DIISM '93
International Workshop THE DESIGN OF INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS FOR MANUFACTURING
November 8-10, 1993 Sanjoo Kaikan, The University of Tokyo TOKYO, JAPAN
SPONSORS (Some under negotiation) Japan Society of Precision Engineering International Federation of Information Processing WG 5.3 (joint sponsor) Information Processing Society of Japan (co-sponsor) Japan Society of Mechanical Engineering (co-sponsor) Japan Industrial Management Association (co-sponsor)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE General Chair: H. Yoshikawa (U. of Tokyo, Japan) Co-chairs: S. Narita (Waseda U., Japan) H. Van Brussel (K.U.Leuven,Belgium) Members: R. Akella (CMU, USA) E. Arai (Tokyo Metr. U., Japan) J. Bubenko, jr. (Stockholm U., Sweden) M. Cutkosky (Stanford U., USA) A. Di Leva (U. of Torino, Italy) E. Dubois (U. of Namur, Belgium) J. Goossenaerts (U. of Tokyo, Japan) U. Graefe (NRC, Canada) Z. Han (Tsinghua U., P.R. of China) G. Harhalakis (U. of Maryland, USA) C. N. Ho (NTU, Singapore) I. Inoue (Kyoto Sangyo U., Japan) F. Kimura (U. of Tokyo, Japan) A. Kusiak (U. of Iowa, USA) A. Markus (CAI, Hungary) A. Matsumoto (Toyo U., Japan) Y. Matsushita (Keio U., Japan) K. Mertins (IPK, Germany) T. Mizuno (Mitsubishi El., Japan) L. Nemes (CSIRO, Australia) G. Olling (Chrysler, USA) L.M. Patnaik (IIS Bangalore, India) A.-W. Scheer (U. Saarlandes, Germany) N. Shiratori (Tohoku U., Japan) O.I. Semenkov (MNIPI, Belarus) T. Simmons (Brit. Aerospace, UK) M. Takizawa (Tokyo Denki U.,Japan) T. Tomiyama (U. of Tokyo, Japan) S. Umeda (Musashi U., Japan) F. Vernadat (INRIA-Lorraine, France) M. Wozny (Rensselaer, USA)
PROBLEM AREA
The possible benefits, the external characteristics, and the broad-range requirements of information infrastructure systems for future (intelligent) manufacturing systems are widely known. These infrastructure systems should provide low cost and flexible solutions for the information and communication needs of devices and people who collaborate in engineering and manufacturing processes. They should support concurrent engineering, design, planning, control, diagnosing and maintenance along a value-adding, wealth-creating chain of manufacturing facilities.
Today many valuable technologies such as computers, communication networks, manufacturing devices and design tools exist, but the software-based amalgamation of these technologies requires exorbitant investments, inhibiting - at present - the creation of chains of automated factories which can flexibly and with low costs respond to changing demand on worldwide markets.
A reason for our failure to build intelligent manufacturing systems today is the lack of understanding and agreement about techniques and methods for: (1) coordinating and systematizing the broad-range information processing requirements; and (2) integrating these requirements into a deeply structured and comprehensive conceptual model. This hampers: (3) the development of an information infrastructure amalgamating the conceptual model and computer/communication technologies; and (4) the development of an intelligent manufacturing system amalgamating the information infrastructure with advanced machine tools and skillful people.
GOALS OF THE WORKSHOP
The major goal of the workshop is to deepen understanding and agreement about the methods and techniques needed for developing an information infrastructure system for manufacturing systems. Some specific objectives are: (1) To bring together and compare a number of techniques and methods for factory/enterprise modeling that help to grasp the wide scope and to understand the deep structure of information infrastructure systems for manufacturing; (2) To illustrate the methods and techniques by means of non-trivial examples exhibiting a wide scope and deep structure; (3) To identify a number of testbeds for which information infrastructure systems can be developed; (4) To initiate the public domain development of information infrastructure systems for these testbeds; (5) To identify and evaluate existing key-technologies for realizing information infrastructure systems.
OUTLINE OF THE WORKSHOP
Four types of contributions are invited: (1) Tutorial sessions (1-1.5 hours) explaining methods for coordinating and systematizing information infrastructure requirements for manufacturing systems (examples should be used to illustrate the method at all the relevant levels in the analysis/design). (2) Case-studies (20-40 minutes) presenting operational systems or test-beds in which a number of functions expected from information infrastructure systems are implemented, or can be implemented. (3) Key-technologies: surveys, standards, evaluations, possibilities for integration (20-40 minutes). (4) Other relevant contributions.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
The number of participants will be limited to 90. Researchers and professionals from universities and industries are invited to submit contributions. Contributions must be received by June 1, 1993, and should contain different items depending on their type (see Outline of the Workshop): (1) A tutorial contribution should contain: a detailed table of contents; a description of the case-studies used; and an illustrated outline of the design method. (2) A case-study contribution should contain an overview of the system or test-bed describing its architecture, and list the manufacturing devices, functions, technologies (network, database, user-interface, hardware, software) and/or the roles of the human users. All submissions should be complete papers. Those typed (3-4) can be up to 15 double spaced pages long. A separate page should contain: (1) address and email-address/fax-number of the authors; (2) title and abstract of the contribution; (3) the resources required for its presentation (time slot on the workshop; number of pages; overhead projector, slide-projector, video...). Four copies of the contribution must be sent before June 1, 1993. With the notification of acceptance, the author(s) will receive referee reports, and information about the time-slot allocated to their contribution. A camera ready copy for inclusion in the pre-proceedings should be received by October 4, 1993. After the workshop and an additional revision - in order to make the papers reflect the points raised during the workshop discussions - the proceedings will be published as a book.
SCHEDULE
June 1, 1993: submission of contributions August 16, 1993: notification of acceptance October 4, 1993: camera ready copy November 8-10, 1993: workshop
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Chair: H. Yoshikawa (U. of Tokyo, Japan) Contact: J. Goossenaerts (U. of Tokyo, Japan) Members: K. Ando (Shibaura I. of Tech.,Japan) R. Sano (Matsushita, Japan) M. Takizawa (Tokyo Denki U., Japan) E. Arai (Tokyo Metr. U., Japan) Y. Matsumoto (Hitachi Ltd., Japan) T. Mizuno (Mitsubishi El., Japan) T. Taura (U. of Tokyo, Japan) S. Umeda (Musashi U., Japan)
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