Date: 19970805 From: Prolamat 1998 Organization: LII - Trento University - Italy - http://www.lii.unitn.it/prolamat Subject: Prolamat 98: First Announcement and Call for Papers The Tenth International IFIP TC5 WG-5.2 WG-5.3 Conference PROLAMAT '98 ------------ The Globalization of Manufacturing in the Digital Communications Era of the 21st Century: Innovation, Agility, and the Virtual Enterprise Conference date and venue: September 9-11, 1998 - Trento, Italy >> First Announcement and Call for Papers << Abstracts Due: November 10, 1997 Acceptance Notification: December 20, 1997 Camera ready Paper Due: April 30, 1998 Please show interest in contributing to PROLAMAT '98 using attached form by: September 30, 1997 The conference scope of PROLAMAT '98 expands design and manifacturing issues to include teams and virtual enterprises which come together across space and time to develop new products and bring them to global markets. Manufacturing issues and information models have long been part of concurrent engineering; they are increasingly important in new product innovation and in the development of manufacturing plans and processes which span multiple companies along with multiple time zones. Past emphasis on human aspects and innovation provides a strong foundation for the next PROLAMAT, which emphasizes three themes in separate tracks of the conference: Track 1: Sharing experience gained from telecommunication use in industry for agility and innovation Track 2: Human and machine communications, modelling, standard representations, reuse Track 3: Telecommunication and agility impact on software technology for discrete manufacturing Background ---------- The PROLAMAT conference is an internationally well known event for demonstrating and evaluating activities and progress in the field of discrete manufacturing. Sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), the PROLAMAT is traditionally held every three years and it includes the whole area of advanced software technology for Design and Manufacturing in Discrete Manufacturing. Past conferences have explored: - Manufacturing Technology, - Advances in CAD/CAM, - Software for Discrete Manufacturing, - Software for Manufacturing. The Eight International PROLAMAT focused on the theme of Man in CIM. The 1995 PROLAMAT featured the theme of Life Cycle Modelling for Innovative Products and Processes. The 1998 conference in Italy will be organized by the University of Trento, School of Engineeering and Department of Computer and Managemet Sciences, jointly with Istituto Trentino di Cultura, under the auspices of the WG2 for "Computer-Aided Design" and WG3 for "Computer-Aided Manufacturing" of the Technical Committee 5 for "Computer Applications in Technology". This conference will be the last PROLAMAT before the next century, and it provides an opportunity to investigate and imagine what the digital communications revolution going on all around us will mean for manufacturing. _______________________________________________________________________ Conference Subjects ------------------- Track 1: Sharing experience from telecommunication use in industry for -------- agility and innovation Globalization of product opportunities and manufacturing processes, along with advances in digital communications, are simultaneously enabling and demanding agility and rapid enterprise innovation. A number of industries have been driven to exploit emerging telecommunication technologies as an important tool for meeting these demands. A major goal of this conference will be to complement the more traditional academic presentations with a separate track devoted to sharing industry experience and determining the implications of the emerging digital communications era for discrete manufacturing in the 21st century. - Case studies and descriptions of experience with emerging technologies for: - concurrent engineering involving shared product and process models, - applications of telecommunications for agility, innovation or virtual organizations, - distributed business process reengineering and out sourcing, - managing virtual teams and developing and sustaining virtual organizations, - Advances in telecommunication technology for collaborative knowledge processing for engineering - tele-presence, remote sensing, and distributed coordination of processes, - collaborative feature modelling, feature-based design, and geometric modelling - Integration of emerging technologies and tools into existing product development - collaborative version management and update sharing - tools for enterprise integration and managing organizational change - enterprise-wide distribution and coordination of emerging product models. _______________________________________________________________________ Track 2: Human and machine communications, modelling, standard -------- representations, reuse People, not machines, design new products and make manufacturing systems work. Increasingly, groups of people are required to design new products and bring them to market. Requirements for agility and the suitability of specific manufacturing processes must be matched with the culture and knowledge base of the work force. World-class processes have floundered when this was not done. Information and communication systems can either amplify or reduce the magnitude of differences across culture or engineering discipline. Researchers specializing in knowledge representation, modelling, communications, standardization, and reuse will be invited to share their experiences and research perspectives. - Enterprise data sharing across engineering, cultural, and supply chain boundaries, - distributed manufacturing and supply chain management - early stage product development which dynamically incorporates supplier constraints - standard models for component information representation, product and process interchange, - Technologies for knowledge sharing, collaboration, and across the product lifecycle, - adaptive systems for organizational management, knowledge sharing, education, and training - organizational and manufacturing process simulation - organizing and representing design and manufacturing process for dissemination and reuse - The interface between human and machine for information sharing, training, education, - virtual reality and multi-media in manufacturing and design - collaborative manufacturing process definition and operation - collaborative product and process modeling for the product life cycle - implications of models of human communication for the support of integrated manufacturing _______________________________________________________________________ Track 3: Telecommunication and agility impact on software technology for -------- discrete manufacturing Even in today's post-industrial information-society, machines, not people, ultimately make the products which humans have designed and will use. Digital telecommunication has become an enabling technology for agile organizations and an important tool driving some enterprise innovation. What are the implications of these profound changes in communications technology for discrete manufacturing? Which old assumptions must be rethought, and what totally new opportunities now exist? How have software tools for discrete manufacturing evolved during these past three years? The conference, as a whole, and this track, in particular, will attempt to answer these far reaching questions. - Rapid and virtual prototyping using distributed teams or distributed manufacturing, - concurrent and simultaneous engineering systems - distributed and global methodologies for design and collaborative manufacturing - Intelligent tools which communicate across the shop floor or across institutional boundaries for - automated machining operations, - scheduling, coordination, or planning for machining or manufacturing processes, - Architectures, frameworks, and DSS for design and integrated manufacturing, - formal design theories and methodologies - engineering simulation, product and process modelling, planning, and scheduling - Issues and systems relating to sustainable manufacturing - methods and tools for sustainable product development and manufacturing processes ________________________________________________________________________ Conference Chair: G. Jacucci Invited Members to the International Program Committee L. Alting (DK) S. Ansaldi (I) A. Baskin (USA) P. Bertok (AUS) S. Bhattacharyya (UK) O. Biorke (N) K. Bo (N) M. Boari (I) G. Bracchi (I) D. Brown (USA) L. Camarinha-Matos (P) L. Carlucci Aiello (I) B-K. Choi (K) G. Christensen (DK) C. Ciborra (F) E. Ciciotti (I) U. Claussen (D) J-P. Crestin (F) U. Cugini (I) B. David (F) C. Davies (UK) Z. Deng (N) C. Dent (UK) I. St.Doltsinis (D) G. Doumeingts (F) W. Ehrenberger (D) J.L. Encarnacao (D) L. Estensen (N) K. Fedra (A) S. Finger (USA) F. Gambarotta (I) J. Gero (AUS) R. Geudj (F) P. Gili (I) B. Girard (F) F. Giunchiglia (I) H. Grabowski (D) U. Graefe (C ) G. Guida (I) G. Halevy (ISR) J. Hardy (USA) J.M. Hee (DK) G. Hermann (H) B. Hofmaier (SW) T. Holden (UK) G. Jacucci (I), Chair H. Jansen (D) C.C. Kai (SP) F. Kimura (J) T. Kjellberg (S) D. Kochan (D) G. Kovacs (H) Z. Kozar (CZ) F-L. Krause (D) J. Latombe (USA) G. Lazzari (I) R. Levi (I) F. Lillenhagen (N) W. Loeve (NL) S. Lu (USA) K. MacLaughlin (USA) R. Manara (I) M. Mantyla (SF) A. Markus (H) T. Markus (H) R. Mayer (USA) G. Menga (I) E. Merchant (USA) J. Mermet (F) I. Mezgar (H) R. Michelini (I) G. Micheletti (I) V. Milacic (YU) P. Mudur (IND) G. Musso (I) L. Nemes (AUS) R. Ning (PRC) S. Nof (USA) S. Noll (D) G. Olling (USA) T. Otker (NL) M. Pallot (F) K. Pawar (UK) J. Peklenik (SL) G. Perrone (I) F. Plonka (USA) V. Ponomaryov (Rus) M. Pratt (UK) K. Preiss (ISR) F. Prinz (USA) B. Radig (D) F. Rigotti (I) J. Rix (D) F. Robson (UK) C. Rosenthal (USA) M. Sabin (UK) A. Sambura (AUS) T. Sata (J) D. Schelfi (I) J. Schneider (USA) G. Seliger(D) O. Semenkov (BJ) M. Shpitalni (ISR) D.L. Shunk (USA) R. Soenen (F) O. Stock (I) A. Storr (D) J.C. Teixeira (P) P. ten Hagen (NL) V. Tipnis (USA) P. Tiribelli (I) N. Todorov (BG) T. Tomiyama (J) M. Tomljanovich (I) E. Tyugu (S) H. van Brussel (B) F. van Houten (NL) G. Vernazza (I) M. Veron (F) A. Villa (I) R. Vio (I) M. Waldron (USA) K. Wang(PRC) E. Warman (UK) M. Wozny (USA) H. Yoshikawa (J) R. Zandonini (I) E. Zaninotto (I) A. Zorat (I) R. Zuest (CH) Submission Information Extended abstracts of two pages, written in English, should be e-mailed to prolamat@lii.unitn.it by November 10, 1997. Accepted formats are text only, Word attachment or Latex attachment. Abstracts will present an additional cover sheet providing title, all authors with affiliation, the full address of the principal author (with phone, fax numbers and e-mail address) and a list of keywords related to the paper contents. The Extended Abstracts will be reviewed by three referees for inclusion in the Conference Program. Accepted contributions will be published in the Conference Proceedings by Chapman & Hall. Format requirements from Chapman & Hall for the preparation of the camera-ready article, will be sent to the authors in due course. Conference Organizing Committee V. D'Andrea, University of Trento, (I) Y. Ficiciyan, IPK Berlin (D) E. Filos, European Commission, DGIII, (B) M. Marchese, University of Trento, (I) Chair M. Ronchetti, University of Trento, (I) G. Salvatori, Istituto Trentino di Cultura, (I) A. Servida, European Commission, DGXIII, (B) Official Language: English Contact Information: contact: Mara Gruber e-mail: prolamat@lii.unitn.it phone: +39.464.443.134 +39.464.443.140 fax: +39.464.443.141 www: http://www.lii.unitn.it/prolamat/ mail: Laboratorio di Ingegneria Informatica via F. Zeni, 8 38068 - Rovereto (TN) Italy > Cut here and send reply form to prolamat@lii.unitn.it < __________________________________________________________________ Reply Form IFIP International Conference PROLAMAT '98 The Globalization of Manufacturing in the digital communication era of the 21st century: Innovation, Agility and Virtual Enterprise September 9-11, 1998 Trento Name: ........... Institution: ........... E-Mail: .......... I am interested in receiving further notices on PROLAMAT '98. 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