[Iefac.list] CFP: ASME MSEC symposium: Advances in Manufacturing Process Planning and Scheduling

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Advances in Manufacturing Process Planning and Scheduling

Description
In the 21st century, manufacturing is gradually shifting to a distributed
environment with increasing dynamism. In order to win a competition, locally
or globally, customer satisfaction is treated with priority. This leads to
mass customisation and even more complex manufacturing processes, from shop
floors to every level along manufacturing supply chains. At the same time,
outsourcing has forged a multi-tier supplier structure with numerous
small-to-medium-sized enterprises involved, where highly-mixed products in
small batch sizes are handled simultaneously in job-shop operations.
Moreover, unpredictable issues like job delay, urgent-order insertion,
fixture shortage, missing tool, and even machine breakdown are challenging
manufacturing companies, and adding high uncertainty to the fluctuating shop
floors. Engineers often find themselves in a situation that demands adaptive
planning and scheduling capability in dealing with daily operations in a
distributed and dynamic manufacturing environment.

This symposium is dedicated to the arising challenges of process planning
and scheduling in the decentralized and dynamic manufacturing environment.
It accepts papers on modeling, simulation and computational advances on
manufacturing process planning and scheduling under uncertainty.

Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:


Distributed process planning
Web-based process planning
Adaptive setup planning
VR-assisted assembly planning
Real-time scheduling
Agent-based scheduling
Dynamic job routing
RFID-driven material handling
Integrated planning and scheduling
Meta-heuristics and algorithms
Mathematical programming and optimization
Process modeling and simulation
Agent-based process simulation
Industrial case studies
Other related topics



Objectives
Authors and presenters are invited to participate in this event to expand
international cooperation, understanding and promotion of efforts and
disciplines in the area of Advances in Manufacturing Process Planning and
Scheduling. Dissemination of knowledge by presenting research results, new
developments, and novel concepts in Advances in Manufacturing Process
Planning and Scheduling will serve as the foundation upon which the
conference program of this area will be developed.


A variety of sessions are available for presentations as it allows
flexibility to the authors. All sessions are quality driven.


Paper Submission
Authors are encouraged to submit an abstract on the MSEC2009 website by
February 1, 2009. Full manuscripts must be submitted by March 30, 2009. The
copyright transfer form must be filled out and the presenting author must
pre-register by July 15, 2009 or the paper will be withdrawn from the
conference. No papers are to be submitted to the organizers; submissions
will only be accepted via the conference website.

Symposium Organizer:
Weihang Zhu, Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering, Lamar University,
Beaumont, Texas, USA
Lihui Wang, Senior Research Officer, National Research Council, London,
Ontario, Canada
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