Advances in Manufacturing

I: Process Planning-Scheduling and Machine Cell Design.- 1. Concepts for Integrating Process Planning and Production Scheduling.- 2. Intelligence in Computer-Aided Process Planning for Machining.- 3. Single and Multi-Machine Scheduling of Jobs in Production Systems.- 4. A Study of Self-Organization in a Production Environment.- 5. The Process Plan Sequence in Steel Structures Welding of Great Diesel Engines.- 6. Design of Part-Machine Cells in Manufacturing Systems Using Mathematical Programming Techniques.- II : Process Monitoring, Inspection, Diagnosis and Maintenance.- 7. Knowledge Based Process Monitoring in Mass Production.- 8. Recent Developments in Automated Visual Inspection of Wood Boards.- 9. Automated Visual Quality Inspection of Printed Ceramic Dishes.- 10. Grafcet : Methodological and Formal Issues.- 11. A Synergistic Self-Organizing System for Control Chart Pattern Recognition.- 12. Conveyor-Belt Diagnostic System Using Time- Frequency Analysis.- 13. Integration of the Predictive Maintenance in Manufacturing System.- 14. A Geometric Calibration Method for Single-Head-Cone- Beam X-Ray Systems.- 15. A Tool for the Evaluation of Fieldbuses Reliability for Intelligence Distributed Automation System Design.- III: System Forecasting, Optimization and Control.- 16. Industrial Forecasting Using Knowledge-Based Techniques and Artificial Neural Networks.- 17. DAPHNE : A Neural Network Based Short-Term Load Forecasting Program. Application to an Autonomous Power System.- 18. Process Optimization System Used in Metallurgical Plants.- 19. Knowledge-Based Control Synthesis of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems.- 20. Static and Dynamic Control of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems.- 21. Min-Max Control with Application to Discrete Event Dynamic Systems.- IV : Robotic and Traveling Crane Systems.- 22. Force Sensing in Microrobot Systems : An Overview.- 23. Vision-Based Control Approaches for Trajectory Correction of Microrobots.- 24. Exploiting a Human Arm Model for Fast, Intuitive and Time-Delays-Robust Telemanipulation.- 25. Intelligent Robotic Assembly and Disassembly : General Architecture and Implementation Case Studies.- 26. Integrated Design for Flexible Assembly System : Robotic Arc Welding Stations for Containers.- 27. Stereo Image Processing and Virtual Reality in an Intelligent Robot Control System.- 28. Tracking Control for Automated Bridge Cranes.- 29. Robust Feedforward Control Design for Variation of Resonant Frequency and its Application to Crane Systems.- 30. Path Planning and Navigation of Overhead Traveling Crane with Three-Dimensional Transport Based on a Diffusion Equation Strategy.- V : Specific Applications.- 31. Teleworkplace in Laser Material Processing.- 32. Batch and Adaptive Instantaneous Blind Source Separation Algorithms Applied to Pyroelectric Sensor Response in Real Time.- 33. Build-Time Estimation Tools for Rapid Prototyping Stereolithography Systems.- 34. An Efficient PC-Based Environment for the Improvement of Magnetic Cores Industrial Process.- 35. Analysis and Reconfiguration of a Packing Production Process in an Alimentary Pasta Firm.- 36. Perspectives of Implementing Automated and Robotic- Based Techniques in Road Infrastructure Construction and Maintenance Operations.