REFERENCE;
>We are doing a study of Virtual Manufacturing technologies. Our
>conclusions will appear in a report to the Air Force Mantech program.
>We have the following goals:
>
>- to assess what research and applications are relevant to key aspects
> of virtual manufacturing;
>
>- to build an internet repository of virtual manufacturing information
> on the World-Wide Web;
>
>- to identify gaps in these research and application efforts, and
> present our outlook for the future of virtual manufacturing
> technologies.
>
>If any of your work is relevant to virtual manufacturing, then this is
>an invitation to send us information about it, for possible inclusion
>on the Web site and in the report.
>
>At the end of this message is a list of 13 areas that are relevant to
>our study. If you are doing work on one of these areas, please send
>email to the following address, before the end of March:
RATHER THAN RESPOND IN THE TYPICAL MANNER, I THOUGHT THAT I WOULD FORWARD TO
YOU OUR HOME PAGE ADDRESS FOR A PROJECT THAT NSF HAS HELPED SUPPORT. OUR
PROJECT APPEARS TO HAVE MANY OF THE SAME OBJECTIVES AS YOUR MESSAGE
PROVIDES. OUR HOME PAGE ADDRESS IS
http://tamcam.tamu.edu/rapidcim.html
THE SPECIFIC ACTIVITY THAT YOU SHOULD LOOK INTO ON THE RapidCIM HOME PAGE IS
A PROJECT CALLED "MODELWORLD". I THINK THAT WE SHOULD COLLABORATE IN SOME
WAY. WE HAVE BEEN MONITORING THE TRAFFIC ON THE TAMCAM WWW PAGE FOR ABOUT A
YEAR. WE HAVE EXPERIENCED ABOUT 200 DIFFERENT USERS EACH MONTH WHICH
IMPLIES THAT THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT INTEREST IN WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING.
ONCE YOU'VE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO OVER WHAT WE HAVE DONE, I BE MORE THAN
HAPPY TO DISCUSS COLLABORATION. YOU MAY ALSO WANT TO TALK WITH JEFF SMITH
OR BRETT PETERS AT TEXAS A&M -- THEY HAVE TAKEN OVER WHAT WAS STARTED.
GOOD LUCK,
RICK
Richard A. Wysk
Leonhard Chair in Engineering
207 Hammond Building
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802
814-863-1001
FAX: 814-863-4745