Electronics

Philippe Geril · Guest

13TH ANNUAL
EUROPEAN CONCURRENT ENGINEERING
CONFERENCE-2006
APRIL 17-19, 2006, ATHENS, GREECE
CE Enhanced Lean Manufacturing

Sponsored by:
DaimlerChrysler, Audi AG, SMART
AVNET 3D
Ghent University
The European Technology Institute
in cooperation with
Technical University of Athens

website:
http://biomath.ugent.be/~eurosis/conf/ecec/ecec2006/index.html
online from October 18 onwards

CONFERENCE AIM

The conference aim of ECEC'2006 is to provide European Researchers with a
forum, where they can discuss the latest developments linked to concurrent
engineering focused on European research projects. ECEC'2006 aims to
identify the progress that has been made in Concurrent Engineering over the
last year. A special focus of the ECEC'2006 will be its importance in
enhancing lean manufacturing methods.The ECEC helps the dissemination of
information and exploitation of results from the research and technical
development and\provides a forum for the exchange of experiences in
developing
and implementing CE based solutions across the wide spectrum of
manufacturing
and engineering industries. The conference is target at industrial
enterprises,
industrial associations, universities and research institutes.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

The conference will be of direct benefit to process, production, design or
development managers in manufacturing, strategic directors, quality managers
and technical directors. The conference will also be of interest to
industrial
and academic researchers.

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

The 2006 Concurrent Engineering Europe Conference is structured around the
following ten major topics. A track will be devoted to each of these topics
in parallel.
The conference language is English.

* E-Business in CE
• Organizational influences of e-business
• B2B business models for inter-organizational CE
• Migration to e-business based CE
• E-business applications for CE
• B2B portals for CE
• Emerging standards (e.g. XML, UML)
• e-procurement, e-supply, e-engineering,...

* Organization and Management
• Principles of CE
• Multi-disciplined team-working and project team organization
• Global product development and international collaboration
• Life-cycle cost and quality
• Business process re-engineering and outsourcing
• Supply chain management
• Measurement of profitability by the introduction of CE

* Supporting Technologies
• Digital Mock-Up
• Virtual prototyping
• Rapid prototyping
• Synthetic environments and simulation on the factory floor
• Reverse engineering
• Assembly and disassembly
• High precision manufacturing
• Intelligent manufacturing
• Sensor and robot assisted machining

* Techniques
• Quality function deployment
• Total quality management
• Global optimization techniques and hybrid approaches

* Engineering of embedded systems
• HW/SW co-design
• system development process
• specification languages

* Engineering Data Management and Information Modeling
• Integration of geometrical data and product definition
• Product data interchange (PDI) and standards
• Data handling, distribution and transformation
• Data version control and release management
• Corporate technical memory
• Design rationale and intent

* Engineering Process Management and Modelling
• Process planning in continuous, discrete and hybrid processes
• Process modeling, monitoring and control
• Diagnostics and maintenance
• Automated inspection and quality control
• Production planning, scheduling and control•
• CE metrics
• CE process planning, scheduling and simulation
• Workflow-management in CE
• Project and team coordination

* Collaborative CE Environments for Virtual Teams
• Cooperative problem solving
• CSCW methods and tools
• Information and application sharing
• Computer-based video and audio conferencing
• Conflict resolution techniques
• Constraint management
• Negotiation, blackboard and agent-based architecture
• CORBA based environments and integrated frameworks
• Architectures for building CE systems
• CE languages and tools
• Distributed computing environments
• WWW based CE systems
• mobile CE systems
• Networking and distribution in CE

CE enhanced Lean Manufacturing
.. Work Standardization
.. 5S Workplace Organization
.. Visual Controls
.. Batch Size Reduction
.. Points of Use Storage
.. Quality at the Source
.. Workflow Practice
.. Improved Information and Product Flow
.. Cellular Manufacturing
.. Pull & Synchronous Scheduling
.. Six Sigma & Total Quality
.. Rapid Setup
.. Work Teams for Cell Management & Process Improvement
.. Simplified scheduling and Kanban inventory management

* Practical Applications and Experiences
• Practical solutions
• Systematic guide-lines
• Pitfalls and success stories
• Case studies, pilot projects and experiments
in aerospace, shipbuilding etc...

KEYNOTE AND INVITED SPEAKERS

ECEC´2006 will feature one Keynote Speaker.

Focusing on the main tracks of the Conference, invited speakers will give
special in-depth presentations in plenary sessions, which will be included
in the Proceedings of the Conference. Next to the ordinary sessions,
workshops will be held where participants can discuss their research,
set up joint research projects or help each other to solve problems;
the so-called partners-for-projects sessions.

THE STEFFEN SCHWARZ BEST PAPER AWARD

The 2006 European Concurrent Engineering Conference will award the best
paper.
from all full paper submissions. This paper will receive the Steffen Schwarz
best paper award in memory of Steffen Schwarz, one of the founders of this
conference, who died in a tragic car accident after attending the ECEC2002
conference in Modena, Italy.

DEADLINES AND REQUIREMENTS

Authors are invited to electronically submit extended abstracts (2-4 pages,
2000-6000 words)of their papers, or final paper proposals (6-12 pages),
written in English, along with a cover sheet for review by the Technical
Program Committee. The submissions are due to arrive by email to:
Philippe.Geril@biomath.ugent.be by
NOVEMBER 30, 2005 (EARLY BIRD SUBMISSION)
DECEMBER 15, 2005
JANUARY 20, 2006 (LATE SUBMISSION)
Or in order to speed up the electronic committee distribution process
use the abstract submission page. Accepted formats are Word or PDF formats
only. The abstracts have to include the title of the proposed paper, all
authors with affiliations; the full address of the principal author(with
phone and fax numbers and email address); and a list of keywords related
to the paper contents; and choice of presentation (lecture or poster).
They will be reviewed by three members of the International Program
Committee. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent in the
period January 30 February 15, 2006.

Only original papers, written in English, which have not previously been
published elsewhere will be accepted. In case you want to organize a panel
discussion, please contact the program chairmen.
An author kit with complete instruction for preparing a camera-ready copy
for the proceedings will be emailed to authors of accepted papers. One
camera-ready copy of the papers accompanied by an electronic version in
MS Word or PDF must be in by March 15, 2006.

PAPER SUBMISSION TYPES

FULL PAPER (including abstract, conclusions, diagrams, references) During
review,the submitted full papers can be accepted as a regular 5 page paper.
If excellent,full papers can be accepted by the program committee as an
extended (8-page) paper. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three
members of the International Program Committee.

EXTENDED ABSTRACT (at least five pages)
Participants may also submit a 5 page extended abstract for a regular (5
pages)
or short (3 pages) paper or poster, which will be reviewed by the
International
Program Committee. All accepted papers will be published in the ECEC'2006
Conference Proceedings.

SHORT ABSTRACT (at least three pages)
Participants may also submit a 3 page abstract for a short paper or poster,
which will be reviewed by the International Program Committee. All accepted
papers will be published in the ECEC'2006 Conference Proceedings.

ONE PAGE ABSTRACTS ARE NOT ACCEPTED.

The final manuscript for
extended papers are expected to be 8 pages long, accepted regular papers
are expected to be 5 pages long , whereas the short papers are approximately
3 pages long (A4, two-column format).
In order to guarantee a high-quality conference, the final papers will be
reviewed to check whether the suggestions of the program committee have been
incorporated. The nominees for the best paper awards will be selected as
well,
from the papers accepted as EXTENDED papers.

ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION:
FEBRUARY 15, 2006
Camera-Ready Copies:
MARCH 15, 2006

REGISTRATION FEES

Registration Authors EUROSIS Other
Fees
Members Participants
Pre-Reg
before 485 Euro 485 Euro 545 Euro
March 15, 2006

Reg after Pre-
March 15, 2006 registration 545 Euro 595 Euro
Required

Registration fees should preferably be paid in EUROs, but can
also be paid in the equivalent amount of US$.. Payment is possible
by Creditcard (VISA, MASTER, AMEX, DINERS)
The registration fee includes one copy of the Conference Proceedings,
coffee and tea during the breaks, all lunches, a welcome cocktail,
the conference dinner and a company visit.(this last item is
dependent on company availability)

Author Registration
Authors are expected to register early (at a reduced fee) and to
attend the conference at their own expense to present the accepted
papers. Without early registration and payment, the paper will not
be published in the Conference Proceedings.

VENUE
The ECEC 2006 will be co-located with the EUROMEDIA 2006 (Multimedia,
Telematics, and Web Technology) conference. Paying registration for
either one of the conferences allows you to visit sessions from both
conferences. Both conferences are co-located at a hotel in Athens.

EXHIBITS
A possibility to exhibit will be available to those interested. More
information can be found on the conference website.

VENDOR SESSIONS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND VIDEO PRESENTATIONS
For demonstrations or video sessions, please contact EUROSIS at the
European Office. Special sessions within the scientific program will
be set up for vendor presentations.

OTHER ORGANIZED MEETINGS
A TC meeting will be held in the context of the EUROSIS TCs

CONFERENCE VISIT
The attendees to the conference will visit an industrial site
around Athens if possible.

CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS
Philippe Geril
EUROSIS
Ghent University
Faculty of Industrial Management
Technologiepark 903
B-9052 Ghent-Zwijmaarde, Belgium
Tel (Office): +32 9 264.55.09
Fax: + 32 9 264.58.25
Email: philippe.geril@biomath.ugent.be

Further information about the 2006 European Concurrent Engineering
Conference
can be found on WWW under:
http://biomath.ugent.be/~eurosis/conf/ecec/ecec2006/index.html

REPLY CARD

First
Name....................................................................
Last Name:
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Occupation and/or
Title.......................................................
Affiliation:...................................................................
Mailing
Address:..............................................................
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Zipcode:......................................................................

City:.........................................................................

Country:.......................................................................
Telephone:......................................Fax:..........................

E-mail:........................................................................

Yes, I intend to attend the 2006 Concurrent Engineering Europe Conference:
[] Proposing a paper
[] Proposing a panel discussion
[] Participating in a vendor session
[] Contributing to the exhibition
[] Without presenting a paper

The provisional title of my paper / poster / exhibited tool is:

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With the following highlights:

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The paper belongs to the category (please tick one):
[] 1 e-Business in CE
[] 2 Organization and Management
[] 3 Supporting Technologies
[] 4 Techniques
[] 5 Engineering of Embedded Systems
[] 6 Engineering data management and information modeling
[] 7 Engineering process management and simulation
[] 8 Collaborative CE environments for virtual teams
[] 9 CE Enhanced Lean Manufacturing
[] 10 Practical applications and experiences

The paper will be submitted as a:
[] Extended paper [] Regular Paper [] Short Paper [] Poster []
Product Presentation

Other colleague(s) interested in the topics of the conference is/are:
Name:
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Address:
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If you would like to receive more information about ECEC, please tick the
following box:
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[] NO, please remove me from your database.
Please send this part of the email immediately to: Philippe Geril, Ghent
University, Faculty of Industrial Management, Technologiepark 903,
B-9052 Ghent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium
Email: philippe.geril@biomath.ugent.be

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