The Third Biennial Japan-United States of America Symposium on Flexible Automation; Japan; July 9-13, 1990

该奖项将为美国参与者提供部分支持 1990年日本-美国柔性自动化研讨会。 的 目的是帮助支付大约50%的费用， 出席为期三天的会议，并安排两天的 参观日本制造企业的图尔斯。 此行的目的是了解当前 灵活自动化的学术和工业研究。 这种类型 在这两个遥远的国家， 在过去的两次研讨会上， 随着人们对生产力认识的提高， 在美国工业的问题，这样的计划变得更加重要， 年 会议结束时，美国组织者（a 四到六人组）将前往国家科学院， 1990年秋季， 研讨会及相关活动。 会议结束后， 小组将提交一份总结报告。

This award will provide partial support for USA participants in the 1990 Japan-USA Symposium on Flexible Automation. The intent is to help defray approximately 50% of the expenses for attendance at the three-day meeting and for two days of arranged tours of Japanese manufacturing firms. The objective of this trip is to learn about current academic and industry research in flexible automation. This type of close interaction between researchers in these two distant communities has, in the last two Symposia, proven to be quite beneficial, and with the increasing awareness of productivity problems in USA industries, such programs become more vital each year. At the conclusion of the meeting, the USA organizers (a group of four to six) will travel to the National Science Foundation in the fall of 1990 to provide a one-day briefing on the Symposium and related events. Following that meeting, the group will submit a summary report.