SASOMS 2014 - Workshop on Self-Adaptive Self-Organising Manufacturing Systems (SASOMS 2014)

Organizing Committee:
Svetan Ratchev, University of Nottingham
David Sanderson, University of Nottingham
Derek McAuley, Connected Digital Economy Catapult
Please contact sasoms-AT-nottingham.ac.uk for all enquiries.
Economic prosperity increasingly depends on maintaining and further expanding a resilient and sustainable manufacturing sector based on sophisticated technologies, relevant knowledge and skill bases, and a manufacturing infrastructure that has the ability to produce a high variety of complex products faster, better, and cheaper. Manufacturing competitiveness depends on maximising the utilisation of all available resources, empowering human intelligence and creativity, and capturing and capitalising on available information and knowledge for the whole product life cycle. It requires an infrastructure that can quickly respond to consumer and producer requirements, and minimise energy, transport, materials, and resource usage while maximising sustainability, safety, and economic competitiveness.
Manufacture and distribution of products in sectors such as automotive, aerospace, pharmaceutical, and medical industries is a key production process in high labour cost areas. To respond to the current challenges, manufacturers need to transform current capital-intensive assembly lines into smart systems that can react to external and internal changes and can self-heal, self-adapt, self-organise, and reconfigure.