This interdisciplinary and comprehensive volume covers a survey of trends in distributed manufacturing, modern manufacturing equipment, product design process, rapid prototyping, quality assurance, from technological and organisational point of view and aspects of supply chain management.

The primary goal of this book is to cover the state-of-the-art development and future directions in modern manufacturing systems.

Contents
Preface
1 Multi-Agent Based Distributed Manufacturing
2 The Cobasa Architecture as an Answer to Shop Floor Agility
3 Development of Holonic Manufacturing Execution Systems
4 Bio-inspired approach for autonomous routing in FMS
5 Modular Machining Line Design and Reconfiguration: Some Optimization Methods
6 Flexible Manufacturing System Simulation Using Petri Nets
7 Applications of Petri Nets to Human-in-the-Loop Control for Discrete Automation Systems
8 Application Similarity Coefficient Method to Cellular Manufacturing
9 Maintenance Management and Modeling in Modern Manufacturing Systems
10 Zadehian Paradigms for Knowledge Extraction in Intelligent Manufacturing
11 PURE: A Fuzzy Model for Product Upgradability and Reusability Evaluation for Remanufacture
12 Distributed Architecture for Intelligent Robotic Assembly Part I: Design and Multimodal Learning
13 Distributed Architecture for Intelligent Robotic Assembly Part II: Design of the Task Planner
14 Distributed Architecture for Intelligent Robotic Assembly Part III: Design of the Invariant Object Recognition System
15 Assembly Sequence Planning Using Neural Network Approach
16 Evolutionary Optimisation of Mechanical Structures or Systems
17 Improving Machining Accuracy Using Smart Materials
18 Concurrent Process Tolerancing Based on Manufacturing Cost And Quality Loss
19 Optimize Variant Product Design Based on Component Interaction Graph
20 Applying a Hybrid Data Mining Approach in Machining Operation for Surface Quality Assurance
21 Sequential Design of Optimum Sized and Geometric Tolerances
22 A New Rapid Tooling Process
23 SCM Innovation for Business Globalization Based on Coupling Point Inventory Planning
24 Relative Control and Management Philosophy
25 Multidimensional of Manufacturing Technology, Organizational Characteristics, and Performance
26 Engineering Change Management in Distruted Environment with PDM/PLM Support
27 Study of Flexibility and Adaptability in Distributed Supply Chains
28 An Autonomous Decentralized Supply Chain Planning and Scheduling System
29 Simulation Modeling and Analysis of the Impacts of Component Commonality and Process Flexibility on Integrated Supply Chain Network Performance
30 On Direct Adaptive Control for Uncertain Dynamical Systems - Synthesis and Applications
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