Cost Oriented Automation (Low Cost Automation 2001)

Containing the papers presented at the IFAC Symposium on Cost-Oriented Automation, this volume examines the life cycle of automation systems including design, production, operating, maintenance, reconfiguration and recycling, with particular emphasis on cost effectiveness.

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The Proceedings contains the papers presented at the IFAC Symposium on Cost-Oriented Automation held in Berlin, Germany from 8-9 October 2001. Cost-Oriented Automation is one of IFAC's key technical areas and this regular symposium series has an excellent reputation. This Symposium was organised by the Technische Universitat Berlin/Center of Human-Machine Systems and the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (IPK-Berlin) on behalf of the VDI/VDE Gesellschaft fur Mess- und Automatisierungstechnik.

The life cycle of automation systems, including design, production, operating, maintenance, reconfiguration and recycling, was considered with particular emphasis on cost effectiveness (cost of ownership). The Proceedings contains nearly 40 papers, including the papers presented at two industrial workshops on Virtual Programmable Logic Control and Lifecycle Costs, where new developments in these fields were presented and discussed. The topics of the eight regular sessions were:

Controls for manufacturing systems
Simulation of manufacturing systems and processes
Actuators and sensors
Programmable logic controls
Robotics
Information processing for shop floor control
Human-machine interfac
Implemented solutions