Towards Balanced Automation The concept. Manufacturing industries worldwide are facing tough challenges as a consequence of the globalization of economy and the openness of the markets. Progress of the economic blocks such as the European Union, NAFTA, and MERCOSUR, and the global agreements such as GATT, in addition to their obvious economic and social consequences, provoke strong paradigm shifts in the way that the manufacturing systems are conceived and operate. To increase profitability and reduce the manufacturing costs, there is a recent tendency towards establishing partnership links among the involved industries, usually between big industries and the networks of components' suppliers. To benefit from the advances in technology, similar agreements are being established between industries and universities and research institutes. Such an open tete-cooperation network may be identified as an extended enterprise or a virtual enterprise. In fact, the manufacturing process is no more carried out by a single enterprise, rather each enterprise is just a node that adds some value (a step in the manufacturing chain) to the cooperation network of enterprises. The new trends create new scenarios and technological challenges, especially to the Small and Medium size Enterprises (SMEs) that clearly comprise the overwhelming majority of manufacturing enterprises worldwide. Under the classical scenarios, these SMEs would have had big difficulties to access or benefit from the state of the art technology, due to their limited human, financial, and material resources.
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This volume presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Architecture and Design Methods for Balanced Automation Systems, organized by the International Federation for Information Processing and sponsored by the IEEE and ECLA. The conference was held in Vitoria, Brazil, in July 1995. The book introduces the concept of balanced automation, discussing this in the context of its social and economic implications. Special emphasis is given to strategies for migrations from legacy systems, and to the integration of humans in the global supervision architecture of manufacturing systems. A wide range of research and development results from a worldwide panel of internationally recognized experts is presented. This book is essential reading for all those working in industrial, mechanical, electrical and computer engineering, especially engineers and students, and those involved in research and development.
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