Dear course attendees and to whom it may concern:

With cordial welcome greetings I would like to draw your attention to the 
kick-off meeting on
   Monday 20th, 2007, 08.15 - 10.00 am 
   in the room VG 13 (Valgrinda) 
in the students' area at our departement.

A rough overview about the aims of this meeting can be found in 
DIM_kick-off_2007.pdf.

Detailed information about the course is given at your disposal in form of
the first chapter of the Data-Integrated Manufacturing Lecture Notes
DIMLectNotes_coverp1+chapt1.pdf

Here and in the menu options "Lecture plan" and "Exercise plan & texts" one also finds the timetables for both lectures and exercises.

During the course we going to welcome three guest lecturers from Germany:
Prof.Dr.-Ing.habil. Dagmar Hentschel (Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur Leipzig): "Aspects of data-integration in close-to-manufacturing Production Planning and Control"   

Prof.Dr.-Ing.Prof. eh. J. Dietrich (Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden): "Rapid Manufacturing by means of Rapid Prototyping and Tooling and High-Speed Cutting"

Prof.Dr.-Ing.habil. Bertram Hentschel (TU Bergakademie Freiberg):  "Manufacturing planning as mixed-integer optimisation problem for discrete part production" 

Yours sincerely,

Wolfgang H. Koch