Front Cover -- Information Control Problems in Manufacturing 2006 -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Part I: Track "Intelligent And Collaborative Maintenance In Manufacturing" -- Section I: Monitoring Strategies For Intelligent Predictive Maintenance -- Chapter 1. Information And Communication Technologies In Condition Monitoring And Maintenance -- Chapter 2. Inspection Strategy For Availability Improvement -- Chapter 3. Diagnosis Of Tool Wear With A Microcontroller -- Chapter 4. Diagnosis Tasks Scheduling Based On A Distributed Multiprocessors System -- Chapter 5. Application Of Expert Systems In Intelligent Transportation Systems -- Section II: Collaboration And Optimization For Maintenance Decision Making -- Chapter 6. Maintenance Work Coordination In Electricity Distribution -- Chapter 7. Service Oriented Semantics In Industrial Operation And Maintenance -- Chapter 8. Production Line Simulation Using Stochastic Timed Petri-Net For Preventive Maintenance Scheduling -- Chapter 9. Joint Quality Control And Preventive Maintenance Strategy For Imperfect Production Processes -- Chapter 10. Preventive Maintenance Of Manufacturing Systems Under Subcontractor Constraints -- Section III: Reliability And Safety Of Industrial Systems -- Chapter 11. CP-Based Project Driven Manufacturing -- Chapter 12. A Conceptual Structure For The Use Of Near-Misses Properties -- Chapter 13. Reliability And Safety Of Restorable System For Maintenance Resources Planning -- Chapter 14. Structural-Technological Reserve And Its Use For Increasing Stability Of Manufacturing Systems -- Chapter 15. Telematic Based Transport Device Tracking And Supervision System -- Part II: Track "Advanced Manufacturing Systems" -- Section IV: Innovative Production Machines And Systems -- Chapter 16. Model-Based Machine Condition Monitoring With Web Access.

Chapter 17. A Neuro-Fuzzy Scheme For Process Control During Complex Curvature Friction Stir Welding -- Chapter 18. Adaptive Knowledge-Based Action Selection Architecture For Multiple Mobile Robots -- Chapter 19. Service-Oriented Architecture For Field Control Devices -- Section V: Flexible Manufacturing Systems -- Chapter 20. A Simulation-Based Equipment Environment For Flexible Manufacturing Systems -- Chapter 21. On Just In Time Control Of Flexible Manufacturing Systems Via Dioid Algebra -- Chapter 22. Product-Driven Control In Manufacturing Systems Using IEC 61499 And RFID Technology -- Chapter 23. Joint Production And Supply Control In Three Levels Flexible Manufacturing Systems -- Section VI: New Trends And Challenges In Mechatronics -- Chapter 24. Experimental Study Of Collaborater In Human-Machine System -- Chapter 25. Modeling Of A New SMA Microactuator For Active Endoscopy Applications -- Chapter 26. Optimising The Control Parameters In A Digital Mass Flow Controller -- Chapter 27. Robograpes: A Fully Automated Machine For Grafting Vine Cuttings -- Part III: Track "Models For Competence and Knowledge Management" -- Section VII: Modelling And Simulation Of Human Performance -- Chapter 28. Manpower Allocation And Shift Scheduling Using Human Performance Simulation -- Chapter 29. A Dynamic Model For The Behavior Of An Operator In A Company -- Chapter 30. Qualification-Based Manufacturing Planning Based On Computer-Supported Modelling And Simulation -- Chapter 31. Considering Polyvalence When Minimizing Workload Fulfillment -- Section VIII: Competence Modelling For Decision Support Systems -- Chapter 32. Human Systems Engineering Instrumented By Modelling Techniques -- Chapter 33. Products, Organisation, And Processes Architectures Modeling: From Strategic Expectations To Strategic Competencies.

Chapter 34. Competence Management For Business Integration -- Section IX: Knowledge Modelling For Value Chain Management -- Chapter 35. Formalisation Of Norms For Recyclability Assessment -- Chapter 36. An Approach To Assess Knowledge Cruciality For Industrial Project -- Chapter 37. Competence Based Supply Value Chain Effectiveness -- Chapter 38. Transformation Of Product Field Data Into Knowledge -- Part IV: Track "Integrated Engineering In Industry" -- Section X: Mixed Reality A Tool For Cost Effective Collaborative Engineering -- Chapter 39. Energy Interfaces For Mixed Reality -- Chapter 40. Distributed Workspaces -- Chapter 41. Mixed Reality For Efficient Engineering Collaboration: The Aero-Cave Extension -- Chapter 42. Mixed Reality For Teleoperation Of Mobile Robots In Search And Rescue Scenarios -- Chapter 43. Mixed Reality Experiment For Distributed Learning Environment In Pneumatics Systems -- Section XI: Integrated Product And Process Design For Market Driven Supply Chains: Spotlight On The Automotive Industry -- Chapter 44. Concept Of An Individual Vehicle Check With Formalized Models And Methods -- Chapter 45. ICT As An Enabler To The 5-Day Car: A Central Challenge To The ILIPT Project -- Chapter 46. Establishing Build To Order In The European Automotive Sector -- Chapter 47. Inter-Enterprise Collaborative Processes In A Pure BTO Automotive Manufacturing System -- Section XII: Automotive Automation Issues -- Chapter 48. Cost-Benefit Analysis For BTO Planning And Execution Processes -- Chapter 49. The Role Of Inventory In Enabling Supply Chain Responsiveness -- Chapter 50. Innovative Modular Valve Trains For 2015 Logistic Benefits By EMVT -- Part V: Track "Design Of Production Systems" -- Section XIII: Stochastic Models Of Production Systems I -- Chapter 51. Optimization Of Continuous-Flow Transfer Lines With Delay Using IPA.

Chapter 52. Performance Evaluation Of Production Systems Monitored By Statistical Process Control And Offline -- Chapter 53. Production Control With Advanced Demand Information In A Join-Type Production Line -- Chapter 54. The Effect Of Dynamic Worker Behavior On Flowline Performance -- Section XIV: Stochastic Models Of Production Systems II -- Chapter 55. Selection Of Inventory Control Points In Multistage Pull Systems -- Chapter 56. A Local Search Algorithm For The Inventory Matching Problem In A Steel Company -- Chapter 57. Comprehensive Design Of An Order Picking Line By Simulation -- Chapter 58. Estimating And Announcing Waiting Times In Multiple Customer Class Call Centers -- Chapter 59. A Two-Period Stochastic Programming Model For Distribution Network Design -- Chapter 60. About Configuration Under Uncertainty Of A Power Distribution Network -- Section XV: Line Balancing And Layout -- Chapter 61. Facility Layout Problems: A Literature Analysis -- Chapter 62. A Generalized Cell Formation Problem In Dynamic Environment With Different Inter And Intra-Cell Batch Sizes -- Chapter 63. Weld Reallocation In An Automotive Robotic Line Due To Robots Failures -- Chapter 64. A Comparative Evaluation Of Exact And Heuristic Methods For Transfer Line Balancing Problem -- Chapter 65. EM Algorithm For Solving The Stochastic Assembly Line Balancing Problem -- Chapter 66. A Hybrid Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm For The Layout Problem -- Chapter 67. Optimization In Design Of Unit Head Machines With A Mobile Table -- Section XVI: Product Design And Resource Planning -- Chapter 68. Selection Of A Modules Stock Composition Using Genetic Algorithm -- Chapter 69. Optimizing Modular Machining Line Design Problem -- Chapter 70. A Methodology For Modular Discrete Event Simulation Of Manufacturing Systems.

Chapter 71. Resource Planning Algorithm For Personalizing Networks -- Chapter 72. New Neural Networks Approach For Optimal Machines Tools Selection -- Section XVII: Production System Design Methodology -- Chapter 73. Comparison Of Process Structure Complexity In Manufacturing Before And After Redesign -- Chapter 74. Towards A Reference Model For Problem-Solving In Manufacturing System Design -- Chapter 75. Efficient Engineering Of Flexible Assembly Lines In Discrete Manufacturing -- Chapter 76. Generation Of A Model For Comparing Manufacturing And Natural Responses -- Section XVIII: Production Control Systems -- Chapter 77. Outline Of A Framework For Analysis Of Manufacturing Systems Using The PAC Scheme -- Chapter 78. A Logic-Algebraic Method Based And Clp-Driven Approach To Control Of Concourrently Competing Cyclic Processes -- Chapter 79. Marking Optimization Of Weighted Marked Graphs: A Modified Simulated Annealing Algorithm -- Part VI: Track "Supply Networks Design And Management" -- Section XIX: Flexible And Collaborative Production -- Chapter 80. Variety, Postponement And Reconfiguration: Insights From Automotive Order Fulfilment Systems -- Chapter 81. Modeling Cooperation Links Within Networks Of Firms A Case Study -- Chapter 82. Analysis Of Collaborative Networks Using The Extremal Graph Theory -- Chapter 83. Modelling Information Sharing In A VMI Environment With Inventory Hub -- Section XX: Extended Enterprise -- Chapter 84. Digital Traceability From Design To Manufacturing In Extended Enterprises -- Chapter 85. Model Checking In Planning Resource-Sharing Based Manufacturing -- Chapter 86. A Survey On Some Aspects Of Ambient Intelligence -- Chapter 87. Including Kitting Decisions In The Design Of Supply Chains For The Aeronautic Industry -- Section XXI: Supply Chain Performance Measurement.

Chapter 88. Value Stream Oriented Planning Of Supply Networks.