These two volumes contain the proceedings of the fourth international conference on Computer Integrated Manufacturing, held October 1997 in Singapore, the main theme of which was "Manufacturing into the Next Millennium". The first volume gathers the papers dealing with systems level management and planning of manufacturing activities with topics on (1) management aspects and (2) manufacturing planning and control. The second volume concentrates on product and implementation related issues where papers are categorized into (1) product design and concurrent engineering, (2) factory automation, and (3) advanced manufacturing. Read more