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Advanced Information Technologies for Industrial Material Flow Systems

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Shimon Y. Nof

    1. School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, USA

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  2. Colin L. Moodie

    1. School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, USA

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Part of the book series: NATO ASI Subseries F: (NATO ASI F, volume 53)

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Table of contents (29 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
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  2. Nature of Information in Material Flow Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Managing Information Complexity in Material Flow Systems

      • James J. Solberg, Joseph A. Heim
      Pages 3-20

    3. Information Dynamics for Computer Integrated Product Realization

      • Charles A. Fritsch
      Pages 21-38

    4. Some Interactions of Information and Control in Integrated Automation Systems

      • Edward J. Barkmeyer
      Pages 39-54

  4. Robotics and Communications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
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    2. The Impact of Advances in Information Technology on Interactive Robotics

      • S. Y. Nof
      Pages 171-188

    3. The Karlsruhe Autonomous Mobile Assembly Robot

      • Ulrich Rembold
      Pages 189-199

    4. Knowledge Representation and Integration of Robot Assembly Applications

      • S. Schneider
      Pages 201-213

    5. Results of the Development of a Manipulator with a very large reach

      • Martin-Christoph Wanner, Alexander Schließmann
      Pages 215-222

    6. Global Path Planning Approaches for Material Movements in a Worksite

      • Jean-Claude Latombe
      Pages 223-278

    7. The Need for a Generic Framework for Systems Integration

      • R. H. Weston, J. D. Gascoigne, C. M. Sumpter, A. Hodgson
      Pages 279-306

  5. Modeling Issues of Specific Material Flow Systems Functions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 307-307
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    2. Some Issues in Controlling Integrated WIP Material Handling Systems

      • Leon F. McGinnis
      Pages 309-328
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About this book

This book contains the results of an Advanced Research Workshop that took place in Grenoble, France, in June 1988. The objective of this NATO ARW on Advanced Information Technologies for Industrial Material Flow Systems (MFS) was to bring together eminent research professionals from academia, industry and government who specialize in the study and application of information technology for material flow contro!' The current world status was reviewed and an agenda for needed research was discussed and established. The workshop focused on the following subjects: The nature of information within the material flow domain. Status of contemporary databases for engineering and material flow. Distributed databases and information integration. Artificial intelligence techniques and models for material flow problem solving. Digital communications for material flow systems. Robotics, intelligent systems, and material flow contro!' Material handling and storage systems information and contro!' Implementation, organization, and economic research-issues as related to the above. Material flow control is as important as manufacturing and other process control in the computer integrated environment. Important developments have been occurring internationally in information technology, robotics, artificial intelligence and their application in material flow/material handling systems. In a traditional sense, material flow in manufacturing (and other industrial operations) consists of the independent movement of work-in-process between processing entities in order to fulfill the requirements of the appropriate production and process plans. Generally, information, in this environment, has been communicated from processors to movers.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, USA

    Shimon Y. Nof, Colin L. Moodie

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