CAD/CAM Robotics and Factories of the Future

Elements for Improving Vehicle Ride.- Advanced Dynamic Analysis of Vehicle Structures.- Design of Flexible Fixtures for the Broaching Process Using the Finite Element Method.- II.2. Boundary Element Method.- The Solution of Elastic Contact Problems Using a Boundary Element Flexibility Approach.- The Solution of Transient Heat Transfer Problems Using Boundary Elements.- A Simplified Technique for the Analysis of Electrostatic and Magnetostatic Problems.- Two Domain Heat Transfer Studies Using Coupled Finite-Difference and Boundary Element Programs.- The Appropriate Use of Boundary Elements in the Aircraft Gas Turbine Business.- Methodology for Steam Valve Chest Assessment Using Boundary Elements.- II.3. Other Numerical Methods.- Numerical Analysis of Air-Borne Particle Movement in Industrial Clean Room.- Evaluation of Finite Difference Schemes for Solution to the Inverse Velocity and Acceleration Problem for Robot Manipulators.- II.4. Dynamics and Vibration.- Computer Instrumentation of Robotic Test Arm.- Mechanical Design of a Robotic Arm Test Station.- Flexural Vibrations of a Tip Loaded Stepped Robot Arm.- A General Purpose Program for Mechanical System Dynamics - DYMES.- A Multiprocessor System for Multiblade Coordinate Transformation.- A General Approach to the Dynamic Balancing of Mechanisms.- On Spreadsheet Simulation of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems.- Normal Modes Analysis of Structures Using an Out-of-Core Component Mode Synthesis Technique.- III: Manufacturing and Production.- III.1. General Manufacturing.- CIMI - Whole New Ballgame.- Multicriteria Evaluation ofManufacturing Systems.- A Justification Method for Advanced Manufacturing Systems.- Justification of CIM: Strategic Considerations for Economic Analysis.- Computer-aided Analysis of the Manufacturing Process of Job Shop Production by a New Input-Output-Method.- III.2. Flexible Manufacturing Systems.- Information System for Flexible Manufacturing System: A Conceptual Framework.- Modeling and Analysis of a Flexible Manufacturing Cell.- A Prototype Flexible Manufacturing System.- Mathematical Modeling of the Machine Grouping Problem in Cellular Manufacturing Systems.- The Impact of Designing GT Cells on the Total Performance of Computer-Integrated Manufacturing.- III.3. Robotics and Automation.- Project-Based Undergraduate Robotics Education.- Numerical Control and Robot Technology for the Process Industry Maintenance Function.- A Configuration of Parallel Pipelined Processing with DSP-Based Controller for High-Order Linear Systems.- Distribution of Intelligence Within a CIM Architecture for Printed Circuit Board Manufacture.- III.4. Production Processes and Control.- A Scheme for Translating Control Flow in the C Programming Language to Grafcet.- The Challenge of Developing Large-scale Software Systems.- Design of a Decision Support System for Computer Integrated Manufacturing.- Preventive Maintenance Scheduling in Automated Factories.- Monitoring of End Milling Operations in Unmanned Machining.- A Total Production Information Service System for the Factory.- Effects of Components' Reliability on the Transient Performance of an Integrated Manufacturing System.- Statistical Analysis of System Performance in a FMS.- Application of Simulation for Daily Production Planning and Control in Shop Production.- The White-Collar World: The Next Push for Productivity.- III.5.Process Planning.- Fifth (5th) Generation Group Technology.- CIM 3000: A Methodology for CIM Planning and Management.- Just-In-Lead Time (JILT) Management: A Missing Link in CIM Strategy.- MRP in CIM for Selected Consumer Products.- Dynamic Approach of Computer Automatic Process Planning.- An Application of Knowledge Engineering to Process Planning.- An Expert Fuzzy Advisor Framework for Statistical Process Control.- Product Data Management.- Automated Extraction and Recognition of Internal Defect Configurations in Solid Log Modeling.- of Volume II.- of Volume III.- Author Index (Volume I).