Publisher's Synopsis
This Proceedings contains the papers presented at the IFAC Symposium on Manufacturing, Modeling, Management and Control (MIM 2000), held in Patras, Greece, on 12-14 July 2000. MIM is a long-running series of IFAC meetings featuring the best work on the development, comparison and classification of manufacturing systems. In this Proceedings, key engineering topics, such as agile manufacturing and intelligent manufacturing, are presented alongside more management-related issues as well as some of the fundamental control theory applicable to these areas. Altogether, over 90 papers are presented.
