Interfaces in Industrial Systems for Production Engineering, Proceedings of the IFIP TC5/WG5.10 Working Conference on Interfaces in Industrial Systems for Production Engineering, Darmstadt, Germany, 15-17 March, 1993

Interfacing technology for manufacturing industry: islands of automation to continents of standardization (N. Shaw). GRIPSS - a graphical idea-processing and sketching system (D. Roller, M. Stolpmann). Automatic display layout in window oriented user interfaces (E. Lueders, R. Ernst). Vis-a-vis - an object-oriented application framework for graphical design-tools (H. Lichter, K. Schneider). Recommendations for CAD user interfaces (A.M. Heinecke). Intelligent retrieval in multimodal informations system (S. Roppel). Long term archiving of product model data (H. Grabowski, R. Anderl, X. Li, M. Schmitt). Issues in modelling techniques for the STEP based exchange of robotics data (U. Kroszynski, T. Sorensen, E. Trostmann). A CAD database interface basd on STEP (I. Nakamura, T. Kojima, Y. Kugai, F. Kimura). A feature-based design system and its potential to unify CAD and CAM (H. Denzel, G.-C. Vosniakos). A toolbox of integrated planning tools - a case study (B.G. Welz, L. Camarinha, T.C. Lueth, S. Monch, L. Stocchiero, J. Tramu, A. Visser). Intelligent interface design to supervisory control of dynamic discrete-part manufacturing processes (E. Szelke, G. Markus). An exchange strategy for product information (L. Shanping). ASN.1 based exchange of graphical and application specific data (H. Mueller-Seelich, H. Mayer, B. Tabatabai). Exchange of freeform surfaces using standard interfaces (H. Grabowski, R. Anderl, X. Li, M. Schmitt). Measuring as a CAD application. Measuring information for the inspection of free formed surfaces (S. Roth-Koch). The virtual manufacturing workbench - representation and interface issues (J. Mills, J.K. Graham, A. Ramez, R.A. Elsmasri, B.P. Weems). Synchronous cooperative working in wide-area networks (A. Hewett, A. Barth, P. Jensch). 3D object reconstruction using 4D-laser digitalizing (M. Ioannides). Generic interfaces to remote applications in open systems (M. Merz, W. Lamersdort). Distributed conferencing tools for product design (K. Schroeder, H. Kress).