Research Program: Virtual and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Technologies

The goals of this strategic research program are to increase the competitive advantage of Canadian manufacturers by providing integrated technologies and systems that reduce cost and time to market and provides greater flexibility.

Concurrent Engineering

Intelligent software agents are being developed to optimize production planning and scheduling. An intelligent agent framework, combined with emerging artificial intelligence technologies, is being applied to dynamically integrate manufacturing resources to address the challenges of rapid product development and customization.

Technologies are also being developed for the precision assembly of microcomponents (e.g. sensors, actuators, mechanical parts, etc.) into hybrid microsystems. A microassembly test bed is currently being developed for microcomponent handling and manipulation.

Key words: artificial intelligence, production planning and scheduling, micro-assembly systems, and microdevices.

	Agent-based assembly and production scheduling

Microassembly test bed

Information

To learn more about this NRC-IMTI research group, please contact:

Mr. Vibhor Gupta
Group Leader, Concurrent Engineering
Email: vibhor.gupta@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
Tel: 519.430.7086

Dr. Weiming Shen
Project leader, Agent-based production planning
Email: weiming.shen@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
Tel: 519.430.7134

Mr. Ajit Pardasani
Project leader, Automated assembly of microsystems
Email: ajit.pardasani@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
Tel : 519.430.7085

For general information please contact:
NRC-Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute
800 Collip Circle
London , ON N6G 4X8
Canada
Tel: 519.430.7000