Re: Biological Analogies in Manufacturing

[Ed Swanstrom]

Hi Frank,

For specific models, we are working with a fortune 500 commercial
manufacturing company so those will not be released. I don't think we can
deliver the generic hypotheses and model by the 27th. We are up to our
eyebrows in the initial stages of a massive project transforming a rigid
organization into an adaptive one.

Perhaps in the future we can provide some generic information.

Ed Swanstrom
Agilis Corporation

At 09:36 AM 2/20/98 +0000, frank mill wrote:
>I am a senior lecturer at The University of Edinburgh and I am also a 
>member of the Europeans Union's 'Intelligent Manufacturing Systems' 
>Working Group.  I have been asked in this role to prepare a paper 
>outlining the general areas of application for work based on 
>biological systems.  Although I have covered obvious areas such as 
>neural nets and genetic algorithms etc I have also been looking at 
>biological manufacturing systems ( a large Japanese project ) and 
>behavioural models for economic agents.  We have also been working 
>with Swarm models in engineering design and planning and intended to 
>do some work on more general manufacturing problems.
>I was therefore greatly interested to hear that you are already doing 
>something in this field.  As I am about to complete my paper, is 
>there any information you can give me about your work?
>(papers, web sites anything - I am due to finish my paper by 27 Feb)
>I know this i rushed and thanks for taking the time to read this,
>Cheers,
>Frank Mill 
>Frank Mill
>Senior Lecturer - Manufacturing Planning Group
>Department of Mechanical Engineering 
>The University of Edinburgh
>King's Buildings
>EDINBURGH 
>EH9 3JL
>UK
>tel ++44 (0)131 650 5673
>fax ++44 (0)131 667 3677
>email address@hidden
>web http://www.mech.ed.ac.uk
>
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