barbarosoglu, Emre Kabas DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.630 pages 601-610
REPRESENTING PART FAMILIES USING DECISION TREES Ramana V. Dasari, Young B. Moon DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.660 pages 631-640
METHODS FOR THE FORGING PROCESS TO IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY AND QUALITY Eckart Doege, Juergen Dohmann, Kai Brueggemann DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.690 pages 660-669
APPLICATION OF FUZZY LOGIC FOR METAL CUTTING DATA SELECTION M. A. El Baradie, K. Hashmi, M. Ryan DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.710 pages 680-690
AGENT-BASED FACTORY INFORMATION SYSTEMS Pierre Lefrancois, Louis Cloutier, Benoit Montreuil DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.800 pages 768-778
INTEGRATED NC PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING SUPPORT FOR SMALL MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES Stephen T. Newman, Foo-Ren Ho, Mathew Pickering DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.810 pages 779-789
THE ROLE OF GENETIC ALGORITHMS IN PRODUCTION SCHEDULING Barry A. O'Sullivan, Huw J. Lewis DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.820 pages 790-799
FIXTURE ORIENTATED PLANNING WITHIN FLEXIBLE MACHINING SYSTEMS Shahin Rahimifard, Stephen T. Newman DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.840 pages 810-819
CONTROL ISSUES FOR INTEGRATED DESIGN AGENTS Andre L. T. Ramos, Michael P. Deisenroth DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.850 pages 820-828
A LEARNABLE SIMULATION SYSTEM FOR SCHEDULING FMS Wilfried Sauer, Gerald Weigert, Peter Goerigk DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.870 pages 839-848
SCHEDULING OPTIMIZATION IN AN ACTUAL JOB-SHOP C. Sheahan, Peter Williams, Michael T. Hillery DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.880 pages 849-858
ECONOMIC PROCESSING MODELS FOR FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS Mambir S. Sodhi, Bernard F. Lamond, Martin Noel DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.900 pages 868-876
USER DEFINED FEATURES FOR CAD/CAPP INTEGRATION Hans Kurt Tonshoff, Guido Zahn DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1996.920 pages 888-896