Innovative Production Machines and Systems Conference

... Damned Lies, Statistics and ... IPROMS 2008 Statistics Generated 10-Jul-2008 16:10 BST*

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Dear Authors in the Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems Session,

Please kindly attach your Audio/Video slides presentation AS SOON AS POSSIBLE...
If you are not sure how to upload the presentation, please visit the website below:

http://conference.iproms.org/how_to_create_a_video_presentation

Any queries...please don't hesitate to contact me at;

EbrahimZ@cardiff.ac.uk

cheeeeeeersss...

-Zuhriah-
Co-chairman

Dear IPROMS 2008 Authors and Participants,

Welcome to the Intelligent Decision Support Systems session. I’m Ashraf Afify, co-chair for this conference session.

I would like to thank the authors who have already uploaded the video presentations for their papers. May I kindly request the authors who haven’t done so to upload the video presentation for their paper ASAP.

I urge all participants to take part in active discussions by posting questions/comments/remarks etc.

I urge the authors to respond to any questions addressing their paper as quickly as possible.

Best wishes,
Ashraf Afify

Dear Authors and Participants,

Welcome to the Intelligent Optimisation Techniques Session. I’m Ebubekir Koç, co-chair of the session. I would like to thank the authors who have already uploaded the video presentations for their papers. May I kindly request the authors who haven’t done so to upload the video presentation for their paper. If you you have any problem with your presentation you can check our presentaions help option on main conference page.

I would like to encourage all participants to attend this session which has some significant papers on intelligent optimisation techniques, and take part in active discussions by posting your questions, comments and remarks.

Dear IPROMS 2008 Authors and Participants,

Welcome to the Mechatronics special session. I’m Michael Packianather, co-chair for this conference special session.

I would like to thank the authors who have already uploaded the video presentations for their papers. May I kindly request the authors who haven’t done so to upload the video presentation for their paper ASAP.

I would like to encourage all participants to attend this special session which has a range of papers covering from manufacturing to medical robots and take part in active discussions by posting your questions/comments/remarks etc.

Dear participants,

I am Taufiq your co-chair for the Sustainable Manufacturing Systems as well as the Fit Manufacturing sessions. I would like to extend my warmest welcome to you to this session as part of the 2008 IPROMS virtual conference. I hope you will gain much from this conference and please do participate in the discussions with your comments, not only in this session but also in the other sessions.

Everyone is encourged to join in the conference and the best way to do so is by posting questions to our authors, to do so please don't forget to register (which is free).

If you require help please do not hesitate to contact me at the email address below or the support page

Dear authors and participants,

It is great pleasure to welcome you all to the RECONFIGURABLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS session.

I'm Zuhriah Ebrahim, co-chair for this session.

First of all, my sincere thanks to the authors,
Thank you very much for your contribution to this session and to the conference.
I am kindly expecting your contributions for the discussions as well.

Participants,
Please register yourself to view the full papers. Feel free to post questions and comments. I hope that you will enjoy your stay in this session and would find many interesting pieces of work useful for your own research.

Welcome to the IPROMS* 2008 Conference for the session on Collaborative and Responsive Manufacturing Systems. I am K.W. Ng, your co-chairman for this session.

All participants can register free for this conference and are able access as well as download the full paper free in this conference after registration.

The papers in this session will be touching on the systems and models that improve and enhance collaboration between a manufacturing enterprise, its suppliers, customers, and partners so that multiple groups can work together as they set plans and policy, agree to actions, and execute operations to boost responsiveness, and agility.

No changes this year - short video presentations. If you don't know how to prepare one - please read some of the previous posts or look up screencasting on the interweb.

As a general advice - keep them short, to the point. While we don't enforce any time limits, keeping them under ten minutes is advisable. Not many people will be interested in longer videos.

How to you upload your presentation?

Short version: Find your paper. Select edit. Attach the video - the button is towards the bottom of the form. Submit the changes.

You can find the paper through a topic you assigned it to, or by looking it up in the list of all conference papers (by topic).

If the email address you've entered for your profile is exactly the same as an email address of an author of your paper you will see an edit tab below the title of the paper.

Follow the link and you will see the page edit form. You can correct the title, abstract, etc... And you can attach additional material - for example your video presentation.

When you are done. Submit your changes.

The last item left to mention is when to upload the presentation. The final papers will appear online later this week. The authors will be recognised by their email addresses, so be careful which email address you use in your user registration.

Update: All accepted papers are online now. There are a couple of papers wich are still awaiting decision, if they are accepted they will be made available.

The idea which I am thinking mainly relates to guided vehicles which run on rubber tires with guide wheel in the centre and more particularly to GLT.

It mainly helps in
• Avoiding friction between guide wheel and guide rail.
• Avoiding slowing down of vehicle while taking curves (with perfect contact between guide wheel and guide rail)
• Helps in taking Deep curves than normal.
• Passenger convince

The ideology is to provide automated tilting mechanism to wheels.
Sensors are placed on the guide wheel which measures the force and depending upon the force acting on guide wheel the tilting of rubber wheel takes place at the axle of the respective rubber wheel.