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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF JUNE 17,1998 PSA#211870; ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN A NEW PROJECT OF
THE INTERNATIONAL INTELLIGENT MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS (IMS) SPECIAL
NOTICES OFFADD: National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory, Bldg. 220, Rm. A127,
Gaithersburg, MD 20899 SUBJECT: NOTICE OF THE OPPORTUNITY TO
PARTICIPATE IN A NEW PROJECT OF THE INTERNATIONAL INTELLIGENT
MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS (IMS) PROGRAM: MODELING AND SIMULATION
ENVIRONMENTS FOR DESIGN, PLANNING, AND OPERATION OF GLOBALLY
DISTRIBUTED ENTERPRISES (MISSION) NIST announces that its Manufacturing
Systems Engineering Group is the point of contact for U.S.
organizations interested in participating in the recently approved
MISSION Project of the IMS Program. Charles McLean, MSE group leader,
will serve as coordinator for the U.S. region. A meeting to launch the
new project will be held in Berlin, Germany on July 6-10, 1998. The
overall goal of the international collaboration is to develop, test,
and evaluate a generic software platform and interfaces that support
the modeling and simulation of globally-distributed manufacturing
enterprises. Companies and research organizations interested in
advancing simulation and modeling applications within and across
companies are encouraged to learn more about the collaborative project
and its objectives. Work will be carried out by an international
consortium, which will be organized and will operate in accordance with
the Terms of Reference for the Participants in the Intelligent
Manufacturing Systems Program. Attendance at the kick-off meeting is
not mandatory. However, opportunities to join the consortium will be
limited once technical activities get underway. To obtain information,
organizations may contact Swee Leong, Rm. A127, Bldg. 220, National
Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899. Phone:
301/975-5426, Fax: 301-258-9749, email: swee.leong@nist.gov. The terms
of reference for participating in IMS projects are available at the
IMS site on the World Wide Web: http://www.ims.org/. Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0547 19980617\SP-0019.MSC)
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