ICADAM2008

Successful Completion of ICADAM 2008

A very successful International Conference on Advanced Design and Manufacture (ICADAM) was held at the Treasure Island Hotel, Sanya, China on 14-16th January. The organizing committee received over 500 papers in the first round. 174 papers were finally selected for presentation in the conference and publication in the proceedings. The conference proceedings are in the process of publishing by a UK based well known science and engineering publisher in two separate books titled as “Global Design to Gain a Competitive Edge” and “Integrated Design and Manufacture to Gain a Competitive Edge”. As soon as the proceedings are published, these will be sent to all authors through surface mail. The organising committee is thankful to all authors, delegates of the conference, members of the advisory board, support staff of both NPU and Hainan University, China for making ICADAM 2008 a huge success.

Conference Programme Day 1 Photos Day 2/3 Photos

Conference Proceedings

Conference proceedings have been published by Springer, UK publisher in the form of two books and will be send to all participants of the ICADAM 2008 Conference by the end of July 2008 through post

Book1 Book2

Global Design to Gain a Competitive Edge Advanced Design and Manufacture to Gain a Competitive Edge

About the ICADAM 2008

The globalisation of manufacturing industries leads to a thirst for rapid advancements in technological development and expertise in the fields of advanced design and manufacturing. In this scenario, both industry and the academia have an urgent need to equip themselves of latest knowledge and trend regarding design and manufacture. This conference solicits both cutting edge fundamental research and recent industrial application papers with a goal towards bringing together design and manufacture practitioners from academics, government organisations, and industry from all over the world. The conference aims to cover the recent advancement and trends in the area of design and manufacturing and to facilitate knowledge sharing, presentations, interactions, discussions on emerging trends and new challenges in design and manufacturing fields. The particular focus of this conference is on the understanding of the impact of distributed team based design and manufacture on research and industrial practices for global companies. Being the third conference in this theme since 2004, the aims of the conference are: (a) to become a regular major forum for the international scientific exchange on multi-disciplinary and inter-organisational aspects of advanced engineering design and manufacturing engineering; and (b) to provide opportunities in presenting and formalising the methods and means for industrial companies to design and manufacture successful products in a globally distributed team based environment.

Call for papers (English, Chinese)

Topics

· Engineering design in a global manufacturing context;

· Concurrent, collaborative, and distributed engineering design and manufacture;

· Industrial constraints for engineering design;

· Engineering design and manufacture in the developed and developing world;

· Design tools, methods and techniques;

· Integrated product process development from concept through production;

· Product life-cycle modelling and management;

· Design for X methods;

· FEA techniques and design optimisation;

· Computer-aided design and manufacturing;

· Quality, robust design, and variation management;

· Global engineering design and manufacture education;

· Product modelling and visualisation techniques and advancement;

· Design optimisation and application of advanced materials;

· Advanced material processing

· Advanced manufacturing processes;

· CAD/CAM/CIM;

· Robotics and vision applications in robotics;

· FMS/AMS;

· Micro Electrical Mechanical Systems (MEMS);

· Nano technologies;

· The Cost Control in Product Design;

· Economic Analysis for Manufacturing Process;

· Activity Based Cost Management;

· Process Controlling Techniques.

Venue Location: Sanya

The ICADAM 2008 conference will be held at Sanya, Hainan, China.

Street of Haikou Hainan is China's second largest island, located at the southern tip of China. It is a busy Special Economic Zone, one of China's most unspoiled natural regions and the centre of a fast-growing tourist industry. It is better known as the Chinese Hawaii. There are miles of sandy beaches, golf courses, verdant mountains, agricultural land and even unspoiled wildernesses.

Sanya is situated on the southernmost tip of Hainan Province and it has the tropical climate. Sanya Beech It is the best place in China to enjoy the sand; sea and the Sun. Sanya possess a number of excellent harbours as well.

Therefore, Sanya is named the 'South Gate of China' to stress its importance while it plays a vital role in the life of the southern part of China in areas of the economy and politics to transportation. Sanya is a noted tourist resort with mountains, sea, river and city. The favourable climate is hot in summer but warm in the three other seasons so attracting large numbers of followers from both home and abroad every year. The whole of Sanya is related to the sea. Here you can enjoy a unique tropical oceanic landscape that is totally different from the other provinces of China. Sanya Bay, Yalong Bay and Dadonghai, all golden seaboards of Sanya, are some of the first choices for visitors to spend their holidays. Instead of a busy and exhausting journey, you can relax totally here by strolling along the beaches and breathing the fresh air.

Advisory Scientific Board

Chair: Mr William J Ion, University of Strathclyde, UK

Dr. Muhammad Abid, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan

Professor Xing Ai, Academician of CAE, Shandong University, China

Professor Abdelaziz Bouras, University of Lyon (Lyon II), France

Professor Yang Cao, Hainan University, China

Dr Michel Bigand, Ecole Centrale de Lille, France

Dr. Jonathan Borg, University of Malta, Malta

Professor David Bradley, University of Abertay, UK

Professor David Brown, Editor of AIEDAM, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA

Professor Keith Case, Loughborough University of Technology, UK

Professor Laifei Cheng, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Professor P John Clarkson, University of Cambridge, UK

Dr Shun Diao, China National Petroleum Corporation, China

Professor Alex Duffy, University of Strathclyde, UK

Professor Benoit Eynard, Troyes University of Technology, France

Professor K Fujita, University of Osaka, Japan

Professor James Gao, Greenwich University, UK

Professor John S. Gero, University of Sydney, Australia

Professor Philippe Girard, University of Bordeaux 1, France

Professor Dongming Guo, Dalian University of Technology, China

Professor Lars Hein, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Professor Bernard Hon, University of Liverpool, UK

Professor Imre Horvath, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Professor Weidong Huang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Professor Sadrul Islam, Islamic University of Technology, Bangladesh

Professor Chengyu Jiang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Professor Bert Jüttler, Johannes Kepler University, Austria

Professor Neal Juster, University of Strathclyde, UK

Professor Yuanzhong Lei, National Natural Science Foundation of China

Professor Hui Li, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Professor Peigen Li, Academician of CAS, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Professor Qiang Lin, Hainan University, China

Professor Udo Lindemann, Muenchen University of Technology, Germany

Professor Geng Liu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Dr Muriel Lombard, University of Nancy 1, France

Professor Jian Lu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Professor Chris McMahon, University of Bath, UK

Professor Phil Moore, De Montfort University, UK

Dr. David Nash, University of Strathclyde, UK

Professor Henri Paris, University of Grenoble 1, France

Professor Alan de Pennington, The University of Leeds, UK

Dr. Yi Qin, University of Strathclyde, UK

Prof. Geoff Roberts, Coventry University, UK

Professor Dieter Roller, Stuttgart University, Germany

Dr. Lionel Roucoules, Troyes University of Technology, France

Professor Xinyu Shao, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Professor Hong Tang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Professor Tetsuo Tomiyama, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

Dr Chunhe Wang, Institute of Petroleum Exploration & Development, China

Professor Guobiao Wang, National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Professor Runxiao Wang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Professor YuXin Wang, Tongji University, China

Professor Richard Weston, Loughborough University of Technology, UK

Professor Yongdong Xu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Dr Xiu-Tian Yan, University of Strathclyde, UK

Professor Haichen Yang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Professor Shuping Yi, Chongqing University, China

Professor XiaoYuan, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Professor Dinghua Zhang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Professor Litong Zhang, Academician of CAE, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Professor Weihong Zhang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Professor Li Zheng, Tsinghua University, China

Organisation Information

The conference is organised as one of the major activities of the FASTAHEAD project, a European project entitled "A Framework Approach to Strengthening Asian Higher Education in Advanced Design and Manufacture" funded by Asia-Link programme.

The project aims to develop a framework solution to engineering higher education demands in Asia, by developing a new curriculum in Advanced Engineering Design and Manufacture for Asian and European MSc education, upgrading the skills of university teaching staff in Bangladesh, Pakistan and China, split training Asian PhD students in European Institutions, comparing educational policies / systems / programmes among various countries, and enhancing the overall management of Asian Universities. Recently Project's Leader Manager from University of Strathclyde (UK) and Partner Manager and other module development staff from Troyes University of Technology (France) have been invited as guest editors of a special issue of International Journal of Product Development (IPD) titled as “IT Based Proactive Design and Synthesis for X in Product Life-Cycle Design”. Link to the call for paper is given below.

Conference Co Chairmen

1. Professor Chengyu Jiang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China

2. Professor Neal Juster, Pro-Vice Principal of University of Strathclyde, UK

3. Dr. Xiu-Tian Yan, University of Strathclyde, UK

ICADAM Secretariats

European: Dr Fayyaz Rehman, CAD Centre, DMEM,

University of Strathclyde, James Weir Building,