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

该奖项将为参加1990年日美柔性自动化研讨会的美国与会者提供部分支持。目的是帮助支付参加为期三天的会议和日本制造企业安排的两天参观的大约50%的费用。此行的目的是了解当前在柔性自动化方面的学术和行业研究。在过去的两次研讨会上，这两个遥远社区的研究人员之间的这种密切互动被证明是非常有益的，随着美国行业对生产率问题的认识不断增强，这样的项目一年比一年重要。在会议结束时，美国的组织者(四至六人小组)将于1990年秋季前往国家科学基金会，就研讨会和相关活动提供为期一天的简报。在那次会议之后，专家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.