The concept. Manufacturing industries worldwide are facing tough challenges as a consequence of the globalization of economy and the openness of the markets. Progress of the economic blocks such as the European Union, NAFTA, and MERCOSUR, and the global agreements such as GATT, in addition to their obvious economic and social consequences, provoke strong paradigm shifts in the way that the manu…
This book contains selected articles from the fourth International Conference on Information Technology for Balance Automation Systems in Production and Transportation (BASYS 2000). Although reflecting the current tendencies towards networked organizations, BASYS has kept its original aim reflected in the term "Balanced Automation Systems" that is to promote a proper merge of automation wi…