1989 Manufacturing Systems Research Conference: Fifteenth NSF Grantees Conference on Production Systems and Technol- ogy; Berkeley, California; January 9-13, 1989

本次会议的目的是为制造系统计划、制造机器和系统计划以及自动化和系统集成计划的研究人员提供一个交流思想的论坛，以确保这些研究人员了解他们的同事目前正在进行的活动。这样就可以消除它们的重复努力，并可能产生一定程度的合作。预计这些方案的效率将得到全面提高。此外，会议计划组织允许有充足的时间在会议上与集体研究社区详细讨论制造研究，并得到国家科学基金会的反馈和投入。最后，与项目研究人员的个人接触应该有助于澄清他们工作中的许多当前问题。首席研究员将有一到两年的提前信息，因为在资助人会议上提交工作报告和在文献中发表有关该工作的论文之间通常需要很长时间。

The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum for an exchange of ideas between researchers in the Manufacturing Systems Program, Manufacturing Machines and Systems Program, and the Automation and Systems Integration Program mainly, to assure that these individual researchers are informed about the present ongoing activities of their colleagues. Thus an elimination of duplication of their efforts may be achieved and a degree of cooperation may result. An overall improvement of efficiency of the programs would be expected. In addition, the conference program organization allows for ample time to discuss manufacturing research in detail with the collective research community at the meeting with feedback and input from the National Science Foundation. Finally, personal contacts with researchers in the programs should contribute to clarifying many current problems in their work. Principal Investigator's will have one to two years advanced information as it often takes that much time between the report of the work presented at the grantees conference and the publication of papers about this work in the literature.