Manufacturers worldwide are faced with unprecedented challenges from international competition, changing production processes and technologies, shorter production life-cycles, market globalization and environmental requirements. Fundamental to meeting these challenges is the understanding and control of information across all stages of the Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) process. Modern Manufacturing presents the state of the art in the information-oriented aspects of CIM and Intelligent Manufacturing Systems. Particular emphasis is placed on the impact of new software engineering technologies, the object-oriented approach, database design, hierarchical control and intelligent systems. The contributions are written by experts from Europe and the USA.

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1. Modern Manufacturing.- 2. Enterprise Modelling.- 3. Object-Oriented Information Modelling.- 4. Databases for CIMS and IMS.- 5. An Object-Oriented Approach to Design of Process Parameters.- 6. Hierarchical Production Management.- 7. Hierarchical Control Approach to Managerial Problems for Manufacturing Systems.- 8. Flexible Manufacturing by Integrated Control and Management.- 9. Modeling of Manufacturing Systems.- 10. Fault Tolerance in Flexible Manufacturing Systems Parameters.- 11. Integration of CAD, CAM and Process Planning.- 12. Features as Modeling Entities for Intelligent Design Systems in Mechanical Engineering.- 13. Implementation of JIT Technology.