Aim and Scope: • Concurrent Engineering in the Extended
Many manufacturing companies have been Manufacturing Enterprise
required to reduce the time to market of products with
shorter life cycles, greater part variation, lower costs and
higher product quality. This means that characteristics
such as flexibility, responsiveness and reconfigurability
are essential in order to change functional capabilities
within a short period of time. The main goal of
‘Responsive Manufacturing (RM)’ is to achieve rapid,
flexible and integrated development, manufacture and
support of complex products within an extended and
increasingly global supply chain. Responsive
Manufacturing is also employed to counter the increase in
unpredictability of market conditions and the need to
reorganise manufacturing activities, enabling
manufacturing enterprises to thrive under conditions of
uncertainty.
The seamless integration of information to
improve the speed of product realisation and concurrency
of product and process development; the utilisation of
intelligent manufacturing technology to improve
competitiveness and speed of the product development;
and the deployment of reconfigurable manufacturing
systems to improve flexibility, optimise performance and
improve the manufacturing system’s ability to cope with
disturbances are considered as critical elements in
achieving manufacturing responsiveness.
The 2nd International Conference on
Responsive Manufacturing will provide an excellent
opportunity for debating these issues. Both academia and
industry are invited to present their papers dealing with
state of the art research and future developments.
Topics of Interests (But not limited to)
University of in cooperation with The Nottingham • Advanced CNC programming
Gaziantep University • Agent Based Manufacturing
• Agile Fixturing Systems, Soft Tooling and
Jiggles Manufacturing
• Agile Manufacturing and Virtual Enterprises
• Agility for World Class Manufacturing
• Agility, Flexibility, Adaptiveness,
http://www.gantep.edu.tr/~rmc2002 Responsiveness
rmc2002@gantep.edu.tr • Artificial Intelligence Applications in
Manufacturing
• Biological Manufacturing Systems
• Cellular Manufacturing Systems
• CIM, CAE, CAD/CAM, JIT and FMS for
Responsive Manufacturing
26-28, June 2002
• Communication Technologies
Gaziantep, Turkey
• Condition Monitoring & Real-Time Control
• Crisis Management
• Design for Responsive Manufacturing
• Factory Modelling & Simulation of Manufacturing
Systems
• Fractal Manufacturing Systems
• Global Manufacturing
• Holonic Manufacturing
• Human Factors in Responsive Manufacturing
• Information Infrastructure
• Lean Manufacturing
• Manufacturing Strategies in Responsive
Manufacturing
• Mechatronics and Robotics
• Metrics and Performance Measures
• Modern Heuristics (GA, GP, SA, TS, ACO etc.)
Applications in Manufacturing
• Multi-Axis and High Speed Machining for
Responsive Manufacturing
• New Generation Machine Tools
• Operations Research Applications for
Responsive Manufacturing
• Precision Machine Tools and Nanotechnology
• Process and Enterprise Modelling
• Rapid Prototyping and Product Development
• Reconfigurable Factory and Manufacturing
Systems
• Responsiveness as a Requirement of TQM
• Reverse Engineering
• Self Organizing Systems and Agent based
Technologies in Manufacturing
• Standardization Issues for Responsive
Manufacturing
• Supply Chain Management & Logistics
• Sustainable Manufacturing
• Virtual Factory and Manufacturing
• Workforce Agility in Production Systems
Note: For all, the papers should underline the relation
with RESPONSIVENESS …
Agenda of the conference Conference Secretariat
Day 1: Wednesday 26 June, 2002 University of Gaziantep, Faculty of Engineering
Refreshments Department of Industrial Engineering
Registration and Reception 27310 Gaziantep - Turkey
Opening ceremony Tel : +90 342 360 1200/ext.2601
Distinguished Lectures (Invited Sessions) Fax : +90 342 360 4383
Presentations I E-mail : rmc2002@gantep.edu.tr
Refreshments
Lunch Organization
Presentations II Honorary Conference Chairperson:
Conference Dinner I.Huseyin Filiz (Rector of University of Gaziantep, TR)
Day 2: Thursday 27 June, 2002 Conference General Chairman:
Refreshments Nabil Gindy (The Nottingham University, UK)
Presentations III Organising Committee:
Lunch Chairs: Adil Baykasoglu (University of Gaziantep, TR)
Presentations IV Türkay Dereli (University of Gaziantep, TR)
Tour of Industrial Plants in Gaziantep Members:
Day 3: Friday 28 June, 2002 John E. Middle (Loughborough University, UK)
Refreshments Ian Pashby (The Nottingham University, UK)
Presentations V Terence Perera (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
Refreshments Sameh Saad (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
Presentations VI James Tannock (The Nottingham University, UK)
Lunch Phil Webb (The Nottingham University, UK)
Closing Ceremony and Panel Catherine Wykes (The Nottingham University, UK)
Probable Tours:
• Historical Places in Gaziantep Publication: Accepted papers will be considered for
(Archaeological Museum, Castle, Oylum, Duluk, Tilmen, publication in some of the well-respected journals (IJPR,
Yesemek and Zeugma, etc). JIM, IMS) whose editors would be present at the
• Atatürk Dam, Nemrut Mountain (Adıyaman) conference. For some of these journals, special issues
• Historical Places in Antakya and Şanlıurfa will be scheduled by guest editors:
(Note some of the tours might be free…) Dr. Adil Baykasoglu and Dr. Türkay Dereli.
(Detailed information will be given later in conference web site)
Paper Submission and Presentation
Language: The official language for ICRM’2002 is
Abstracts can be sent by post or e-mail (using
English, which will be used for all printed material, University of
Microsoft Word format) to the conference secretariat or
presentations and discussion.
in cooperation with The Nottingham
organising committee chairs. It is strongly recommended Gaziantep University
to submit abstracts by e-mail. Conference Proceedings: The proceedings of the
Abstracts should not exceed 600 words. Abstract ICRM’2002 will be edited by Dr. Adil Baykasoglu & Dr.
should be typed in single space with 3 cm margin all Türkay Dereli, and published by University of Gaziantep
around the paper. Please state full name, affiliation, Printing Office. It will be distributed to participants at the
address, telephone, fax and e-mail address of all conference.
corresponding authors. http://www.gantep.edu.tr/~rmc2002
Call for Invited Speakers and Session: rmc2002@gantep.edu.tr
Important Deadlines Authors are encouraged to arrange special
Submission of abstracts : January 1, 2002 sessions in topics relevant to the ICRM’2002. If you
Notification of acceptance : January 20, 2002 interested in organizing a special session, please submit
Submission of the full paper : March 20, 2002 your proposals, which includes the title of the session,
Camera-Ready paper : April 30, 2002 title of articles, and a list of participating authors, by
January 1st, 2002, to the Conference Secretariat. 26-28, June 2002
Awards: A best paper award will be allocated. Gaziantep, Turkey