The ubiquitous development of information and communication technology enables new
opportunities for products and production systems. These systems will be able to learn
and optimize their behaviour during the systems operation. The result: Increasing
structural complexity and dynamics of products, production networks, processes and
organizations. This requires an on-going adaption and reinvention of the organizing
principles and solutions. Therefore, new products as well as their corresponding
production and logistic processes require research activities in the field of advanced
information techniques and system integrated intelligence to cope with the complexity
and dynamics.
The 1st Joint Symposium on System-Integrated Intelligence: New Challenges for Product
and Production Engineering (SysInt 2012) provides a forum for academia and
industrialists to disseminate their latest innovations and practises. It is a platform to
exchange new developments, trends and upcoming ideas related to sensor technologies,
sensorial materials, self-optimizing systems and self-controlled processes in production
or logistic applications. The conference focuses on the integration of new functions and
mechanisms into components, parts and products as well as complete production and
logistic systems which will enable future technologies with enhanced intelligent
capabilities.
The conference is a cooperation of the Collaborative Research Centres (CRC) 614 "Selfoptimizing
concepts and structures in mechanical engineering", University of Paderborn,
the CRC 653 "Gentelligent Components in Their Lifecycle – Utilization of Inheritable
Component Information in Product Engineering", Leibniz Universität Hannover as well
as the Bremen CRC 637 "Autonomous Cooperating Logistic Processes – A Paradigm
Shift and its Limitations". In addition, two special sessions complement the symposium.
The first focuses on "Enabling Technologies for Sensorial Materials – Taking Sensor
Integration", which is an indispensable precondition for system-integrated intelligence. It
is co-organized by the "Integrated Solutions in Sensorial Structure Engineering” (ISIS)
in Bremen. Second, the 1st German-Malaysian workshop on „Advances in Mechatronics
and Engineering Technology” provides a platform to encounter binational scientific
networking. It is co-organized by the University Teknologi Mara Selangor, Malaysia and
the Project Group Mechatronic Systems Design, Fraunhofer Institute for Production
Technology, Paderborn, Germany. The proceedings of the conference contain interesting
and diverse scientific publications that bundles the competencies of the three CRCs, the
two specialized workshops and further researchers from industry and academia. Specific
papers have been selected for an extended publication in a Special Issue in the journal
“Production Engineering - Research and Development”.
Berend Denkena
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