Computer-aided Production Engineering contains valuable information from both industry and academia to discuss progress in research and development in this major branch of engineering that affects all industrialized countries.  Manufacturing globally has witnessed major transitions, the rapid advancement in electronics and communication technologies enables design and manufacture to proceed on an international dimension that until now could not be anticipated.  The advent of these technologies has affected large, medium, and small-sized enterprises throughout the world. Emphasis is moving towards procedures that employ innovative and new uses of computer-aided production engineering techniques as an aid to the manufacture of prostheses, by well-known methods of computer-aided design and manufacture, and the use of agile manufacture and robotics. Computer-aided Production Engineering will be of great interest for all those involved in product design, manufacturing processes, automated machinery, and the most up-to-date advances in this far-reaching area of engineering. Topics covered include: Computer-aided Design and Manufacture Computer-aided Process Planning Quality in Manufacturing and Design Concurrent Engineering and Design for Manufacture Production and Control AI Applications in Manufacturing Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management Manufacturing Processes Rapid Prototyping Robotics in Medicine Computer-aided Orthopaedic Surgery

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Computer-aided Design and Manufacture Population seeding for genetic algorithms G Passannanti and N Scalzo 3 Application of reverse engineering to end-of-life cycle product disassembly L M Galantucci, G Percoco, and R Spina 11 Identifying three-dimensional object features using shape distributions H J Rea, R Sung, J Corney, and D Clark 23 Integrated facilities planning system for automated factory K Mori and S Shindo 33 From concept design to CAD models using reverse engineering G Smith and T Claustre 43 Development of an experimental container for the fluid science laboratory of the international space station C Stein, D K Harrison, and A K M De Silva 53 Computer aided programming for NC-electrochemical contour evolution machining (NC-ECCEM) of integral impellers J Xu, Y Zhu, P Hu, and N Yun 63 Optimization of NC-point distribution for five-axis high-speed milling H Fenkl, D K Harrison, and A K M De Silva 71 Computer-aided Process Planning A method for the representation of assembly processes on mobile devices S Parisi, C Matysczok, H Krumm, and A Barcellona 87 Study of the optimization of a tendering process in warship refit D A Fleming, G A Forbes, L E Hayfron, A H B Duffy, and P D Ball 95 Computer-aided process design system for axi-symmetric deep drawing P V Vijayakumar and N Venkata Reddy 105 Metal working process and the associated skill modelling in UML - a case study of grinding troubleshooting S Ito, T Kojima, and K Ai 113 Inventory sorting rules and dispatching strategies for scheduling jobs in FMSs using a real-time genetic algorithm M A Shouman, A A Aboul-Nour, H Al-Awady, and M Abdel-Fatah 123 Quality in Manufacturing and Design A neural network approach for predicating roundness error in turning M A Younes and M A Shouman 139 A procedure of controlling the quality of cast iron parts using ultrasound technique A Attanasio, E Ceretti, C Giardini, and E Gentili 149 A systems approach to manufacturing process optimization, including design of experiments and Kaizen techniques G Howell 159 Orbital electrochemical finishing of holes using stationary tools H El-Hofy, N Al-Salem, and M A Younes 169 A comparison of discriminator performance in fault diagnosis C H Wood, D K Harrison, and T S Sihra 179 Concurrent Engineering and Design for Manufacture Controlling part variety through design reuse - retrieving two-dimensional drawings from a sketch D M Love and J A Barton 187 Application of integrated CAD/CAE systems in the process of hip joint reconstruction M Pawlikowski, A M DAbrowska-Tkaczyk, K Skalski, and G Wroblewski 189 On concurrent engineering and design of an intervertebral disc of lumbar spine M Dietrich, K Kedzior, K Skalski, T Zagrejek, G Krzesinski, J Skoworodko, P Borkowski, and P Wymyslowski 199 Production and Control Application of workflow technology for workshop scheduling W Zhou, J Zhu, and Z Wei 223 A knowledge-based sequencing strategy for multiple product lines A Khan and A Day 231 Performance measurement based co-ordination of enterprise resource planning systems in a virtual enterprise Y Zhang and A K Kochhar 241 AI Applications in Manufacturing AI-based optimization method for the analysis of co-ordinate measurements within integrated CAD/CAM/CAE systems S Zietarski 253