Manufacturing systems and technology stand on a new frontier, facing up to the challenges posed by the ever-evolving requirements of global sustainability. Value-creation is taking its place alongside more traditional production-process priorities.

Collected here are over a hundred papers concerned with all manner of new directions in manufacturing systems and given at the 41st CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems. The high-quality material presented in this volume includes reports of work from both scientific and engineering standpoints and several invited and keynote papers addressing the current cutting edge and likely future trends in manufacturing systems. Among others, the book's subjects include:

. new trends in manufacturing systems design: sustainable design, ubiquitous manufacturing, emergent synthesis, service engineering, value creation, cost engineering, human and social aspects of manufacturing, etc.;

. new applications for manufacturing systems - medical, life-science, optics, NEMS, etc.;

. intelligent use of advanced methods and new materials - new manufacturing process technologies, high-hardness materials, bio-medical materials, etc.;

. integration and control for new machines - compound machine tools, rapid prototyping, printing process integration, etc.

Manufacturing Systems and Technologies for the New Frontier is a valuable source of knowledge and a good basis for future work for researchers, scientists engineers and managers in industries interested in manufacturing technologies and will also be a useful source of reference for graduate students of manufacturing.

Auteur

Fumihiko Kimura is a professor in the Department of Precision Machinery Engineering of the University of Tokyo. He was a research associate at the Electrotechnical Laboratory of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry from 1974 to 1979. He then moved to the University of Tokyo, and was an associate professor from 1979 to 1987.

He created his first solid modeling system GEOMAP in his doctoral work in 1974, and he is one of the pioneers in the field of solid modeling and CAD/CAM research. Since then he has been active in the fields of solid modeling, free-form surface modelling and product modelling. Today his primary research area is Digital Engineering and Inverse Manufacturing (Environmentally Benign Manufacturing). His research interests now include the basic theory of CAD/CAM, concurrent engineering, engineering simulation, virtual manufacturing, total product life cycle modelling and management, reuse-oriented product/system design, and preventive maintenance. He has participated in IMS Projects, such as Globeman, Licopro and Promise, for more than 10 years. He is involved in the product model data exchange standardization activities of ISO/TC184/SC4, and is a national representative of ISO/TC184 and IFIP TC5, a member of IFIP WG5.2 and 5.3, and a fellow of CIRP, JSME and JSPE. He is a chairman of the evaluation committee of the IMS Program under METI, Japan, the technical committee of the Inverse Manufacturing Forum, MSTC, and other governmental and public committees.

He graduated from the Department of Aeronautics, the University of Tokyo, in 1968, and received a Dr. Eng. Sci. degree in aeronautics from the University of Tokyo in 1974.

Résumé

Collected here are 112 papers concerned with all manner of new directions in manufacturing systems given at the 41st CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems. The high-quality material presented in this volume includes reports of work from both scientific and engineering standpoints and several invited and keynote papers addressing the current cutting edge and likely future trends in manufacturing systems. The book's subjects include: (1) new trends in manufacturing systems design: sustainable design, ubiquitous manufacturing, emergent synthesis, service engineering, value creation, cost engineering, human and social aspects of manufacturing, etc.; (2) new applications for manufacturing systems medical, life-science, optics, NEMS, etc.; (3) intelligent use of advanced methods and new materials new manufacturing process technologies, high-hardness materials, bio-medical materials, etc.; (4) integration and control for new machines compound machine tools, rapid prototyping, printing process integration, etc.

Contenu
Plenary and Keynote Papers: Driving Innovation, An Industry Case to Enhance Manufacturing Competitiveness; Architecture-based Comparative Advantage in Japan and Asia; Manufuture and Sustainable Manufacturing; Challenges for the Manufacturing Enterprise to Achieve Sustainable Development; Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) Approach to Production Systems and Organisations; Scientific Approach to Services: What is the Design of Services?.- Manufacturing System Evaluation: A General Economic Model for Manufacturing Cost Simulation; Implementation of an Economic Model to Simulate Manufacturing Costs; A Dynamic Cost Model for the Effect of Improved Process Flexibility in Steel Plants; Manufacturing Characteristics of Subcontractor SMME:s - an Empirical Study; Integrated Information as an Enabler for Change Impact Evaluation in Manufacturing Life-cycle Management; Total Performance Analysis of a Downsized Manufacturing System; Environmental Burden Analysis for Machining Operation Using LCA Method; Efficient Maintenance of Machine Tools Adapted Maintenance Activities and Assembly-Specific Maintenance Intervals.- Manufacturing System Organization: Strategy-oriented Qualification Framework as a Supporting Function of Lean Production System Implementation in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises; An Environmental Perspective on Lean Production; Quantified Interdependencies between Lean Methods and Production Figures in the Small Series Production; Further Potentials of Smart Logistics; Production Management in SME Networks - Evaluation of Potentials and Achievements; Digital Virtual Holons An Approach to Digital Manufacturing Systems; Complex Manufacturing Space: An Integrated Description Model of Real and Virtual System Concepts for Information Enhanced Manufacturing; Grid Engineering for Networked and Multi-scale Manufacturing; Smart Factory - A Step towards the Next Generation of Manufacturing; Sustainable Manufacturing - Challenges and Possibilities for Research and Industry from a Swedish Perspective; Characteristic of a Proactive Assembly System; Virtual Manufacturing Work Systems; Virtual Enterprise Model for Integrated Planning in Manufacturing Supply Network; Manufacturing System to Support Design Concept and Reuse of Manufacturing Experience.- Implementation and Design System: Globalization-Compatible Product Structure Based on Technological Core Competences; Reducing Design Complexity of Multidisciplinary Domain Integrated Products: a Case Study; PLIB Ontology for Great Group Technology; Geometrical Properties of Paper Spring; Application of Axiomatic Design to Develop a Lean Logistics Design Methodology; Measuring and Analysing Levels of Automation in an Assembly System; Sustainable Design of Machine Tools through Load-Dependent Interventions and Adapted Services; Modeling and Implementation of Digital Semantic Machining Models for 5-axis Machining Application; Compensation of Thermal Deformations at Machine Tools Using Adaptronic CRP-Structures; Image Noise Reduction Using Wide Range Tuned Mass Damper for Scanning Electron Microscope.- Planning: A Model for Adaptively Generating Assembly Instructions Using State-based Graphs; Evaluating Assembly Instruction Methods in Cell Production System by Physiological Parameters and Subjective Indices; Assembly Work Settings Enabling Proactivity - Information Requirements; Assembly Information System for Operational Support in Cell Production; Multimedia Based Assembly Supporting System for Cell Production; Development of a Computer Aided Procedure to Control Division of Labo…