One Invited Talks. - 1 The extended enterprise manufacturing and the value chain. - 2 Continuous education in new manufacturing systems. - Two Enterprise Modeling and Organization I. - 3 Information and command infrastructures for small and medium size enterprises. - 4 Narrowing the gap of SME for IT innovation with enterprise architectures. - 5 One-product-integrated-manufacturing. - Three Intelligent Supervision Systems. - 6 Transition enabling Petri nets to supervisory control theory. - 7 Planning training and learning in supervision of flexible assembly systems. - 8 Automated planning for restarting batch procedure in the wake of an incident (single product). - Four Modeling and Design of FMS I. - 9 An object-oriented approach to the design of flexible manufacturing systems. - 10 Integration of object oriented programming and Petri nets for modelling and supervision of FMS/FAS. - 11 Design of FMS: logical architecture. - Five Anthropocentric Systems. - 12 Issues on the anthropocentric production systems. - 13 A complimentary approach to flexible automation. - Six Computer Aided Process Planning. - 14 AI for manufacturing: some practical experience. - 15 A manufacturing support system for industrial part process planning. - 16 Fuzzy logic for similarity analysis. - Seven Scheduling Systems. - 17 HOLOS: a methodology for deriving scheduling systems. - 18 Evaluation of on-line schedules by distributed simulation. - 19 Integration of process planning and scheduling using resource elements. - Eight Decision Support Systems in Manufacturing. - 20 A decision making tool in FMS design. - 21 Multipurpose layout planner. - 22 Towards more humanized real time decision support systems. - Nine Shop Floor Control. - 23 Interoperability testing in an implementation of ISO/OSI protocols. - 24 Supporting theinformation management of control activities in a CIM shop floor environment. - 25 Object-oriented development methodology for PLC software. - Ten Multiagent Systems Architecture. - 26 Support for concurrent engineering in CIM-FACE. - 27 A federated cooperation architecture for expert systems involved in layout optimization. - 28 A holistic approach to intelligent automated control. - Eleven Enterprise Modeling and Organization II. - 29 Reference models for an object oriented design of production activity control systems. - 30 Organizational behaviour analysis and information technology fitness in manufacturing. - 31 An integrated framework for the development of Computer Aided Engineering Systems. - Twelve Modeling and Design of FMS II. - 32 Formal and informal in balanced system specifications. - 33 PFS/MFG: a high level net for the modeling of discrete manufacturing systems. - 34 Discrete event and motion-oriented simulation for FMS. - Thirteen Balanced Flexibility. - 35 Group technology considerations for manufacturing systems with balanced flexibility. - 36 Product differentiation and process flexibility as a base for competitive strategy. - 37 Balanced automatization levels in manufacturing systems. - Fourteen CAE/CAD/CAM Integration. - 38 Architecture solutions for integrating CAD CAM and machining in small companies. - 39 A feature-based concurrent engineering environment. - 40 A framework for feature based CAD/CAM integration. - Fifteen Monitoring and Sensors. - 41 CNC machines monitoring using sensorial stochastic models. - 42 No knowledge to waste learning more about processes. - 43 3-D vascular reconstruction on a standard X-ray angiography machine. - Index of contributors. - Keyword index. Language: English