[Iefac.list] FW: ASME MSEC 2009: Symposium on Advances in Manufacturing Process Planning and Scheduling

[VICTOR ZALOOM]

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CFP: ASME MSEC 2009: Symposium on Advances in Manufacturing Process
Planning and Scheduling

 

http://www.asmeconferences.org/MSEC09/CallForPapersDetail.cfm
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

 

 

Sincerely

Weihang Zhu

Asst. Prof., Graduate Advisor, IE, Lamar Univ.

(409) 880 8876 (O)

(409) 880 8121 (Fax)

 

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