WORKSHOP: Tether-free Technologies and e-Manufacturing; Milwaukee, WI., October 1-2, 2001

这笔赠款提供资金，以举办一个研讨会，重点是在制造业中的无系绳技术。 研讨会的重点是解决新兴的无系绳技术及其在制造设备，工艺和企业系统中的应用中的潜在问题，并最终为研究人员和从业人员提供更好的方向。 希望这次研讨会的成果能够影响学术界的制造研究和教育活动。如果嵌入到无系绳环境中，将受益的潜在领域包括但不限于：制造（用于闭环反馈系统的无线传感器/致动器系统，增强设备的质量控制和预防性维护，远程控制工厂车间）;用于环境传感和控制的无线传感器和/或致动器;移动的电源中的智能防御系统，&移动中的命令控制）用于闭环监测和控制的智能材料和结构;新的无束缚基础设施（超宽带技术、数据压缩、敏感数据/信息的安全等）。该项目将在工业界、学术界和政府机构之间组织一次合作研讨会，讨论需求和新兴技术，并向国家科学基金会和研究界提出关于无系绳技术领域跨学科研究和教育方向及其对电子制造的影响的建议。 研讨会的结果将用于确定行业/大学的合作需求，并作为研究人员和从业人员的潜在路线图，以推进在美国制造业的下一代制造设备，流程和企业系统中应用无系绳技术的最先进技术和实践。

This grant provides funding to conduct a workshop to focus on tether-free technologies in manufacturing. The focus of the workshop is to address underlying issues in emerging tether-free technologies and their applications in manufacturing equipment, processes, and enterprise system, and ultimately provide better direction for researchers and practitioners. It is hoped the results of this workshop can impact both manufacturing research and education activities in academia. The potential areas that would benefit, if embedded within a tether-free environment include, but are not limited to: manufacturing (wire free sensor/actuator systems for closed loop feedback systems, enhance quality control and preventative maintenance of equipment, the remotely controlled factory floor); wireless sensors and/or actuators for environmental sensing and control; smart defense systems in mobile power, command & control on the move); smart materials and structures for closed-loop monitoring and control; new tether-free infrastructure (ultra-wideband techniques, data compression, security of sensitive data/information, etc). The project is to organize a collaborative workshop among industry, academia, and government agencies to discuss the needs and emerging technologies, as well as to make recommendations to the National Science Foundation and the research community on the direction of interdisciplinary research and education in the areas of tether-free technologies and their impacts to e-manufacturing. The results of the workshop will be used to define industry/university collaborative needs as well as to serve as an potential roadmap for researchers and practitioners to advance the state-of-the-art technologies and practices in applying tether-free technologies in next-generation manufacturing equipment, processes, and enterprise systems for U.S. manufacturing industry.