1704 Acknowledgements
C.30 Automating Errors and Conflicts Prognostics
and Prevention
by Xin W. Chen, Shimon Y. Nof
This chapter has been developed with the support
of the PRISM Center and the School of Industrial
Engineering at Purdue University. Partial support by
General Motors Research project on Design of Active
Middleware for Error and Conflict Detection is also ac-
knowledged.
D.35 Machining Lines Automation
by Xavier Delorme, Alexandre Dolgui,
Mohamed Essafi, Laurent Linxe, Damien Poyard
The industrial case plus the illustrations of the parts
and machining units presented in this chapter were pro-
vided by the society PCI/SCEMM (http://www.pci.fr/).
The authors thank Dr. Olga Guschinskaya for her ad-
vice and discussions and Chris Yukna for his help in
English.
E.40 Economic Rationalization of Automation
Projects
by José A. Ceroni
The author gratefully acknowledges the significant
and valuable contributions of Y. Hasegawa, J. Mill,
G.T. Stevens, B. Huff, and A. Presley for their previous
work on this topic.
E.43 Product Lifecycle Management
and Embedded Information Devices
by Dimitris Kiritsis
The content of this chapter is based on reports and
publications of the PROMISE project (EU FP6 507100
and IMS 01008; www.promise-plm.com). The author
expresses his deep gratitude to all PROMISE partners.
E.47 Automation and Ethics
by Srinivasan Ramaswamy, Hemant Joshi
The authors wish to thank the anonymous re-
viewers and editors for significant help and advice
in writing this chapter. Parts of this work were sup-
ported in part by the National Science Foundation
(under Grant Nos. CNS-0619069, EPS-0701890 and
OISE 0729792),NASA EPSCoR Arkansas Space Grant
Consortium (#UALR 16804) and Acxiom Corporation
(#281539). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or
recommendations expressed in this chapter are those
of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the
views of the funding agencies. Finally, the authors
would like to thank Sithu Sudarsan, currently a vis-
iting researcher at the FDA’s Center for Devices and
Radiological Health, for engaging discussions on this
subject.
F.49 Digital Manufacturing
andRFID-BasedAutomation
by Wing B. Lee, Benny C.F. Cheung, Siu K. Kwok
The authors would like to express their sincere
thanks to the Research Committee of The Hong Kong
Polytechnic University (project code G-YE31) and
the Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC) of
The Government of the Hong Kong Special Admin-
istrative Region (HKSAR) (project code GHS/091/04)
for financial and technical support of the research
work.
F.51 Aircraft Manufacturing and Assembly
by Branko Sarh, James Buttrick, Clayton Munk,
Richard Bossi
Ron Gill, Michael Watts, Larry Hefti, and Robert A.
Kisch also contributed to this chapter. Bruce Harman
of Boeing served as chapter editor.
F.54 Production, Supply, Logistics and Distribu-
tion
by Rodrigo Cruz Di Palma,
Manuel Scavarda Basaldúa
Technical and theoretical contributions by Sang-
Won Yoon from the PRISM Center at Purdue University
are acknowledged. Additional supportand contributions
for this chapter were provided by Guillermo Pinochet,
Cristian Hernandez, and Craig Downing.
G.67 Air Transportation System Automation
by Satish C. Mohleji, Dean F. Lamiano,
Sebastian V. Massimini
The authors gratefully acknowledge valued sup-
port from Dr. D. Bhadra, W.W. Cooper, J. C. Ce-
lio, Dr. D. B. Kirk, R. O. Lejeune, E. G. Newberger,
W.J. Swedish, G.H. Solomos, and Dr. A.D. Zeitlin of
MITRE/CAASD, and W.Flathers of United Airlines.
Acknowl.