Plenary Lecture
Controlling Risk in Flexible Manufacturing Processes
Associate Professor Calin I. Ciufudean
“Stefan Cel Mare” Universtity of Suceava
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Automatics and Computers
ROMANIA
E-mail: calin@eed.usv.ro
Abstract: We consider this discussion important, as there is a lot of confusion about the cohabitation of the risk and optimum control of flexible manufacturing system analysis.
Thinking of risk and reliability analysis of flexible manufacturing systems (FMS’s) from a probabilistic perspective, we come to the conclusion that probability is a measure of expressing uncertainty about the process seen through the point of view of the assessor (i.e. the controller of a process), and based on some background information and knowledge that we have at the time we quantify our uncertainty.
We focus our work on modeling risks and controller of FMA with discrete event formalisms in order to give a new approach to this important issue for modern production systems.
We consider that this new approach is a practical one, considering the fact that discrete event formalisms allow efficient simulations of the analyzed systems.
Brief Biography of the Speaker:
• Academic Positions: Assoc. Professor Ph.D. Eng., Dept. of Automatics and Computers, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, “Stefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, Romania.
• Fields of Scientific Activities: Discrete Event Systems, Complex Measurement Systems, Reliability and Diagnosis of Control Systems, Environmental Management.
• He published 11 books, 12 patents and over 160 scientific papers in conference proceedings and journals.
• Honor Member of the Romanian Society of Electrical & Control Engineering - Member of the Romanian Technical Experts Corp.
• Technical Expert of the Romanian Ministry of Justice.
• President of the Romanian Society of Electrical & Control Engineering, Suceava Branch.
• He is a member of the editorial boards of several international scientific journals and conferences of control systems and electric engineering science. He was designated chairmen at 21 international conferences.