Overview
- Editors:
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Lihui Wang
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National Research Council of Canada, London, Canada
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Jeff Xi
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Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
- Presents a focused collection of state of the art of research efforts in the area of smart devices and novel machine design, as well as their practical applications to enable advanced manufacturing
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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- Zhen Huang, Jingfang Liu, Qinchuan Li
Pages 49-78
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- Torgny BrogĂĄrdh, Geir Hovland
Pages 79-109
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- Mahir Hassan, Amir Khajepour
Pages 111-135
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- Fengfeng (Jeff) Xi, Liang Liao, Richard Mohamed, Kefu Liu
Pages 137-166
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- Guilin Yang, I-Ming Chen, Song Huat Yeo, Wei Lin
Pages 167-188
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- Jaspreet S. Dhupia, A. Galip Ulsoy, Yoram Koren
Pages 219-238
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- K. F. Ehmann, R. E. DeVor, S. G. Kapoor, J. Cao
Pages 283-318
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- Kuang-Chao Fan, Ye-Tai Fei, Weili Wang, Yejin Chen, Yan-Chan Chen
Pages 319-335
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- Ramesh K. Singh, Shreyes N. Melkote
Pages 337-365
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- R. Du, Candy X. Y. Tang, D. L. Zhang
Pages 367-384
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Back Matter
Pages 385-390
About this book
Manufacturing has been one of the key areas that support and influence a nation’s economy since the 18th century. Being the primary driving force in economic growth, manufacturing constantly serves as the foundation of and contributes to other industries. In the past centuries, manufacturing has contributed to the modern civilisation and created momentum that is continuously driving today’s economy. Despite various revolutionary changes and innovations in the 20th century that contributed to manufacturing advancements, we are facing new challenges when striving to achieve greater success in winning global competitions. Machines and robots, as the constituent components in manufacturing, have contributed significantly to the success of advanced manufacturing. After evolving from the initial mechanisation era where mechanical devices were created to replace human labours to the later automation era where control devices were invented to replace human operations, the history of machines has now entered into the modern era of autonomisation where intelligent devices are being developed in an attempt to eventually replace human decision making. While machines are becoming more and more intelligent through integration with new technologies including sensors, controls, computers and even the Internet, machine structures and theories have also advanced, most noticeably in the area of parallel kinematic machines and micro machines.
Editors and Affiliations
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National Research Council of Canada, London, Canada
Lihui Wang
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Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
Jeff Xi
About the editors
Lihui Wang is a professor of virtual manufacturing at the University of Skövde’s Virtual Systems Research Centre in Sweden. He was previously a senior research scientist at the Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute, National Research Council of Canada. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at the University of Western Ontario, and a registered professional engineer in Canada.
His research interests and responsibilities are in web-based and sensor-driven real-time monitoring and control, distributed machining process planning, adaptive assembly planning, collaborative design, supply chain management, as well as intelligent and adaptive manufacturing systems.
Dr Fengfeng (Jeff) Xi, is a Professor at Ryerson University, Canada, and an Adjunct Professor at the East China Jiao-Tong University. His research interests are in the area of manufacturing and automation.
