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The invention of the Laser, 25 years ago, has become an innovation
with established industrial technology extended through diverse
areas of economic viability (a 25% sales annual growth), and
promising market perspectives. In organizing an European Intensive
Course on Applied Laser Tooling, it seemed opportune to bring
together an international group of scientists to provide an
appraisal of industrial Lasers, system integration, and sensitive
areas of Laser beam material interaction, while emphasizing those
areas which promise to have major impact both in science and
technology. Tutorial papers and reports on latest developments both
in research and industrial manufacturing were complemented by video
and film projections to show the wide variety of applications in
industry, stressing the combination of Lasers with other
technologies, mainly CNC and Robots. The large participation by the
industry fulfilled the intended interaction and cross-fertilization
between the scientific, technological and industrial community,
reinforcing the innovative capacity readily demonstrated at panel
discussions. It was neither possible nor planned to cover all the
aspects in full depth. Efforts were addressed to selected areas
where discussion of advanced knowled e and technology topics would
stimulate further progress of Laser tooling (in main directions:
software, hardware and peopleware). Laser tooling was then
discussed in light of its major applications covering Laser beam
robotic manipulation towards flexible manufacturing systems. The
following articles give a fair account of the course programme.
Optical Metrology is a rapidly expanding field i'n both its
scientific foundations and technological developments, being of
major concern to measurements, quality control, non-destructive tes
ting and in fundamental research. In order to define the
state-of-the-art, and to evaluate pre sent accomplishments, whilst
giving an appraisal of how each of the particular topics will
evolve the Optical Metrology-anAdvancedStudy Institute was
organized with a concourse of the world's acknowledged experts.
Thus, the Institute provided a forum for tutorial reviews blended
with topics of current research in the form of a progressive and
comprehensive presentation of recent promising developments, lea
ding techniques and instrumentation in incoherent and coherent
optics for Metrology, Sensing and Control in Science, Industry and
Biomedici ne. Optical Metrology is a very broad field which is
highly inter disciplinary in its applications, and in its
scientific and technolo gical background. It is related to such
diverse disciplines as physi cal and chemical sciences,
engineering, electronics, computer scien ces, biological sciences
and theoretical sciences, such as statistics. Although there was an
emphasis on photomechanics and industri al applications, a marked
diversity was reflected in the different background and interests
of the participants. The vitality and viabi lity of the discipline
was enhanced not only by the encouraging number of young scientists
and industrialists participating and authoring, but also by the
remarkably promising prospects found in x the practical
applications supported by advanced electronic hybridi zation."
Innovation and Technology - Strategies and Policies contains a
selection of outstanding contributions by world experts on how a
culture of innovation is able to produce a response to fast global
changes affecting society. The book describes major evolutionary
directions and foreseen trends in: environment versus industry;
technology breakthroughs; energy planning; education and research;
intangible investment requirements; new health technologies; and
economics and management of innovative actions at strategic,
organisational and technological levels. The actual percolation of
the innovative process throughout the multiple facets of society is
presented in relation to the main challenges facing us in the 21st
Century. The book is addressed to all those concerned with
innovation in dynamic terms as a creative response to the ongoing
changes in society integrating sciences, technologies, humanities,
life-long education and training, and other disciplines.
Innovation and Technology - Strategies and Policies contains a
selection of outstanding contributions by world experts on how a
culture of innovation is able to produce a response to fast global
changes affecting society. The book describes major evolutionary
directions and foreseen trends in: environment versus industry;
technology breakthroughs; energy planning; education and research;
intangible investment requirements; new health technologies; and
economics and management of innovative actions at strategic,
organisational and technological levels. The actual percolation of
the innovative process throughout the multiple facets of society is
presented in relation to the main challenges facing us in the 21st
Century. The book is addressed to all those concerned with
innovation in dynamic terms as a creative response to the ongoing
changes in society integrating sciences, technologies, humanities,
life-long education and training, and other disciplines.
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