Advanced Manufacturing / Computer-Assisted Management and Control of Manufacturing Systems

References.- 8 Shop Controllers-Managers for Intelligent Manufacturing.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Efficiency through economy of scope.- 3 Govern-for-flexibility knowledge architecture.- 4 Applications and example development.- 5 Concluding comments.- References.- 9 A CIM Designed According to Ward and Mello.- 1 The Ward and Mellor methodology.- 2 The Ward and Mellor methodology applied to CIM.- 3 Evaluation of the Ward and Mellor methodology.- 4 Conclusions.- References.- 10 Monitoring and Automatic Supervision in Manufacturing Systems.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Classification of disturbances.- 3 Sensors and methods of monitoring.- 4 Methods of influencing manufacturing systems.- 5 Automatic supervisory systems.- 6 Conclusions.- References.- 11 Petri Nets for Designing Manufacturing System.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Petri nets.- 3 Modeling FMS using Petri nets.- 4 Validation of Petri net models.- 5 Coordination control of production systems by mean of Petri nets.- 6 Design, modelling and analysis of a FMS.- 7 Conclusions.- References.- 12 Petri Net-Based Approach to Synthesis of Intelligent Control Systems for DEDS.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Petri net-based modelling of DEDS.- 3 Analysis of the DEDS control possibilities.- 4 Petri nets in the rule-based knowledge representation.- 5 Utilizing the knowledge base in the control synthesis.- 6 Illustrative examples.- 7 Knowledge inference and automatic reasoning.- 8 An illustrative example.- 9 Conclusions.- References.- 13 New Methods and Tools for Commissioning of Manufacturing Lines with Robots.- 1 Introduction.- 2 State-of-the-art in robot planning and future needs.- 3 Methods and tools for commissioning time reduction.- 4 Conclusions.- References.- 14 Balanced Automation.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Difficulties and contributions.- 3 BAS and shop floor.- 4 BAS and scheduling.- 5 BAS and concurrent engineering.- 6 BAS and virtual enterprises.- 7 Conclusions.- References.- 15 Factory Principles Applied to Analytical Chemistry: An Integrated Laboratory Management System.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Business motives.- 3 Business integration.- 4 Laboratory integration.- 5 Anatomy of the ILMS.- 6 The integration process.- 7 The experience.- References.- 16 The Generalized Network Model: Algorithms and Application to Manufacturing Operations.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Network formulation and mathematical problem statement.- 3 Solution algorithms.- 4 Applications.- 5 Genet-optimizer and Genetexp: A new GN-modelling tool.- 6 Conclusions.- References.- Biographies of the Contributors.