INCOM06: Design of production systems

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Special Track on =93Design of Production Systems"

for INCOM2006 17-19.05.2006, Saint Etienne, France: http://www.emse.fr/incom06

Sponsored by IFAC TC 5.1 =93Manufacturing Plant Control=94

Track Chairs: =B7 Pr. Ronald G. Askin, The University of Arizona, USA =B7 Pr. Alexandre Dolgui, ENSM.SE, France =B7 Pr. Jean-Marie Proth, INRIA, France =B7 Pr. Armin Scholl, Friedrich-Schiller - Universit=E4t Jena, Germany

Track topics: Discrete part manufacturing, machining, assembly and disassembly. Factory=20 organization, manufacturing facility. Modern design techniques, strategies= =20 for organizing physical resources, technological, engineering and=20 management aspects. Quantitative modelling of facilities design, assembly=20 and transfer lines, line balancing, process planning/equipment selection,=20 reconfigurable systems. Machine failures, capacity analysis, buffer=20 allocation. Group technology, manufacturing cells, cell design methodology,= =20 facility layout. Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS); AGV, material=20 handling, automated storage and retrieval (AS/RS) systems. Warehousing and= =20 plant location problems. Performance evaluation and optimisation,=20 operations research techniques, mathematical programming, heuristics and=20 metaheuristics, decomposition, discrete event simulation.

Track description and CFP The design of production systems has always been a crucial problem in=20 industrial engineering. It becomes more important because of the worldwide= =20 competition and due to the rapid progress of manufacturing technologies.=20 Nowadays, production systems are characterised by short product life-cycle= =20 time, high levels of automation, emergence of new manufacturing equipment=20 and technologies, and high investment. These attributes lead to new design= =20 problems and more frequent design needs, and hence to the demand for new=20 methods and CAD tools.

The aim of this Track is to present new optimisation models and methods for= =20 the design of production systems. These methods will be built upon advanced= =20 exact and approximate techniques of scalar and multi-objective optimisation= =20 and state-of-the-art performance evaluation tools to take into account=20 various design objectives as well as technical and cost constraints.

Submission Submitted papers (6 pages in IFAC double column format) will be reviewed by= =20 at least two referees. Both academic and industrial oriented communications= =20 will be considered. Accepted contributions will be published in INCOM=20 Proceedings by Elsevier. Further submission instructions are available on=20 the symposium website (http://www.emse.fr/incom2006).

Important dates:

November 15, 2005: deadline for paper submission January 6, 2006: notification of acceptance/reject March 1, 2006: deadline for final paper.

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Alexandre Dolgui, Ph.D., Dr. Hab. Professor Director, Division for Industrial Engineering and Computer Sciences Head, Scientific Methods for Industrial Management Department Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne 158, Cours Fauriel, 42023 Saint Etienne cedex 2, France Fax: +33 (0)4.77.42.66.66 E-mail: dolgui@emse.fr URL: www.emse.fr/~dolgui

17, 18, 19 May 2006 12th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing dedicated to the 190-th anniversary of Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne

for more information, see: www.emse.fr/incom06 __________________________________________________________________

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