Special Issue on Manufacturing Plant Control Challenges and Issues: Guest editorial

Gérard Morel (1) , Carlos Eduardo Pereira (2)

1 CRAN - Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy
2 GCAR-DELET-UFRGS - GCAR-DELET-UFRGS

This special issue of the IFAC journal on Control Engineering Practice contains improved selected papers of the 11th IFAC INCOM'04 Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing held in Brazil. The main purpose of INCOM'04 has been to point up international research and developments dealing with all the applications of automation, information and communication technologies in order to control and to manage the manufacturing plant within the e-enterprise. This general scope involves all methodological and technological aspects to digitally control with more agility the entire manufacturing chain, from supply and design through manufacturing, to maintenance and service, over the whole product and processes life cycle.

Mots clés: Manufacturing; Information Control

Domaines: Automatique / Robotique

Gérard Morel, Carlos Eduardo Pereira. Special Issue on Manufacturing Plant Control Challenges and Issues: Guest editorial. Control Engineering Practice, 2007, 15 (11), pp.1319-1320. ⟨10.1016/j.conengprac.2007.05.005⟩. ⟨hal-00163168⟩