Product Description: An International Conference on Robotics and Factories of the Future was held on December 4-7, 1984 in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. The development of technology and the status as it stands today is highly multidisciplinary and complex in nature...read more

Product Description: This volume provides an up-to-date account of new components and their applications in automated systems. The book covers the use and variety of instrumentation, a wide range of automated control systems and their costs and functions, and also includes panel discussions to give a complete overview of the state of the art of this important technological field...read more

Product Description: The last decade has seen the emergence of a unified approach for product design which attempts to combine traditionally distinct tasks such as design, management, marketing, analysis, manufacture and materials. Often called "Concurrent Engineering" or "Simultaneous Engineering", this new philosophy aims at improving cost competitiveness by reducing waste of time, money, and other resources inherent in the iterative traditional methods...read more

Product Description: The Symposium presented and discussed the latest research on new theories and advanced applications of automatic systems, which are developed for manufacturing technology or are applicable to advanced manufacturing systems. The topics included computer integrated manufacturing, simulation and the increasingly important areas of artificial intelligence and expert systems, and applied them to the broad spectrum of problems that the modern manufacturing engineer is likely to encounter in the design and application of increasingly complex automatic systems...read more

Product Description: This volume will be of interest to all those who are involved in the development and integration of systems into the manufacturing and industrial process. It draws together theoretical situations as well as many practical examples of systems which are currently in use in industry, including computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) and flexible manufacturing systems (FMS)...read more

Product Description: Flexible Automation and Information Management - 1992 features the proceedings of the Second International Flexible Automation and Information Management Conference (FAIM '92). The book addresses problems faced by industry and research and development centers, and it focuses on the state-of-the-art and future trends within the general area of flexible automation and information management...read more

Product Description: These proceedings contain more than 80 of the best papers presented at the INCOM '92 Symposium, and relate to the vast changes which are occurring worldwide in manufacturing technology. Research oriented technical papers cover subjects such as: simulation of manufacturing processes; sensor based robots; information systems; general aspects of CIM and manufacturing networks...read more

Product Description: The objective of this 1st Workshop was to bring together end-users, manufacturers and (computer) control specialists to evaluate possibilities in the important field of factory automation. This volume offers solutions for product, process design, production design and control...read more

Product Description: The main aim of this symposium was to bring together end-users and control system specialists to evaluate the possibilities for improvement of techniques, design procedures, components and instruments to encourage low cost automation; considering not only economic aspects but also improvements in productivity, reliability, flexibility and ease-of-application...read more

Product Description: Proceedings of the September 1994 conference organized to serve the interests of the manufacturing industry involved in creating products using state-of-the-art research technology. Papers review topics such as robotics; vision systems; flexible assembly systems and their modeling, simulation, and ...read more