State of the Art -- Globalization and Decentralization of Manufacturing -- New Trends in Production -- General RMS Characteristics. Comparison with Dedicated and Flexible Systems -- Progress in Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems -- Agile Manufacturing Systems – a Significant Quantum Leap for High Volume Production Approaches Flexibility Requirements as Well as Fastest Reaction to Market Demands -- Machines and Controls Forms -- Reconfigurable Manufacturing Equipment -- Reconfigurable Machine Tool Design -- Challenges in the Design of Reconfigurable Machine Tools -- Reconfigurable Fixtures for Automotive Engine Machining and Assembly Applications -- Control Systems for RMS and Methods of their Reconfiguration -- Closed-loop, Fieldbus-based Clock Synchronisation for Decentralised Control Systems -- System-Level Issues In RMS -- Production System Modelling for the Evaluation of the Degree of Reconfigurability -- The Robot Cell as a Re-configurable Machining System -- Development of a Standard Reconfigurable Assembly Cell for Agile Manufacturing -- Computer Supported Decision Making System that Generates and Optimizes Layouts of Reconfigurable Manufacturing Equipment at the Early Stage of Design -- Reconfigurable Machining System (RMS) for Machining of Case and Similar Parts in Machine Building -- Cellular Manufacturing System Capable of Responding to Changes in Demand -- Example of Reconfigurable Manufacturing System in Mold Design and Manufacturing -- Transformable Factory Structures -- Factory Transformability: Adapting the Structures of Manufacturing -- The Transformable Factory – Strategies, Methods and Examples -- Analysis of Modern Factory Structures and Their Transformability -- Innovative Logistics is a Vital Part of Transformable Factories in the Automotive Industry -- Product and Process Optimization for Reconfigurable Manufacturing -- Products Design and Analysis for Transformable Production and Reconfigurable Manufacturing -- Optimal Design of the Vehicle -- New Generation of Engines with Controlled Pistons Movement for Reconfigurable Manufactures -- Experience of Rapid Prototyping Technologies Usage for Moulding Case Parts -- Theory and Practice of Technology for Machining Non-Rigid Smooth Shafts in Reconfigurable Production -- Application of Non-Traditional Assembly Methods in Reconfigurable Manufacturing -- Laser Technologies -- Selecting an Optimal Production Order and Its Corresponding Configuration in a Reconfigurable Manufacturing System with Multiple Product Groups -- Economics of RMS -- Economical Models for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems -- Life Cycle Cost Calculation for Manufacturing Systems by Means of Reconfigurability Analysis -- An Analytical Comparison on Cost and Performance among DMS, AMS, FMS and RMS -- Real Options: an Application to RMS Investment Evaluation -- FUTURE TRENDS -- Future Scenarios, Describing Consistent Networks of Influences from Markets, Technologies and Business Environment with a Time Horizon of 2020 -- Intelligent Systems, Self-optimizing Concepts and Structures -- Virtual Production – Computer Model-Based Planning and Analyzing of Manufacturing Systems.