Hotel Spik, Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, September 17-19, 1997
Pre - Symposium Workshop
"East Meets West"
Kranjska gora, Tuesday, September 16, 1997
I. WORKSHOP PRELIMINARY OVERVIEW
The Workshop is the second in the series "East Meets West" and is organised as an accompanying event of the 6th IFAC Symposium on Automated Systems Based on Human Skill which will take place at the same venue from September 17-19,1997.
The principal aims of the Workshop are:
- To discuss automation today in a way to particularly involve the end users of such systems in East and West countries.
- To present perspectives of process automation and promises of process reengineering in industrial enterprises based on theory and experience.
- To inform participants about national strategies of some West and East countries, concerning technological and organisational improvements in their industry,
- To facilitate collaboration between industrialists, Research/Development institutions, West and East countries.
The Workshop will be useful for everyone who has been involved in development, use and management of automated systems, and particularly for those who consider automated systems as an important part of technological infrastructure of industrial enterprises. Therefore, organisers are inviting researchers, IT developers, process engineers, SW/HW providers, managers and other interested audience to attend the event, taking advantage of an excellent opportunity to exchange knowledge, skills and experience. Beside regular participants of the Symposium, organisers expect also a good response from Slovene industrial enterprises.
The Workshop program extends over a whole day. In the morning, first introductory session will be presented, followed by two plenary lectures concerning strategic issues of the related field. After lunch, the sessions Automation as a Consistent Part of Enterprise-wide Control&Management Systems and Human Skills will take place. Both of them will emphasise group discussion, facilitated by individual presentations given by some authors of regular Symposium papers who will present their ideas twice but in different ways, and by the Workshop-only contributors.
Workshop fee (for Workshop-only participants):
| Regular participants | USD 150 | Delegates from Eastern Europe | USD 100 |
| Students | USD 100 | Accompanying persons* | USD 20 |
The Workshop fee covers:
- participation in all sessions of the Workshop programme
- a copy of the edition The Workshop papers
- refreshments offered during the breaks
* For accompanying persons the Workshop fee covers only participation in Opening and Plenary session.
Workshop "East Meets West" Schedule
9:15 - 10:00 Registration 10:00 - 10:15 Opening of the Workshop Session I, 10:15 - 12:00
Strategic issues
(moderator: Stanko Strmcnik)
10:15 - 11:00 Vlado Dimovski: Vision of the Slovene economy development
11:00 - 11:45 Tomas Martin: Production 2000 - Trying to jointly improve technology, organisation and qualification
11:45 - 12:00 Discussion 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
Session II, 13:00 - 16:00
Automation as a Consistent Part of Eterprise-wide Control&Management Systems
(moderator: Vladimir Jovan)
13:00 - 13:35 Oracle Software, d.o.o., Ziga Vaupot: Oracle InterOffice
13:35 - 14:10 ITS Intertrade, d.d., Gregor Klešnik: Methodology and tools for implementation of ERP systems
14:10 - 14:45 Robotina trade, d.o.o., Bojan Cendak: Man&machine working together
14:45 - 14:55 Break 14:55 - 15:30 INEA, d.o.o., Marijan Vidmar: Integration of process control system and business information system - TMK example
15:30 - 16:00 Stane Moškon, Joze Zupancic: Use of product development tools - an empirical study in Slovenia
16:00 - 16:20 Break with refreshments Session III, 16:20 - 18:30
Human Skills
(moderator: Dietrich Brandt)
16:20 - 16:45 S. Balint, D. Jenkins, C. Irgens and A. Kowrouklis: Aligning corporate, manufacturing and IS strategies to create an integrated manufacturing enterprise - the project approach
16:45 - 17:10 Matti Ketonen: Pre-design, organization and realization of automation
17:10 - 17:35 Frank Emspak: Collaborative design: an opportunity for inovation
17:35 - 18:00 Ernst Hartman: Shaping Organisation and Technology in Germany
18:00 - 18:30 Final discussion and closing of the Workshop