Scope

The symposium goals concern the development, the comparison and the application of formal models, both descriptive and prescriptive, of Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) systems. Proposed models should be able to integrate both optimization methods, simulation procedures and knowledge-based tools.
Target of the symposium activities will be the specification of new models to be used in planning and simulating manufacturing, management and control strategies, including discrete-event and continuous representations.

Topics include:

• Models and tools for plant layout design
• Process and production planning
• Models and tools for functional description of flexible manufacturing systems
• Oriented to production activity control
• Process supervision and maintenance
• Modeling and control in power systems
• Production operations and control
• Hierarchical control
• Intelligent control
• Product design
• Supervision, diagnosis and man-machine interaction
• Distribution planning and control
• Robotic systems
• Decision support systems
• Process industry (Chemical, Oil, Materials)
• Communication and Information Systems
• Management, Socioeconomic and Enviromental Systems
• Agile Manufacturing
• Factory of the Future
• Applications