Preface.
Otto, Tauno
Over the past 16 years DAAAM Baltic has been an international forum
for researchers and engineers to present their research results in the
areas of industrial engineering, manufacturing and automation. During
these years its scope has been expanded from design engineering,
production engineering, production management and materials engineering
to mechatronics and system design. Conference DAAAM Baltic 2012 brought
together researchers from the academic communities and industry to
explore trends in product and manufacturing development based on the use
of IT and computer systems, as well as to share their experience and to
foster collaboration. The DAAAM Baltic focus encompasses theoretical and
practical methodologies, resolving technologies of CAD, CAE, MPC and
many others, considering completeness, dynamics of change, new
technology insertion, complexity, integration, and time to market. Our
society needs engineers and managers having technological knowledge,
global vision and professional management knowledge in order to meet the
challenges of the new age. We emphasize the importance of European
initiatives towards Factories of the Future and technology platform
Manufuture, and hope to give our contribution by bringing scientists,
entrepreneurs and industry specialists together for the exchange of
future visions, based on scientific research and case studies.
The DAAAM Baltic 2012 conference continued the mission of a series
of conferences, which is aimed to give for scientists of the Baltic Sea
region an opportunity to introduce their research results and to find
partners. In 2012 over two hundred proposals for presentations were
reviewed, 130 papers sent by authors from 16 countries were accepted.
DAAAM Baltic meetings are regional conferences, organized under
auspices of Danube Adrian Association for Automation and Manufacturing
in cooperation with DAAAM International Vienna, Tallinn University of
Technology, Estonian Academy of Sciences, BALTECH Consortium, IMECC,
Federation of Estonian Engineering Industry, Association of Estonian
Mechanical Engineers and Tallinn City Enterprise Board. This special
issue contains selected papers, presented at the 8th International DAAAM
Baltic Conference 2012.
doi: 10.3176/eng.2013.1.01
Tauno Otto
Chairman of the Steering Committee
