Preface.
Kuttner, Rein
Over the past 14 years, DAAAM Baltic has been an international
forum for scientistes and engineers for presenting 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 2010 brought together scientists from the
academic communities and industry to explore trends in product and
manufacturing development, based on the use of IT and computer systems.
Conference aimed to bring together scientists from the academic
communities and enterprise sector to share their experiences and to
foster collaboration. The DAAAM Baltic focus encompasses theoretical and
practical methodologies, resolving technologies of CAD, CAE, MPC etc,
considering completeness, dynamics of change, new technology insertion,
complexity, integration and marketing. Our society needs engineers and
managers, who have technological knowledge, global vision and
professional management knowledge in order to meet the challenges of the
new age.
The DAAAM Baltic 2010 conference continued the mission of a series
of conferences, which is to give for scientists of the Baltic Sea region
the opportunity to present their research results and to find partners
for cooperation. In 2010, over 160 proposals for presentations were
reviewed and 97 papers, sent by authors from 13 countries, were
accepted.
DAAAM Baltic meetings are regional conferences, organized under
auspices of Danube Adria Association for Automation and Manufacturing.
This special issue contains a selection of papers, presented at the 7th
International DAAAM Baltic Conference 2010. Another selection of the
papers will be published in the next issue of the journal.
doi: 10.3176/eng.2010.4.01
Rein Kuttner
Tauno Otto
Guest editors, members of the Scientific Committee of DAAAM Baltic
2010
