Towards Intelligent Manufacturing Systems This book contains the selected articles from the third International Conference on lriformation Technology for Balanced Automation Systems in Manufacturing. A rapid evolution in a number of areas leading to Intelligent Manufacturing Systems has been observ@d in recent years. Significant efforts are being spent on this research area, namely in terms of international cooperative projects, like the IMS initiative, the USA NIIIP (National Industrial Information Infrastructure Protocols) project, or the European ESPRIT programme, and a growing number of conferences and workshops. The importance of the Information and Communication Technologies in the manufacturing area is weIl established today. The proper combination of these areas with the socio-organizational issues, supported by intelligent tools, is however, more difficult to achieve, and fully justifies the need for the BASYS conference and the publication of the series of books on Balanced Automation SyStems. The first book of this series focused on the topic of "Architectures and Design Methods", was published in 1995. Mahy of the fundamental aspects of manufacturing, and some preliminary results were presented in this book. Among others, the topics included: Modeling and design of FMS, Enterprise modeling and organization, Decision support systems in manufacturing, Anthropocentric systems, CAE/CAD/CAM integration, Scheduling systems, Extended enterprises, Multi agent system architecture, Balanced flexibility, Intelligent supervision systems, Shop-floor control, and Computer aided process planning.

Klappentext

The development of Intelligent Manufacturing Systems represents a worldwide tendency. The areas of Multi-Agent Systems and Intelligent Mobile Agents offer a promising approach to such developments. Advances in electronic information exchange and multimedia have opened new opportunities for team work in networks of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), leading to the establishment of Virtual Enterprises. These advances identify new requirements in the areas of distributed information logistics infrastructure, information access control and intelligent interfaces with human users. Today's market requires greater flexibility and agility from the manufacturing process, while taking the immense legacy from the past in manufacturing into account. These new approaches to manufacturing automation have to be carefully observed in the context of the globalization of the economy, and must also take into account the social, economic, and re-engineering needs within the enterprises.

Inhalt
One: Multi-Agent Systems and Mobile Agents.- An agent-based approach to holonic manufacturing systems.- PVS 98 agent models and their application in production planning.- Mobile Agent technology in support of sales order processing in the virtual enterprise.- Using multiagent systems and the Internet in care services for the ageing society.- Two: Multi-Agent Systems in Scheduling.- Multiagent perspectives to agile scheduling.- Decentralised resource allocation planning through negotiation.- Scheduling in a Multi-Agent Environment.- Three: Building Multi-Agent Systems.- Agents and objects: Towards component integration for manufacturing systems re-engineering.- Analytical design methodology of agent oriented manufacturing systems.- Agent-based manufacturing: A database point of view.- Four: Intelligent Supervision Systems.- Application of machine learning techniques in water distribution networks assisted by domain experts.- Fuzzy cognitive map model for supervisory manufacture systems.- Using of expert systems in evaluation of high-voltage insulating systems.- Five: Virtual Enterprises.- Virtual enterprises: A Mexican case study.- Concurrent engineering in virtual enterprises: The extended CIM-FACE architecture.- Composing enterprise models: The extended and the virtual enterprise.- Six: Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises.- Basic services for the management of Virtual Enterprises: A case study.- Secure electronic commerce in virtual enterprises of SMEs.- Extended enterprise communications based on the client / server paradigm.- Seven: Collaborative Work.- Telework Business Process Co-ordination The supporting tool engineering life cycle.- The coach methaphor in CSCW decision making system design.- Eight: Knowledge Based Systems in Design.- Modelingexpertise for selecting manufacturing technology.- Some artificial intelligent techniques to design robotic systems.- Support for component based systems: Can contemporary technology cope?.- Nine: Planning and Scheduling.- A CIM application of a multi-agent system.- Simultaneous design and process planning by indicators.- Solving resource-constrained project scheduling problems using tabu search.- Ten: Modeling in Manufacturing.- Object oriented modelling of product oriented manufacturing systems.- Enhanced production flow schema for modeling the complex resource sharing system.- AOP3S: A balanced approach to model distributed manufacturing systems.- Eleven: Manufacturing Information Systems.- Perspective: A standards-based manufacturing information system.- An approach for real-time applications engineering.- Information systems for eco-effective manufacturing.- Twelve: Product Data Management.- Rule-based management of product data in CIM systems.- Integrating manufacturer and customer: The funSTEP way.- Integrated product model centred design in a virtual design office.- Thirteen: Anthropocentric Approaches in Manufacturing.- Information systems requirements specification through the mediation of technical and organizational perspectives.- Representation of human intent in product models.- Assistance systems supporting operators in manufacturing.- Fourteen: Quality Management.- Knowledge based methods and tools for TQM in small batch flexible manufacturing and complex assembly.- Computer aided part programming for improved part quality and productivity.- Fifteen: Soft-Computing.- Using fuzzy logic in high level control functions.- Fuzzy optimal control of mechanical systems.- A simple robust fuzzy-logic sliding-mode controller of the diagonal type.- Sixteen: PatternRecognition and Diagnostics.- An intelligent pattern recognition algorithm and its application in cutting tool condition monitoring process.- Vision-based sensors for production control The experience gathered in applications.- Seventeen: Simulation and Design.- Integration of manufacturing system and product design wit DMU.- Development of a feature-based computer-assisted fixturing system.- Eighteen: Theoretical Aspects of Design.- A contribution to algebraic approach for a CAD/CAPP specification.- Interactive design of integrated systems.- Human integration and participation in time constraint workshops with limiting transportation resources.- Nineteen: Workshop 1: Soft-Computing for Automation.- Object-oriented implementation of fuzzy logic systems.- Scheduling the arrivals in a no-wait flowshop with fuzzy processing times.- Fuzzy approximation of the functions minimum and maximum.- Fuzzy knowledge-based prediction of yeast's morphological characteristics for sparkling wine manufacturing.- Twenty: Workshop 2: Multi-Agent Systems.- Problems of learning in multi-agent systems.- User interface for multi-agent systems: A case study.