Title :
Agent-controls for manufacturing-technical marketing perspectives
Author_Institution :
Fraunhofer Inst. for Manuf. Eng. & Autom., Germany
Abstract :
With the new information and communication technology the opportunities for innovative and improved products have dramatically increased for the manufacturers of manufacturing and machine control systems. But also the product life cycles for this type of investment goods are reduced in consequence to the innovation speed. With the upcoming agent technologies a radical change compared to incremental innovations like the communication technologies can be expected. Extensive technology and product marketing is required to be successful in the future.
Keywords :
industrial control; manufacture; marketing; product development; software agents; agent-controls; communication technologies; communication technology; incremental innovations; information technology; innovation speed; investment goods; machine control systems; manufacturing; product life cycles; technical marketing perspectives; upcoming agent technologies; Automatic control; Communication system control; Communications technology; Industrial control; Machinery production industries; Manufacturing automation; Manufacturing industries; Manufacturing processes; Motion control; Technological innovation;
Conference_Titel :
IECON 02 [Industrial Electronics Society, IEEE 2002 28th Annual Conference of the]
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7474-6
DOI :
10.1109/IECON.2002.1182869