It continues to build on the three previous outstandingly successful conferences, attracting over 300 authors from 30 countries across five continents. There were over 3000 registered delegates and guests from 98 countries participated, making it a truly global phenomenon. This volume of 100 papers provides an invaluable state of the technology review and assessment, enabling readers to appreciate developments and potential in a number of exciting fields. It is a focal point for access to information from researchers and industrial practitioners in the field of intelligent systems and soft computing techniques and their application in diverse areas within manufacturing.

This book contains the Proceedings of the IPROMS 2010 Virtual Conference with the peer-reviewed technical papers presented at the Conference grouped into eleven sessions: Advanced Manufacturing Technology; E-manufacturing, E-business and Virtual Enterprises; Fit Manufacturing; Innovative Design Technologies; Intelligent and Competitive Manufacturing; Intelligent Optimisation; Intelligent Planning and Scheduling; Production Automation and Control; Production Organisation and Management and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems.

IPROMS 2009 is the fifth in the successful series of online, web-based conferences on Innovative Production Machines and Systems organised by the EU-funded I*PROMS Network of Excellence. It continues to build on the themes of the previous conferences, and attracted over 200 authors from some 20 countries across five continents. There were 6000 registered delegates and guests from 110 countries participated, making it a truly global phenomenon. While providing a timely overview of manufacturing developments, the volume focuses particularly on intelligent engineering and robotics, and also the growing interest expressed in bees algorithms. This volume of almost 70 papers provides an invaluable state of the technology review and assessment, enabling engineers and applied scientists to appreciate developments and potential in a number of exciting and emerging fields. It is a focal point for access to information from researchers and industrial practitioners in the field of intelligent systems and soft computing techniques and their application in diverse areas within manufacturing.

IPROMS 2007 is the third online, web-based conference on Innovative Production Machines and Systems organized by the EU-funded I*PROMS Network of Excellence. It continues to build on the two previous outstandingly successful conferences and attracted authors from 30 countries across 5 continents. Containing more than 100 papers presented at the conference, this book provides an invaluable state of the technology review and assessment and is a focal point for access to information from researchers and industrial practitioners in the field of intelligent systems and soft computing techniques and their application in diverse areas within manufacturing.