Ebook: Balanced Automation Systems: Architectures and design methods

Towards Balanced Automation The concept. Manufacturing industries worldwide are facing tough challenges as a consequence of the globalization of economy and the openness of the markets. Progress of the economic blocks such as the European Union, NAFTA, and MERCOSUR, and the global agreements such as GATT, in addition to their obvious economic and social consequences, provoke strong paradigm shifts in the way that the manufacturing systems are conceived and operate. To increase profitability and reduce the manufacturing costs, there is a recent tendency towards establishing partnership links among the involved industries, usually between big industries and the networks of components' suppliers. To benefit from the advances in technology, similar agreements are being established between industries and universities and research institutes. Such an open tete-cooperation network may be identified as an extended enterprise or a virtual enterprise. In fact, the manufacturing process is no more carried out by a single enterprise, rather each enterprise is just a node that adds some value (a step in the manufacturing chain) to the cooperation network of enterprises. The new trends create new scenarios and technological challenges, especially to the Small and Medium size Enterprises (SMEs) that clearly comprise the overwhelming majority of manufacturing enterprises worldwide. Under the classical scenarios, these SMEs would have had big difficulties to access or benefit from the state of the art technology, due to their limited human, financial, and material resources.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 3-3
The Extended Enterprise — Manufacturing and The Value Chain....Pages 5-16
Continuous Education in New Manufacturing Systems....Pages 17-26
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Information and command infrastructures for small and medium size enterprises....Pages 29-36
Narrowing the gap of SME for IT innovation with enterprise architectures....Pages 37-44
One-Product-Integrated-Manufacturing....Pages 45-52
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Transition Enabling Petri Nets to Supervisory Control Theory....Pages 55-62
Planning, Training and Learning in Supervision of Flexible Assembly Systems....Pages 63-74
Automated Planning for restarting Batch Procedure in the Wake of an Incident (Single Product)....Pages 75-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
An Object-Oriented Approach to the Design of Flexible Manufacturing Systems....Pages 91-106
Integration of Object Oriented Programming and Petri Nets for modelling and Supervision of FMS/FAS....Pages 107-120
Design of FMS: Logical architecture....Pages 121-128
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Issues on the anthropocentric production systems....Pages 131-140
A Complementary Approach to Flexible Automation....Pages 141-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
AI for manufacturing: Some practical experience....Pages 151-158
A manufacturing support system for industrial part process planning....Pages 159-170
Fuzzy logic for similarity analysis....Pages 171-178
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
HOLOS : a methodology for deriving scheduling systems....Pages 181-194
Evaluation of on-line schedules by distributed simulation....Pages 195-202
Integration of Process Planning and Scheduling using Resource Elements....Pages 203-210
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
A Decision Making Tool in FMS Design....Pages 213-221
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
Multipurpose Layout Planner....Pages 222-229
Towards more humanized real time decision support systems....Pages 230-237
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Interoperability testing in an Implementation of ISO/OSI Protocols....Pages 241-252
Supporting the Information Management of Control Activities in a CIM Shop Floor Environment....Pages 253-264
Object-Oriented Development Methodology for PLC software....Pages 265-272
Front Matter....Pages 273-273
Support for Concurrent Engineering in CIM-FACE....Pages 275-286
A Federated Cooperation Architecture for Expert Systems Involved in Layout Optimization....Pages 287-300
A holistic approach to intelligent automated control....Pages 301-308
Front Matter....Pages 309-309
Reference Models for an Object Oriented Design of Production Activity Control Systems....Pages 311-318
Organizational behaviour analysis and information technology fitness in manufacturing....Pages 319-326
An Integrated Framework for the Development of Computer Aided Engineering Systems....Pages 327-335
Front Matter....Pages 337-337
Formal and Informal in Balanced System Specifications....Pages 339-348
PFS/MFG: A High Level Net for the Modeling of Discrete Manufacturing Systems....Pages 349-362
Discrete event and motion-oriented simulation for FMS....Pages 363-372
Front Matter....Pages 373-373
Group technology considerations for manufacturing systems with balanced flexibility....Pages 375-384
Product differentiation and process flexibility as base for competitive strategy....Pages 385-392
Balanced automatization levels in manufacturing systems....Pages 393-404
Front Matter....Pages 405-405
Architecture Solutions for Integrating CAD, CAM and Machining in Small Companies....Pages 407-416
A feature-based concurrent engineering environment....Pages 417-428
A framework for feature based CAD/CAM integration....Pages 429-436
Front Matter....Pages 437-437
CNC Machines Monitoring Using Sensorial Stochastic Models....Pages 439-450
No Knowledge to Waste — Learning more about Processes....Pages 451-458
3-D Vascular reconstruction on a standard X-ray angiography machine....Pages 459-466
Back Matter....Pages 467-471

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 3-3
The Extended Enterprise — Manufacturing and The Value Chain....Pages 5-16
Continuous Education in New Manufacturing Systems....Pages 17-26
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Information and command infrastructures for small and medium size enterprises....Pages 29-36
Narrowing the gap of SME for IT innovation with enterprise architectures....Pages 37-44
One-Product-Integrated-Manufacturing....Pages 45-52
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Transition Enabling Petri Nets to Supervisory Control Theory....Pages 55-62
Planning, Training and Learning in Supervision of Flexible Assembly Systems....Pages 63-74
Automated Planning for restarting Batch Procedure in the Wake of an Incident (Single Product)....Pages 75-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
An Object-Oriented Approach to the Design of Flexible Manufacturing Systems....Pages 91-106
Integration of Object Oriented Programming and Petri Nets for modelling and Supervision of FMS/FAS....Pages 107-120
Design of FMS: Logical architecture....Pages 121-128
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Issues on the anthropocentric production systems....Pages 131-140
A Complementary Approach to Flexible Automation....Pages 141-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
AI for manufacturing: Some practical experience....Pages 151-158
A manufacturing support system for industrial part process planning....Pages 159-170
Fuzzy logic for similarity analysis....Pages 171-178
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
HOLOS : a methodology for deriving scheduling systems....Pages 181-194
Evaluation of on-line schedules by distributed simulation....Pages 195-202
Integration of Process Planning and Scheduling using Resource Elements....Pages 203-210
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
A Decision Making Tool in FMS Design....Pages 213-221
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
Multipurpose Layout Planner....Pages 222-229
Towards more humanized real time decision support systems....Pages 230-237
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Interoperability testing in an Implementation of ISO/OSI Protocols....Pages 241-252
Supporting the Information Management of Control Activities in a CIM Shop Floor Environment....Pages 253-264
Object-Oriented Development Methodology for PLC software....Pages 265-272
Front Matter....Pages 273-273
Support for Concurrent Engineering in CIM-FACE....Pages 275-286
A Federated Cooperation Architecture for Expert Systems Involved in Layout Optimization....Pages 287-300
A holistic approach to intelligent automated control....Pages 301-308
Front Matter....Pages 309-309
Reference Models for an Object Oriented Design of Production Activity Control Systems....Pages 311-318
Organizational behaviour analysis and information technology fitness in manufacturing....Pages 319-326
An Integrated Framework for the Development of Computer Aided Engineering Systems....Pages 327-335
Front Matter....Pages 337-337
Formal and Informal in Balanced System Specifications....Pages 339-348
PFS/MFG: A High Level Net for the Modeling of Discrete Manufacturing Systems....Pages 349-362
Discrete event and motion-oriented simulation for FMS....Pages 363-372
Front Matter....Pages 373-373
Group technology considerations for manufacturing systems with balanced flexibility....Pages 375-384
Product differentiation and process flexibility as base for competitive strategy....Pages 385-392
Balanced automatization levels in manufacturing systems....Pages 393-404
Front Matter....Pages 405-405
Architecture Solutions for Integrating CAD, CAM and Machining in Small Companies....Pages 407-416
A feature-based concurrent engineering environment....Pages 417-428
A framework for feature based CAD/CAM integration....Pages 429-436
Front Matter....Pages 437-437
CNC Machines Monitoring Using Sensorial Stochastic Models....Pages 439-450
No Knowledge to Waste — Learning more about Processes....Pages 451-458
3-D Vascular reconstruction on a standard X-ray angiography machine....Pages 459-466
Back Matter....Pages 467-471
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