National Science Foundation, Directorate for Engineering, Division of Design and Manufacturing Systems Grantees Conference; Atlanta, Georgia; January 8-10, 1992

本次会议的目的是为设计和制造系统司的思想交流提供一个论坛。会议确保个别研究人员了解其同事目前正在进行的活动。因此，可以消除他们重复的努力，并可能产生一定程度的合作。预计该司的效率将全面提高。此外，会议项目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业研究，并得到国家科学基金会的反馈和投入。最后，与该司研究人员的个人接触应有助于澄清他们目前工作中的许多问题。出席会议的主要调查员通常在传播的信息方面领先一到两年；这是在会议上提交的材料在期刊和其他文献上发表的通常时间框架。

The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum for an exchange of ideas in the Division of Design and Manufacturing Systems. The conference ensures that the 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 Division 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 the researchers in the Division should contribute to clarifying many current problems in their work. Principal Investigators attending the conference usually gain a one to two year lead on the information disseminated; this is the usual time frame for materials presented at the conference to be published in journals and other literature.