The Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) Event on Strategies for Global Manufacturing will be held in Swiss Federal University of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland on 15-16 November 2007.

IMS 2008

The event aims to facilitate discussion amongst European experts on global manufacturing R&D and in particular on the new strategy of the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) initiative.

Parallel Sessions:

Session 1: Sustainable Manufacturing chaired by Dimitris Kiritsis, EPFL, Lausanne

Session 2: Manufacturing Interoperability and Standards chaired by Guy Doumeingts, GFI Informatique & Université de Bordeaux I, Bordeaux

Session 3: I3: Industrial Integration of ICT, chaired by Marco Taisch, Politecnico di Milano

Session 4: Global Education in Manufacturing Strategy - A European Perspective, chaired by Asbjorn Rolstadas, Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Trondheim

Session 5: Key Technologies, chaired by Eldaw Eldukhri, Manufacturing Engineering Centre, University of Cardiff. The event is jointly organised by the European and the Swiss IMS Secretariats.