Purpose of this paper is to offer the reader an overview of recently performed and ongoing
research related to process planning for sheet metal bending, thus providing a starting point …

Continuous, steady improvement is a key requirement to manufacturing enterprises that
necessitates flat and flexible organizations, life-long learning of employees on the one side …

Recently Computational Intelligence (CI)(Bezdek, 1992) or soft Computing (SC)(Jang, 1997)
is a rapidly growing area of fundamental and applied research in advanced information …

One of the most important problems in the production engineering is assurance of
geometrical stability of semiproducts, which is the basis for the further successful automatic …

The rheological behaviour of mild steel subjected to hot forming was modelled through a
parallel distributed processing paradigm based on the artificial neural network prediction of …

Diese Promotion entstand während meiner Tätigkeit am Lehrstuhl für Fertigungs
technologie der Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Ich möchte an erster …

This work describes the application of neural networks in the modeling of hot rolling
processes. This relatively new technique of Artificial Intelligence was conceived more than …