Production Planning and Control -- Work Scheduling in Flexible Manufacturing Systems under Tool Availability Constraints -- Material Requirements Planning Packages: An Evaluation -- MRP II: Road to Success or Ruin? -- Production and Inventory Control: Effect of Sales Promotion -- JIT with Symphony -- Proved Sequence Planning -- Cutting-Pattern Enumeration on a Microcomputer: A Case Study -- Computer Integrated Manufacture -- Evolutionary Design of Computer-Integrated Manufacturing Systems -- A CIM System for Foundries -- Computer-Aided Design of Form-Rolls -- Computer-Integrated Manufacture for Cold Roll Forming -- Software Structures for Computer-Integrated Manufacture -- Cell Manufacture -- A Solution to Machine Group Analysis Employing Auxiliary Cell Formation -- A Methodology for Forming Group Technology Cells in Advanced Manufacturing Systems -- Flexibility in the Design and Application of Component Coding and Classification Systems -- Assembly -- Flexible Assembly Cell Design -- Automatic Rotary Table Assembly Machines - Prediction Techniques for Output Rates and Efficiency Levels -- Automatic Rotary Table Assembly Machines - Delay and Make Right or Combine and Reject -- Quality and Measurement -- The Way Forward from Statistical Process Control -- Establishing Effect of Machine Tool Errors on Accuracy of Turned Components -- Implementation of Quality-Assurance Systems in Small Companies -- The Surface Topography Produced by Deep Drilling Operations -- A Microcomputer-Based Quality Control Monitor for a High-Speed Cold-Heading Machine -- Simulation -- Manufacturing Cell Machine/Manning Performance Simulation by Using CAPS/ECSL -- Computer-Assisted Digital Simulation of an FMS by Using Graphics -- Simulation Improves Short-Term Planning in Large-Batch Manufacturing Industry -- Development of FMS Operations Procedures with Simulation -- Simulation Model of the Plunge Centreless Grinding Process -- Robotics -- Robot Applications Research for the Aerospace Industry -- Ultrasonic Sensors for Industrial Robots -- Industrial Application of Pneumatic Servo-Controlled Modular Robots -- A Voice-Controlled Planar Robot -- Local Area Network Link for Robots -- WRAPS System: A Tool for Welding Robot Adaptive Programming and Simulation -- A CAD/CAM System for Complex Path Trajectory Generation for a Robot -- Supervisory Control of Single Axis Controllers for Modular Robotic Systems Using a Serial Interface -- Feasibility Study into Use of Laser Scanning Measuring Device and Robot as Flexible Inspection Station -- Teaching and Training -- Integration of New Technology with the Aid of Educational and Training Videos -- A Flexible Manufacturing Facility for Teaching and Development of Advanced Manufacturing Techniques -- Low Cost Control for a Flexible Manufacturing Cell -- Linking Computer-Based Instruction and Simulators: Adjunct Training -- Design -- The Computer-Aided Design of Production Tooling -- A Morphological Approach to Machine System Design -- Factors Influencing Gripping Capacity of Chuck Jaws -- Materials -- Effect of Martempering on Thermal Stress and Strain -- PEEK as a Bearing Material -- Surface Modification of Materials -- Fabrication of Fibre-Reinforced Aluminium Alloy-Matrix Composites -- Evaluation of Pressure Die Castings Produced in a Graphitic Hypereutectic Aluminium - Silicon Alloy -- Processes -- Enhancement of a Hydraulic Press for Research into Metal Forming -- Electrochemical Machining of Orthopaedic Components -- Avoidance of Macro Surface Defects in Electrochemical Machining (ECM) of Steel Workpieces -- Automation in Plastics Manufacturing: A Review of Current Developments -- Production Costing -- Economic Advantages of Group Assembly -- A Comparison Between the Operating Costs and Characteristics of Flexible Manufacturing Systems and Conventional Manufacture -- Microcomputer Spreadsheets: A New Concept in Decision Making -- An Artless Attempt to Collect Quality-Related Costs -- Aspects of Life-Cycle Costs of an Asset -- Technology Change -- Managing Engineering Change -- Impact of NC Machinery on Manufacturing Industry -- Difficulties in Implementing Advanced Manufacturing Technology in Small Manufacturing Companies -- Work Design -- A Comparative Study of the Lateral Work Activities of Three Production Managers in the UK Manufacturing Industry and the Implications for Training Production Managers -- Manufacturing System Performance and Management in some Scottish Electronics Companies -- Organizational Choice in Work Design -- Ergonomic Design of Industrial Sewing Machines -- Process Planning -- A System to Aid Design by Planning Manufacturing Operations -- A Microcomputer-Aided Interactive Process Planning and Estimation System for Use in a Jobbing Foundry -- Process Specification for Flexible Manufacture.