System-Integrated intelligence

The ubiquitous development of information and communication technology enables new opportunities for products and production systems. These systems will be able to learn and optimize their behaviour during the systems operation. The result: Increasing structural complexity and dynamics of products, production networks, processes and organizations. This requires an on-going adaption and reinvention of the organizing principles and solutions. Therefore, new products as well as their corresponding production and logistic processes require research activities in the field of advanced information techniques and system integrated intelligence to cope with the complexity and dynamics. The 1st Joint Symposium on System-Integrated Intelligence: New Challenges for Product and Production Engineering (SysInt 2012) provides a forum for academia and industrialists to disseminate their latest innovations and practises. It is a platform to exchange new developments, trends and upcoming ideas related to sensor technologies, sensorial materials, self-optimizing systems and self-controlled processes in production or logistic applications. The conference focuses on the integration of new functions and mechanisms into components, parts and products as well as complete production and logistic systems which will enable future technologies with enhanced intelligent capabilities. The conference is a cooperation of the Collaborative Research Centres (CRC) 614 „Selfoptimizing concepts and structures in mechanical engineering“, University of Paderborn, the CRC 653 „Gentelligent Components in Their Lifecycle – Utilization of Inheritable Component Information in Product Engineering“, Leibniz Universität Hannover as well as the Bremen CRC 637 „Autonomous Cooperating Logistic Processes – A Paradigm Shift and its Limitations“. In addition, two special sessions complement the symposium. The first focuses on „Enabling Technologies for Sensorial Materials – Taking Sensor Integration“, which is an indispensable precondition for system-integrated intelligence. It is co-organized by the "Integrated Solutions in Sensorial Structure Engineering” (ISIS) in Bremen. Second, the 1st German-Malaysian workshop on „Advances in Mechatronics and Engineering Technology” provides a platform to encounter binational scientific networking. It is co-organized by the University Teknologi Mara Selangor, Malaysia and the Project Group Mechatronic Systems Design, Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology, Paderborn, Germany. The proceedings of the conference contain interesting and diverse scientific publications that bundles the competencies of the three CRCs, the two specialized workshops and further researchers from industry and academia. Specific papers have been selected for an extended publication in a Special Issue in the journal “Production Engineering - Research and Development”.