Balanced Automation Systems II Book

	Technical sponsors
	International programme committee and organizing committee
	Introduction: implementation challenges for balanced automation
1	Reengineering manufacturing processes for agility	3
2	Anthropocentric production systems: socio-technological innovations	17
3	Antecedents of BPR success in manufacturing firms	27
4	A framework for strategic performance measurement	42
5	Domots are coming! or How to manage building automation in a balanced way?	55
6	Supervisory control of integrated building systems: a balanced approach	65
7	Multipurpose layout planner for cutting stock problems: implementation issues	75
8	Analytic process of state and linear combined priority	87
9	A simple method for surface interpolation by means of spline functions	97
10	Data integration: a federated approach with data exchanges	107
11	Information management for intelligent supervision of hybrid process control	115
12	The RoadRobot project: from theory to practice in systems integration	126
13	The role of discrete event simulation in the improvement of manufacturing systems performance	137
14	Performance measurement at 2D-CAD systems	146
15	An approach to knowledge representation and performance measurement for a quality engineering system	154
16	Modeling and performance evaluation of production lines using a modeling language MOSEL	163
17	Distributed industrial information systems: design and experience	175
18	Integration of manufacturing applications: overcoming heterogeneity to preserve investment	191
19	Integrated information system based on industrial standard protocols	201
20	A manufacturing cell integration solution	209
21	Individual product management for FMS control: a step to mobile database nodes integration	219
22	A data structure for a generic design model	228
23	Vision survey system, a tool for providing 3D product definition data of large construction	239
24	Balanced intelligent process control systems	249
25	Process condition monitoring - a novel concept for manufacturing management tool integration	257
26	Application prototype development, test and integration of shop-floor management applications	266
27	A generic control system for transparent legacy system migration	277
28	Measuring manufacturing flexibility - a resource-elements based approach	289
29	Layout of an existing production unit by the factorized graph method	297
30	Introduction of robot technology in a small enterprise	305
31	Multi-agent decision making architecture and distributed control	315
32	Negotiation between economically motivated agents	329
33	A communication architecture for multi-agent applications in FMS/FAS	339
34	Towards an intelligent system for FMS design	349
35	Information support of FMS configuration design	357
36	The development of a robotic assembly cell during ESPRIT Project 5629	365
37	Towards a knowledge based fixture designer's assistant	373
38	Co-ordination functions in a SME network	383
39	Virtual enterprise/OPIM concepts: an institutionalization framework	391
40	The Extended Enterprise reference framework	401
41	Towards agile scheduling in extended enterprise	413
42	Communication and control modeling for collaborative engineering	425
43	Architecture of an integrated process planning and tool management system	433
44	A feature-based model for part representation in a DFM environment	442
45	Multi-modeling of an industrial application with DFD, E-R and object-oriented methods	453
46	Integrated management of hypermedia technical information based on an express analysis	463
47	Structured model representation of manufacturing process using petri nets and knowledge based tools	472
48	Technology and human skills in manufacturing	483
49	An anthropocentric approach to developing modern simulation-based decision support tools	491
50	Issues in techno-organisational development methods for complex manufacturing environments	500
51	University - enterprises cooperation via incubation process	508
52	Coordination control of discrete event systems using petri nets	519
53	Programming strategies and concepts for a CIM system	530
	Index of contributors	539
	Keyword index	541