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Papers were presented in the following main technical categories:

General Topics and their Description

• Distributed and Collaborative Design
Distributed co-design, Design knowledge management and representation, Integration of design with manufacturing modelling and planning, Use of simulation early in the design process, Product life-cycle management

• Process Modeling and Process Planning
Process knowledge management and representation, Distributed co-development and optimisation of process models and plans, Assembly planning including tolerance analysis and synthesis, Process planning optimisation within a distributed planning environment, Modelling and Simulation of manufacturing processes

• Advanced Factory Design and Modeling
New technologies for digital factory representation, Re-configurable equipment, Factory cells and new systems architectures, Optimization techniques for factory design, Control of autonomous and intelligent manufacturing

• Physical-to-Digital Environment Integrators-Verification
Advanced metrology and reverse engineering, Integrated measurement and process planning, Large volume metrology and facility scanning, Advanced sensing and process automation, Standards for metrology
Discrete event simulation, Large and complex system modelling and verification, RFID methods for data acquisition

• Enterprise Integration Technologies
Advances in product data management; Enterprise resource planning; Evolving standards for enterprise modelling; Dynamic supply network design and management; E-business, Supply chain management and logistics

Special Sessions

• Emergent Synthesis in Complex Production and Logistic Networks – Theory and Application—Professor K Ueda and Professor B Scholz-Reiter

• Advanced Digital Verification of Products and Processes—Dr. G.W. Owen, Dr. S. Robson and Professor G. Peggs

• Evolution of Production Systems—Professor T. Tolio

• Interoperable Manufacturing—Professor S.T. Newman

• Cost Engineering—Professor R. Roy and Dr. P. Baguley