Welcome

Price, time and quality are no longer sufficient to gain competitive advantage. It is high value knowledge, which provides the opportunities for adding exclusive value to products and services of an enterprise. Knowledge strategy will be related to innovation, learning and agility. Innovation, or the conversion of great research into great products, learning, or the gaining of knowledge from experience, agility, or quick response to the dynamic changes, are the important rules of international industrial competition these days as companies must respond to shifts in global markets quickly and effectively by delivering new products in the shortest time, with the highest quality and the lowest costs. The successful enterprise of our century will be characterized by an organizational structure that supports process thinking and captures experience and intelligence based on information. It deftly responds to customers' demands and changing global conditions, no matter how large the enterprise becomes. It will create a corporate culture that empowers employees at all levels and facilitates constant communication among related groups. It will have a technological infrastructure that fully supports process improvement and integration despite unexpected changes in corporate direction. To keep up with rapid developments in global manufacturing, the enterprise must first look at its organization and culture, and then at its supporting technologies. Too often, companies throw vast capital at technology to catch up to competitors only to find that their employees are still clinging to the same attitudes, methods, and timetables that caused problems in the first place. This conference will concentrate on knowledge strategies in life cycle of product creation and will try to bring industry and academia closer.

Publication

All accepted papers with paid registration will be included in the Proceedings of PROLAMAT 2006, to be published by Springer Publishers as IFIP series. Selected outstanding papers will be published as Special Issues by several well-known International Journals, for example, International Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, international Journal of Computer in Industry etc. which are indexed by both SCI and EI.

Keynote speaker:

1. Prof. Kesheng Wang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, Kesheng.wang@ntnu.no, "Knowledge Discovery in Design and Manufacturing"

2. Prof. George Kovacs, Computer and Automation Institute and Technical University, Budapest, Hungary, gkovacs@sztaki.hu, "The Management and Production Control of Large, Distributed Enterprises".

3. Prof. Gustav J. Olling, Chairman, IFIP TC5, Executive, CAX Research & Development DaimlerChrysler Corporation, USA, gjo@daimlerchrysler.com, "Digital Processes in Product Creation"

4. Prof. Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, New University of Lisbon, Portugal, cam@uninova.pt, "Collaborative Networks - Value Creation in a Knowledge Society".

5.Prof. Guy Doumeingts, Director ADELIOR France, doumeingts@itrec.com, “Knowledge in the Interoperability for Enterprise System and Application”.

6.Professor Wladimir Bodrow, University of Applied Science for Technology and Economy, Germany. W.bodrow@fhtw-berlin.de. "Implementation of Knowledge Management to Manufacturing Enterprise".

7. Prof. Xiaoqing Tang, Vice president of Beihang University, China, tangxq@buaa.edu.cn, "Integrated Quality Information System for Manufacturing industries in China".

8. Prof. Tao Yu, Shanghai University China. yutao@staff.shu.edu.cn. “Manufacturing Grid: Research, Development & Application”.

Note the deadlines:            

       Registration at site: 15-17 June, 2006.