Manufacturing Systems - Integration and Control

The manufacturing industries are here in the midst of innovative technological revolution. Such revolution, characterized with the increasing application of computers for both automatic control and information processing, has led to considerable changes in the techniques of manufacturing. Within the earlier stages of industrial improvement, the emphasis was on the improvement and application of "hardware" that is either on the craftsmanship or machine originality and power utilization. The newest revolution is brought about via advances in computer and information technologies that put more emphasis on information and control than upon hardware sophistication. This enhancement of advanced manufacturing technology or AMT has noticed more attention and led to the enhancement of new manufacturing techniques and their application in the given areas as