Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Manufacturing and Automation

由于大多数产品可以在国外以更低的价格制造，美国正在慢慢失去其制造业基础。企业现在认识到，如果它们想要在世界市场上保持市场份额，就必须提高生产率。研究具有成本效益的制造系统对于保持我们的生产率和在世界贸易中的地位是必要的。企业现在认可并支持制造业的研究。由于越来越多的公司对此感兴趣，建立一个关于制造和自动化的工业/大学合作研究中心现在似乎既可行又可行。这项为期五年的持续资助将在南加州大学和加州大学洛杉矶分校与加州理工学院、加州大学欧文分校和圣巴巴拉大学以及亚利桑那州立大学合作，建立一个工业/大学制造和自动化合作研究中心。初步的研究计划是：1)制造工艺计划自动生成的智能系统；2)几何建模及其在设计和制造自动化中的应用；3)在CAD/CAM中自动生成数控机床的最佳切割条件；4)多机器人装配工艺规划和调度；5)自动装配和维护设计；6)自动化工厂智能仿真系统；7)真空环境下基于传感器的自动制造机器人系统；8)自动制造的动态调度。已有四家公司加入了该中心，另有四家公司表示，当新的预算可用时，他们将在年初加入。工业支持将提供中心100万美元初始预算的40%，第一年应增加到60%。加利福尼亚州已将每年20万美元的预算用于加强该中心的研究。公司首席调查员和所有参与中心的同事都是这些领域的知名专家，拥有运营该中心的专业知识和产业关系。该中心的费用由设计、制造和计算机部共同承担。项目经理建议授予南加州大学(和五所相关大学)为期五年的持续资助，每年资助40万美元。这其中包括设计、制造和计算机集成工程部每年10万美元的收入。.FF.每12个月接近结束时，项目经理和/或交叉学科研究部负责人将审查中心在一系列更新标准方面的进展，包括：(1)大学/行业互动和合作的发展程度；(2)中心的支持基础扩大的程度；(3)一个健全的研究计划正在发展的程度；(4)随着工业支持的增加，所有参与的大学都要达到.J.工业进步计划确定的公平份额，该计划将建议支持下一阶段的这项持续资助。

Because most products can be made more cheaply outside its boundaries the United States is slowly losing its manufacturing base. Companies are now recognizing that they must improve their productivity if they are to maintain a market share in world markets. Research addressing manufacturing systems that are cost effective is necessary to maintain our productivity and position in world trade. Companies are now recognizing and supporting research on manufacturing. Because of this increasing interest by companies, an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on Manufacturing and Automation now appears to be both feasible and viable. This five.year continuing grant is initiating an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Manufacturing and Automation at the University of Southern California and the University of California.Los Angeles in collaboration with the California Institute of Technology, the Universities of California Irvine and Santa Barbara, and Arizona State University. The initial research program is addressing: 1) An Intelligent System for Automatic Generation of Manufacturing Process Plans; 2) Geometric Modeling and its Applications in Design and Manufacturing Automation; 3) Automatic Generation of Optimal Cutting Conditions for NC Machines in CAD/CAM; 4) Multi.Robot Assembly Process Planning and Scheduling; 5) Design for Automatic Assembly and Maintenance; 6) Intelligent Simulation Systems for Automated Factories; 7) Sensor Based Robot Systems for Automated Manufacturing in a Vacuum Environment; 8) Dynamic Scheduling for Automated Manufacturing. Four companies have joined the Center and another four have said they will join at the beginning of the year when new budgets are available. Industrial support will provide 40% of the Center's $1,000,000 initial budget and should increase to 60% during the first year. The State of California has budgeted $200,000/year to augment the Center's research. The Co.Principal Investigators and all his colleagues involved in the Center are noted experts in there fields and have the expertise and industrial relationships to operate this Center. This Center is being cost shared with the Division of Design, Manufacturing, and Computer.Integrated Engineering. The Program Manager recommends the University of Southern California (and five associated universities) be awarded a five.year continuing grant to be funded at $400,000 per year. This includes $100,000 per year from the Division of Design, Manufacturing, and Computer.Integrated Engineering. .FF. Near the end of each 12.month period, the Program Manager and/or the Head of The Division of Cross.Disciplinary Research will review the progress of the Center on a number of renewal criteria, including the following: (1) extent to which university/industry interaction and collaboration is developing; (2) extent to which the support base for the center is expanding; (3) extent to which a robust research program is developing; (4) As industrial support increases, all participating universities are to achieve a fair share as determined by the.j.industrial advw is satisfactory, the Program ll recommend support of the next period of this tinuing grant.